Week of May 4, 2009*
No more SPELLING for the rest of this school year.
*We will finish the school year with an entire middle school project: reading Edward Bloor's novel "Tangerine". We are scheduled to read 15-20 pages in class per day; if a student is absent, he/she must read during PAWS time to catch up with the novel. *Books are not allowed to be sent home with the student*
Related assignments will include quizzes based on the plot and characters of the novel as well as any discussed literary elements. This week we are focusing on the figurative language included in the novel as well as the plot elements such as setting and conflict.
*Due THURSDAY* Figurative language drawing. Students were given a printed quote from the novel. They glued it to the bottom of a blank paper and need to write the type of figurative language used in the quote across the top of the page (either simile, metaphor, or personification). Then the student must fill the page with a colorful drawing to represent the figurative language used as it connects with the events in the novel.
****Essay due Tuesday 5/5. (assigned Tuesday 4/21).********
Prompt: We have read several stories in which characters found themselves in difficult situations, requiring a demonstration of courage. (Joby, in accepting his job as drummer boy of Shiloh; Jethro Creighton in writing to the president and in dealing with the "Burdow" family problem; Bill Creighton, in choosing to fight for the Confederates; Henry Fleming, in finding a way to get back to his regiment.) Each of the characters faced a moment of indecision which required a weighing of the consequences compared with the benefits of either doing, or not doing, an act.
THINK ABOUT A TIME WHEN YOU FACED A FEAR OR DECISION.
NOW TELL ABOUT THAT TIME. EXPLAIN WHY YOU THINK YOU WERE COURAGEOUS IN YOUR ACTION. BE SURE TO CONSIDER THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR ACTIONS.
1 1/2 to 2 page requirement; 4 paragraph essay with introductory paragraph, 2 body paragraphs, and concluding paragraph. Plan your essay before you write!!
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