Weekly Homework:

1. Name essay with jersey design and color due on Monday, September 13th.

2. Start reading your independent book! Remember you need to read two books per quarter.

Monday

Labor Day

Tuesday

Poem of the Week: Guilt by Jed Chambers

Media Center for books and passwords

Wednesday

Activity 1 Practice 1 : Understanding Sentence Parts

Drafting name essay

Thursday

Figurative Language Practice Quiz on Similes and Metaphors
Revising essay

Friday

Work on Name Jersey design and completing essay.

Blog Hunt

Welcome 2011

Week One Homework:
1. Purchase two composition journals, highlighters and pencils for your use.
2. Donate a box of tissue or ten pencils for the classroom.

3. Emergency forms due Friday!
3. Parent Inventory due Friday for bonus.

Wednesday 31
Welcome!

My neighbors and I game.

Goal setting activity.

Parent Inventory and CEF


Thursday 1

Poem of the Week: The Little Boy Reading Response #1

Journal Rubric and Organization.

Journal #1 Writers Notebook:

What do you remember from yesterday?

What do you remember about other first days?

Friday 2

Type "Reading Conversation on Paper"

Go round; One thing I learned about myself as a reader today.

Important Final Dates

Belief Collage due May 23rd.

Belief Poems due Tuesday, May 24th.

Draft of Belief Essay due on Wednesday, June 1st.

Final Belief Essay due on Tuesday, June 7th.

Final Exam on June 9th.

Final Reading Work for Second Novel due on June 9th.

1) Beliefs are something we can make choices towards.

2) Good writing has good rhythm. Read your work out loud to yourself to find words that need clarification or rewording.

3) Don’t be afraid to go “in scene.” Use dialogue and specifics when needed.

4) Sentence fragments are generally not a helpful tool for readers. To create voice and style with punctuation-- use colons, semicolons, dashes and commas.