December 18

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Use your Shakespeare master outline to write a 5 paragraph essay

December 11

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Outline for multi-source report of Shakespeare
• Freewriting

December 4

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Finish master outline for your elephants essay
• Using your outline, write your 5 paragraph essay on elephants
• Freewriting

November 20

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Complete all 6 elephant note-taking outlines
• Have a happy Thanksgiving

November 13

 

Homework

• Writing minutes

• Freewriting

• Single source expository essay (This week we’re collecting ourselves before beginning a new unit.  Some of you still need to complete your first essay, others of you have time to complete a second essay.  Having two essays will give you a choice for a final draft as well as giving you extra credit )

November 6

 

Evidently, the blog didn’t update last week.  So, I’ll try again

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting
• Final Draft of informal essay (if necessary)
• 5 paragraph expository essay (one source)
• Shoe tying instructions

October 30

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting
• Continue working on your 5 paragraph expository essay  (Remember dress-ups and openers!)

October 23

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (“This year the leaves did not fall from the trees….”)
• Begin expository essay
• choose subject
• ask questions
• skim source (only one source is necessary this time)
• brainstorm topics (at least 5)
• choose topics (3)
• take notes

October 16

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting
• Make a second draft of one of your essays! 

October 9

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (How I escaped from Ninjas)
• Choose two of the essays you’ve composed this year so far and recompose (or add) strong introductory and concluding paragraphs.

October 2

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (glowing, crystal Florida souvenir)
• Using the second outline you created the other week, compose a 5 paragraph essay.  Pay close attention to your topic and concluding sentences.

September 25

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (the skeleton in the class)
• Choose one of your outlines and use it to write a 5 paragraph essay.  I will be looking for dress-ups (verb, adj., and adv.) and openers (subject and prepositional) in each paragraph.  Use the checklist below to help you keep track!

September 18

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (My day began with my spaceship crashing into….)
• Backtrack & Review Week!  Make outlines for the body of two new essays.

September 11

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting:  A small box lay under a tree…. (Work on this AFTER your other writing assignments if you have time.)
• 5 Paragraph essay about your time machine. 
• I will be looking at your internal sequencing.
• Remember your dress-ups and openers!  Use the checklist below to make sure you have them all.

September 4

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (My day without gravity).  Do this if you need extra writing minutes, otherwise I’m not planning to collect this as we didn’t have time in class to begin.
• Write an essay (whatever you think an essay is) about your summer
• (This can be fiction or non-fiction, serious or humorous!) 
• This will be graded simply pass (you turned it in) or fail (you didn’t turn it in).