iRead: Get out your composition book and novel, read for 15 minutes (or more), and fill out your reading log.
Introduce Book Assessment for Basic 8, Book #2. List of Character Traits
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Realistic Fiction -- Contemporary
The Assignment:
Basic 8, Book #2 Assessment -- Character Cube
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iWrite: Another Person in My Family 10-1
Prompt: Describe a member of your family in a paragraph. Concentrate on one main idea from your character web for that person.
If you were absent, pick a different person in your family about whom you have a lot of
positive things to say.
Write the person’s name in the middle of your paper. Write in connected
bubbles things about that person: description, habits, hobbies,
adjectives/describing words and phrases,
You should share ideas with someone else, and brainstorm things to write about. Ask each
other questions and write down new details and ideas that you come up with.
Have your partner initial one of the new ideas that is a result of your
conversation. When you hear the chime, it’s time to return to your seats.
Look at your web and decide on one adjective or characteristic of this
person to write about.
Use a green colored pencil to write down the name
of a positive characteristic of this person. Use color pencil to circle anything on your web that relates to that
characteristic.
Copy this into your notebook:
Basic Paragraph Rubric
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Basic Paragraph Rubric
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Absent
1
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Meh.
2
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Wow!
3
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Not even close
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Not enough
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5+ sentences
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Missing
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Begin on new line
Indent
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Missing
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Maybe, but not
clear
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Topic sentence
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Not much
information
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Not enough
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Details
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Missing
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Maybe, but not
clear
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Concluding sentence
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Random
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Some wandering
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On topic
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iWriteRight: Commonly Confused Words a lot and allot
a lot allot posters.pptx
My Favorite ALOT
Listen to/Follow along with The Outsiders
A1 -- page 51"Johnny, I'm scared." (p 45 Track 1 -- 10:49) (Did not read on Sept. 27) to page -- Did not read October 1, 2012.
A3 -- page 53/Chapter 4 (12:56 on p 45 Track 1) to top of page 56 (pg. 45 track 1 -- 17:27)
A4 -- page 53 -- 13:05 to page (Did not read.)
B7 -- page 43 (Chaper 3, 10:49) to top of page 45 (14:12).
B8 -- page 57 (p 45 Track 1, 20:21) to top of page 64 (Outsiders We crouched. . . 3:29).
