English 8 (Period 5) Assignments

Turn in your dialectical journals if you have not already done so.  Please make sure your Reader's Workshop notebook is in the bin with your pages tallied for the quarter.

Return any books you have checked out.

Finish the book before Wednesday, May 29. Add to your journals.

Finish the book and add to your journals.

Memorize you speeches and be ready to present. Your final drafts are due today.
Read/Journal for chapter 13 and 14.

Bring the draft of your graduation speech Tuesday. 

The rough draft of you promotion speech is due tomorrow. 

Read and complete journals for Ch.10-12.
Bring the draft of your graduation speech Tuesday. 

Read chapters 8/9 and complete accompanying journal entries. 

Please email Mr. Crosson or give him hard copies of the following ASAP:

1. A baby photo
2. A current photo

These will be used in the 8th grade promotion ceremony. His email is [email protected]

Read chapters 4-5 in ITW. Complete the questions and add to your dialectical journals (two entries per chapter). 

Read/annotate Ch. 3 for Into the Wild and complete your dialectical journal for that chapter as well.
Please complete the apostrophe section of your review packet.

Please read through Ch.2 of Into the Wild. Complete the accompanying questions and your dialectic journal for Chapters 1 & 2.

Finish your characterization sheet with examples of non-conformists for each category. 

Please come prepared with Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. I recommend ordering it from Amazon, used copies run between 3-4 dollars. I also saw copies on sale at Costco (Exposition)for 9.49 today. 

Your Animal Farm essay is due this Thursday. If you still need help, even after today's conference, please see me before Advisory so I can work with you. When you turn in your essay, please attach your rubric. If you do not have yours, one is attached that you can print out.

Please obtain Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, we will begin the book next week.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385486804/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

Your rough drafts are due, typed for your Animal Farm essays. Please obtain Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer ASAP. 

Bring Animal Farm and all related materials (chapter guides, lecture notes) to class. By Thursday you should have a solid thesis (fact + opinion) that you can support with three body paragraphs. Please ask to see me during Enrichment tomorrow if you need help or if you are unsure about the quality of your work. The assignment sheet is attached.

Be prepared to work on your essay in class, the rough draft is due (typed) Monday April 16th.

Please bring Animal Farm tomorrow, we will begin our essays in class.

Please obtain Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, by next week, it will be our next book of study.

Your Utopia Projects are due Tuesday, March 27th. This includes your powerpoint and paper. Each group must be ready to present Tuesday, even if a group member is missing.

I am uploading a slide that has the outlines for what I am expecting in each portion of the project. I am also attaching the Utopia Project packet that has the questions for you to build your utopia.  I have also attached an example powerpoint.

40% of your grade is based on the Powerpoint/presentation, 40% on your group paper, and 20% on peer grading.


I am moving your test on Animal Farm from Monday to Thursday.

Please bring your Utopia papers and powerpoints tomorrow. Bring your powerpoint on a flash-drive so we can project it as you present. 

Think about ideas for your Utopia and bring in a laptop if possible to begin work on your presentation. 

Read and annotate Ch.10 in Animal Farm. Questions will be completed in class.

If I conferenced with you and assigned you Reader's Workshop letters to complete at home, please do so and show me the letters tomorrow. 

Chapter 6 questions due for Animal Farm.

Finish the Chapter 5 questions if you did not complete them in class. Read Ch. 6 and annotate your book. Be prepared to share your annotations in class.

We will have a quiz on Ch. 5 & 6 that will also include the main ideas from our lectures on propaganda, totalitarianism, and allegory.

Animal Farm vocab sheets are due Tuesday, Feb 28th.

Read chapters 3 and 4 in Animal Farm and complete the accompanying packet. You will have a quiz tomorrow on chapters 1-4 and the lectures related to the book. It will be open note. Do not take that as an invitation not to study. 

Please obtain Animal Farm by George Orwell. 

The final draft of your Oral History is due Thursday, January 26. It should be typed, double-spaced, with 12 pt font (use Times New Roman).

Please obtain our next book, Animal Farm by George Orwell ISBN: 9780452284241 by next Tuesday. 

We have also started a new quarter of Reader's Workshop. The schedule is attached. We are asking that this quarter students read one piece of historical-fiction, a biography/autobiography, or an account of a historical event.

Rewrite the rough draft of your Oral History. Take time to carefully review your partner's edits and make edits of your own. Your 2nd draft is due Tuesday, January 24th.

Turn in your completed Reader's Workshop projects. The project list is attached.

REMINDER!

Your Reader's Workshop project is due Monday.  If you missed it the first time, the project list is attached.

The rough draft of your oral history is due, typed (double spaced).

Finish filling out the outline for your oral history paper. The outline is attached. If you do not have enough material (quotes, anecdotes, background info) you may have to conduct a third interview.

Please finish up your pre-writing guide for your oral history.

It is very important that you prepare a second set of questions for your interview subject. Please use the questions that you were not able to answer on the guide as well as ones that you thought of yourself. Make these questions open ended to generate interesting responses in place of yes/no ones. What more do you want to know about this person that you did not learn the first time around?

Please have conducted your second interview and your notes prepared by Monday, Jan 9th.

Please decide on your interview subject and make sure you have prepared 40 questions for them. The interview subject should be older than your parents, preferably from different generation. The Powerpoint has the Smithsonian address and I am also attaching the Smithsonian Interview Guide if you happen to misplace yours.

Read through the guide in order to prepare for your interview, it includes tips on how to tape/record to make sure your record of the conversation is not ruined by a battery or bad tape.

I am also attaching the questions each class brainstormed.

When we return on January 4, 2012 you will have conducted your interview, have an audio or video recording of it, and have taken notes during the interview.

Please finish the book (Ch.30-35) and continue filling in your interactive journal. The only vocab words for these chapters are the ones that you identify.

Your interactive journals are Wednesday. If you completed it on a computer, print it out at home, I will not be printing out your assignments.

REMINDER!

Your completed interactive journals are due tomorrow. This is in place of a final essay or test and is worth just as much. This means you must have your vocab and quotes for Chapters 1-35. Please make sure the chapters are labelled, stapled, and altogether ready to hand in at the beginning of class.

Read chapters 21-23 and update your interactive journals w/ vocabulary and quotes identifying and explaining comic elements in the book.

If your journal is not up to date you will be assigned MASH so you can finish it there. \

Also, please finish answering the questions on the "Satirical News Article Gallery Walk" handout.

Catch up on your quotes and reading up to Ch 18 for AOTS.

The final draft of your satirical news piece is due Tues (12/6). The assignment sheet is attached. Prep fr a quiz to be held on Mon/Tues.

Read Ch.16-18 in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. You do not have vocab for this section but you will have to keep up with your comic elements quotations.

Come to class with your rough draft of your satirical news piece. The assignment, with examples is attached.

A video on how to write satire can be found here:
http://youtu.be/PuvjDK3mpA0

Please read Ch. 14 and 15 in AOTS and keep up on your interactive journal. It will be checked in class tomorrow.

Vocab:
Chapter 13 Rendezvous (98)
Resolved (103)

Chapter 14 Foliage (107)
Skiffs (110)
Jubilant (111)

Chapter 15 Tormented (115)
Sumptuous (118)

Read Ch. 9-11 in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (AOTS). Complete your interactive journal for this section. Attached are the vocab words for this week. If you did not complete the vocab for Ch. 4-6 it includes:

Contrived, disconcerted, reprimand, abundant, captivity, mirth, odious, mortified, caricature

Please read ch 7 and 8 in AOTS. Keep adding vocab and comic element quotes to your interactive journal. The vocab for the week is attached in a doc.

Please read chapters 4-6 in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In your interactive journal, complete 2-4 quotes for each chapter that contain comic devices. Identify the comic device and explain its use. Your vocabulary for chapters 4-6 is: Contrived, disconcerted, reprimand, abundant, captivity, mirth, odious, mortified, caricature

Prepare for your quiz Monday that will include both vocab and reading comprehension questions.

Please complete your interactive journal for Ch.1-3 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. You need to complete the assigned vocab as well as 4 words you did not know. Please use context clues to figure these out.

For each chapter identify 2-4 quotes that contain examples of comic elements (satire, hyperbole, irony, sarcasm, slapstick) in your interactive journal.

1 entry on a quote of your choosing is required.

Please obtain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. We will start this book tomorrow.

Please obtain "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain by Monday. If you are unable to purchase the book please let me know and a book will be provided.

We will begin with Quarter 2's Reader's Workshop so make sure you have an independent reading book.

Please complete the Poetry and Of Mice and Men assignment I handed out in class. You will be analyzing a poem of your choosing and relating it to a theme/event in the novel, Of Mice and Men.

Please finish analyzing the poem "Hope is a thing with feathers..." by Emily Dickinson. It can be found on pg. 30 of 101 Great American Poems. Use the guide I handed out in order to complete the task. Here is the poem if you do not have a copy of the book/poem.

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

Please obtain 101 Great American Poems as well as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. We will be starting it when the 2nd Quarter begins.

Your Reader's Workshop requirement to read 700 pages is fast approaching. The deadline is Oct. 31st before we reset and begin to read another 700 pages. Use your time this weekend to read/finish your Reader's Workshop books.

The final draft of your Of Mice and Men essay is due Thursday. Please staple the rubric and your rough draft to your paper. Make sure to have your work stapled before class.

The rough draft of your essay on Of Mice and Men is due. It is essential that you come with this completed. We will be peer reviewing these in class.

Your adverb and adjective HW and your OMAM Ch.6 study guides are due Tuesday, which has been changed to a Blue Day.

Turn in Of Mice and Men study guides for Chapters 4 and 5. For Ch.5 DO NOT answer questions 13, 14, or 16.
Study for pronoun quiz, use your notes and HW to review.

Your nouns and pronouns worksheets are due Monday, Oct 3rd. Due to an error, the words on the pronoun sheet are not underlined for questions 1-4. The underlined words are as follows:

1. Sarah
2. Tyler, Miguel and Ramon
3. Mr. Cane, Mrs. Cane
4. The house

On the plural section of the nouns, just change the noun that needs to be possessive, I think you can figure it out without it being underlined.

Your descriptive paragraph in the style of Steinbeck is also due Monday.

The study guide for Ch.4 of Of Mice and Men is due Tuesday. Oct. 4.

Remember to bring your Reader's Workshop book everyday.

The study guide for Ch.3 is due Thursday, Sept. 29th. Please attempt to answer all questions. Some of them are quite difficult as usual, we will be clarifying the responses in class.

Your Of Mice and Men Ch.3 study guide is due tomorrow. Please have it completed, if there are questions you have trouble answering you need to at least attempt an answer.

The following assignments are due on dates.

Your noun quiz is on Monday, please review your notes and know concrete, abstract, proper, and possessive nouns. Remember, this is Monday Sept. 26.

You should also have read Ch.2 in Of Mice and Men and completed the accompanying note guide. This is due Tuesday Sept 27

Get some rest and have a great weekend.

Please write three sentences, each one containing the four kinds of nouns we learned today (concrete, abstract, possessive, and proper). Please make sure to make the sentences challenging as you will be testing your classmates.

Finish your of Mice and Men Study Guide for Ch.1. Remember, you do not have to answer questions 7 and 14 but if you would like to, go ahead.

Please bring Of Mice and Men to class on Monday. If for whatever reason you have not turned in your letter to me, syllabus, or self-portrait please do so.

Please review Daily Grammar Practice appendices to review the parts of speech and how to mark up your sentences.

Please obtain our novel Of Mice and Men and 101 Great American Poems for Unit 1. They are both available at Anna's Books. Please bring Of Mice and Men to our next class meeting.

If you have not done so please set up your spiral bound notebook for Reader's Workshop. From here on out we will be keeping them in class.

Hopefully we'll have time in class to go over the letter writing in more detail and give you time to write one in class. However, due to picture day we may not have time. If this happens, do not worry about the schedule in your notebook, we can modify when your first Letter should be finished.

Please set up your Reader's Workshop spiral notebooks using scotch tape to put the handouts inside. Remember
Inside Cover: Reader's Workshop Rules
First lined page: RW Schedule
Back of 1st lined page: Letter to 7/8th Grade Reader
Back of last lined page: RW Journal Prompts
Inside of Back Cover: Book Tracker (Author/ Book/ Date Completed)

Please type and turn in your "I am from". Have a parent/guardian proofread it for any mistake. Turn in your final draft along with your rough draft.

Bring you Reader's Workshop book everyday.

The following assignments are due Monday.

You need to have a Reader's Workshop book. You will be bringing this to class (or keeping it in your locker) everyday. On Monday we will go over the details for Reader's Workshop program. Remember, 7th graders have to read 2 books and/or 600 pages and 8th graders 3 books and/or 700 pages.

Your self-portrait is due, colored in, background included.

Your rough draft of your "I am from..." needs to be complete. We will be peer editing these. The rough draft does not have to be typed. Refer to the example sheet and pre-writing activity I handed out as references on how to write/structure your poem.

If you're reading this message that means you've registered for my class! Thank you and congrats on completing one of your HW assignments.

Homework:
Write a letter to Mr. Dahl that introduces yourself and includes details about your family, learning style, goals, interesting facts, etc. There is no minimum or maximum length just tell me about yourself.

Also, start thinking about a Reader's Workshop book. Hopefully we'll be introducing it on Monday. Remember, as a 7th grader you have to read at least two books and/or 600 pages. For 8th graders you have to read three books and/or 700 pages.

Go over the syllabus carefully with your parent/guardian. After you have finished please sign and return the last page. Due 9/7/11.