4/30/12

Today's Activities:

1.  Daily sentence correction.
2.  Conclusions.
3.  Begin writing conclusions.

Homework:

1.  Finish conclusions.
2.  Bring flash drive tomorrow.
3.  Typed rough draft due Wed.

4/26/12

Today's Activities:

Continue writing rough draft of descriptive essay about a person that is a positive influence on you.

Homework:

Catch up on rough draft.  You should have intro. and one body paragraph completed by tomorrow.

4/23/12

Today's Activities:

-Turn in success letters.
-Read Write Source p. 76-79.
-Work on Gathering Details WS.

Homework:

Get plenty of rest and eat a good breakfast- the reading OAAs are tomorrow :)

4/20/12

Today's Activities:

-Review examples of descriptive writing using the Write Source (p. 71-78).
-Brainstorming

Homework:

-Success letter due Monday.
-Bring Write Source to class all next week.
-Brainstorm 10 adjectives to describe the person you are writing about.

4/19/12

Today's Activities:

-Review quotes and underlining ws.
-Put items in collage folders.

Homework:

Success letter due Monday.

4/18/12

Today's Activities:

-Review last night's homework.  Turn it in.

-Review uses of quotes or underlining/italicizing for titles.

-Quote and Underlining WS.

Homework:

-Success letter due Monday 4/23.
-Two typed copies and rough draft of song essay due tomorrow.
-Finish WS if you did not do so in class.

4/17/12

Today's Activities:

-Review the rules of capitalization.
-Work on capitalization worksheet and go over the answers.

Homework:

-Success letter due Monday 4/23
-2 typed final copies of song essay due Thursday 4/19
-Capitalization WS #16-30 due tomorrow

4/16/12

Today's Activities:

Discuss The Outsiders movie.  Wasn't the book better?  :)
Begin peer editing song essays (What song best describes your life and why- Must be edited by 3 people.)

Homework:

Letter of advice due by Monday, April 23 (I will take them anytime between now and then.)

2 typed copies of your song essay due Wed.

4/4/12

Today's Activities:

-Put together and present newspapers.

Homework:

None :)

4/03/12

Today's Activities:

-Put together newspapers.
-Pass back collages and paragraph about your collage.

Homework:

None!

We are presenting our newspapers tomorrow.