HW from 11/19/13

Due on Thursday, 11/21/13

1.  Complete Copywork #6 as instructed on handout.

2.  Read the following sections in the "Parts of Speech" (yellow) section of your Writers INC book :

* In section entitled "Forms of Personal Pronouns": 
    + 505.1 "Number of a Pronoun" (p.505)
    + 505.2 "Person of a Pronoun"  (p.505)
    + 506.2 "Gender of a Pronoun" (p. 506)

* In section entitled "Forms of Verbs":
    + 510.1 "Number of a Verb" (p.510)
    + 510.2 "Person of a Verb" (p. 510) - DO read blue chart showing verb forms of the verb "to sniff."
    + 511.1 "Tense of a Verb" (p.511) - Disregard chart on  p. 511 entitled "Active and Passive Voice."

NOTE: All page and section numbers are given for the 2001 edition of Writers INC.  If you have a different edition of Writers INC, please locate the correct reading material by looking in the "Parts of Speech" section and locating correct section titles (in italics, above).  Page numbers may be different!

Also (daily):

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure 30 minutes daily.  Mark it on your reading log as you go along.  The current reading log is due, signed by a parent, on Tuesday, December 3, 2013.

+ Review daily the material from our writing and grammar lessons in class so that you can more easily learn and memorize (as we go along) the different things we are studying.  Be ready for a quiz anytime on all that we've learned so far.

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

For Th, 11/21: Ethan M. (CWA);  Heidi L. (CWB)

Then, Thanksgiving break!  :)

HW from 11/14/13

Due on Tuesday, 11/19/13

1.  Revise the D1 of your season essay.  You will turn in the D2 (stapled on top of the D1) on Tuesday.

2.  Translate the following Bible verse from past tense to present tense.  Be sure that you have both the original (past tense) version and the new (present tense) version on your paper.  (I will also email you a copy of the verse so that you may copy and paste it into a word processing document and quickly and easily make the changes there.  Of course, you may write both verses out by hand instead, if you so choose.)

NOTE:  Be sure to change all words that need to be changed, not just the verbs.  And be sure NOT to change the words that don't need to be changed, even if they are verbs.  Be careful as you work!

Mark 1:21b-28

Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an impure spirit cried out, “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth?  Have you come to destroy us?  I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

“Be quiet!” said Jesus sternly. “Come out of him!”  The impure spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.

The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.”  News about him spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee.

3.  Visit the following website and take the grammar quiz found there.  
http://m.staples.ca/sbdca/en_CA/cre/programs/grammarquiz/#.Un0EZc1DPCA.facebook

4.   Email me what score you got on that grammar quiz.  (You will get homework credit just for taking the quiz and emailing me your score.  You will NOT be graded on how well or poorly you did on the actual quiz itself!)

5.   Be sure you have returned your signed report card, turned in the D2 of your character sketch, and completed the Markup homework assignment, all of which are now past due.

Also (daily):

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure 30 minutes daily.  Mark it on your reading log as you go along.  The current reading log is due, signed by a parent, on Tuesday, December 3, 2013.

+ Review daily the material from our writing and grammar lessons in class so that you can more easily learn and memorize (as we go along) the different things we are studying.  Be ready for a quiz anytime on all that we've learned so far.

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

For Tu, 11/19: Ellie W.  (CWA);  Ethan M. (CWB)
For Th, 11/21: (CWA);  TBD (CWB)

HW from 11/12/13

Due on Thursday, 11/14/13

1.  Complete #2-6 on the handout entitled "Using Adjectives Like the Pros."

2.  Write three good, descriptive sentences of your own.  Make sure each sentence contains three adjectives that describe the same noun, some of which are placed after the noun.

3.  Visit the following website and read the article about grammatical rules concerning adjectives:
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/commas-with-adjectives

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The following assignments were due on Tuesday, 11/12, and are now overdue.  If you have not completed any of them, please do so by Thursday:

1. Create a document with our usual header and footer on it that says something like, "I have saved the Markup address and I know how to send a document to that address."  Then save that document and send it to the Markup address as an attachment--just like you would if you were sending me a copy of a paper you had written.

NOTE: I will send an email back to you indicating that I got it.  If you do not receive that email, please write me at my other email address and let me know.

The Markup address is: LauraSitterding@markupsync.com
(I have posted a link to this on the right sidebar of the homework blog.)

2.  If you received a blue report card, have your parent sign both the blue report card and the white student grade report and return them to me on Tuesday.

3.  If you received a notice of a temporary "incomplete" instead of a blue report card, make your decision about how you will handle the incomplete work and fill out and sign the white "incomplete" sheet.  Have your parent sign it as well, to be turned in on Tuesday.

Next, complete all work that was missing or needs to be re-done and email it to me before Saturday.  If you are writing a new D1 for your character sketch, you must type it according to our parameters and attach the document to an email sent to the Markup address.  Send this in addition to the email you sent me in homework item #1. 

4.  All students:  You will revise your D1 of your character sketch according to the feedback on your grading rubric and the teacher comments on the red copy of your D1.  Your new D2 will be due on Tuesday.

NOTE: You will print your D2.  You will NOT mail your D2 to the Markup address!  Have your paper ready to turn in at the beginning of class.  Please have the following items stapled together in the right order and ready to go when you walk into the classroom (back to front):

- any notes you made
- your proofread copy of your D1 (signed by your proofreaders)
- your red copy of your D1
- your grading sheet for your D1
- your rough copy of your D2 (and signatures, if you had someone proofread it besides you)
- your beautiful copy of your D2
- your new grade sheet for the D2 (which will be emailed to you--look for it and print it)

5.  Make sure your Misspelled Word List is complete and is filed in the spelling section of your notebook.  You must compile this list from the papers you've gotten back (homework, quizzes, papers, etc.).  After you have added the misspelled words to the list, check off all boxes next to the words that I marked "Add" or flagged with the circled notation sp.

Also (daily):

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure 30 minutes daily.  Mark it on your reading log as you go along.  The current reading log is due, signed by a parent, on Tuesday, December 3, 2013.

+ Review daily the material from our writing and grammar lessons in class so that you can more easily learn and memorize (as we go along) the different things we are studying.  Be ready for a quiz anytime on all that we've learned so far.

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

For Th, 11/14: Ethan M. (CWA);  Olivia H. (CWB)

For Tu, 11/19: Ellie W.  (CWA); TBD (CWB)
For Th, 11/21: TBD (CWA);  TBD (CWB)

HW from 11/7/13

Due on Tuesday, 11/12/13

1. Create a document with our usual header and footer on it that says something like, "I have saved the Markup address and I know how to send a document to that address."  Then save that document and send it to the Markup address as an attachment--just like you would if you were sending me a copy of a paper you had written.

NOTE: I will send an email back to you indicating that I got it.  If you do not receive that email, please write me at my other email address and let me know.

The Markup address is: LauraSitterding@markupsync.com
(I have posted a link to this on the right sidebar of the homework blog.)

2.  If you received a blue report card, have your parent sign both the blue report card and the white student grade report and return them to me on Tuesday.

3.  If you received a notice of a temporary "incomplete" instead of a blue report card, make your decision about how you will handle the incomplete work and fill out and sign the white "incomplete" sheet.  Have your parent sign it as well, to be turned in on Tuesday.

Next, complete all work that was missing or needs to be re-done and email it to me before Saturday.  If you are writing a new D1 for your character sketch, you must type it according to our parameters and attach the document to an email sent to the Markup address.  Send this in addition to the email you sent me in homework item #1. 

4.  All students:  You will revise your D1 of your character sketch according to the feedback on your grading rubric and the teacher comments on the red copy of your D1.  Your new D2 will be due on Tuesday.

NOTE: You will print your D2.  You will NOT mail your D2 to the Markup address!  Have your paper ready to turn in at the beginning of class.  Please have the following items stapled together in the right order and ready to go when you walk into the classroom (back to front):

- any notes you made
- your proofread copy of your D1 (signed by your proofreaders)
- your red copy of your D1
- your grading sheet for your D1
- your rough copy of your D2 (and signatures, if you had someone proofread it besides you)
- your beautiful copy of your D2
- your new grade sheet for the D2 (which will be emailed to you--look for it and print it)

5.  Make sure your Misspelled Word List is complete and is filed in the spelling section of your notebook.  You must compile this list from the papers you've gotten back (homework, quizzes, papers, etc.).  After you have added the misspelled words to the list, check off all boxes next to the words that I marked "Add" or flagged with the circled notation sp.

Also (daily):

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure 30 minutes daily.  Mark it on your reading log as you go along.  The current reading log is due, signed by a parent, on Tuesday, December 3, 2013.

+ Review daily the material from our writing and grammar lessons in class so that you can more easily learn and memorize (as we go along) the different things we are studying.  Be ready for a quiz anytime on all that we've learned so far.

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

For Tu, 11/12: Mishael M. (CWA); Joy S. (CWB)
For Th, 11/14: Ethan M. (CWA);  Olivia H. (CWB)

For Tu, 11/19: Ellie W.  (CWA); TBD (CWB)
For Th, 11/21: TBD (CWA);  TBD (CWB)

HW from 11/5/13

Due on Thursday, 11/7/13

1.  Complete Copywork #5, but change the point of view from third person past tense to third person present tense. Remember not to change the tense of any quoted dialogue, since the actual words that were spoken would not change. Be sure to correctly punctuate the dialogue!

Also (daily):

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure 30 minutes daily.  Mark it on your reading log as you go along.  The current reading log is due, signed by a parent, on Tuesday, December 3, 2013.

+ Review daily the material from our writing and grammar lessons in class so that you can more easily learn and memorize (as we go along) the different things we are studying.  Be ready for a quiz anytime on all that we've learned so far.

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

For Th, 11/7: Jonathan A. (CWA);  Miranda L. (CWB)

For Tu, 11/12: Mishael M. (CWA); Joy S. (CWB)
For Th, 11/14: Ethan M. (CWA);  Olivia H. (CWB)

For Tu, 11/19: Ellie W.  (CWA); TBD (CWB)
For Th, 11/21: TBD (CWA);  TBD (CWB)