Homework & learning updates
Homework
Monday - Finish the final draft of your science class response (we worked on it in ELA today). Rough & final draft are due tomorrow. Tuesday - Take essay home, have a parent or guardian read, write a sentences or two telling what you did well and/or what you need to work on, & sign. Wednesday - Rewrite “Oranges” from the girl’s perspective. Try to keep the structure the same. "Oranges" is a poem that can be found on p.285 of SpringBoard. Thursday - Finish your Harriet Tubman chapter sixteen CIU log. This week, we are focusing on analyzing poetry and writing narratives. Students are using the information that they are learning to write a realistic, fictional narrative from the perspective of a runaway slave or Harriet Tubman. We will also be analyzing a number of poems in SpringBoard, in addition to spending a great deal of time understanding and analyzing the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe.
Homework Monday - Students will have no homework, but they have been asked to bring home the narrative that they wrote in class today and get parent feedback. Those who bring it back with a parent signature and a sentence or two of parent feedback will receive extra credit. Tuesday - Do the Tuesday portion of the "The Raven" packet. Wednesday - Do the Wednesday portion of the "The Raven" packet. Thursday - Do the Thursday portion of the "The Raven" packet. Homework Monday - Do the first 2 prompt breakdowns in the Breaking Down Prompts packet. Essays from the week before the break must be submitted by tomorrow. (Students worked on this extensively in class and were told to finish it the Thursday evening before the break. I told them that if they needed extra time, they could have the time over the break to finish and polish it, but that it would need to be turned in by Tuesday, February 16. Tuesday - Do the second two prompt breakdowns in your “Breaking Down Prompts” packet. Wednesday - CIU log for chapter twelve of Harriet Tubman. Thursday - Finish the essay that we worked on in class. Students should not have very much left to do at home. Prompt: What is the tone of chapter twelve, and how does the author’s characterization of John contribute to it? Friday - Finish chapter thirteen of your CIU log if you didn’t in class. Monday - Finish the practice essay comparing and contrasting types of evidence. Students worked on this in class extensively on Thursday and more today. They shouldn't have too much left to do.
Tuesday - Read the first page of chapter ten in Harriet Tubman. How does the author use foreshadowing in the exchange between Harriet and the white woman? Wednesday - Write the introductory paragraph for the research paper. You must include a hook, bridge, and thesis that states your claim and introduces the rest of the paragraphs. Thursday - If the essay we wrote in class is not finished, it must be finished for homework. I will have my substitute collect them on Friday and I will pick them up to grade during the break. Friday - Edited. NO HOMEWORK! |
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April 2016
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