5/5/14: Read Chapters 6-8 and do a $1 (20 words) summary. You may read on your own or listen to the story from the ELA Units/The Giver Tab on this website, and follow along in your book. Due Wednesday, 5/7/14
5/5/14: RAFT activity for the Giver. Choose one role and complete the RAFT you choose. The writing should compare and contrast the Life Celebrations in America with those in Jonas's Community. Due Friday, 5/9/14
5/5/14: Divide and Conquer worksheet (Latin Number Prefix tri- = "three". Due Friday, 5/9/14
5/5/14: RAFT activity for the Giver. Choose one role and complete the RAFT you choose. The writing should compare and contrast the Life Celebrations in America with those in Jonas's Community. Due Friday, 5/9/14
5/5/14: Divide and Conquer worksheet (Latin Number Prefix tri- = "three". Due Friday, 5/9/14
3/24/14: Spelling words and practice for the week. Due 3/28/14
Choose one spelling activity each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night. If the activity
you choose does not produce something you can turn in, write a note explaining what you did, and
turn the note in with your other homework.
Choose one spelling activity each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night. If the activity
you choose does not produce something you can turn in, write a note explaining what you did, and
turn the note in with your other homework.
1. Write your spelling words in alphabetical order.
2. Find synonyms for each of your spelling words. 3. Write an illustrate a picture book using all of your spelling words, then read it to a Kindergarten or first grade student. 4. Sort your spelling words into categories based on the similarities you can find between them 5. Break your spelling word up into syllables. 6. Act out your spelling words to make a silent video. See if your classmates can guess the words by watching the video. 7. Shout your words while you jump rope. 8. Bounce a ball and spell your words to the rhythm. 9. Write each spelling word using a different color. 10. Paint your spelling words using paint and a paint brush on paper.11. Use a stick to scratch your spelling words in the dirt. 12. Use a whiteboard or chalkboard to write your words. |
13. Read your spelling words out loud in as many different silly voices as you can think of.
14. Write your spelling words on flashcards. Then choose one without looking and hold it on your forehead with the word showing. Ask a friend to give you clues to help you guess the word. 15. Write and perform a short skit or readers’ theater that uses all of your spelling words. 16. Put up your favorite song and turn up the volume. Sing your spelling words along with the music. 17. Write your spelling words each on two separate flashcards. Mix them all up and turn them face-down on the table. Play the memory match game with them 18. Use rocks, twigs, and leaves to form your spelling words on the ground outside. 19. Go on a word hunt in your spelling words. Can you find any smaller words within your words? 20. Count the letters in each spelling word. Write your words in order from least to most letters. |
Word for the week of March 24th
Sight words, suffix -ent,
and academic vocabulary
1. speed
2. count
3. consonant
4. someone
5. sail
6. rolled
7. bear
8. wonder
9. smiled
10. angle
11. absent
12. decadent
13. excellent
14. frequent
15. impatient
16. cell
17. cytoplasm
18. organelle
19. diffusion
20. osmosis
21. respiration
Sight words, suffix -ent,
and academic vocabulary
1. speed
2. count
3. consonant
4. someone
5. sail
6. rolled
7. bear
8. wonder
9. smiled
10. angle
11. absent
12. decadent
13. excellent
14. frequent
15. impatient
16. cell
17. cytoplasm
18. organelle
19. diffusion
20. osmosis
21. respiration
3/19/14: Vocabulary Character Chart. Due 3/20/14
Directions: Complete the box by answering the questions. You do NOT need to write in complete sentences, but you should be prepared to explain your answer. Be creative and think outside of the box!
Directions: Complete the box by answering the questions. You do NOT need to write in complete sentences, but you should be prepared to explain your answer. Be creative and think outside of the box!
3/14/14: Spelling words and practice for the week. Due 3/21/14
Choose one spelling activity each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night. If the activity
you choose does not produce something you can turn in, write a note explaining what you did, and
turn the note in with your other homework.
Choose one spelling activity each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night. If the activity
you choose does not produce something you can turn in, write a note explaining what you did, and
turn the note in with your other homework.
1. Write your spelling words in alphabetical order.
2. Find synonyms for each of your spelling words. 3. Write an illustrate a picture book using all of your spelling words, then read it to a Kindergarten or first grade student. 4. Sort your spelling words into categories based on the similarities you can find between them 5. Break your spelling word up into syllables. 6. Act out your spelling words to make a silent video. See if your classmates can guess the words by watching the video. 7. Shout your words while you jump rope. 8. Bounce a ball and spell your words to the rhythm. 9. Write each spelling word using a different color. 10. Paint your spelling words using paint and a paint brush on paper.11. Use a stick to scratch your spelling words in the dirt. 12. Use a whiteboard or chalkboard to write your words. |
13. Read your spelling words out loud in as many different silly voices as you can think of.
14. Write your spelling words on flashcards. Then choose one without looking and hold it on your forehead with the word showing. Ask a friend to give you clues to help you guess the word. 15. Write and perform a short skit or readers’ theater that uses all of your spelling words. 16. Put up your favorite song and turn up the volume. Sing your spelling words along with the music. 17. Write your spelling words each on two separate flashcards. Mix them all up and turn them face-down on the table. Play the memory match game with them 18. Use rocks, twigs, and leaves to form your spelling words on the ground outside. 19. Go on a word hunt in your spelling words. Can you find any smaller words within your words? 20. Count the letters in each spelling word. Write your words in order from least to most letters. |
Words for the week of 3/17/14
Sight words, suffix -ant,
and academic vocabulary
1. possible
2. gold
3. milk
4. quiet
5. natural
6. lot
7. stone
8. act
9. build
10. middle
11. assistant
12. brilliant
13. compliant
14. extravagant
15. ignorant
16. artifact
17. migration
18. nomad
19. adapt
20. agriculture
21. rounding
Sight words, suffix -ant,
and academic vocabulary
1. possible
2. gold
3. milk
4. quiet
5. natural
6. lot
7. stone
8. act
9. build
10. middle
11. assistant
12. brilliant
13. compliant
14. extravagant
15. ignorant
16. artifact
17. migration
18. nomad
19. adapt
20. agriculture
21. rounding
3/10/14: Vocabulary practice. Due 3/11/14
2/10/14: Read chapter 14 "Las Uvas/Grapes" (pages 234-253) or listen and follow along with the audio on my "Reading/Esperanza Rising" page.
Since we will be out of school tomorrow and possibly for several days, the students have been given several assignments to complete at home. If you need to access the assignments, I have posted them below.
Since we will be out of school tomorrow and possibly for several days, the students have been given several assignments to complete at home. If you need to access the assignments, I have posted them below.
2/7/14: Complete questions for "Los Duraznos/Peaches" (pages 50-51 in packet). Due 2/10/14
2/5/14: Read chapter 12 "Los Esparragos/Aparagus" (199-213) or listen to it on the computer while following along. Complete Esperanza Rising packet page 44 on synonyms. Due 2/6/14
1/27/14: Read chapter 10 "Las Papas/Potatoes (158-179) or listen to it on the computer and following along in the book. Due 1/26/14
1/23/14: Read chapter 9 (139-157) or listen to it on the computer and following along in the book. Due 1/24/14
1/21/14: Complete questions for Chapter 7 "Las Cebolls" (Onions) on pages 24 & 25 in the packet. Due 1/22/14
Review chapter 4-6 on Quizlet. There will be a short comprehension quiz tomorrow.
Review chapter 4-6 on Quizlet. There will be a short comprehension quiz tomorrow.
1/14/14: Read Chapter 5 "Las Guayabas" (or listen and follow along from thre recording on this website). due 1/15/14
What is Esperanza's journey to the United States like?
What is Esperanza's journey to the United States like?
1/13/14: No Homework......If you have not read through chapter 4 or listened and read along, then this needs to be done. Also, you need to complete through page 9 in your Esperanza Rising packets (pg. 8 does not need to be completed - those definitions are on Quizlet and can be studied there).
1/10/14: Read Chapter 4: "Los Higos" (pages 39-57) & complete the Spanish/English vocabulary chart on page 9 of your work packet due 1/13/14
What challenges do the characters in this chapter face? How does each charater respond?
As you read, think about these questions. Use your evidence flags to mark specific passages in the text to disucss with your triad. You do not need to write out answers as part of your homework; just keep track of your thining with your evidence flags.
You may also listen to an audio recording of the book and following along. You can find those records on this website under Reading/Esperanza Rising.
What challenges do the characters in this chapter face? How does each charater respond?
As you read, think about these questions. Use your evidence flags to mark specific passages in the text to disucss with your triad. You do not need to write out answers as part of your homework; just keep track of your thining with your evidence flags.
You may also listen to an audio recording of the book and following along. You can find those records on this website under Reading/Esperanza Rising.
1/9/14: Read Chapter 3: "Las Papayas" (pages 23-28) due 1/10/14
What challenges do the main characters in this chapter face?
As you read, think about this questions. Use your evidence flags to mark specific passages in the text to discuss with your triad. You do not need to write out answers as part of your homework; just keep track of your thinking with your evidence flags.
What challenges do the main characters in this chapter face?
As you read, think about this questions. Use your evidence flags to mark specific passages in the text to discuss with your triad. You do not need to write out answers as part of your homework; just keep track of your thinking with your evidence flags.
1/8/14: Reread Chapter 1 and do a “first draft” read of Chapter 2: “Las Uvas/Grapes.”
due 1/9/14
As you read, think about these questions. Use your evidence flags to mark specific passages in the text to discuss with your triad. You do not need to write out answers as part of your homework; just keep track of your thinking with your evidence flags. You will be asked to answer text dependent questions tomorrow.
1. Describe the geographical setting of Esperanza Rising. What is it like where Esperanza lives? Use details from the
text to support your answer.
2. What is Esperanza’s relationship with her papa like? How do you know?
3. What is Esperanza’s life like in Mexico?
due 1/9/14
As you read, think about these questions. Use your evidence flags to mark specific passages in the text to discuss with your triad. You do not need to write out answers as part of your homework; just keep track of your thinking with your evidence flags. You will be asked to answer text dependent questions tomorrow.
1. Describe the geographical setting of Esperanza Rising. What is it like where Esperanza lives? Use details from the
text to support your answer.
2. What is Esperanza’s relationship with her papa like? How do you know?
3. What is Esperanza’s life like in Mexico?
12/16/13: Make 3-5 "flash cards" using words from the story read in class. due tomorrow (12/17/13)
Make 3-5 vocabulary flash cards from story. Pick words that you don't know or that are critical to the understanding of the story. Place word on front of card. Put definition and sketch a picture of what it looks like on the back. Students were each given 3 index cards for this assignment.
Make 3-5 vocabulary flash cards from story. Pick words that you don't know or that are critical to the understanding of the story. Place word on front of card. Put definition and sketch a picture of what it looks like on the back. Students were each given 3 index cards for this assignment.
12/2/13: Study "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" vocabulary words on www.quizlet.com . Quiz tomorrow
11/14/13: Turkey Disguise Project - Due Monday 11/18/13
5-7 paragraphs persuading the reader that you are not a turkey and are the person or thing in which your turkey has been disguised. Suggestions for the body paragraphs can be found on the "Writing Piece" page of the assignment. Any of thr questions can be answered in a paragraph with details added. The opening paragraph should tell who or what is your non-turkey, and the last paragraph should state why your non-turkey is DEFINITELY not a turkey.
5-7 paragraphs persuading the reader that you are not a turkey and are the person or thing in which your turkey has been disguised. Suggestions for the body paragraphs can be found on the "Writing Piece" page of the assignment. Any of thr questions can be answered in a paragraph with details added. The opening paragraph should tell who or what is your non-turkey, and the last paragraph should state why your non-turkey is DEFINITELY not a turkey.
11/12/13: Prefixes: Add the Prefix worksheet - due tomorrow
11/11/13: Prefixes: dis- non- un- worksheet - due tomorrow
11/6/13: e-dropping worksheet - due tomorrow
11/4/13: Complete opening and conclusion sentence for literature review scaffold. Due 11/5/13 Some facts may need to be rearranged to organize like subjects together. Should have a total of 5 sections with 5 opening sentences and 5 conclusion sentences. Make sure that all paragraphs answer the topic question in some way.
10/30/13: Due tomorrow Complete worksheet applying the rules for adding suffixes. Remember to review the rules for 1-1-1 doubling and apply when creating new words......not all of the words are short vowel words followed by one consonant!
10/29/13: Due tomorrow Complete worksheet on the rules for adding suffixes. Remember to review the rules for 1-1-1 doubling and apply when creating new words.
10/28/13: Complete the charts to build new words by adding different endings Due tomorrow. This is the 1-1-1 doubling rule.
9/24/13: Complete summary for Chapter 19 & 20 due tomorrow
Complete a summary (3-5 sentences), REFLECTION (1-2 sentences about how Milo has changed), & opinion (1-2 sentences).
Key words to help remember the sequence of events......
-they ran from the demons
-the Army of Wisdom saved them and they celebrated
-there was a huge celebration
-Milo had to return home
-he was only gone an hour
-realized there was a lot to do
Complete a summary (3-5 sentences), REFLECTION (1-2 sentences about how Milo has changed), & opinion (1-2 sentences).
Key words to help remember the sequence of events......
-they ran from the demons
-the Army of Wisdom saved them and they celebrated
-there was a huge celebration
-Milo had to return home
-he was only gone an hour
-realized there was a lot to do
9/23/13: Complete "Vocabulary Flip Book" in response journal due tomorrow
define these 8 words on the 8 flaps that are glued into the right side of your Response Journals.
-insincere
-gelatinous
-compromise
-hindsight
-malice
-exaggeration
-dilemma
-destination
On the inside of the flap, write the definition on one side and use it in a sentence on the other side.
define these 8 words on the 8 flaps that are glued into the right side of your Response Journals.
-insincere
-gelatinous
-compromise
-hindsight
-malice
-exaggeration
-dilemma
-destination
On the inside of the flap, write the definition on one side and use it in a sentence on the other side.
9/23/13: Literature Circle Project due October 2
Choose one project and complete by October 2. Make sure to pay attention to what is required for each project and how it will be graded.
Choose one project and complete by October 2. Make sure to pay attention to what is required for each project and how it will be graded.
9/18/13: Complete Response Journal for Chapter 13 & 14 due tomorrow
Complete a summary (3-5 sentences), prediction (1-2 sentences), & opinion (1-2 sentences).
Key words to help remember the sequence of events......
-shot the "but"
-broke fortress
-Island of Conclusions
-met Dodecahedrom
-went to the number mine
-found the Mathmagician
Complete a summary (3-5 sentences), prediction (1-2 sentences), & opinion (1-2 sentences).
Key words to help remember the sequence of events......
-shot the "but"
-broke fortress
-Island of Conclusions
-met Dodecahedrom
-went to the number mine
-found the Mathmagician
9/17/13: Complete Response Journal for Chapter 11 & 12 due tomorrow
Complete a summary, opinion, AND prediction for chapters 11 & 12 (done as one entry)
Key words to help remember the sequence of events.....
-tried to direct symphony
-found a wagon
-heard lots of awful sounds
-went to valley of sound
-went to rescue one small sound
-at fortress and got a "but" in his mouth
Complete a summary, opinion, AND prediction for chapters 11 & 12 (done as one entry)
Key words to help remember the sequence of events.....
-tried to direct symphony
-found a wagon
-heard lots of awful sounds
-went to valley of sound
-went to rescue one small sound
-at fortress and got a "but" in his mouth
9/11/13: Complete Response Journal for Chapter 9 & 10 due tomorrow
RAFT Activity due Monday, September 16
Complete a summary, opinion, AND prediction for chapters 9 & 10 (done as one entry)
Key words to help remember the sequence of events.....
-forest
-met Alec Bing
-Point of View
-Valley of Sound
-music makes colors
-requested to wake up at 5:23
RAFT Activity
This activity allows students to choose a ROLE, write to a specific AUDIENCE, using a designated FORMAT, and addressing an identified TOPIC. Students choose a row and compose their RAFT based on what is specified in the row. A Rubric is on the back of the paper so that students can determine how they will be graded. This is a project, so I expect a neat final copy. As always, I will be grading using COPS (capitalization, organization, punctuation, & spelling).
RAFT Activity due Monday, September 16
Complete a summary, opinion, AND prediction for chapters 9 & 10 (done as one entry)
Key words to help remember the sequence of events.....
-forest
-met Alec Bing
-Point of View
-Valley of Sound
-music makes colors
-requested to wake up at 5:23
RAFT Activity
This activity allows students to choose a ROLE, write to a specific AUDIENCE, using a designated FORMAT, and addressing an identified TOPIC. Students choose a row and compose their RAFT based on what is specified in the row. A Rubric is on the back of the paper so that students can determine how they will be graded. This is a project, so I expect a neat final copy. As always, I will be grading using COPS (capitalization, organization, punctuation, & spelling).
9/10/13: Complete the top "character flip book" in Response Journals due tomorrow
-on the cover, draw a picture of the character
-open up the "book" and create a bubble map for the character on the left hand side (name of character and adjectives about that character)
-on the right side of the book describe the character in complete sentences (at least 3 sentences)
**Remember that I am looking at COPS (capitalization, organization, punctuation, and spelling)
Chapter 1 – Milo, the boy
Chapter 2 – Whether Man, The Lethargarians, Tock: The Watchdog
Chapter 3 – King’s Advisers
Chapter 4 – Spelling Bee, The Humbug
Chapter 5 – Officer Short Shrift, Faintly Macabre: the not-so-wicked Which
Chapter 6 – King Azaz, The Mathemagician, Princess of Sweet Rhyme and Princess of Pure Reason
Chapter 7 – King Azaz, Humbug, Spelling Bee, King’s Advisers
Chapter 9 – Alec Bings
-on the cover, draw a picture of the character
-open up the "book" and create a bubble map for the character on the left hand side (name of character and adjectives about that character)
-on the right side of the book describe the character in complete sentences (at least 3 sentences)
**Remember that I am looking at COPS (capitalization, organization, punctuation, and spelling)
Chapter 1 – Milo, the boy
Chapter 2 – Whether Man, The Lethargarians, Tock: The Watchdog
Chapter 3 – King’s Advisers
Chapter 4 – Spelling Bee, The Humbug
Chapter 5 – Officer Short Shrift, Faintly Macabre: the not-so-wicked Which
Chapter 6 – King Azaz, The Mathemagician, Princess of Sweet Rhyme and Princess of Pure Reason
Chapter 7 – King Azaz, Humbug, Spelling Bee, King’s Advisers
Chapter 9 – Alec Bings
9/9/13: Response Log for Chapters 7 & 8 of The Phantom Tollbooth due tomorrow
Complete a summary, opinion, AND prediction for chapters 7 & 8 (done as one entry)
Key words to help remember the sequence of events.....
-banquet
-everyone left
-king's speech
-need to rescue Rhyme & Reason
-Milo, Tock, & Humbug leave for Digitopolis
Complete a summary, opinion, AND prediction for chapters 7 & 8 (done as one entry)
Key words to help remember the sequence of events.....
-banquet
-everyone left
-king's speech
-need to rescue Rhyme & Reason
-Milo, Tock, & Humbug leave for Digitopolis
9/5/13: Response Log for Chapter 5 & 6 of The Phantom Tollbooth due tomorrow
Complete a summary, opinion, AND prediction for chapters 5 & 6 (done as one entry)
Key words to help remember the sequence of events.....
-Speech was all messed up
-Meets Officer Shrift
-Dungeon with Which
-Tells Story
-Story of Land of Knowledge
-Digitopolis/Dictionopolis
-War
-No Rhyme or Reason
**Remember that you can always listen to the chapters again under the Reading/Phantom Tollbooth tabs on this website**
Complete a summary, opinion, AND prediction for chapters 5 & 6 (done as one entry)
Key words to help remember the sequence of events.....
-Speech was all messed up
-Meets Officer Shrift
-Dungeon with Which
-Tells Story
-Story of Land of Knowledge
-Digitopolis/Dictionopolis
-War
-No Rhyme or Reason
**Remember that you can always listen to the chapters again under the Reading/Phantom Tollbooth tabs on this website**
9/4/13: Response log for Chapter 3 & 4 of The Phantom Tollbooth due tomorrow
Complete a summary, opinion, and prediction for chapters 3 & 4. These can be done together in one response instead of trying to remember what happened in each chapter.
Key words to help remember the sequence of events.....
-arrived at gates
-met a guard and royalty
-needed a reason to enter (Why not?)
-Word Market
-met Spelling Bee and Humbug
-made a mess with the words and letters
**Remember that you can always listen to the chapters again under the Reading/Phantom Tollbooth tabs on this website**
Complete a summary, opinion, and prediction for chapters 3 & 4. These can be done together in one response instead of trying to remember what happened in each chapter.
Key words to help remember the sequence of events.....
-arrived at gates
-met a guard and royalty
-needed a reason to enter (Why not?)
-Word Market
-met Spelling Bee and Humbug
-made a mess with the words and letters
**Remember that you can always listen to the chapters again under the Reading/Phantom Tollbooth tabs on this website**
8/30/13: Figurative Language Re-Test on September 4th
If you are not happy with your grade on the test, you will have the option to re-take a different test on Wednesday, September 4th. You can use your old test to study. You can also use the links on this website under Reading-Vocabulary-Figurative Language. If you do not want to re-take the test, have your parent sign in and return in on Tuesday.
If you are not happy with your grade on the test, you will have the option to re-take a different test on Wednesday, September 4th. You can use your old test to study. You can also use the links on this website under Reading-Vocabulary-Figurative Language. If you do not want to re-take the test, have your parent sign in and return in on Tuesday.
8/28/13: Finish Response Log for Chapter 2 of the Phantom Tollbooth Due tomorrow
Write a brief summary for chapter 2 (about 3 sentences), an opinion (one sentence), and a prediction (one sentence). Some key words that might help for the chapter are
-Daydreaming
-Wrong Way
-Doldrums
-Finds little creatures
-Meets the watchdog
-realizes thinking = moving
Here is an example:
August 27, 2013
Chapter 1
Summary - In this chapter we meet the main character, a boy who thinks that everything is a waste of time. He sees the process of seeking knowledge as the greatest waste. He comes home from school and in his bedroom finds a box containing a tollbooth. He puts it together, and in his little toy car, he begins his adventure by heading to Dictionopolis, a place on the map that was included.
Opinion - I think this chapter could be the start of a real adventure, because Milo is heading off into the unknown.
Prediction - I think that Milo will have some strange adventures because he is going into a land where anything is possible.
**If you don't have a copy, or can't remember, you can listen to the chapters again on this website. Go to Reading, Unit 2: The Phantom Tollbooth and click on the youtube link for chapters 1-3**
Write a brief summary for chapter 2 (about 3 sentences), an opinion (one sentence), and a prediction (one sentence). Some key words that might help for the chapter are
-Daydreaming
-Wrong Way
-Doldrums
-Finds little creatures
-Meets the watchdog
-realizes thinking = moving
Here is an example:
August 27, 2013
Chapter 1
Summary - In this chapter we meet the main character, a boy who thinks that everything is a waste of time. He sees the process of seeking knowledge as the greatest waste. He comes home from school and in his bedroom finds a box containing a tollbooth. He puts it together, and in his little toy car, he begins his adventure by heading to Dictionopolis, a place on the map that was included.
Opinion - I think this chapter could be the start of a real adventure, because Milo is heading off into the unknown.
Prediction - I think that Milo will have some strange adventures because he is going into a land where anything is possible.
**If you don't have a copy, or can't remember, you can listen to the chapters again on this website. Go to Reading, Unit 2: The Phantom Tollbooth and click on the youtube link for chapters 1-3**
8/22/13: Examples of 4 or 6 (depending on class) figurative language Due tomorrow
Write one example of each figurative language that you chose. **You can find some helpful websites to use under the reading/vocabulary tab on this site!**
Definitions:
1. Simile: A direct comparison of two normally unconnected objects using like or as.
2. Metaphor: A comparison is made. The words like/as are not used. (One thing is another.)
3. Onomatopoeia: Sound words
4. Alliteration: Repetition of a consonant sound usually in the initial position.
5. Idiom: Phrases that cannot be understood using the literal meaning of the words.
6. Personification: Non-living things or abstract objects are given human qualities.
7. Oxymoron: Phrases that use words that seem to be contradictory.
Definitions:
1. Simile: A direct comparison of two normally unconnected objects using like or as.
2. Metaphor: A comparison is made. The words like/as are not used. (One thing is another.)
3. Onomatopoeia: Sound words
4. Alliteration: Repetition of a consonant sound usually in the initial position.
5. Idiom: Phrases that cannot be understood using the literal meaning of the words.
6. Personification: Non-living things or abstract objects are given human qualities.
7. Oxymoron: Phrases that use words that seem to be contradictory.
8/20/13: Decorate Writing Notebook and list 5 small moments. Due tomorrow
You may make the cover of your writing notebook as simple or as elaborate as you would like, but you must do something to it. Try to make it reflect you. Write 5 small moments in your life that you could write about on the first page of your spiral notebook. A simple list of things is fine.
example: eating breakfast with my family, getting tucked into bed each night, giving my dog a treat, loading the dishwasher, riding in the car to soccer practice.
example: eating breakfast with my family, getting tucked into bed each night, giving my dog a treat, loading the dishwasher, riding in the car to soccer practice.
8/16/13: Six Book Cards Due Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Choose 6 books that you would like to read independently. Put the books in alphabetical order by title on the sheet. If you would like to cut them out and glue them on individual cards, you may. Write one sentence about why you are interested in reading this book. I am grading according to the rubric, so number of cards completed, correct capitalization, neatness (organization), correct punctuation, and spelling all count. You may use books you have at home, books that you can check out from the library (school, public, or class), or ones that you would like to purchase.