Thursday, April 28, 2011

Standard: Lyric Poems dus

Honors: Touching Spirit Bear--Chapters 1-3--follow rubric

See yesterday's post.

Take care--Keep reading and writing! I will miss you!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Honors: Poetry Anthology due MOnday--no late projects will be accepted.

Block 4-Haiku due tomorrow.

Blocks 4, 6 and 7--lyric poems due tfirday.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

BLock 5--quiz on brigade words.

Blocks 6 and 7--Haiku due Wed.

Block 4 Haiku due Thurs.


Honors: Poetry Anthology due Monday, May 2--no late projects will be accepted

Monday, April 25, 2011

BLock 5--finished copy of your vacation paragraph
quiz on the "brigade" words on Wednesday
Haiku due on Wednesday

Standard 6 and 7
Haiku due on Wednesday

Friday, April 15, 2011

Honors: If you have time over vacation, investigate Haiku--read mine and see if you can find any others. You can try writing some. We will work on the lyric poem and the Haiku in class when we get back.

Have a great, relaxing vacation!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

All classes--poetry test tomorrow.
Block 5--worksheet for "The Charge of the Light Brigade" due tomorrow


Poetry Anthology due date: Monday, May 2

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

All classes: Poetry test on Friday. Study your notes and study sheet.

Blocks 1,4,6 and 7--magazine poems due tomorrow

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Blocks 1, 4, 6 and 7--vocabulary quiz on "brigade" words. Know the spelling and definition.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Blocks 4 and 7--finish worksheet. Remember on the back to write a paragraph about the story of the Light Brigade.

Block 6--targets for vocabulary

Blocks 1, 4, 6 and 7--vocabulary quiz on Wednesday--spelling and definition

Friday, April 8, 2011

No homework. Have a nice weekend.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Standard: "Bells stanza--written in pen and illustrated. May be typed, and you may use Clip Art

Honors: Concrete Poem due tomorrow

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Honors: "Frigate" vocab. quiz tomorrow.
Concrete poem due Friday

Block 7: "Frigate" vocab. quiz tomorrow. "Frigate" targets due tomorrow.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Honors: "Frigate" quiz Thursday
Concrete poem due Friday

Standard: Blocks 4 and 6--vocabulary targets / quiz tomorrow
Block 7--vocabulary target/quiz Thursday

Monday, April 4, 2011

Standard: vocabulary/spelling quiz on the "frigate" words on Wednesday

Honors: vocabulary/spelling quiz on the "frigate" words on Thursday

Block 1 and 5--concrete poem due on Friday

Blocks 4, 6 and 7 --vocabulary targets due Wednesday. Block 7--I will give you some classtime tomorrow to work on these.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Honors: "Bells" stanza/illustration due on Monday. You may type it and use Clip Art if you wish.
Read the concrete poems in your literature book--pages 264, 270-271, 626. Do the questions on page 274--1a-4a. These should be done in blue or black pen and in complete sentences.


Standard: Root word worksheet due on Monday, April 4.