HW from 2/21/13

Due on 2/26/13: 

* After noon on Friday (so that I will have had time to post them all), link to the Student Writing Samples site (see left sidebar) and read your classmates' springboard poems. Determine which is your favorite and cut & paste it into a Word document.  Beneath it, compose a well-written paragraph indicating at least three reasons you appreciate the poem you chose.  Place your name and the date in the upper right-hand corner of the header.  Print it and bring it to class on Tuesday.

* Find a book of poetry--or, with you parents' permission and/or supervision, link to a poetry site online--and find a poem that you particularly like, which you will memorize and recite for the class after the KEYS spring break.

NOTE: As you choose your poem, keep the following length requirements in mind:
- Maximum possible grade of C: memorize and recite the equivalent of one 4-line stanza, minimum.
- Maximum possible grade of B: memorize and recite the equivalent of two 4-line stanzas, minimum.
- Maximum possible grade of A: memorize and recite the equivalent of three 4-line stanzas, minimum.

* If you haven't, finish your mystery story.  A complete draft (D1) between 5 and 25 pages will be due for all of you on Tuesday.  Please proofread it and make this draft as perfect as you know how to make it before you print it.  (NOTE: Most of you have already turned in this D1.)

ALSO:
* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily. (Reading Log is usually due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.  This month it will be due on Thursday, February 28.)

------- OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For Tu, 2/26: Mariah S.-
For Th, 2/28: Emily T.-

For Tu, 3/5: Gloria M.-
For Th, 3/7: Emily Q.-

For Tu, 3/12: Claire M.-
For Th, 3/14: Micah M.-

For Tu, 3/19: Caitlyn B.-
For Th, 3/21: Emily Q.-

For Tu, 3/26: Joshua C-
For Th, 3/28: Jake J.-

For Tu, 4/9: Hardy A.-
For Th, 4/11: Hannah D.-

For Tu, 4/16: Caitlyn B.-
For Th, 4/18: Luke M.-

For Tu, 4/23: Sam W.-
For Th, 4/25: Joel S.-

For Tu, 4/30: David H.-
For Th, 5/2: Mariah S.-

For Tu, 5/7: Gloria M.-
For Th, 5/9: Seth Q.-

For Tu, 5/14: Lucy W.-
For Th, 5/16: Emily T.-

For Tu, 5/21: Claire M.-
For Th, 5/23: Micah M.-