Thursday, March 31, 2011

All classes: Bookshare tomorrow. Come prepared to discuss your book. Use the rubric as a guideline.

Honors: Block 1--your "Bells" stanza and illustration due Monday.

Blocks 4, 6 and 7--root word worksheet due Monday. Find some words you never knew before!

Wednesday, March 31, 2011

Block 4--do the complex sentence worksheet

Bookshare FRIDAY! Test grade!

Tuesday, March 29,2011

Whoo! Hoo! ELA MCAS is over. Good job by all!

Tonight--Blocks 6 and 7 do the worksheet on complex sentences.

REMEMBER Bookshare Friday. See my white board for what you have to bring for credit.

Monday, March 28, 2011

No homework.

Bookshare Friday. See prior posts for details.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Honors: Finich Caesar take-home test. You may use the book.

Block 7: Finish "Island" MCAS practice for tomorrow

TRACK quiz for Blocks 1, 5, 6 and 7 tomorrow.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

TRACK quiz Friday except for Block 4 who will have it on Thursday. See yesterday's post.

Block 5--Do the writing prompt for Caesar.

Block 1--finish "On a Night of Snow" open response

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Honors: Find and indicate the hyperbole in the story "Caesar, the Giant" pp. 781-789 in your literature book.

TRACK quiz Friday for blocks 5,6,7, and 1 Block 4 will have it Thursday since I won't see you on Friday (half day).

T=topic sentence comes from the question
R=relevant quotes/examples from text (3)
A=accurate explanation of quotes/examples (3)
C=conclusion rewords the topic sentence
K=keep writing neatly and legibly

You did a great job on the MCAS long composition today, using dictionaries, writing pages. I'm proud of you.