Highlights for the week of 5/5-5/9

Reading: We will be finishing Freak the Mighty, the classroom novel this week. Snapshots for chapters 17-25 will be due this Friday. We will be taking the AR test this Friday, also!

There will be no more chances to take AR tests after this Friday!!!

English: We are working on the rough drafts of our memoirs this week in class. The rough draft is due on Friday.
We are also reworking our 4th quarter poem.

Quiz tomorrow in reading!

Homework for 5/1/08
Reading: Large quiz tomorrow over chapters 1-16 in the book Freak the Mighty.
"Snapshots due for the week from pages 54-107.

English: We handed back papers, and organized writing portfolios. We have a poem due tomorrow.

Homework for 4/22

Reading: Read through page 25 in the Freak the Mighty book. Snapshots should be completed for chapters 3 and 4

English: Scent induced memories one page essay due Wed.
Poem contest revision due typed on Wed.

Items to note for the week of 4/21/08

Reading: We are starting a new novel in class called Freak the Mighty. Today the assignment was to read from page 1-10 and complete two "snapshots." A snapshot is a drawing on a sticky note that depicts a scene from a chapter. There is one snapshot due per chapter.

English: Poem revision for the contest is due on Fri.--TYPED

Homework 4/16

Reading: Read 20 minutes
We will finish analyzing the top 10 songs of all time. The memo writing assignment will be due on Friday.

English: The scent induced memories sheet will be due tomorrow in class. Tomorrow we will be picking one of the scents to write about.

Heads Up: Quarter 4 Poem #3 due Thursday, May 1st

New Poem Contest

There is a new poem contest that we are going to be entering sponsored by the American Library of Poetry. Poems must be typed, less than 20 lines long, and can be about any subject.
The deadline is April 30th, 2008 so get your final poems typed!! Each student will be submitting one poem for competition.

Homework 4/10

Reading: 20 minutes of reading for tonight.

English: Poem due Monday. The choices for topics are:
1. Tritina
2. Sestina
3. Pantoum
4. Poem from the heart map
5. Multiple stanza haiku
6. Your own pattern creation
7. 13 Ways to look at an object
8. An ode about a common object

For class tomorrow:
There is a one page paper due about one of the objects on the story maps.