Writing Portfolios - Poetry- Vocab 4a

Homework/Classwork Assistance

Students have various times to work on assignments or receive help at school: sometimes during class, during morning resource (M/W/F8:30-9:00am), or after school - if arranged with Ms. Barnes or Ms. Hagerty.

Book Report - PAST DUE (10/27)

We've introduced and discussed the "Book Report Guidelines - Standard Format for Fiction" which follows a 5-paragraph writing format. This was to be used for our book reports, which were due October 27th.

Classwork

This week we will evaluate our Halloween literature circles, set up our writing portfolios, read poetry, review punctuation.

Four kinds of sentences - due Fri., Nov 5th

declarative, imperative, interrogative exclamatory

Write 2 sentences for each, 8 sentences total.

Journal Prompts (5 entries, 1 per day)

Theme - "Books"

Vocabulary #4a

Definitions - due Wed., Nov. 3rd
Cloze sentences (fill in the blank) - due Thu., Nov. 4th

Quiz - Fri., Nov. 5th
annul

blasé

bolster

deplore

frivolous

muster

nonentity

obsess

ornate

oust