The Book-of-the-Month Club assignment was due on Friday. I have looked at and responded to all of your projects. Please see yours, revise and edit, and let me know when you are ready for me to check it again.
There will be no Cave Time on Friday. If you need to talk with Ms. Dorsey, do during Tuesday Cave Time intervention or during class.
Parent-Teacher Conference will be held tomorrow afternoon.
The PTSA Scholastic Book Fair is being held this week. You can buy one and get one of equal or less value for free.
Don't forget to finish and submit your comparing and contrasting paragraphs about Words By Heart and "Song of the Trees." This was our final assessment on Words By Heart. It is also a final assessment on writing paragraphs. You may revise and resubmit, if you resubmit with the papers/paragraphs that were already graded. Resubmitting must be done by March 18.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
1. Bell-Ringer: Subject-Verb Agreement, Problem 3:
View PowerPoint and Fill in Cloze Worksheet.
PowerPoint
Using.ppt Using Indefinite Pronouns
Thank you to Spring Cove Middle School at http://springcove.schoolnet.com/outreach/middle/teachers/mc_elhatten/powerpoint/
Cloze Worksheet Subject-Verb Agreement Problem 3 Cloze.doc
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2. Preparing for the Spelling Test on Friday: Watch Grammar Rock about Adverbs
Our test is on the suffix -ly.
Vocabulary/Spelling #14 Test on February 25
Suffix to study: -ly which means in the manner of (adverb)
1. sincerely extra credit: < L sincerus pure, clean, untainted
2. usually
3. finally
4. carefully
5. immediately
________________________________________________________3. About our March Book-of-the-Month
Project Due: March 22
Sign up for your book by March 11
Project: What is Nonfiction?
Nonfiction
A. What sorts of books would be appropriate for the next Book-of-the-Month Project?
Literary nonfiction -- The book is written as a story or series of stories focused on a single topic.
Other books that focus on one subject
Biographies and Autobiographies
We will not use books that cover many subjects, how-to books, joke books, etc.
If in doubt, ask the teacher.
B. What project will we be doing?
Each student creates one or more external text features for his or her book -- that are not already in the book. Examples include timelines, maps, glossaries, charts, who's who, etc.
Project: Rubrics for External Text Features
_______________________________________________________4. Look for a non-fiction book for your next book project.
Media Center and Book Fair
