HW from 1/21/14

Due on Tuesday, 1/23/14

1.  Happy snow day!  Go look out the window, take a pretty picture, play in the snow!

2.  Add at least two full pages to your mystery story.  Proofread them.  Have someone else proofread them.  Make the corrections.  Email your story (with the two new, proofed, corrected pages added) as an attachment to the Markup address.

NOTE: Once your story is finished (somewhere between 5-25 pages, sometime in the next couple of weeks), you will email a copy to Markup and then email me at my regular email to let me know that your story is complete but in the proofing stage.  During the proofing stage, you will make sure your story contains all the things that are listed on the grading rubric for the story.  You will then proofread it, print it out, have it proofread by two others not in our class (have them sign it), make corrections, and then print out what you believe to be the most perfect D1 you can.  Bring it to me in class.  I will grade this hard copy, which will become your "red copy" for final editing.

3.  Choose which of the two verses (Titus 2:11-14 or Ephesians 4:29-32) you would like to memorize first and make a Scripture memory card for it (on an index card).  Bring the index card to class tomorrow.  Begin memorizing the verse.  You must be ready to recite the verse to the class by the start of February.

4.  Read the other sample blog entry I gave you for the 12 Months of 2014 Blog Challenge.  (In class we read my entry Today Is All You'll Ever Have.  Visit the link to see what the post looks like with the pictures included.  Then visit Cold As Charity to read the sample blog post written by my son, Philip.  Pay attention to all the examples of figurative language you see in this post as you read.)

5.  Be thinking about what you want to write about for your first entry into the 12 Months of 2014 Blog Challenge.  You will write/type your entry and give it to me sometime during the month of January.  (It is due before February 1.)  I will post your entries on our Student Writing Samples blog.)

6.  Try to stay healthy!  Dress warmly if you go outside, eat healthful food, don't eat a lot of junky food or sugar, and get plenty of sleep.  Lots of your classmates are sick!

Also (daily):

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

+ 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, 1/23: Mark B. (CWA);  Hardy A. (CWB)

For Tu, 1/28: Emily M. (CWA); Tori W. (CWB)
For Th, 1/30: Jonathan A. (CWA);  Baylee W. (CWB)

For Tu, 2/4: Mishael M. (CWA); Joy S. (CWB)
For Th, 2/6: Ethan M. (CWA);  Jessie L. (CWB)

For Tu, 2/11: Ellie W. (CWA); Olivia H. (CWB)
For Th, 2/13: Rachel S. (CWA);  Heidi L. (CWB)

For Tu, 2/18: Jenae F. (CWA); Cameron K. (CWB)
For Th, 2/20: Olivia C.  (CWA);  Claire D. (CWB)

For Tu, 2/25: Heston A. (CWA); Evan P. (CWB)
For Th, 2/27: David P. (CWA);  Sam M. (CWB)

For Tu, 3/4: Elizabeth D. (CWA); Baylee W. (CWB)
For Th, 3/6: Danielle W. (CWA); Bryce D. (CWB)

For Tu, 3/11: Emma R. (CWA); Alexa W. (CWB)
For Th, 3/13: Joshua D. (CWA); Hardy A. (CWB)

Then, Spring Break! :)