Homework/Due Dates
ALL CLASSES
Due Friday, January 29, 2016: Bring an informational text from home. I'd prefer the actual text, but if you are only able to take a picture on a device, that works, too!
Due Wednesday, February 3, 2016: 1. The list of your top five priorities AND the number of hours per week you spend on them. 2. An informational text you have found at home. 3.The six-sentence paragraph about informational text.
Due Wednesday and Thursday, March 23 and 24, 2016: quarter three notebook check (I will conduct these in class, and if yours is complete, and I don't get to it, you can leave it in the crate in my classroom). The requirements can be found below!
ON-LEVEL CLASSES
Start or Continue Vocabulary #4 Quiz Retake for Tomorrow, March 18th, 2016: Study Vocabulary #4 in preparation for the retake of the Vocabulary #4 Quiz! You could even look over the quiz again and be sure you understand why you got the questions wrong and what you needed to include in each answer for them to be correct.
PLUS CLASS
Due Friday, March 18, 2016: Read and annotate the poem "Turtle", and answer the following questions:
1. Describe the structure of this text.
2. What aspect(s) of a turtle's life has the author chosen to focus on?
3. Does the author use any literary devices? If so, list at least two and an example of each from the text.
4. What is the theme of this text?
5. How could you present the same information/ideas of this text in a short story?
1. Describe the structure of this text.
2. What aspect(s) of a turtle's life has the author chosen to focus on?
3. Does the author use any literary devices? If so, list at least two and an example of each from the text.
4. What is the theme of this text?
5. How could you present the same information/ideas of this text in a short story?
Due Thursday, March 24, 2016: Your turtle short story! Please be sure that it meets the following requirements:
1. Is at LEAST one page
2. Has a title and a heading
3. Communicates the same theme (message)/presents the same ideas as the poem, "Turtle" by Kay Ryan.
4. Includes all elements of fiction (plot, characters, conflict, theme, and setting)
1. Is at LEAST one page
2. Has a title and a heading
3. Communicates the same theme (message)/presents the same ideas as the poem, "Turtle" by Kay Ryan.
4. Includes all elements of fiction (plot, characters, conflict, theme, and setting)