Assignments

**On this page, you will find any worksheets or assignments that I've made and the dates on which they were assigned. If you got a worksheet in class and you lost it on the way home, it //should// be on here for you to print out. ** **NOVEMBER 2011**
 * ~ Date Assigned ||~ Assignment ||~ files and links ||
 * **Thursday, November 10 ** || Read your independent reading book for 20 minutes and draw a 6 frame comic strip about your favorite scene from the book so far.

Example>

(It does NOT need to be in color, nor does it need to look this good.) || ||  __If you have already read 250+ pages since the beginning of the school year__, read for 20 minutes. Then print and fill in a cause and effect clouds sheet (in the files column). If you can't print, you can just draw it out by hand.  __If you have not yet read 250 pages of independent reading__, read for 30 minutes and do TWO independent reading updates in the discussion section of your class page. (Read for 15 minutes, then independent reading update #5a. Read for another 15 minutes and do independent reading update #5b.) || **Keep in mind you have TWO days to do this since there is no school on Tuesday, November 8**. If you are having trouble finding the climax of your book, take a look at these links. They may help: [|Climax in Fairy Tales] ] [|Literary Terms (scroll down to the diagram that looks like a jagged mountain)] || || A2 A3 A4 ||
 * **Wednesday, November 9 ** || Bring your independent reading book to class tomorrow. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday, November 8 ** || NO SCHOOL ||  ||
 * **Monday, November 7 ** || You need to have read at least 250 pages of independent reading by Thursday, November 10th.
 * **Friday, November 4 ** || Do some independent reading this weekend! || <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">(No update required) ||
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday, November 3 ** || <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Attribution essay ROUGH DRAFT due tomorrow. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday, November 2 ** || <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Finish the rough draft of today's attribution essay by Friday, November 4. || <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 70%;">Directions, rubric, and challenge levels:
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday, November 1 ** || <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read for 15 minutes in your independent reading book and reply to INDEPENDENT READING UPDATE #4 in the DISCUSSION section for your class. || A1

ALSO, look at the one page summaries we did for homework. That gives you a good, complete summary of the first half of the book. || || <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">2) Finish reading The Pearl by tomorrow ||  || || <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">If you still do not feel comfortable with symbolism, write down examples of VISUAL imagery in the right. In the left, explain why you think Steinbeck included each of those images. || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Symbolism:** Use of a concrete noun (person, place, or thing) to represent an idea, theme, or concept. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Visual Imagery:** Vivid description of how something looks. || __<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">If you already wrote->your homework is to write __ <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Expository ---> Persuasive <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Persuasive ---> Narrative <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Narrative > Expository || (This includes the definititions of the three types of writing...kind of) || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Post an indepedent reading update the same way you did last time. Click on your class page (on the left), then click "DISCUSSION" at the top. Click on the "INDEPENDENT READING UPDATE #3" link and then scroll to the bottom. Post your update in the "Reply" section. All of your updates should be posted as replies to that discussion topic. Instructions from last time still apply --> || || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">VOCAB UNIT #2 QUIZ ON WEDNESDAY! ** ||  ||
 * ~ OCTOBER 2011 Date Assigned ||~ Assignment ||~ Related files and links ||
 * **<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday, October 31 ** || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read 15 minutes in your independent reading book (no update necessary). ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday, October 28 ** || <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dialectical journals due Monday . ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday, October 27 ** || <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">PEARL TEST TOMORROW! Study study study! || Not sure how to study? Go through your dialectical journal. Highlight things that don't seem familiar to you or that you don't remember. Go back and skim those chapters.
 * **<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday, October 26 ** || <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Finish the questions from The Pearl study guide (#1-49). Only do steps 1-3. || [[file:The Pearl Study Guide.doc]] ||
 * **<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday, October 25 ** || <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//THE PEARL// TEST ON FRIDAY!!! || [[file:end questions.doc]]
 * **<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday, October 24 ** || <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">1) Vocab skits are due WEDNESDAY
 * **<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday, October 21 ** || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Freerice vocabulary skits are due on MONDAY. || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">What you submit on Monday will be worth 75% of a project grade. The other quarter of the grade is yet TBA. ||
 * **<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday, October 20 ** || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Finish your Free Rice vocabularly word study by Friday (10/21). ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday, October 19 ** || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Finish your Free Rice vocabularly word study by Friday (10/21). ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday, October 18 ** || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Answer the 10-points worth of questions you copied down during class. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday, October 17 ** || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read up to page 79 in //The Pearl// and fill in the dialectical journal worksheet handed out in class today. ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday, October 14 ** || <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Complete both sides of the Killgallon worksheet from class. It (as always) is included here ---> || [[file:Chunking Review Homework.doc]] ||
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Thursday, October 13** || <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read for 10 minutes in your idependent reading book. Copy down THREE sentence from what you read. You do NOT need to write these in two columns or include CCQs. Just copy three sentences down onto a seperate sheet of paper. ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday, October 12 ** || <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read for 15 minutes in your indepedent reading book and complete a CHARACTER WEB for your book. Instructions are attached here--> || [[file:How to Create a Character Web.doc]]
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Tuesday, October 11** || <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read chapter 5 (pages 58-67) in //The Pearl//. In the left hand column of your dialectical journal, copy down 3 examples of [|symbolism] from the chapter. In the right, explain what the image symbolizes and why it is a good symbol. Examples provided here --->
 * **<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday, October 7 ** || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Write a 4-6 sentence paragraph about your group's topic from class today.
 * **<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday, October 6 ** || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">None ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday, October 5 ** || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read your INDEPENDENT READING BOOK for 15 minutes. You CANNOT read //The Pearl// or //Crispin// for this assignment.
 * **<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday, October 4 ** || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">VOCAB UNIT #2 QUIZ ON WEDNESDAY! ** || [[file:unit 2 words.doc]] ||
 * **<span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday, October 3 ** || <span style="color: #ff6700; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read up to page 57 in //The Pearl// and enter 4 quotes (and CCQIPs) into your dialectical journal.

Assignment ||~ Related files and links || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">2) Read up to page 40 (through chapter 3) in //The Pearl// and enter two quotes and CCQIPs into your dialectical journal. ||  || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Because of Rosh Hashana, I will not check that homework until **Monday, 10/3**. HOWEVER, we will be doing vocab skits on Friday 9/30. This week, people who can guess the vocab words correctly (as opposed to the actos) will get prizes. Make sure you have spent some time looking over the vocab words before then so you can win something. Also, wouldn't it be fun to not have any English homework over the weekend? Do your vocab early if you are not observing the holiday. ||  || (This is the worksheet we did in class. It is not **homework. I just included it for those people who were absent today.)** || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">IMPORTANT: This time, when you go to the DISCUSSION tab on your class page, click on the entry at the top called "INDEPENDENT READING UPDATE #2." Instead of clicking on "+ New Post" like last time, write your entry in the "Reply" section at the bottom of my post. Confused? Look at the file in the right hand column> || How to Post a Book Update in 5 Easy Steps! || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 80%;">(If you are still unsure of how to do you dialectical journal, look at the examples on the right). || [|Dialectical Journal Example 1] [|Dialectical Journal Example 2] [|Dialectical Journal Example 3] || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Post one of those on The Pearl page (directions for how to post will be listed on the page) || || || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Post an independent reading update on your class page (in the discussion section) || || || || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">(2) Bring summer reading log by Tuesday, Sept 6 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">(3) Fill in the chart on your respective class page (Click on whichever class you are in: A1, A2, A3 or A4) by tomorrow (8/31). || ||
 * ~ Date Assigned ||~ SEPTEMBER 2011
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday, September 30 ** || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">1) Finish your vocab word study by Monday
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday, September 29 ** || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">No school. Rosh Hashana. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday, September 28 ** || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Vocab unit 2 begins today and you have to complete a word study.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday, September 27 || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Write your one page summary for //The Pearl// on your class page (A1, A2, A3 or A4). Not sure how to write a one page summary? Check out the attached directions---> || [[file:One Page Summary Instructions.doc]] ||
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday, September 26 || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read up to page 30 in //The Pearl//. || [[file:making inferences chapter 1-2.doc]]
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday, September 23 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read for 30 minutes this weekend and do another book update in the discussion section of your class page.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday, September 22 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Finish final draft of your parable. || [[file:3 - parables.doc]] ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday, September 21 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read up to page 20 in //The Pearl.// Copy down FOUR more quotes into your dialectical journal and write a CCQIP for each quote.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday, September 20 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read up to page 9 in //The Pearl// and copy down FOUR quotes into your dialectical journal worksheet (attached). || [[file:Dialectical Journal Instruction and Introduction.doc]] ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday, September 19 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Watch the video here and make note of FIVE facts about John Steinbeck that might have affected either the way he wrote, what he chose to write about, or why he liked to write.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday, September 16 || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Final draft of "Life's Not Always Fair" writing assignment due Monday (9/19) || [[file:2 - Life is Unfair Challenge Groups.doc]]
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday, September 15 || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">VOCAB QUIZ TOMORROW!! Study please. ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday, September 14 || <span style="background-color: #f4f44e; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">VOCAB QUIZ ON FRIDAY, SEPT 16
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday, September 13 || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">NO SCHOOL (for students) || None ||
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday, September 12 || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read your independent reading book for __20 minute__ and FINISH YOUR WORD STUDY by Wednesday. || None ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday, September 9 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cereal boxes due MONDAY, Sept 12. Extra credit assignment also due Monday. || None ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday, September 8 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Your cereal boxes are due on Monday, Sept 12 AND your "To Say the Name" essays are due on Friday, Sept 9. There is information about that assignment in the Writer's Workshop section of the wiki page. || [[file:A Roshanda by Any Other Name.doc]] ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: georgia,serif;">Wednesday, September 7 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Your summer reading cereal box is due on Monday, Sept 12 || [[file:Cereal Box Assignment.doc]] ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday, September 6 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Answer the reading comprehension questions that go with "A Roshanda by Any Other Name..." || [[file:A Roshanda by Any Other Name.doc]] ||
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday, September 1 || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">(1) Bring back signed syllabus! (2) Finish the top and left of your cereal box (3) Bring a cereal box ASAP (4) BRING A NUMBER 2 PENCIL AND AN INDEPENDENT READING BOOK! || [[file:top and left side.doc]]
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday, August 31 || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">(1) Bring signed syllabus by Tuesday, September 6. (2) Finish right side, top and left side templates for your summer reading project by Thursday, Sept 1. (3) Fill in the chart of your class wiki page by Thursday, Sept 1. (4) Bring in __empty__ cereal box (just the cardboard part) ASAP. || [[file:top and left side.doc]]
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday, August 30** || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">(1) Bring back class syllabus signed by you and your parent/guardian by Tuesday, Sept 6