Thursday 10/29

No homework for the last day of the quarter! Happy Halloween!

Wednesday 10/28

Your only homework is to complete the optional extra credit assignment, due tomorrow. See the older posts for a link to the assignment.

Update: Links to documents for portfolio

Use these links instead of the old ones.

Link to poetry packet: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfrr8q22_10fb65gmgv

Link to assignment page: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfrr8q22_11cmkjhjd7

Link to extra credit: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfrr8q22_9gsnnmxdp

Online version of resources for Survival Portfolio (due Monday 10/26!)

Here is the link to the packet of poems you can use for the project: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZ4bBAAlDmYBZGZycjhxMjJfMTBmYjY1Z21ndg&hl=en

Here is the link to the assignment page and scoring rubric: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZ4bBAAlDmYBZGZycjhxMjJfMTFjbWtqaGpkNw&hl=en

This project is due Monday! If you have any questions, email me.

Extra Credit Alert!

Please see this document for the details on the extra credit assignment:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZ4bBAAlDmYBZGZycjhxMjJfOWdzbm5teGRw&hl=en

Due: Thursday 10/29. This is an optional assignment.

Tuesday 10/20 and Wednesday 10/21

1) Study for your interim exam! This is a test grade. Focus on figurative language and author's purpose.
2) Bring all materials for your survival portfolio on Friday in order to type them. Survival portfolio due Monday 10/26!

Monday 10/19

Have a friend or parent read over your survivor biography (peer editing!) Bring it back, edited, tomorrow to hand in.

Friday 10/16

For Monday you need to write a draft of your biography of Erika Eckstut, the Holocaust survivor that we heard yesterday.

Thursday 10/8

Tomorrow is your last chance to ask questions face-to-face before your summer reading project is due on Tuesday! Bring any specific questions with you.
Also bring your poetry analysis paragraphs to work on during class tomorrow. If you are done, you will have other aspects of the project to work on.

Wednesday 10/7

Your only homework is to continue writing and revising your four analysis paragraphs as well as work on your summer reading project!

Remember, summer reading project is due 10/13!!! That's Tuesday after the long weekend!!!

Tuesday 10/6

Tonight's homework is to catch up with the analysis paragraphs that were due today, or, if you actually did your homework on time (thank you to those few people!), spend tonight revising your work based on the tips we got in class today.

Summer reading project due in one week! (10/13)

Monday 10/5

Hello students and parents!
By tomorrow, you must have 3 of the 4 poetry analysis paragraphs that are required for your project completed. If you were not here on Friday, you need to see me for the packet that contains the poems that you are to analyze. Remember, you need to pick 4 of the 7 poems from the packet to analyze, and write one paragraph for each of the four.
Due: Tomorrow (Tuesday) for a double homework grade (since I am not checking your two for today; instead, I will check for all three tomorrow.)

Summer reading project due 10/13--one week from tomorrow!

Friday 10/2

For Monday, you must have at least 2 of your 4 poem analysis paragraphs written. These come from the packet that was handed out in class on Friday.

Summer reading project due 10/13.

Thursday 10/1

Your only homework tonight is to work on your summer reading project.
Due: 10/13.

You need to try to finish this project early so that you will have plenty of time for your end-of-unit project, the Survival Portfolio, due 10/23.