Week of 9/22-9/26/2014:
9/22
- Read independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 10/6.
- CodeX, pp. 13-14, # 8. Answer on looseleaf to be collected and graded.
- New quotes are up! Quotable Reports (optional for extra credit) are due Monday 9/29. Choose ONE quote! Quotes this week are:
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way." ~ Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
9/23
- Read independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 10/6.
- CodeX, pp. 15-17, #11, 15 in your CA notebook.
9/24
- Read independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 10/6.
- Over the weekend, research a university and find the following:
Write down your research on a sheet of looseleaf with the heading, the name of the university as the title, and the picture stapled to your sheet.
NO SCHOOL 9/25-9/26 ROSH HOSHANAH!
Week of 9/15-9/19/2014:
9/15
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
- Final drafts of quotable reports are due Thursday 9/18. Final drafts must be handed in with the first draft. Final pieces are either: written in script (cursive) on looseleaf in pen OR typed and double spaced (font no bigger than 12 point).
- In your reading notebook, Identify one book you've read. What genre is this book? How do you know? Answer those questions in complete sentences.
9/16
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
- In your CA notebook, write a paragraph using 4 of the vocabulary words on page 10 of CodeX.
9/17
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
9/18
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
- In your CA notebook, answer # 2, p. 11 of CodeX
9/19
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
- In your CA notebook, answer # 4 and 5, p. 12 of CodeX
Week of 9/8-9/12/2014:
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
- Quotable Report first draft is due Monday 9/15. Quotes to choose from are:
9/22
- Read independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 10/6.
- CodeX, pp. 13-14, # 8. Answer on looseleaf to be collected and graded.
- New quotes are up! Quotable Reports (optional for extra credit) are due Monday 9/29. Choose ONE quote! Quotes this week are:
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way." ~ Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
9/23
- Read independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 10/6.
- CodeX, pp. 15-17, #11, 15 in your CA notebook.
9/24
- Read independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 10/6.
- Over the weekend, research a university and find the following:
- Its Location
- Year it was founded
- enrollment - how many students attend this university
- acceptance rate - what percentage of people who apply are admitted to the university every year
- Team names/mascots
- famous alumni - important/famous people who went to your university.
- a picture of the university.
Write down your research on a sheet of looseleaf with the heading, the name of the university as the title, and the picture stapled to your sheet.
NO SCHOOL 9/25-9/26 ROSH HOSHANAH!
Week of 9/15-9/19/2014:
9/15
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
- Final drafts of quotable reports are due Thursday 9/18. Final drafts must be handed in with the first draft. Final pieces are either: written in script (cursive) on looseleaf in pen OR typed and double spaced (font no bigger than 12 point).
- In your reading notebook, Identify one book you've read. What genre is this book? How do you know? Answer those questions in complete sentences.
9/16
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
- In your CA notebook, write a paragraph using 4 of the vocabulary words on page 10 of CodeX.
9/17
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
9/18
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
- In your CA notebook, answer # 2, p. 11 of CodeX
9/19
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
- In your CA notebook, answer # 4 and 5, p. 12 of CodeX
Week of 9/8-9/12/2014:
- Read Independently 30-45 minutes a day. Record your reading in your reading log. Next reading log due Monday 9/22
- Quotable Report first draft is due Monday 9/15. Quotes to choose from are:
- "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
- "The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being." - Socrates