Suspenseful Stories Wrap Up

This week students will be wrapping up their suspenseful stories using feedback from peers as well as from myself.  Students are welcome to continue working on their stories at home too.  We will be getting a bit of a refresher course on dialogue to help everyone include it in their stories correctly.

MyAccess.com this week!

Students will be working on narratives that involve suspense and bold actions.  They will have the opportunity to work on MyAccess throughout the school day and they are invited to continue their work if they wish at home.  I'm looking forward to reading the stories these creative students develop.

This Week...

We will be reading and discussing bold actions in the myth The Flight of Icarus.

Tues:  Write two sentences for each vocab word
Thurs:  Grammar Work sheet; Vocab Quiz
Friday:  Flight of Icarus Story test

Group work

Students will be working in groups to create argumentative posters that present a statement with supportive evidence.  They will be using articles that we've read in class as well as their own ideas.

Week of Sept. 21st

Homework for the week.

• Monday
• Sentence Fragment exercises
• Tuesday
• Sentence Fragment Exercises
• Thursday
• Sentence Fragment quiz

First story test!

There will be a story test on Rogue Wave tomorrow!  This is an open book test but be sure to read the story over so it is fresh in your mind.

First real HW assignment!!!

Tonight students should write a sentence that provides context clues to each of the meanings of their five vocabulary words for Rogue Wave.  The words are as follows:    swell, deck, navigation, submerge, and porthole.  Please write one sentence per word and remember to give us clues to the meaning of the word within your sentence.

In other words, no sentences like, "She walked towards the deck."   There are no clues to the meaning of deck here.  Sentences such as this will not receive full credit.

There will be a quiz on these five words held on Friday.