Announcements and Reminders:
* Are you ready to hand in your December Book Assignment? Hand it in TODAY.
* Hand in your hall passes
if you are ready to not use any more.
* We will be taking a retake on the main idea test and taking the post test on writing paragraphs.
* If you do not receive a response for your
"Causes of Good Grades" Essay sometime during class,
see me. Tape the essay grading into
your composition book.
*Do not forget to complete your spelling make-up
assignment if you have one.
When you are finished with your test, please quietly
read or work on your spelling assignment.
1. Time to read or to work on your book project (due today)
and to complete make-up work, if needed for Essential, Non-Negotiable Spelling
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In your composition book under Notes and QuickWrites --
2. iWrite: You just experienced two major holidays. Write a complete, correct paragraph to contrast your Christmas Eve with your New Year's Eve.
Underline your central idea/topic sentence.
Number your supporting details: ways they are different.
Circle any transition words.
Double underline your concluding sentence.
- Write it at an appropriate level of formality.
- Use specific details to explain your major supporting details.
- Revise for complete sentences that say what you mean them to say.
- Edit for capitalization, spelling, and punctuation.
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3. Paragraph Post-Test
4. The Outsiders -- We will read if there is extra time.
- Reading from The OutsidersA1: page 22 "Why don't you be nice and leave us alone?"B5: Page 25 "Okay, I said. . . " to page 31 page breakB6: Page 26 "He'd leave you along if he knew you." -- none today
B7: Page 22 "Dally merely shrugged and strolled off." to page 30, top
