Test in Spelling, Unit 8, April 13, Tuesday

Test in Vocabulary, Unit 8, April 14, Wednesday

Monday of Holy Week

Grade 6 Sentence diagramming 

Warriner's, p.420, ex.7,  p 422 ex. 8,  p.424 ex. 9

Read the information and examine the diagrams given as examples.  Work in notebooks.   Label the exercise #s, page numbers, exercise titles.  Write the sentences.  Do all in ink except do diagrams in pencil.

Do #1-3 for each exercise.  Due Wed, 3/31. 

Grade 7 Sentence diagramming

Warriner's, p. 455 ex.7, p.457 ex. 8, p.459 ex.9

Read the information and examine the diagrams given as examples.  Work in notebooks.   Label the exercise #s, page numbers, exercise titles.  Write the sentences.  Do all in ink except do diagrams in pencil.

Do #1-3 for each exercise.  Due Wed, 3/31. 

Grade 8 Sentence diagramming

Warriner's, p.480 Review B, p.481 ex. 7, p. 482 Review C

Read the information and examine the diagrams given as examples.  Work in notebooks.   Label the exercise #s, page numbers, exercise titles.  Write the sentences.  Do all in ink except do diagrams in pencil.

Do #1-3 for each exercise.  Due Wed, 3/31. 

 March 25, 2021

Feast of the Annunciation

Grades 6 Vocabulary Workshop

Synonyms, Antonyms, Completing the Sentence due Monday, March 29.  Original sentences for words 1-20 due March 30, Tuesday.  Spelling and Vocabulary tests Unit 8 on return from Easter break.

Grade 6  Writing:  Faith in Where the Red Fern Grows,  Draft on looseleaf due April 13

Choose a scene/passage/event in Where the Red Fern Grows that shows the events surrounding a character's prayer.  Explain the conflict that the character experiences including events leading up to the character's prayer.  Explain events that unfold which answer the character's prayer.

Grade 7 Vocabulary Workshop

Synonyms, Antonyms, Completing the Sentence due Monday, March 29.  Original sentences for words 1-20 due March 30, Tuesday. Spelling and Vocabulary tests Unit 8 on return from Easter break.

Grade 7 Writing  

Choose one of the following options for the Fahrenheit 451 written assessment. First draft handwritten on looseleaf, double spaced, due April 16  Final copy by hand or typewritten, double spaced, April 23

Choice 1.  Plot development.  Give necessary background exposition to put plot into context.Explicate five or more events of increasing tension, leading to climactic event.  Explain how the plot events are related.  Tell what is the climactic event, and how the threads of the plot are tied together in the resolution or denouement.

Choice 2.  Character development.

Describe Montag physically and emotionally at the start of F451. Choose five or more events over the duration of the story line that affect Montag dramatically and cause a change in his character.  Explain in context to the culture/setting.  Give enough information to understand why the events you choose affect Montag and how they affect him.  Give a character sketch of Montag at the end of the novel that shows the dramatic changes in the things that matter to him and how he lives his lie.

Choice 3.  Correlations between the culture of F451 and the culture of today.  

Choose five characteristics of culture and compare the manifestations of each in the dystopian world of F451 and the world of 2021 USA.  Some possible attributes of society to compare are:  censorship/  entertainment and screen time/  education/  alienation/  absence of children/  breakdown of marriages/  violence and loss of appreciation for dignity of life.

Choice 4.  Dialectic Journal

Choose five passages from the text of F451 that stand out because of the choice of language Copy the passage on the left side of a paper divided into columns.  Give the Chapter and page number of where the passage is found in the novel.  In the column on the right, give contextual information to the passage, and explain what is its significance, especially in reference to figurative language and literary devices.

Look for similes, metaphors, allusion, hyperbole, stream of consciousness writing, sensory description.

Choice 5.  Author/ Book title/ Famous quotation - Research 

Choose five authors, books or quotations cited in F451. Do research to discover the importance of these books and authors, or the meaning of the quotations cited.

Write a paragraph about each, and hypothesize why Bradbury included the particular title/author/quotation in F451.  What does the message of each convey in relationship to the overall theme of F451?

Grades 8 Vocabulary Workshop

Synonyms, Antonyms, Completing the Sentence due Monday, March 29.  Original sentences for words 1-20 due March 30, Tuesday.   Spelling and Vocabulary tests Unit 8 on return from Easter break.

Grade 8  Derivatives  Chapter 8, Political Derivatives, Exercise I, II, III due tomorrow, Fri, March 26

Grade 8 Writing:  You must present the three descriptions as drafts (double-spaced handwritten in your legal folder for in-school students) (drafted on docs double-spaced or handwritten and sent gmail for remote students).  April 14. 

Final copies will be double-spaced handwritten or double spaced typewritten; each on a separate paper with school heading for handwritten or MLA heading for typewritten. These are due after April 23.

Write three descriptions: 

1. a house that you see regularly and which appearance you have imprinted in your memory; 

2. your neighborhood - a particular corner or court, or an area of downtown;

3. a person of your acquaintance whose appearance you can call to mind..

Refer to descriptions in To Kill a Mockingbird of the Radley House p.9, Maycomb p. 5, and Dill pp. 7,8; Miss Caroline p. 18;  Walter Cunningham, p. 21; Burris Ewell, p. 29; Miss Maudie p. 47

Your writing should be crisp and clear.  You are not copying the description of the Radley house and I am not looking for a "creepy"or "dark" house along the lines of the Radley house - just a house that you know and can picture in your mind.

Your descriptions should be in 3rd person and in present tense.  

You are writing about the house, the setting, and person as if you are looking at them in front of you at the present moment.  

You may include information you know about the history of the house or setting or person.

Give concrete details.

Refrain from judgements and opinions about the descriptions of the house or person.  Don't tell us, "looks creepy" or peaceful or modern or decrepit -  show us. One clear detail is worth a thousand judgement type adjectives.

Do not use grand generalizations like "all, " "every,"  "always," "never," etc.  These weaken your credibility.

You should be actively working on these descriptions; reading and rereading your work to improve the effectiveness of your work.