Week of Jan. 23-27
Monday: Outline of persuasive editorial complete along with word splash and draft of introductory paragraph and first detail/body paragraph. Tuesday: Rewrite introductory paragraph per notes on board and from your writing partners today in class. Add a second detail paragraph. Wednesday: Complete drafting of the paper. Make sure you bring a typed copy to class [...]
Week of Jan 17-20
Current events roundup-to write an opinion piece. By Friday you must obtain copies of 3 or more news articles on a topic that interests you. The issue should be one that affects preteens or teens, local people, or people in Connecticut. It needs to be an issue that reasonable people can disagree about and that [...]
Week of January 9-13
Monday: Double sided worksheet on semicolons and colons. Tuesday: Worksheet on punctuating dialogue. Wed. review worksheet Thurs. study Fri. Test on puncuation. No weekend homework-enjoy your 3 days!
Happy New Year! Week of 1/3-1/6/2012
Monday: reflection letters on the C.S.C. project are due tomorrow-all classes. L.A.1 & L.A. 3: Holt textbook pg. 651 exercise 1 due tomorrow. Tuesday: L.A. 2 Holt textbook pg. 651 exercise 1 due tomorrow. Wed./Thurs. Friday: different classes had different due dates, but all 3 classes had to do pgs. 653-654 exercise 12. L.A. 1 [...]