Monday, February 11, 2013

Classwork/Homework

Please attend M/W/F morning resource if you need writing assistance or if you have incomplete work to finish.


Reading/Writing 
Students are reading a choice science-fiction, fantasy or mystery novel for their next book project: "Read Like a Writer." Each student should be finished reading her/his choice book by February 5th.

Due dates:
* "Read Like a Writer Book" Project - Tue Feb 12 
We are learning about "Literary Devices" and this week we are also discussing "Theme"

Grammar 
We are continuing with parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives), and we continue exploring strong sentences, powerful paragraphs and excellent essays. We are also studying basic sentence diagramming.