Due on Tuesday, 12/4/18
1) Print out this homework blog entry and check off each item as you complete it. Have your parent sign the paper indicating they’ve checked that you’ve thoroughly completed all the assignments.
2) Please visit this webpage to read about hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes.
Mentally complete the four practice questions included at the end, and make sure you understand the correct answers.
3) Remember to bring your signed report card to class on Tuesday if you didn’t bring it today. I only need the blue one. The white Student Grade Report is for your parent(s) to keep for their use in assisting you at home. Feel free to call me—or have your parent(s) contact me—if you have any questions about the suggestions on the Student Grade Report.
[Please note the em dashes I used in the sentence above! Be sure you understand why and how they were used.]
4) Complete the assignment from the bottom paragraph of the handout we worked with today—the Put Me in the Zoo one—underneath what you already wrote in your writer’s notebook today. Just draw a line and write the last paragraph, translating it to third person as you did before. (These are different directions than those appearing on the handout itself. Please follow these directions!)
[Please note the em dashes I used in the sentence above! Be sure you understand why and how they were used.]
5) I will send a class email containing a copy of the handout I gave you called “Practice with Point of View – Bible Verses.” This contains Bible verses to be changed from third person to first person. This is so you can copy and paste the Bible passages into your own document and easily make the changes there. Follow the directions on the handout.
[Please note the en dash being used as a separator in that title! When en dashes are used as spacers/separators, you DO put spaces around them as I did above. When used to mean “through” in inclusive numerical expressions, there are NOT spaces on either side of them.]
6) Please make all suggested revisions to your season essays. Name this draft “Season Essay – D3” and staple the beautiful revised copy on top of your existing stack.
[Please note the en dash being used as a separator in that title! Be sure you understand how and why it was used.]
7) If you have already started out this second quarter with excuse papers—you know who you are!—please complete all work that is now overdue and bring it with you to class on Tuesday.
[Please note the em dashes I used in the sentence above! Be sure you understand why and how they were used.]
8) Please note the em dashes used below, in the “Also, daily” section of our homework blog. These have been there all along, but you probably noticed and understood them better this time. You may now add em dashes to your list of items you may find in print and bring in for extra credit—along with any grammatical errors or examples of figurative language you find in print. You may not count the em dash I just used, however. J)
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Also, daily:
+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log as you go along—in multiples of five, rounded down—and have a parent initial it in the box each day. The November Reading log is due on Thursday, November 29.
+ Continue to print out each homework blog entry, check off each assignment as you complete it, and have your parent sign the completed, printed sheet. Bring it to class each day.
OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tu, 12/4: Natalie (CWA); Hunter (CWB)
For Th, 12/6: Wyatt (CWA); Elisa(CWB)
For Tu, 12/11: Allie (CWA); Ross (CWB)
For Th, 12/13: Silas (CWA); Sophia (CWB)
For Tu, 12/18: Ethan (CWA); Ian (CWB)
For Th, 12/20: Caroline (CWA); Kaitlyn (CWB)
No KEYS on 12/25, 12/27, 1/1, 1/3
MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
CWA: Stephen, Josh, Hudson, Kristopher, Aylene, Natalie, Wyatt, Allie, Silas, Ethan, Caroline, Alan
