April 25

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (Well, at least we know the fire alarms work.)
• Literary Criticism Draft
• Any late or missing work!

April 11

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?)
• Literary Criticism Draft
• Any late or missing work!

Happy Easter!

April 4

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (While you are on the subway you scratch your ear, accidentally signaling to a member of a secret society that you are one of them.)
• Literary criticism
• Thesis statement
• Textual proof (examples from the book that support your thesis)
• Other critical sources (Digital Maine Library is an EXCELLENT source for this material.)
• Begin Outlining your paper

March 21

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (You were thrown into the volcano as a sacrifice.  The volcano spit you back out.)
• Develop a strong working thesis statement 
• Gather and organize support material
• Any late or missing work

March 14

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Research Report (If necessary)
• Persuasive Essay (If necessary)
• Develop an opinion about The Turn of the Screw.  The most obvious is regarding the sanity of the governess.
• Gather proof from the text to support your opinion.  Your proof can be as long as an entire episode or as short as a word choice.

March 7

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting ("Can someone please explain why I was assigned this mission?")
• Research report (if necessary)
• Persuasive paper draft (if necessary)
• Finish reading The Turn of the Screw
• Reflection Paper (You should have completed 2 reflection papers for this book).

Please go online and check the grade book.  Some of you are missing a number or Writing Minutes.  That's a big deal!  See if you can dig them out from under your bed, or even have a parent write a note verifying that you have been doing an appropriate amount of writing at home.

February 28

Homework

• Writing Minutes 
• Research Report Draft
• Read though chapter 18 in The Turn of the Screw
• 1-page Reflection Paper

*Class video has posted.  If you missed class this week, you should have received an invitation to view.  Check your spam folder if you haven't seen it yet!

February 14

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting
• Humorous or Suspense composition (If necessary)
• Persuasive Essay (We are only going to do one draft of this in preparation for our next major unit)
• Read through chapter 10 of The Turn of the Screw

*Video of this past week's class will be posted by Tuesday morning.  Please check your SPAM folder if you are expecting an invitation to view.  The video ends abruptly as the memory card ran out of memory.  Only the last few minutes are missing and nothing of utmost importance. :-)

February 7

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Final Draft of Humorous or Suspense composition (if necessary)
• Research Report Draft
• Read Chapters 1-4 of Turn of the Screw.  

*Class video will be posted by Monday morning.  If you don't see a YouTube invitation to view, check your spam folder. 😊

January 31

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (There are 800 penguins running around my front yard!)
• Final Draft Suspense or Humorous composition (your choice)
• Research Report draft (if necessary)
• Persuasive Essay draft

January 24

Because of the slippery roads yesterday, co-op was cancelled.  Use your writing time this week to continue working on previous assignments.  Please check the gradebook (you and/or your parents should have been sent a link) for missing assignments---especially Writing Minutes!  Any completed writing can be emailed to me.

January 17

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (When I went to get the results of my blood test, I was told the results were classified.)
• Humorous or Suspense Essay draft (if necessary)
• Research report draft 
• Prewriting for persuasive essay
• Your opinion
• Reaction of audience (believe or do?)
• Reasons your opinion is correct
• Reasons opposing view is incorrect

*If you are not receiving YouTube invitations to view class videos of the week(s) you are not in class, please check your SPAM folder.  

January 10

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting ("I demand to speak to a human!" he shouted.)
• Humorous and Suspense drafts (if necessary)
• Rough Draft of research report (if necessary)
• Begin brainstorming and pre-writing for a persuasive essay.  We will go over some this in more depth next week, but there are a couple of you who can get a start on this assignment this week.