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Develop your vocabulary. It’s tough to analyze a writing that contains unfamiliar words. Here’s an interactive, multi-level, multi-skill set of quizzes. Try it here.
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This page is updated Monday mornings. If you have bookmarked it, you may need to Refresh the page the next time you return.
Practice Vocabulary Units One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six,
Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteen online.
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Week’s Assignments
This page is updated Monday mornings. If you have bookmarked it, you may need to Refresh the page the next time you return.
Sept. 7 - 10, 2010
Monday – No School Today, Labor Day
Tuesday – Complete both parts of Task #1 on p. 2 of your “Opening Days” handout. You’ll revise nineteen weak sentences. Then you’ll draft a description that presents your dominant impression of a significant subject by showing the reader what to see, hear, feel, smell, and taste. Write in a consistent direction. Write at least a page but no more than two. (+ +)
Wednesday – No Afternoon Classes Today
Thursday – Complete the second writing task on your “Opening Days” handout, revising (re-seeing) your description for conciseness, concreteness, a definite direction, and a clear statement of thesis (dominant impression). Reduce it a single paragraph that points out three distinctly separate aspects of your subject (+) (single-weight 100) We’ll peer-conference your draft in class.
Friday - Due Tuesday: utilize the results of today’s peer-conference and tomorrow’s presentation on showing (as opposed to telling) to revise your description for a double-weight grade. (+) Also get started on Lord of the Flies, planning to be finished by Sept. 30 (about four chapters per week). We’ll discuss the novel occasionally, referring to the reading guide, so fill in your ideas as you read. I’ll give periodical due dates. For tomorrow, on paper, quote at least three examples of concrete description from Ch. 1. Be able to label the type of imagery and to explain why it was important to the story-telling. (+)
Revised 09/02/10
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