Friday - Sunday September 12-14, 2008

Ladies,

Please finish all of your classwork from Friday. If you finished it, you have no homework; enjoy your weekend! Please remember that novel journal projects are due October 8th. It would be a good idea to continue reading Holes, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, or Brothers in Arms. Be safe and happy.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Today in class, we learned how to do a double entry journal. This is a helpful way to keep track of what you are reading. We also went over the rules for writing grammatically correct dialogue.

If you are an eighth grader, for homework:

-finish all of your classwork. This means a double entry journal for "The Yolk's on Me," and a written dialogue.

-pick a story (a fairytale, a nes article, a magazine piece, a short story or poem, or a few pages of a longer book) and summarize it. Then do a double entry journal for the story you chose.

If you are a seventh grader, for homework:

-finish your dialogue for "The Yolk's on Me"
-Read the first chapter of the "Brother's in Arms" and do a double entry journal for the chapter

Welcome!

7th and 8th graders at Rhodes, Welcome to my blog. It is a good place to check up on your homework and if you missed anything in class. Today in class, we reviewed plot structure, (exposition, rising action, turning point, climax, falling action, and resolution) as well as a way to summarize anything you read which is called Somebody Wanted But So. For homework, finish your independent work:

1. Draw a SWBS chart for "Email Dance"
2. Draw a plot chart for "Email Dance"
3. Draw a plot chart for the true story you wrote for your do-now
4. Draw a SWBS chart for the true story you wrote for your do-now