Homework for Thursday, September 24

Write three paragraphs (one page) about your cooking experience.

Paragraph 1: Your successes (what you can cook);
Paragraph 2: Your failures;
Paragraph 3: What you'd like to learn.

Please write in your notebook, and leave the other side blank.

(These will be the three "body" paragraphs of a five-paragraph essay.)

Homework for Wednesday, September 23

Independent Reading Worksheet

Please have this ready to turn in at the beginning of class. Use color on the "Design a Cover" part.

Homework due Tuesday, 9/22

Create a metaphor!

In two good paragraphs, compare middle to school to an experience that's not like it except in one important way. Is it like:

• going to a mall?
• being on a desert island?
• fighting a dragon?
• swimming in the ocean?

These are only suggestions!
(1/2 page, notebook)

Vocabulary/info for quiz on Monday 9/21

1. fiscal (adj)
2. attendant (n)
3. appreciative (adj)
4. obsession (n)
5. swirl (v)
6. taut (adj)
7. familiarity (n)
8. clarity (n)
9. infuse (v)
10. analyze (v)
11. essence (n)
12. aura (n)

You'll need to know the spelling, definition and part of speech.

BRING YOUR VOCABULARY SHEET TO HAND IN FOR A GRADE!

Your quiz will also include:

• "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
• singular and plural possessive nouns
• figurative language

Homework for Friday, 9/18

Use each of your vocabulary words to write a sentence about a wizard. (In notebook, 12 sentences total)

Homework due Thursday, September 17

1st/3rd periods:
In your Reader's Companion, complete the "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" sidebar questions (pages 17-22.) You will hand in this assignment for a grade!

4th period:

• Write a page about an important event, decision or time in your life. What made it important? Include some details. (Do this assignment in your notebook.)
• Bring your Reader's Companion to class.

Homework due Wednesday, September 16

1st/3rd periods:
Skills book page 13
Skills book page 14
(Read the explanations before doing these pages)

4th period:
Skills book pages 13-15
(Read the explanations before doing these pages)

Homework due September 15

1st/3rd periods:
Describe your kitchen. Use descriptive details. (1/2 p., notebook)
Skills book p. 15 (memoir)

4th period:
Describe your kitchen. Use descriptive details. (1 page, notebook)
Finish "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" - answer sidebar questions

Homework for Friday, September 11

Look up the following new words, and fill in the "dictionary definition" column on your vocabulary sheet. (Also complete the "part of speech" column.)

1. fiscal
2. attendant (n)
3. appreciative
4. obsession
5. swirl (v)
6. taut
7. familiarity
8. clarity
9. infuse
10. analyze
11. essence
12. aura

Homework for Wednesday, September 9

Write a page about your reading habits. (At least three paragraphs, in your notebook)

Use at least three of these ideas for paragraphs:

• kinds of books you like
• kinds of books you don't like
• your reading challenges
• your reading goals

QUIZ this Tuesday, September 8!!

Also BRING YOUR VOCABULARY SHEET to turn in. (It will be graded.)

The quiz will cover the following vocabulary (definition, spelling and part of speech) from the short story "Charles:"

1. renounce (v)
2. era (n)
3. reformation (n)
4. reassuringly (adv)
5. raucous (adj)
6. insolent (adj)
7. privilege (n)
8. institution (n)
9. simultaneous (adj) or simultaneously (adv)
10. haggard (adj)

The quiz will also cover:

• the story "Charles,"
• how to add suffixes -ed and -ing to verbs ending in "e"
• business English (instead of IM English)

Homework due September 4, 2009

1. Write a sentence with each of the “Charles” words. Topic: a babysitter and a kid.
2. Why did Laurie invent Charles? Write a paragraph 5-6 sentences) about it.

Homework due September 3, 2009

1. Complete pp. 7-8, Skills Book
2. Look up “Charles” words; write brief definition on vocab. sheet (Bring skills book and “Charles” to class.)

Homework due September 2, 2009

Answer "Review & Assess" questions on p. 26 in your literature book.

Homework due September 1, 2009

Write ½ page (notebook) about your experience in kindergarten. (Write in the first-person point of view.)

Copy these class notes into your notebook:

1st person point of view:

• uses "I, me, my, we, our"
• narrator is character in story
• narrator only knows her/his own thoughts (no one else’s)

3rd person point of view:

• narrator not a character in story
• narrator knows every character’s thoughts (if omniscient)
• letters, diaries, “eyewitness” stories
  

classwork:
Write a 3-sentence story about a kid buying chips. Write it twice:

1. Use 1st person point of view;
2. Use 3rd person point of view.