October 30

Homework:
None! Enjoy the weekend.

Today:
1. Finish typing.
2. Complete one more STAR revision on your own piece then
3. Print out the piece and exchange it with one person. Have that person complete a star revisions. He should make at least two suggestions for each letter. Have your reviser put his/her name on the piece.
4. Make any final changes. Check for formatting.
5. Print out a final copy.
6. Staple the peer-revised one to the final piece and the rubric.

The peer-revised one should be on the bottom, then the final piece, then the rubric.

October 29

Homework:
Study Vocab
Read 255 for Monday

Today:
A. Collect OR
B. Note card reader response
Pick one of the two questions below and write one paragraph in response. Have a topic sentence that states your opinion, three pieces of evidence that supports your topic sentence, transitions, and a concluding sentence.

1. Are Davy Land's actions (breaking out of prison, running from the law) justified?

2. Is Jeremiah Land a responsible father?

C. Vocab pictionary

October 29

Today:
STAR revisions
Type up vignettte

S= Substitute at least one word
Take out= Take out at least three words
Add = Add at least one detail
Rearrange= Rearrange at least one sentence

Do you have a title?

October 27

Review rest of the week:
1. Homes and Names Vignettes
2. Vignette of your own choosing
3. Revise
4. Type
5. Turn in
6. Poe story- Friday


Today:
1. Check name vignetttes
2. Select Vignette of your own choosing
3. Prewrite-brainstorm
4. Organize
5. Write

October 26

Homework:
Read through "And Some More."
Mark three stories that you could emulate with your own experience.

Today:
Check homework- writing about your home.
"Read "Hairs" "Boys and Girls," "My Name."
Write an outline for your "Name" vignette.
Write.
When you are finished, the rest of the hour is yours to read.
Papers...if time.

October 22 and 23

October 22
Collect comparison paragraphs.
Introduction to vignettes. This activity is on Edline.

October 23
Rewrite the ten sentences from yesterday so they are more descriptive.
Draft your vignette.
Homework: Finish vignette.

Tuesday, October 20th

The last day to turn in any papers or CD assignments is this Friday.
We are still viewing Rebel Without a Cause and adding to our double bubble maps.

October 12-14

This week we worked on papers and were in the lab.

October 12

Homework: CDs are due tomorrow. You do not actually have to burn the music.
Essays are due typed by Wednesday.

Today:
1. Review paper requirements: rubric, basic elements.
2. Formatting: heading, title, work cited, quotes, and anything else you need to know how to do.
3. Go to the lab to type.

Friday, October 9th

Homework:
Finish CDs- due Tuesday
Finishs papers- due, typed Wednesday
Everything is on Edline.

Today:
1. Model paper- notes
2. Conslusions
3. Work

Meet here on Monday. We will discuss formatting, and then we will go to the lab.

Thursday, October 8th

Homework:

• Work on CD. It is due on Tuesday.
• Final, typed paper due Wednesday. We are using class to do this, however, so you should have to use minimal time at home for this.

Today:
1. Review this week: Finished book, took vocab quiz, completed circle map, thesis, and introduction of paper.
2. Rubric
3. Body paragraphs:

• Topic sentences
• Examples
• Quotes (citing and taglines)
• Transitions

4. Work on paragraphs. to be considerd for an A, you maust have three body paragraphs.

October 6

Homework:

Print out and read over in-class paper assignment from Edline. This is different than the CD assignment!

Today:
Final quiz
Watch Six Degrees Clip

October 2

Homework:
Read through 25.
Print out the directions for the Catcher in the Rye CD.

Today:
Vocab quiz
Flow map
Song connection
Holden and women

Oct. 1

Homework:
Read 22 and study for quiz

Today:
Flowmap
Censorship article (on Edline)
Vocab Review

Vocab words:
Ostracize
Compulsory
Sadistic
Exhibitionist
Monotonous
Unscrupulous
Conscientious
Incognito
Putrid