Week of March 25, 2013

This week we will learn some root words and a prefix.  We will also dive into one of out Scope Magazines and read and analyze a non-fiction article about the dangers of cheerleading.  Don't forget to read your "RC" book at home each night and complete your reading memo for Friday!

Due Dates:
Startings and Endings (complex sentence prac.)- Tue
Word Maps- Wed.
Reading Memo 3.2-  Fri

Week of March 18, 2013

You should be reading your "reading contract" book at home- don't forget the first reading memo is due on Friday.  In class this week, we will practice writing two more response to literature essays before the WPA on Thursday.

Due Dates:
Embedding Quotes Prac.- Tue
Practice essay ("An Unlikely Friendship")- Wed.

Reading Memo 3.1- Fri.

Week of March 11, 2013

This week we will focus on writing literary response essays on theme using textual evidence to support our chosen theme.  Come to class ready to analyze a short story and write!
Also, don't forget the next reading contract is due.  Choose a book (fiction or non-fiction) that doesn't have a movie and is within your reading level.

Due Dates
Signed reading contract + book - due Fri.

Week of March 4, 2013

We will be writing an essay on a theme in The Giver this week.  Most of the writing will be done in class as this is a "we-do together" essay.  Our focus with this essay is to properly embed quotes to support our thesis.  We will also review the 4 different sentence structures- simple, compound, complex and compound-complex.

Due Dates
Comma prac.- Tue
4 sentences (1 for each structure)- Wed.
First body Par. of theme essay- Fri