Period 6 English Language Arts 7 Assignments

Please continue taking notes on your selected leader. You should be working on your storyboard which will be due March 8.

 

Reading Logs should be signed by a parent or guardian and turned in to me tomorrow.

Reread the two articles on Nelson Mandela (pp. 214-219) Complete all questions and the chart on p. 219

Read 30 minutes

Today we read Wednesday, November 29- Friday, December 1. Make sure you have at least 4 pieces of text evidence and commentary that highlights the most significant moments in this section of the novel.

Read 30 minutes in your independent novel.

Complete your part 2 notes for Tangerine.

Signed reading logs due

Complete Textual evidence/Commentary for the section we read in class(Friday, September 29-Thursday, October 5)

Read from "Saturday, September 23 through Wednesday, September 27"

Take double entry journal notes with textual evidence, page # and commentary.

Complete double-entry journal with text evidence, page #, and commentary to the end of Part 1 of Tangerine.

 

Please finish up any reading to the end of Part One. Take notes in your double-entry journal.

Read and log 8 entries in your reading log by next Friday. 

Finish reading, Tangerine, through p. 77

 

Today in class, you should have worked on flashbacks and foreshadowing.

Be sure you have the definitions of both terms in your vocabulary section of your notebook.

 

Write a one or two paragraph paper about how flashbacks and foreshadowing affect the plot of Tangerine.

In class today, you should have at least 6 pieces of textual evidence that explain the choices a character has made and page numbers. Reread each one and be sure that your commentary explains the consequences of those choices and their impact on Paul.

No homework tonight.

In the vocabulary section of your notebook, please write definitions for each of the words on p. 160. 

1. subordinate           6. mood

2. perspective           7. flashback

3. interpret                 8. foreshadowing

4. imagery                 9. allusion             

5. motif

 

 

Essential Questions p. 162

Research Book Titles p. 340

After reading description of each title--write a few words about each.

Open and read the attached file for directions on how to continue preparing for our graded classroom discussion on the topic of violent video games and  whether or not they should be banned.

p. 124 Choose 2 topics and write about each one from both the PRO position and the CON position.

You must have this completed in order to play Philosophical Chairs tomorrow.

Read 30 minutes.

Reread "America, the Not So Beautiful" pp.126-128

Complete TDQ P. 128-129 (1-5) 

Be ready to discuss America's obsession with throwing things away!

Read 30 minutes.

Work On rough draft for Expository Essay

Get reading log signed

Expository writing to compare and contrast. Page 118 Springboard Text

Read 30 minutes

Read 30 minutes

Text-dependent pp 116-117 (1-6)

Read 30 minutes

Choose two of the three websites provided from the attached document to evaluate for credibility. Use the criteria on page 108 of your Springboard text.

We will be working on pp. 102-105 in the Springboard Text.

 

2. Complete the text-dependent questions (1-3) and the chart on p. 105

 

3. Read 30 minutes and log the time in your reading log.

Read and log 30 minutes

Page 101 Expository Writing Prompt

Get Reading Log signed

Read 30 minutes

Write 5 research questions(p. 93)

Read 30 minutes and record it in your reading log

Signed reading logs--full credit

unsigned but completed reading logs --partial credit

 

Read 30 min

 

Completed myths due when you walk in the door.

 

Bring Composition Notebooks to be collected for Writers Workshop

Clean, revised draft with illustrations ready for peer evaluation. 

Final copies due Friday!

Read 30 minutes

Read 30 minutes

Get Reading Log signed

Complete your original myth draft

Get parent signature on Reading Log

Read 30 minutes

"Missing/Wanted" poster p. 63 #4

Springboard p. 61

Read 30 minutes--add to reading log

Read 30 minutes

Write down reading in your Reading Log

P.55 #11- 

Using the plot diagram from Activity 1.10 (p.45), determine the major conflict , climax and falling action.

Complete Text-dependent Questions  (1-4) p. 53-54 

Read the rest of the story ...continue from where we left off in class today.

Signed /updated Reading Log

Revised Narrative and all pages of revision, reflection and editing due 

Read 30 minutes

Be sure to complete your revisions. You will be in writing groups tomorrow.

Read 30 minutes

Get Reading Log signed

Revise your draft--add sensory detail and figurative language to the middle part of your writing

Read 30 minutes.

Read 30 minutes

Revise the lead of your narrative using either the reaction, dialogue or action techniques from pages 30-31 of your Spring Board text.

Read 30 minutes

Complete your revision/writing reflection plan

Reading logs signed/Read 30 minutes

Page 28 Spring Board textbook

1.-Preparing to write (complete all 3 tips)

2.Review My Choices graphic organizer and bring to class

3. Choose topic you will write on.

 

 

Read 30 minutes

Complete the draft you started in class today.

Narrative Writing Prompt:

Think about all the choices you can make in a school day. Brainstorm some of the choices you make at school and the consequences you face as a result.

Using your brainstorm, think of a specific time you had to make a choice at school. Write a short, personal narrative with an incident, response and reflection.

Be sure to: 

 

 

 

Read 30 minutes each day.

Read 30 minutes

Get parent/adult signature and bring to class tomorrow

Read 30 minutes in your independent novel

Write those minutes in your reading log

After rereading "Bad Boy" pp 20-22, complete p. 24 (1-4)

Read 30 minutes

Springboard p. 18 (1-4)

Springboard p.12 Text-dependent questions

Reread poems, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "Choices" by Nikki Giovanni on pp. 10-11

Mark (/) backslashes wherever you think it is appropriate to pause.

Circle any unknown words and define them . You may write in the margins. First try to use context clues to help you understand and  then you may use a dictionary.