Friday, December 13, 2013

HW for Friday, 12/13

Work on your IRP!

It's due Thursday, 12/19.

See the project guidelines to the right if you need more guidance.

Daily Warm Up for Friday, 12/13

1) Work on your IRP, if you can.
2) If you can't, go on quizlet and practice your vocab words from this week.

Monday, December 9, 2013

HW for Monday 12/9

Finish draft 1 of your gallery card, which we started in class today.  We will peer edit those in class on Tuesday.

Friday, December 6, 2013

HW for Friday, 12/6

Make up work, and start working on your IRP.  It will be due Thursday, 12/19.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Vocab Words

Vocabulary

HW for Thursday, 12/5

Study for tomorrow's vocab quiz!  Make sure to review sentence fragments and be prepared to put your editing skills to use (see Wednesday's warm-up for review) . . .

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

HW for Wednesday, 12/4


IRP 6
Type, label and date your response to the following question:

What is your (detailed) plan for your independent reading project? How is it interactive? (200+ words).

Daily Warm Up for Wednesday, 12/4

Do these warm ups in preparation for Thursday's quiz:

Sentence fragments:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/fragments_add1.htm
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/planting_sentences/

Editing:
http://www.quia.com/rr/393396.html

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

HW for Tuesday, 12/3

Using the packet I handed out in class today ("8 Parts of Speech"), go through your novel and add the following IN RED (as we discussed in class):

  • 10 words from page 2 ("Instead of 'said'")
  • 5 from page 3 ("Movement")
  • 2 from page 4 ("Sound")
  • from page 5 ("Descriptive")

Daily Warm-Up for Tuesday, 12/3

Let's get our editing juices flowing!
http://mrnussbaum.com/paragraph/

Monday, December 2, 2013

HW for Monday, 12/2




IRP 5

Complete the IRP 5 RATETEO worksheet (please note that I've edited the sentence starters a bit) and then type your paragraph.

Week 5 Question: What morals or lessons do you think the author intends his/her reader to find in this book? (200 words)