Homework for April 20 - 24

I will post homework and other assignments on this sight at the beginning of each week for the week. I will also include information about upcoming tests,projects,etc., as well as school events. We will have a weekly vocabulary quiz and the words will be on flashcards on this site. This is also an easy way to e-mail teachers. Please feel free to contact me with questions or concerns. I wish everyone a wonderful school year !!!



Homework- Week of April 20 - 24
*** Spring picture money due by April 22.

****Poetry project due by May 15.

******CRCT will be the week of April 20.

******* Students should begin bringing stamped,self-addressed envelopes to homeroom teachers for their final report card to be mailed at the end of the school year.Postage may go up,make sure it is a "Forever" stamp.


******** Have your novel with you for class everyday. We will be going to the media center every two weeks to return or renew books or to check out new books. You may also read books from home. Be sure to have books to read during CRCTs.



Get ready over the weekend for CRCTs:

1) get a good night's sleep on Sunday and each night thereafter
2) eat breakfast each day before school
3) bring two wooden # 2 pencils
4) relax and show all that you have worked hard to learn this year

***** No homework or quizzes this week due to CRCTs. Good week to work on your poetry project. Remember you can work on your 10 original poems at any time. Also,the two poems that you are to copy and paraphrase and the two biographies of poets would be good to work on.

Notebook information below:


Literature Notebook

Notebook - ( the following are the pages that should presently be in the literature section of your 3 - ring binder)

Six Flags Read to Succeed sheet

yellow Scope 100 sheet

blue syllabus sheet(signed by parent

green sheet on how to label papers

reading minutes/page log


Unit - Poetry and Novels

table of contents

p. 1 - vocabulary
p. 2 - notes/difference in prose and poetry
p. 3 - hw - alliteration
p. 4 - hw - onomatopoeia
p. 5 - Writer's Toolbox(instructions for 4 kinds of poems you are to write as part of your project)
p. 6 - Quiz - Poetry
p. 7 - hw - personification
p. 8 - Plan a Poem(directions for tanka poem)
p. 9 - Poetry project guidelines
p. 10- limericks
p. 11- hyperboles
p. 12- poetryII quiz
p. 13- concrete poem
p. 14- c.w. metaphors


**** Put your dividers
in the order of your class schedule, and always put your homework that is to be turned in the next day ,at the front of your binder with your name,class,period,and date.

Vocabulary words will be placed on the flashcards on this site (see above - just click on flashcards).

All tests for this class will be on Tuesdays. You will have a quiz each Tuesday on five vocabulary words and 5 review words from what we have studied the week before as well as questions on what we have read. Unit tests,etc., will also be on Tuesdays.


*** Vocabulary words are changed on Tuesdays after the weekly quiz.


Students have been given a Table of Contents for their notebook, and will be graded on keeping a well-organized notebook




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