Welcome to Semester Exam Week!!

Here is the list of exams each day:

Tuesday: 6th period exam
Wednesday: 5th & 7th period exams
Thursday: 1st & 3rd period exams
Friday: 2nd & 4th period exams

Don't forget Friday is a late start and early out.

I hope you all have a great Christmas break!

November 26-30 Lessons

Monday:

 We did a plot diagram over a book or movie you have read or seen.  You will just fill in the diagram.  We also did vocabular anchors for vocabulary 9.   Use the following characteristics to do the vocabulary anchor:

•Part of speech

•Does it have a prefix?

•Does it have a suffix?

•What is the origin of the word?

•How many syllables does the word have?

•Are there any related terms?  EXAMPLE:  your word is “blue”  Related terms:  Blue Christmas, blue eyes, blue skies

•Are there derived forms of the word?  EXAMPLE: jump – jumped or jumper;  characteristic – characteristically

•What is a synonym of the word?

•What is an antonym of the word?

. Does the part of the word’s definition rhyme with the word?  EXAMPLE: knell-bell

•Does the word have both a dennotation and a connotation?

Tuesday:

Today we read "The Devil & Tom Walker" on page 229 in your text book.  You can listen to the story here...   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fusoulaINZA .

Once you've listened to it you will answer the questions on page 239.  I need your full heading on the paper, and the title "The Devil & Tom Walker Questions."  Answer questions 1-6, and theEssential question.  Make sure to label everything 1. a. b. etc.  Write clearly so I can read it.  If I can't read it I can't grade it.

You will be doing a story board based on the story too, so make sure you know the story.

Wednesday:

Today you will finish the questions from "The Devil & Tom Walker" and begin the story board.

Thursday:

You will finish the story board today, and turn it in.

Friday:

Today you will be working on the fiction and nonfiction reading guide.  This will be due Monday.  You'll have plenty of time today and Monday to finish it.


**As long as you work in class none of this is homework.  If you are absent, please make sure to do the work assigned each day.

Have a great week.

Grades

Just an FYI: My gradebook is not averaging grades out.  Please know that if you have a missing grade on a summative, and you have a 100 in my class, this is not accurate.  I have someone coming to work on it.

Poetry Collection

Here is the order for the Poetry Collection (Due November 2nd)

Free Verse: 10 lines minimum, 6 words per line minimum.  No rhyme scheme, just write about something you love.

Haiku: Five lines.  Syllable count of 5,7,5.  No more than three lines.

Ode: A poem praising or glorifying someone or something.  Minimum 6 lines, minimum 5 words per line.  Title is Ode to...(whatever or whomever you are glorifying).

Limerick: Rhymed humorous poems.  Five lines with a syllable count of 9,9,6,6,9, and a rhyme scheme of a,a,b,b,a.  The 9s rhyme, and the 6s rhyme.

Lanturne: Five lines with a syllable count of 1,2,3,4,1.  Center it, and it should look almost like a diamond.

Tongue Twister: Minimum of 6 lines, and minimum of 5 words per line.

Minute Poetry: 12 lines of 60 syllables in the following format:

8 The 8 syllable lines can be the same, but none of the 4 syllable lines can be the same.
4
4
4
(make sure to skip a line)
8
4
4
4
(skip a line here too)
8
4
4
4

**All poems must be labeled off to the left, and have a title.  Write or type a clean final draft to turn in no later than Friday.  This is a summative grade.

Vocabulary Power Plus 6

Today we wrote a sentence for each of the fifteen words (on the back of the paper). After writing the sentences, you need to write a free verse poem.  This means it doesn't have to rhyme.  Choose 5 words from lists 1-6, and then write a poem with the following guidelines:

1. 5 vocabulary words highlighted
2. Minimum of 10 lines
3. Minimum of 6 words per line

Have fun!

Writing Competition.

From our librarians!  See if this is something you would like to do.  

Just wanted to share a letter writing competition for students sponsored by the Library of Congress. It sounds like a great opportunity to compete at both the state and national level! Here is the theme and a link for more info! If you need us in any way to support, please don’t hesitate to ask!

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/lettersaboutliterature\

CBA Test Wednesday (What you need to know)

Here is what you need to know for the CBA Test on Wednesday

Common Assessment 1

Know the types of text structure

Know how to find the main idea

Know supporting ideas, and how to find them

Know what an inference is

Find context clues to answer questions

Know how to identify tone

Identify rhetorical devices (don’t know what this is?  Check your notes)

            Ethos, Pathos, Logos, refutation, concession