Due on Tuesday, 4/4/17
1) I will email you the graded Markup copy of your mystery story sometime before Monday. Please make any corrections needed for your final, beautiful draft and then print it and bring it to class on Tuesday. Please also email the beautiful draft to my regular email address (after you've made all the corrections) so that I can post your story on our class writing blog for your classmates to read.
2) Choose one of the two Scripture memory verses on the handout I gave you today. Make a memory card, and then double-check with someone else to be sure you have the verse transcribed correctly, word for word. Begin to memorize the verse, which will be due for recitation by next Thursday, 4/6.
3) Send me a text (or an email if you don't have access to any texting functions) to let me know if you are comfortable enough to be willing to go on the "opening" schedule for opening our class with a short devotional about a verse that is meaningful to you in some way during the fourth quarter. Bear in mind that you will receive a zero on the assignment if you decide not to participate in the assignment.
4) Carefully read the following web pages about the 2017 HSLDA Poetry Contest. You will be writing a poem according to the guidelines for Category 2 (ages 11-14). (In addition to reading the guidelines and rules, please click the additional link to "view the themes" and also click in to read the sample poem for your age group.) Notice that they ask for a consistent rhyme pattern (which we know if officially called a "rhyme scheme") and a poem of no longer than six "quatrains."
NOTE: Since you know that "cinquains" are 5-line poems, I trust that you can guess what "quatrains" are! (HINT: Think of the root "quat," and think of English words like "quarter" and "quadrilateral." Think also of counting to five in Spanish or French. How many lines are in a quatrain?)
Here is the web page: https://hslda.org/Contests/Poetry_rules.aspx
Your entry for this poetry contest is due on Tuesday. You are to prepare it and turn it in to me—for a grade—NOT submit it to the contest according to the guidelines posted. You are NOT required to actually submit the poem to the contest unless you want to, though you are encouraged to consider it! Please follow the guidelines carefully, either way.
5) Finish reading The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of Mark Rodriguez as soon as possible and send me an email at my regular email address to let me know as soon as you have done so.
3) Send me a text (or an email if you don't have access to any texting functions) to let me know if you are comfortable enough to be willing to go on the "opening" schedule for opening our class with a short devotional about a verse that is meaningful to you in some way during the fourth quarter. Bear in mind that you will receive a zero on the assignment if you decide not to participate in the assignment.
4) Carefully read the following web pages about the 2017 HSLDA Poetry Contest. You will be writing a poem according to the guidelines for Category 2 (ages 11-14). (In addition to reading the guidelines and rules, please click the additional link to "view the themes" and also click in to read the sample poem for your age group.) Notice that they ask for a consistent rhyme pattern (which we know if officially called a "rhyme scheme") and a poem of no longer than six "quatrains."
NOTE: Since you know that "cinquains" are 5-line poems, I trust that you can guess what "quatrains" are! (HINT: Think of the root "quat," and think of English words like "quarter" and "quadrilateral." Think also of counting to five in Spanish or French. How many lines are in a quatrain?)
Here is the web page: https://hslda.org/Contests/Poetry_rules.aspx
Your entry for this poetry contest is due on Tuesday. You are to prepare it and turn it in to me—for a grade—NOT submit it to the contest according to the guidelines posted. You are NOT required to actually submit the poem to the contest unless you want to, though you are encouraged to consider it! Please follow the guidelines carefully, either way.
5) Finish reading The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of Mark Rodriguez as soon as possible and send me an email at my regular email address to let me know as soon as you have done so.
Also, daily:
+ Read your (approved) reading log book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log calendar (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along.
+ Write in your gratitude journal daily, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for each day. When you have done so, place a small check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.
+ Read your (approved) reading log book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log calendar (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along.
+ Write in your gratitude journal daily, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for each day. When you have done so, place a small check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.
+ Review one of your Scripture memory verses each day, such that you keep all of them fresh in your memory at all times and each verse gets reviewed at least once per week.
NOTE: The April Reading Log will be due, signed by a parent, on Thursday, 4/27/17.
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