April 29, 2021

Grade 6

Create a pictorial representation of a scene from WtRFG on an 8 1/2" x 11" paper.  The entire paper should be colored.  No white space left.

Write a description of the scene you picture.  This may be handwritten or typewritten.  It must be double-spaced and have a proper heading.

• Read over the chapter in which the particular scene occurs.

These are some questions that can be answered in your explication of the scene

• Who is in the scene? Which characters are involved?
  
• What are they doing there?  What has happened before this scene and how does it affect this scene?  
  
• When does this event occur in the context of the story?  
  
• Where does this scene occur?  What is the particular setting?  What makes the setting unique?
  
• Why does the event represented in this scene happen? 
  
• How is this scene related to what happened before and what follows after?  How is this scene significant to the story?

Grade 7

F451 final drafts are due two days after drafts are returned to you.  

Additional choice for those whose essays have not materialized.  

Create a pictorial representation of a scene from F451 on an 8 1/2" x 11" paper.  The entire paper should be colored.  No white space left.

Write a description of the scene you picture.  This may be handwritten or typewritten.  It must be double-spaced and have a proper heading.

• Read over the chapter in which the particular scene occurs.

These are some questions that can be answered in your explication of the scene

• Who is in the scene? Which characters are involved?
  
• What are they doing there?  What has happened before this scene and how does it affect this scene?  
  
• When does this event occur in the context of the story?  
  
• Where does this scene occur?  What is the particular setting?  What makes the setting unique?
  
• Why does the event represented in this scene happen? 
  
• How is this scene related to what happened before and what follows after?  How is this scene significant to the story?

Grade 8

TKaM Figurative language worksheet.

For each quotation, identify the literary device, 

identify what is being compared to what or what is being personified, and 

analyze what is the author's intent in using that device.  

What is the author expressing through the use of this particular example of figurative language?

Grades 6,7,8 Spelling Test Unit 9 Monday 5/3 

Vocabulary Test Unit 9 Tuesday 5/4

 Yesterday's quiz will not be counted in Gradebook.

 April 27, 2021

Grade 8

Write on looseleaf and double space. Writing is due Thursday, April 29.  
The plot of the first part of TKaM involves children playing.  Choose one event and give details and reasons why it is memorable.
Events:  
getting in trouble in school/  telling scary stories/  rolling in a tire/  fishing pole in the window/  a house burning/  building a snowman/  treasures in the knot of the tree/  trespassing on a neighbor's property/ a dog with rabies.


For full credit, you must include significant details, specifically:

• who is involved
  
• what they are doing, where it is happening
  
• when it occurs
  
• where it is happening
  
• why they are doing this
  
• how they are doing this

 April 26, 2021

HW for Grades 6,7,8

• Vocal Workshop Unit 9 flashcards due Wed, April 28

• Spelling Unit 9 test date changed to Fri, April 30

• On looseleaf, in your own words, write a definition and an original example for three of the following literary devices:

alliteration

allusion

active voice

sensory language

dialect

foreshadowing

flashback

hyperbole

irony

metaphor

onomatopoeia

oxymoron

paradox

personification

simile

Grades 6, 7, 8

Vocabulary Workshop Unit 9

Complete ALL Unit activities except.  Due Monday, April 26.

Flashcards due Wednesday, April 28. (This is a changed date.)

Grade 8

Derivatives 

Chapter 8.  Read Chapter essay.  Do activities i, ii, iv 

Chapter 9.  Read Chapter essay.  Do activities i, ii, v

Due Monday, April 26

April 21, 2021

6-1/6-2

Choose one of two WtRFG drafts to type final draft for tomorrow -

your choice - sensory description or faith.  

Use MLA heading; double-space.  

Add title that catches attention, is concise, and is related to your main idea.  

Make editing changes noted; 

add details where noted; 

organize order of paragraphs; 

add paragraph indents as indicated.

Vocal Unit 9, all activities and index cards completed by Monday, April 26.

Test dates:

Spelling Unit 9, Monday, 5/3/21

Vocal Unit 9, Tuesday 5/4/21

 Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Literary Devices

Grade 6,  Figurative Language Worksheet 1 #2,3,4   due tomorrow Wed, 4/21

Grade 7,  Figurative Language Worksheet 1 #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7   due tomorrow Wed, 4/21

Grade 8,   Figurative Language Worksheet 1#2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10   due tomorrow Wed, 4/21

Writing

Grade 8, Description of a person due tomorrow Wed, 4/21

Please double space.  In school students need to hand in bring hard copy.

 Thursday, April 15, 2021

Grade 6

On looseleaf, copy the three quotations.   For each, identify the literary device represented, define the literary device, and explain how the quote reflects the literary device.

6-1 Religion test Tuesday, April 20.  

Grade 7 

First draft F451 writing project due tomorrow, April 16.

Grade 8

On looseleaf, copy the three quotations.   For each, identify the literary device represented, define the literary device, and explain how the quote reflects the literary device.

 Wednesday, April 14, 2021

6 Preposition worksheet

7 Preposition worksheet

F451 draft due 4/16

8 Preposition worksheet

 Tuesday, April 13, 2021

8 Writing draft double-spaced due  4/14.  

Reminder Vocabulary Workshop Unit 8 test tomorrow 4/14

7  F451 first draft due April 4/16

Reminder Vocabulary Workshop Unit 8 test tomorrow 4/14

6  Reminder Vocabulary Workshop Unit 8 test tomorrow 4/14

6-2 -  Religion 

We Believe Chapter 10 test tentatively Tuesday, 4/20.  

See study guide on Google Classroom.

Holy Thursday

 Reminder:

6 - WtRFG - Sensory description and Faith writing assignments drafts on looseleaf due 4/13 Tuesday.

8 - Creative writing: drafts due on 4/14 Wednesday

7 - Draft due 4/16 Friday on F451 project.

6/7/8 - Spelling test Unit 8, 4/13/21

6/7/8 - Vocabulary test Unit 8, 4/14/21