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In preparing your paragraphs on Bram Stoker, please remember the following writing tips:
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2. Avoid repetition.
3. Use formal English.
4. Vary sentence length.
5. Vary sentence type (simple, compound, and complex...mostly complex.)
You guessed it....vocabulary quiz tomorrow on the first half of our vocabulary words (1-11) and vocabulary quiz on Thursday on the remaining words. You will need to be able to spell the words correctly. You can do it!
Please be sure to bring two copies of your conjunction paragraph to class on Monday. On Tuesday you will need 10 bullet facts about the life of Bram Stoker. On Wednesday I will quiz you on the vocabulary list for DRACULA. The words were given to you in class today: we will work on them a little each day to prepare for the test. (Hint: Get a head start on learning these words; learn about 8 each day. Never wait until the night before the test to study!)
Reminders: Bring the WAG book next week...and remember, we've got reservations for the Media Center on Monday.
"Name That Skeleton" with a spooky parts of speech web on the reverse side is due on Thursday !
Better yet, Early Release is tomorrow!
Challenge Reading was recorded today in the Media Center. Your scores have been posted already. Our next deadline for completing a challenging (grade 6 and up) novel will be Monday, November 12.
Homework is focused on all kinds of conjunctions. Read and study Chapter 18 in the WAG book, completing Ex. 1,2,3,and 4. Do Worksheet 17.4. Compose 10 sentences of your own in which you use a subordinate conjunction. Please circle this conjunction.
This week we will spend two days working on writing the narrative. Our reservations for computers are for Wednesday, October 10 and Friday, October 12. Meet in our classroom on both days; we will go to the Media Center lab together.
Junior Great Books forms will be distributed today. Please return this form to your homeroom teacher by November 2 if you are able to participate. Details are in the flyer.
And speaking of great books, I hope you are reading one. We go to the Mwdia Center every Monday for an opportunity to connect with many reading choices. Ms. Inman has given us two book talks, encouraging every student in Advanced Content to challenge themselves with a book that stretches the imagination. Please be ready to take an A.R. test on a "challenge" book (that I have approved ) on Monday, October 15. This will be the last grade of the quarter for you.
Our test Friday will include word wall words 1-37. Be able to define the literary terms and to apply the definitions of the grammar terms to your own sentences. Review the last test (Word Wall Test #I). Finally, I will assign a short story for which you will complete a SOAPSTONE.
Of course, the only homework is to study.
Reflections entries are due Thursday, October 4; please consider submitting this opportunity to express your creativity.
Tone words (the writer's attitude) were discussed. Soapstones covering "Zlateh the Goat" and" The Pigman and Me" were reviewed. Be prepared to answer quiz questions on "Mowgli's Brothers" in class tomorrow.
Workbook pages 59, 60, 61, 62, and 63. They are short exercises but important.
Read Kipling's "Mowgli's Brothers" and complete a soapstone on it (page 211 in the literature book.)
(We will be working in this textbook all week.)
New words added to the word wall include the following terms:phrase, clause, independent clause, dependent clause, and subordinate conjunction. These are the last new terms I will share with you before the test this Friday.
Study all 40 terms, 10 or so nightly, in order to be prepared for Friday's test.
