HW for Tuesday, 12/18

Work on your IRP! It's due Thursday, 12/20!


See detailed project instructions below:
Don't forget to change the directions on your gallery card if your project changes.

Creative Project:

Come up with some way to visually present your book. This will not be presented orally. You will post this in the classroom gallery‐style. Your creative project should include a gallery card –with one typed paragraph that briefly summarizes your book and a second paragraph that gives your project a creative title and explains your projects’ significance to the book. Your gallery card should also include any necessary instructions for the viewer on how to interact with your work.

Some ideas . . .

• a diorama of a particular scene
• if there’s a movie version of your book, choose a short scene to que up; you should also print the exerpt from the book and your gallery card should explain how the two scenes (movie and book) are similar and/or different
• create a website about your book that students can go through on their own
• a power point presentation that students can go through on their own
• a board game that two students could play on their own—directions should be simple and printed out
• if food is important in your book, cook something that’s mentioned and bring that in for everyone to try—make sure it is clear why this is relevant to the content of your book
• draw portraits of the main characters or draw important scenes from the book

These projects should be neat and well‐put together, not something you work on the night before it’s due!

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 12/18

Click here, and choose a book you would like to own -- remember the title and author.  Parkmont will buy it for you.  Happy Holidays!

HW for Thursday, 12/13

Please work on draft 1 of your gallery card.  See the link to the right for an example.  Remember how well most of you did on these last session!

HW for Tuesday, 12/11

Read packet 6, write a 200 word journal response.
If you're doing King Arthur, what do you think of the story of the Green Knight?  What might a moral or lesson of that story be?
If you're doing Gilgamesh, what do you think about Gilgamesh's grief?

For Danielle

Danielle, please complete your make up work.  Once you've completed draft one of your compare/contrast essay, you will need to ask someone to edit it for you, then you will do draft 2 based on their edits.

Also, you will need to complete this project this week:
Hero’s Journey and Archetypes Powerpoint

Please email me (ngedutis@gmail.com) to get my approval on the movie/book you would like to study.  You should also make sure to share your project with me.

HW for Monday, 12/10

Draft 2 of your Compare/Contrast Essay.

For Rakicia

Rakicia, please watch this video and write 250 words comparing/contrasting it to what you've read of Gilgamesh so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSZg5DTW7Hw

HW for Tuesday, 12/5

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 Monday, 12/3

Peer editing and/or this site:
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/proof.htm
(Click the 8th grade level).

HW for Thursday, 11/29

Read packet 3 and write journal 3.

HW for Tuesday, 11/27

IRP 5

Please type your answer. Include your name, the date, and the title of the assignment.

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

AND

Read packet 2, write 200 word journal response (Journal #2)

HW for Monday, 11/26

Read the packet you've been assigned -- either King Arthur or Gilgamesh -- and write a 200 word response (label it either "King Arthur Journal 1" or "Gilgamesh Journal 1".  What do you think of the story so far?  How is it similar to/different from a fairy tale?

Daily Warm Up for Monday, 11/26

Research these questions:
What is a legend?  How are legends different from fairy tales?

We'll discuss your answers -- extra credit for everyone with a good response!

HW for Thanksgiving Break

Finish draft 1 of your compare/contrast essay.

Also, if you're behind, please use the time to catch up.

HW for Monday, 11/19

IRP 4 
Please type a 200 word response to the following question. Make sure to label the assignment with your name, the title of the assignment, and the date. DOUBLE SPACE!

What aspects of the plot or story can you relate to your own experiences? Describe how.

HW for Thursday, 11/15

Draft 3 of your Cinderella story, using the corrections I gave you.

If you haven't turned in draft 1, do that, have it edited, then do draft 2.

If you haven't done draft 2, do that.

HW for Tuesday, 11/13

1)

IRP week 3

(Please type your response, and include your name, the date, and the title of the assignment.)

Week 3 Question: Describe the character(s) you most identify with. Why or how do you relate to him/her or them? (200 words)

AND ...

2)

Click here and read one of the following Rumpelstiltskin-esque stories, then answer these 3 questions:
1) What is the subject of the story (one word);
2) What is the theme of the story (one sentence -- does not have to be a moral or lesson);
3) Write 5 sentences comparing/contrasting this version to the version we heard in class today.

Purzinigele

Tarandandò

Tom Tit Tot

Whuppity Stoorie

The Rival Kempers

HW for Monday, 11/12

Draft 2 of your Cinderella story is due tomorrow.

Catfish, Nahom, Maesun, Emani -- use thee peer edits we did in class today.  Tomorrow you will turn in the first draft, the worksheet, and the second draft, all together.

Ariel, Raemiesha, Rakicia, Danielle -- click here and ask someone at home or a peer to fill out this sheet/edit your story.  Tomorrow you will turn in the first draft, the worksheet, and the second draft, all together.

Remember, you lose 10 points for every day a draft is late.  If you don't have your first draft tomorrow, then, you will lose 20 points on that and 10 points on your 2nd draft.

Kenyatta,
Read the Cinderella story that I passed out in class.  If you'd like, go to this site and listen to it:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/cinderella.html
Once you've done that, answer the questions at the end of the packet -- please do so on a separate sheet of paper.

HW for Thursday, 11/8

Cinderella, Cinderella . . .

While keeping in mind the essential plot elements we've been studying (and referring often back to your chart, which we'll fill out in class), write your own Cinderella story with a new setting. You might imagine a skateboarding Cinderella, a hip-hop Cinderella, a high-fashion Cinderella, a science-fiction Cinderella, and so on. Pay attention to the ways in which the plot must change along with the setting. 

The first draft is due Monday.  It must . . .

1) follow the formatting guidelines

2) be at least 500 words long

3) be shared with me through googledocs (my email is ngedutis@gmail.com)

We will peer-edit the stories on Monday, so if you do not have the first draft, you will not be able to participate in class and therefore won't be allowed in the room.  You will lose a letter grade for every day that the story is late.

Mi'kmaq

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AaGRLCkZ_3OsLSV7ntOESPXYQ__JSTL0d4zYlYpW4Xc/edit

HW for Tuesday, 11/6

1) Read any of the Cinderella stories (except for the first 3) on this site: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510a.html
and complete the Plot and Settings Elements chart.

AND

2)

IRP Week 2

(Please type and double-space your response. Be sure to label it with your name, the date, and the title of the assignment -- see the Paper Formatting Guidelines to your right.) 

Week 2, Question 1: Are you liking the book so far? Why or why not? (100 words)

Week 2, Question 2: Describe in detail where and when the book takes place. Cite sections of

the book or lines that give you a sense of place. (150‐200 words)

Daily Warm Up for Monday, 11/5

Try these:

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/Y4Spelling/tenses1y4.htm

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/Y4Spelling/tenses2y4.htm

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/Y4Spelling/tenses3y4.htm

HW for Monday, 11/5

Read the Cinderella story that I passed out in class.  If you'd like, go to this site and listen to it:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/cinderella.html
Once you've done that, answer the questions at the end of the packet -- please do so on a separate sheet of paper.

HW for Thursday, 11/1

Independent Reading Project Week One:
Pick an independent reading book, then . . .

Please answer the following question about your independent reading book. Be sure to follow the paper formatting guidelines we discussed in class.

Week 1 Question: What book did you choose? Why did you choose this book? If someone chose it for you, why did you agree to it? (100 words)

PLEASE BRING YOUR BOOK WITH YOU TO CLASS ON MONDAY!

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 10/23

Watch this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLYu3rfnVX8

HW for Monday, 10/22

Complete the Gallery Card!

AND DON'T FORGET:
FINAL LIGHTNING THIEF QUIZ TOMORROW!!

Daily Warm Up for Monday, 10/22

Try these activities - these are questions taken from the SAT:

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=SAT-Improving-Sentence-Errors-III-1

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=SAT-Reading-Sentence-Completion

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=SAT-Reading-Comprehension-Quiz-I

HW for Thursday, 10/18

Read 21-22 and complete the questions.

AND

Work on your IRP!!! Remember, it's due THURSDAY!

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 10/16

Finish yesterday's warm up, then try these . . .

sentences:
http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-directions.cgi?Grade=5&Unit=1&Topic=The+Sentence

nouns:
http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-directions.cgi?Grade=4&Unit=2&Topic=Nouns

both!
http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-directions.cgi?Grade=4&Unit=1-2&Topic=Cumulative+Review+The+Sentence,+Nouns

HW for Tuesday, 10/16

19-20 and questions.
And remember - quiz on Thursday!

HW for Monday, 10/15

Read 17-18 and complete the questions.

Daily Warm Up for Monday 10/15

Please complete these grammar "quizzes":

Subject-verb agreement:
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/svagr.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/cw-svagreement.html

Identifying sentence problems:
http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/cw-sentprob.html

Questions for Chpts 7-8

7-8

HW for Thursday, 10/11

Complete IRP 6, if you didn't do it in class (see the post below this one for the question).

AND

Read 15-16 and complete the questions.

CLASSWORK for Thursday, 10/11

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).

HW for Tuesday, 10/9

Read chpts 13-14 and complete the worksheet.

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 10/9

Again, try some of the grammar games on this site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english/games

HW for Thursday, 10/4

1. Make up work - including your re-do!

2. What's YOUR story?
You've been assigned a particular Greek myth or mythological character.  It is your responsibility to learn the story and tell it/teach it to the class next week, as I did for you in class today when I told you the story of Perseus and Medusa.  You can look through books or research on the internet.  In addition, please find a video clip you can share with the class, or some pictures that illustrate the myth.  You don't have to print them, just have the links available.

Ch. 2
The Three Furies (the Kindly Ones) -- Ariel

Chpt 3
Satyrs -- Maesun

Ch. 4
Theseus and the Minotaur -- Rakicia

Ch. 5
Dionysus -- Catfish

Ch. 6
The Marriage of Zeus and Hera -- Emani

Ch. 7
The Garden of the Hesperides -- Raemeisha

Ch. 8
Artemis -- Nahom

Ch.  9
Apollo Slays the Python -- Danielle

Daily Warm Up for Thursday, 10/4

Go to this site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english/games
Play any of the GRAMMAR games (there are a few on the site that are not related to grammar -- don't play those!).

HW for Tuesday, 10/2

Read 11-12 and answer the questions.  THERE WILL BE A QUIZ THURSDAY!!

AND

IRP 5

Please type your answer. Include your name, the date, and the title of the assignment.

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

HW for Monday, 10/1

Read 9-10 and complete the questions.

HW for Tuesday, 9/25

Read Chapters 5-6 and complete the questions (complete sentences!).

AND

IRP 4 
Please type a 200 word response to the following question. Make sure to label the assignment with your name, the title of the assignment, and the date. DOUBLE SPACE!

What aspects of the plot or story can you relate to your own experiences? Describe how.

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 9/25

Click here and scroll down to the Greek and Roman Art section.
Explore the collection and fill out the following information for at least five different objects on the Art Objects Analysis Worksheet.

For Catfish

http://percy-jackson-online-reader.blogspot.com/2010/05/last-olympian.html

HW for Monday, 9/24

Read Chapters 3-4 of "The Lightning Thief" and answer the questions I handed out in class (you can also find them here: Chpts. 3-4 Questions.

HW for Thursday, 9/20

Read Chapters 1-2 of "The Lightning Thief" and answer the questions I handed out in class (you can also find them here: Chpts 1-2 Questions.

HW for Tuesday, 9/18

1) IRP week 3

(Please type your response, and include your name, the date, and the title of the assignment.)

Week 3 Question: Describe the character(s) you most identify with. Why or how do you relate to him/her or them? (200 words)

2) Re-do the writing assignment I handed out in class.  Staple the new one to the top of the old.

3) Make up work.

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 9/18

Go to this site and click on the "Putting It Together" link.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/pmp/interactive_guide/g05/g05home.htm

HW for Monday, 9/17

Read Chapters 9-10 and write journal 5 (please follow the formatting guidelines, and remember, at least 250 words!).  Why do you think Athena is on Odysseus's side?  Do you think the story has a happy ending?  Do you think Odysseus is brave?  Why?  Do you think he is clever?  Why?

HW for Thursday, 9/13

Read Chpts. 6-8 and complete journal 4.
What do you think of the fact that Odysseus was determined to hear the sirens?  Would you have done the same?  What do you think about the fact that Odysseus's men killed the cows?  Do you think Poseidon is being fair by punishing Odysseus so much?  Do you think Zeus should intervene?

AND


IRP Week 2

(Please type and double-space your response. Be sure to label it with your name, the date, and the title of the assignment -- see the Paper Formatting Guidelines to your right.) 

Week 2, Question 1: Are you liking the book so far? Why or why not? (100 words)

Week 2, Question 2: Describe in detail where and when the book takes place. Cite sections of

the book or lines that give you a sense of place. (150‐200 words)

HW for Tuesday, 9/11

Read Chapters 3-5 and write journal 3.  Why does the narrator say it was foolish for Odysseus to tell his men that the bag of wind held treasure (pg. 25)?  What do you think of Circe's trick?  Why do you think Poseidon hates Odysseus?

HW for Monday, 9/10

Read Chapters 1 and 2 of the Odyssey and complete journal #2 - What do you think of the book so far?  Had you heard the story of the Cyclops before? What do you think about the way Odysseus defeated him?  What have you already learned about Odysseus?

Warm Up for Thursday, 9/6

For today's warm up, begin to write Journal 1 (at least 250 words, typed and formatted as we discussed in class -- click here for a reminder) in response to this prompt:

Write about a story, book, movie, or piece of music that is important to you.  Why do you like it?  Why has it stuck with you?

YOU WILL FINISH THIS FOR HW!

HW for Tuesday, 9/4

We won't usually have class on Wednesday -- tomorrow is special!  We're going to watch a famous movie that is inspired by a famous myth.  To prepare, please read the short handout I gave you in class: "Pygmalion."  We'll discuss it before we start the movie on Wednesday.

Welcome!

In this class, we’ll set out to become more culturally literate – that is, to have “a grasp of background information that writers assume their audience already has” (E.D. Hirsch, Jr). We’ll figure out why someone might warn you not to cut your long hair, and what it means to call something a “Cinderella story.”  You may discover what to be (or not to be), and become acquainted with the man who made some people so afraid of showers and flocks of birds.  We’ll read (and write!) novels, short stories, plays, essays and poetry, as well as listen to music and study some visual arts.  We’ll discuss what makes these stories and ideas so lasting, and apply what we learn to our own writing.  (1 English credit).

Use this blog! I will post hw assignments here, and will occasionally ask you to respond to posts online.