Homework Archive

April

78

1.    Independent Reading 30 minutes minimum

2.    Create a dialogue between your main character and their friend or a family member about what they have heard of America – show “The Call” in dialogue

77

1.    Independent Reading 30 minutes minimum

2.    Bring in Author Study Essay

Extra Credit – Bring in all written assignments – first, second and final drafts to be placed in your folders.

76

1.    Independent Reading 30 minutes minimum

2.    Complete the First Draft of the Conflict portion of your Historical Fiction Story (at least 1 page or 400+ words) to be work shopped in class - you are not required to type this draft but it is recommend.

75

1.    Independent Reading – Historical Fiction Book – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Historical Fiction Character’s Conflict – Based on your research of the time and culture your main character is from describe
A) a social reason for your character to leave their homeland (war, persecution, poverty, changes in government, religious persecution). 
B) an environmental reason for your character to leave (famine, disease, floods). 
C) a personal reason for your character to leave.

March

74

1.    Get an historical fiction or non-fiction book that takes place in the country of your character comes from and takes place around the same time your story takes place. (Check out this list of books from Amazon.com)

2.    Read your book EVERY DAY for a minimum of 30 minutes

3.    Keep a Reading Journal – Write a two-three sentence summary of what you read

4.    Revise your first draft of your Historical Fiction story – incorporate a minimum of five historical details from your Historical Research Hunt

73

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Historical Fiction – Research Hunt due Thursday.

72

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Historical Fiction Independent Reading Research – Find a book that is about the time and location your Historical Fiction story takes place in, bring in the title and author.

71

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Literary Letter: Activate Schema

70

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Create a “First Noticings Chart” based on the first chapter of you Independent Reading Book – find quotations to support as many of your answers as possible:

First Noticings Chart

Time: 

Setting:

Details of Daily Life:  (three details)

Main Character: 

Physical Description:
Personality Traits: (three traits)

69

1.    Historical Fiction Conversation – Write a 10+ line conversation between two people in at least twenty years in the past about an event in the news.

68

3.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

4.    Literary Letter: Predict what will happen to the main character in your book.

February

67

5.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

6.    What famous American (Harriet Tubman, Roberto Clemente, Langston Hughes, Alexander Graham Bell, Betsy Ross, etc.) would you want to meet? Explain why.

66

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Immigration Timeline Research – Ask your parents about how your family came to America. Get as many details as you can: names, dates, locations, reasons for coming, etc. and compile them in notes.

65

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Book Time - In a paragraph explain the time period you book takes place and the clues that you found that showed you.

3.    Favorite Time - In a paragraph explain what is your favorite time in history.

Happy Valentines Day!

There are no homework assignments until we return from Winter Break!

64

804/

809

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Perform any one of the Literature Circle Roles on your Independent Reading Book.

63

822

1.    Literature Circle Reading

2.    Perform any one of the Literature Circle Roles on your Literature Circle Book.

63

804/

809

3.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

4.    Perform any one of the Literature Circle Roles on your Independent Reading Book.

62

822

3.    Literature Circle Reading

4.    Perform any one of the Literature Circle Roles on your Literature Circle Book.

62

804/

809

5.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

6.    Perform any one of the Literature Circle Roles on your Independent Reading Book.

61

822

1.    Literature Circle Reading

2.    Literary Letter: Dear Mr. Bradbury – Write a Literary Letter to Mr. Bradbury about the book you have just finished reading in you Literature Circle. Explain what you liked or didn’t like about the book and compare it to your new Literature Circle book.

3.    First Draft of Surrealistic Fiction Short Story – minimum of five paragraphs filled with details and descriptive language that Bradbury himself would employ in a short story.

61

804/

809

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Literary Letter: Write a letter to Mr. Myers about your Independent Reading book – make connections between your book and any of Walter Dean Myers’ short stories or the book you are reading in your Literature Circle.

3.    First Draft of Realistic Fiction Short Story – minimum of five paragraphs filled with details and descriptions of a story that could have taken place in your neighborhood

60

822

5.    Literature Circle Reading

6.    Perform any one of the Literature Circle Roles on your Literature Circle Book.

60

804/

809

7.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

8.    Perform any one of the Literature Circle Roles on your Independent Reading Book.

59

822

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Select your favorite role -- Reverberator, Psychologist, Line Catcher, Philosopher – in a paragraph explain why it’s your favorite role and then demonstrate the role by performing it using your Independent Reading Book

January

59

804/

809

3.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

4.    Select your favorite role -- Reverberator, Psychologist, Line Catcher, Philosopher – in a paragraph explain why it’s your favorite role and then demonstrate the role by performing it using your Independent Reading Book

58

822

1.    Literature Circle Reading

2.    Philosopher’s Chart – What puzzles you? What interests you? What makes you think or wonder or need to consider? List three big questions about your Literature Circle Book.

58

804/

809

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Philosopher’s Chart – What puzzles you? What interests you? What makes you think or wonder or need to consider? List three big questions about your Independent Reading Book.

57

822

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Psychologist’s Chart – select a character from your book and list three actions, emotions, thoughts the character has and explain why you think they are doing, feeling or thinking that way.

57

804/

809

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Psychologist’s Chart – select a character from your Independent Reading Book and list three actions, emotions, thoughts the character has and explain why you think they are doing, feeling or thinking that way.

56

822

1.    Literature Circle Reading

2.    Line Catchers Chart – select three best lines from your homework reading.

56

804/

809

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Line Catchers Chart – select three best lines from your Independent Reading.

55

822

1.    Literature Circle Reading

2.    Reverberator Chart – List three connections to the reading you did for this homework.

55

804/

809

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reverberator – List three connections you can make to your Independent Reading book

54

822

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Literary Letter: Dear Mr. Bradbury – Write a Literary Letter to Ray Bradbury about your Independent Reading book – make a text to text connection between story, events, characters or settings in your Independent Reading Book and the short stories you have read by Ray Bradbury.

54

804/

809

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Literary Letter: Dear Mr. Myers – Write a Literary Letter to Walter Dean Myers about your Independent Reading book – make a text to text connection between story, events, characters or settings in your Independent Reading Book and the short stories you have read by Walter Dean Myers.

* All ELA Workbook Lessons are due by January 16^th. This included, make-ups and do-overs. If you scored a 2 or less you may do-over the lesson for a higher grade. No Lessons will be accepted after January 16^th. You may bring your work during AM or PM Home Room, Lunch or Extended Day on January 16^th.

53

1.    ELA Workbook must be returned or the $20 fine must be paid or your report card will be with held and you will not receive your diploma

52

1.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 25- Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

51

1.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 23 & 24 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

50

1.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 21 & 22- Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

49

822/809

1.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 20 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

49
804

1.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 19 & 20 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

48

822/809

1.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 18 & 19- Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

47

1.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 17- Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

46

1.    Complete the first draft of the essay you started in class
In what ways are vacations important to students?
*Explain how they are important to everyone
*How can being overworked damage a person’s health?
*How do vacations refresh people?

2.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 16- Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

December

45

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 15- Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

44

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 14- Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

43

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 13- Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

42

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 12 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

41

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 11 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

E.C. Extended: Bring in or get and bring in YOUR OWN Library card for a Strive for 25 Book Credit by Monday(809/822) – Tuesday (804)

40

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 10 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

E.C.: Bring in or get and bring in YOUR OWN Library card for a Strive for 25 Book Credit by Thursday

39

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 9 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

Homework Archive

November

38

4.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

5.    Reading Log

6.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 8 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

7.    Write the text for a book jacket for your selected title from the biographical notes you took in class and from your own research of your selected title.

804/809 Walter Dean Myers

 Monster, Scorpions, The Glory Field, Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary, Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff, At Her Majesty’s Request, The Journal of Scott Pendleton: World War II Soldier, A Place Called Heartbreak: A Story of Vietnam

822 Ray Bradbury

Farenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles, October Cuuntry

37

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 7 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

4.    Compare and Contrast the author of your Independent Reading book with your Author Study author ( 804/809 Walter Dean Myers) (822 Ray Bradbury)

36

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 6 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

35

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 5 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

4.    Feature Article Final Draft due Tuesday, November 28

Extra Credit: Bring in a biographical article or interview about your author’s life. (822 – Ray Bradbury) (804/809 – Walter Dean Myers)

34

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 4 - Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected

4.    Feature Article Final Draft due Tuesday, November 28

33

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 3 pgs. 25-36 –Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected.

32

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 2 pgs. 15-24 –Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected.

31

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    ELA Workbook – Lesson 1 pgs. 6-14 –Write the answers to the Test Yourself questions on a sheet of loose-leaf paper to be collected.

30

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    First Draft of Feature Article due Thursday, November 16^th

29

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Write two leads for your feature article using two different approaches: anecdote, surprising fact, or quotation

4.    First Draft of Feature Article due Thursday, November 16^th

*Extra Credit: Type a Literary Letter to post in class on your opinion of your book

28

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Bring in a reading passage like the ones we discovered in the tests – look in magazines, newspapers, books, etc. Passages should be 500 words or less.

4.    First Draft of Feature Article due Thursday, November 16th

27

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Make a list of possible side bars and graphics you can use with your feature article.

26

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Literary Letter: Opinion

October

25

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Write a three paragraph Review of The Corpse Bride

24

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Conduct Interview for Interview Project due October 31st

23

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Interview Sheet: Prepare for your interview by filling in your Interview Sheet

22

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Ongoing Research

4.    Growing Up Interview

21

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Ongoing Research: Talk to people, ask questions, plan a survey or a poll, or gather data from other sources such as articles and books.

4.    Interview Questions: Prepare five practice interview questions for interview with Ms. Grindea.

20

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Ongoing Research: Talk to people, ask questions, plan a survey or a poll, or gather data from other sources such as articles and books.

4.    Literary Letter: Opinion

19

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log Ongoing

3.    Research: Talk to people, ask questions, plan a survey or a poll, or gather data from other sources such as articles and books.

4.    Define five words from your Vocabulary Hunts

18

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    In a paragraph explain the reason you are planning on interviewing three of the people on your list.

Extra Credit: Come up with three questions for each of the three people you are planning to interview.

17

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Vocabulary Hunt – Define three words using part of speech, definition and a sentence using the word correctly

16

1.    Independent Reading – 30 minutes minimum

2.    Reading Log

3.    Write a proposal letter to the editors of Halsey Fusion on the article you plan to write.