For this week you will do:
1. Reading Log
2. Vocabulary Assignment
3. Hero Writing Assignment (see directions below)
Hero Writing Assignment: The archetypal hero goes through four phases:
1. Departure- Hero leaves home- he is called to an adventure.
2. Initiation- Hero crosses into a new, more dangerous world- he gains a new, more mature perspective.
3. The road of trial- Hero faces obstacles (and is sometimes given supernatural aid) and resolves them.
4. The return- Hero comes back changed and usually smarter- uses his new wisdom to "restore" order to the land.
**Make your own hero comic strip in which your hero goes through each of the four phases. Make pictures with dialogue and color them in.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Tuesday, February 22nd
This week for homework you will do:
1. Reading log
2. Vocabulary Assignment (Remember tests are moved to MONDAYS!!)
3. Underdog/Unlikely Hero writing assignment (directions below)
4. Finish Colony Research Report, they are past due!!! (In Johnson's morning class these students need to turn it in: 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 19, 24 In Johnson's afternoon class: 1, 6, 7, 14, 15, 23, 24)
Underdog/Unlikely Hero Writing Assignment: Choose any example of this archetypal character (from a movie, a book, a story read in class). Pretend you are the character and write a diary entry from the beginning of your tale, before you have reached hero status. How are feeling? What are wishing/hoping for? How do you plan to accomplish it?
1. Reading log
2. Vocabulary Assignment (Remember tests are moved to MONDAYS!!)
3. Underdog/Unlikely Hero writing assignment (directions below)
4. Finish Colony Research Report, they are past due!!! (In Johnson's morning class these students need to turn it in: 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 19, 24 In Johnson's afternoon class: 1, 6, 7, 14, 15, 23, 24)
Underdog/Unlikely Hero Writing Assignment: Choose any example of this archetypal character (from a movie, a book, a story read in class). Pretend you are the character and write a diary entry from the beginning of your tale, before you have reached hero status. How are feeling? What are wishing/hoping for? How do you plan to accomplish it?
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Monday, February 14th
Happy Valentine's Day!
This week for homework you will do:
1. Reading Log
2. Vocabulary Assignment
3. Wicked Stepmother Apology Letter Writing Assignment (Directions Below)
Wicked Stepmother Apology Letter: You are the wicked stepmother and have just received news that your step daughter has married the prince! Write a asking (or begging!) for her forgiveness. Try to convince her to let you back into her new, royal life! (Include the date, greeting, body, closing, and signature)
This week for homework you will do:
1. Reading Log
2. Vocabulary Assignment
3. Wicked Stepmother Apology Letter Writing Assignment (Directions Below)
Wicked Stepmother Apology Letter: You are the wicked stepmother and have just received news that your step daughter has married the prince! Write a asking (or begging!) for her forgiveness. Try to convince her to let you back into her new, royal life! (Include the date, greeting, body, closing, and signature)
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Monday, February 7th
There is a new page on our site! The "In-Class Documents" page has any important handouts that you may need. The 13 Colonies Report Outline is on this page if you need another copy.
**No school this Friday in observance of President Lincoln's birthday!! Please note that our vocabulary quiz will be next Monday, the 14th!
For homework this week you will do:
1. The Reading Log
2. Vocabulary Assignment (Definitions & Sentences)
3. Homograph Assignment
4. If you haven not finished your research for the colony research paper in class, continue working on it at home this week! The final drafts are due: Thursday, February 17th.
Homograph Assignment Directions: Write sentences using the homograph pairs below. Write one sentence for each word, show the different meanings for the words through your sentence's context clues.
Homograph Pairs:
bow/bow, close/close, dove/dove, lead/lead, contract/contract, live/live
**No school this Friday in observance of President Lincoln's birthday!! Please note that our vocabulary quiz will be next Monday, the 14th!
For homework this week you will do:
1. The Reading Log
2. Vocabulary Assignment (Definitions & Sentences)
3. Homograph Assignment
4. If you haven not finished your research for the colony research paper in class, continue working on it at home this week! The final drafts are due: Thursday, February 17th.
Homograph Assignment Directions: Write sentences using the homograph pairs below. Write one sentence for each word, show the different meanings for the words through your sentence's context clues.
Homograph Pairs:
bow/bow, close/close, dove/dove, lead/lead, contract/contract, live/live
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