Scoolwork Expecations: JAN. 11 - JAN. 18

Woo-Hoo! I finally got my act together and am posting work expectations. Thanks for your patience.

6th Grade:

DUE TOMORROW: Vocabulary Chart: Kodiak, sod, kayak, hearth, tatto, gravel, impatient, woven, wept, suspicious, cycle, mainland, rural, displays, headdress

I. just finished the story "The Girl Who Married the Moon"
They presented their Literary Circle work today in class.

II. will finish their Creative Writing Personification Story in the next week.

III. is finishing Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle.

For Ch. 9 & 10, they will be expected to complete a One Paragraph Summary and One Paragraph Critique of the Chapter.

For Ch. 11 & 12, they will be expected to complete a news report on the events transpiring in the book. Pretending to be a news anchor or journalist, they will write up a story and then deliver their presentations to the whole class.

7th GRADE:

DUE TOMORROW: Vocab. Chart: fascinating, crouc, dislodge, lyric poetry, imagery, ampersand, parenthese, rouge, tiered, brooch, quarried, dialect, grantie, onomatopoeia, sputter, gashes, spurt, gushes, smattering, unravel

I. finished the book, The Hounse on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Students have finished writing Ch. 3 & 4 of their own literary masterpiece.
Tomorrow, we will finish peer editing Ch. 4

FINAL DRAFTS of CH. 3 & 4 DUE MONDAY!

II. will finish writing Ch. 5 of their own street novel

III. All Students need their own copy of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by FEB. 4th!

8th GRADE:

DUE TOMORROW: Vocab. Chart: thou, thy, ingratitude, keen, seen, feign, mere folly, bitter warp, nigh, lyric poetry, imagery, tilted, hazy, breadth, luster, wallow, crooked, cluster

I. just finished The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.
are working on a literary anaylsis paper in MLA format

ROUGH DRAFT is DUE MON!

III. All Students need their own copy of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by FEB. 4th!

UPCOMING:

6th:
Literature Book Log Project
Current Event Portfolio

7th & 8th:
Shakespeare Web Quest
Mock Trial Case