Just in case we are out until Tuesday (because Monday is Labor Day), I want to give you an idea of what's coming next so that you can use this down time as effectively as possible:
- You should continue your outside reading over this time as normal and expect blog posts to be due Tuesday by midnight. (Obviously if no one has power at that point, we will revisit this issue). Remember you can write the blogs offline and publish later.
- You should also expect a vocab quiz on Tuesday when we return, so keep studying your unit 1 cards and using your words. The quiz will may ask you to define the words, use them, identify correct uses, or choose the best word to fit in a sentence or paragraph.
- We will continue working on the book chat project when we return to school, so bring your summer choice read and notes.
- At some point next week, we will begin preparing for the literacy narrative. This will include reading and annotating the Norton Field Guide chapter on literacy narrative and several of the example essays. While I can't yet give you a set assignment with a date on that, you are welcome to preview the chapter and examples if you would like to work ahead.
- Wordly Wise Unit 2 cards will be due the following Monday (9/10), and you should be able to complete most of them without internet, so that is another way for you to get ahead.
Your blog posts for this week (due Tuesday 9/4 by midnight because Monday is a holiday):
- A reading response: 2 fully developed paragraphs, NOT summarizing the story
- A post that describes a scene or event from your week in vivid detail - use concrete sensory details to bring your readers to the scene. You may want to use dialogue. Focus particularly on word choice. It's important to choose a moment here, not to describe your week in general, or the whole hurricane. Pick a period of time that's no more than an hour.
I hope that you are all safe and comfortable, and I look forward to whenever our class next meets.
Dr. deGravelles
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