December 18

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Research Report
• Short Story

December 11

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Research Report Draft
• Work on short story

December 4

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Research report (if you I don’t have your draft this week)
• Short Story draft (The draft is not due this week, but if your report is finished, work on your story.)

November 20

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes (unless you turned in your rough draft yesterday)
• Continue research report
• Have a happy Thanksgiving

November 13

 

Homework

• Writing minutes

• Continue your research reports (Those of you who finish your rough draft by Thursday will have no writing homework over Thanksgiving break )

November 6

 

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

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Continue research report
• Mystery writing

October 30

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Continue working on your research report
• Mystery project

October 23

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Continue working on research paper (Bring whatever you have completed to class next week!)

October 16

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Continue taking notes from your resources and finalizing your outline.  Be sure to write down the information you’ll need for your bibliography!
• Some of you might be able to begin your writing. 

October 9

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Gather resources for your report. 
• Create an outline for your report.  Remember to divide large topics into sub-topics to keep your information well-organized.
• Work on your mystery.  You should have a crime and a good (10-12) cast of well-developed characters by the end of the month!

October 2

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Finish Humorous essay if necessary (you will choose one of your essays to bring to a final draft.)
• Begin choosing a subject, brainstorming topics, and gathering resources for a 5-8 page research paper.

September 25

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (the skeleton in the class)
• Use the humor style points (exaggeration, humorous imagery, and silly simile) in a humorous essay.  You may choose to add these to an existing essay or create a new essay.
• Continue working on your mystery

September 18

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Complete Humorous Essay
• Compile humorous Top-10 list
• Develop the character of each of your suspects.  You’ll need around 12 suspects in order to create enough misdirection, but not so many that your reader can’t keep track of them all .

September 11

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Humorous Essay
• Use your humor elements (Incongruity, Superiority, and Relief)
• Try to hand it in by next week.  BUT next week’s assignment will be shorter, so if you need extra time, it will be available.  Don’t use more than two weeks, though, or you’ll begin to fall behind!
• While you’ll only receive one grade (the 6-trait), you still need to include dress-ups and openers…for now.  Use the checklist below to help you.  Lydia, Nate, and Tessa, you three only need to have the first three dress-ups (strong verb, quality adjective, and adverb) in each paragraph.

• Your mystery.  Choose a crime.  Think about why and how it was committed.  Begin thinking about and creating characters.  We’ll spend more time on this next week!

September 4

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Mystery brainstorming
• Write an essay about your summer (This can be fiction or non-fiction, serious or humorous!)