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Homework assignments for students and parents

Welcome Email and Remind

Today I sent an email welcoming parents to my class for the 2015-2016 school year. Students were to work on the rough draft of their introduction letters. Those rough drafts are due tomorrow. Please don’t worry about how long each paragraph is; make sure you have the right content.  See the attachment below for the directions. Please email me if there are errors on the email address preferred for contact from me at school.  If your student is confused, please send him or her to me in the morning with a pass in the passport section of their student planner.

Have a great Wednesday evening.

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P. S. Sonic Drive-In has corn dogs for 50 cents on Thursday if you’re interested.

Introduction Letter

Class Notes – January 8, 2015

I sent an email to students and parents earlier today about the persuasion project that is due by 5:00 P.M. on Monday, January 12, 2015.  Use of graphics, pictures, charts, etc. are permissible.  Have fun trying to change someone else’s point of view.  Use your best spelling, and ask your parents to check things for you.  I will be in the Integration lab after school on Monday, January 12, until 4:30 P.M.

For my NFL-minded students (and parents!), here is a bracket I put together for the playoffs this weekend.  Go Cowboys!

NFL Playoff Bracket Predictions 2014-2015

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New Unit for Springboard

We will begin working on Unit II of our Springboard workbooks this week.  Our efforts will culminate in an original short story, but we’ll read some published examples and practice writing descriptively.  Here are a few of Aesop’s fables to read.  Please do this before Monday, November 17, 2014, just to have more background material in your arsenal.  Have fun!

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Novel Reminders

My PAP ILA classes should have their study questions completed for chapters 25-32 of Walk Two Moons and vocabulary for chapters 25-44. You should have at least four journal entries for this week for each of the reading sections. Study guide questions and vocabulary are on the Student Learning Hub under the Assignment tab.

My ILA class should have their chapter 10-13 questions for Where the Red Fern Grows completed on Monday, October 20.  You will check them in class; if you misplaced your copy of the questions, you will find electronic versions on the Student Learning Hub under the Class Novels tab along with the audio for chapters 9-13.

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Personification/Hyperbole Cartoon

I look forward to seeing my students’ creativity unleashed with the personification/hyperbole cartoons.  They will make four (4) total drawings with two for personification and two for hyperbole.  Yes, the illustrations need to be in color.  Yes, they need to write the example on their artwork.  I wanted them to play with language in the same manner as an author and to see how we use figurative language to express ourselves.

Here is an example:  The run down house appeared depressed.

  • Figurative – draw a house with a face and sad expression.
  • Literal – draw an abandoned-looking house with a for sale sign in front of it.