Information/Homework

Homework - Newspaper article summaries are due on Monday: three (3) articles, three (3) paragraph summary for each, each paragraph has to be at least five (5) sentences long or you will not receive any credit.

Bring in your Rough Draft of your research paper on Tuesday. We will do Peer Review like we did after the Harlem Renaissance. You may bring it in on Monday and I will hold it until Tuesday.
If you can not print it, e-mail it to me.

Homework

Homework - Vocabulary Power Plus sentences for lessons 13 - 15 (45) total, due Tuesday.
Test Thursday for Vocabulary Lesson 13.
Test Friday for Idioms, study idioms 30 - 75.

Reminder to work on report due Thursday April 5, to be uploaded to Turnitin.com, before midnight.

Homework

Homework - Each student was supposed to bring in a book on the person that they chose for the research paper by March 19th. Any student who does not have a book by Monday March 26 will have their grade entered as a test grade. The paper is due to be uploaded to turnitin.com no later than April 5th, before midnight.

Homework

Homework - Study your answers for the Story about "Eleanor Roosevelt" pages 774-779 in your literature book. Test on Thursday, there is an open response component.

Monday - Newspaper articles (3) pick three articles from the Boston Globe, write a three (3) paragraph summary for each of your articles. Each paragraph has to have at least five (5) sentences to get credit.

Bring in at least one book for your research paper by Monday March 19.

English Language Arts MCAS next week Tuesday and Wednesday.

Evernotes

Please change the name of the notebook that you made on Evernote to Research Paper on a Woman - Your Name, by Monday. Please add the name of the woman you have chosen for your research by Monday.

Homework

Homework - Please use the website for the book to finish any work not completed for the Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, classzone.com. Finish all work for pages 762-779, this will be checked on Friday. There will be a test next Thursday.

Please bring in a copy of your Harlem Renaissance paper to share with your class on Tuesday. We will review several papers online and discuss how to do things differently for the next paper.

Newspaper Summaries

Newspapers - Newspaper summaries on political stories, pick three (3) stories and write at least three (3) paragraph summaries on each. Each paragraph must contain at least five (5) sentences to recieve any credit.
This is due Monday March 12.

Information/Homework

Information - This term the long term assignment is a research paper on a woman. Pick a woman from the list given in class. Find at least three sources for your paper. Use the guidelines that where given in class to write your paper. I have included the list and the guidelines in this blog.

List of Women for Research

Please pick one of the women from this list for your research paper for fourth term. Paper is due April 5, 2012. Additional information will be coming soon.

Clara Latimer Bacon
Gertrude Branch Mae Jemison
Mary Lucy Cartwright Jane Goodall
Sun-Yung Alice Chang Maria Mitchell
Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer Marie Currie
Deborah Tepper Haimo Dorothy Crowfoot
Paulette Libermann Annie Cannon
Svenlana Jitomirskaya Ellen Ochoa
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez Barbara McClintock
Irene Fonseca Sallie Ride
Hypatia Ada Yonath
Etta Zuber Falconer Carol Greider
Gloria Conyers Hewitt Elizabeth Blackburn
Chuu-Lian Terng Linda Buck
Anneli Lax Mary Douglas Leakey
Ida Rhodes Wangari Maathai
Pauline Sperry Rigoberta Menchu
Vivienne Malone-Mayes Shirin Ebadi
Fan Chung Harper Lee
Lesley Milman Sibner Gwendolyn Brooks
Indira Gandhi Rebecca Cole
Frida Kahlo
Suiko
Sandra Day O’Connor
Constance Baker Motley
Golda Meir
Madeleine Albright
Benazir Bhutto
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Audrey Hepburn
Marion Anderson
Mildred D. Taylor
Mary McLeod Bethune
Evelyn Cisneros
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Violeta Chammoro
Cristina E. Fernandez de Kirchner

OUTLINE FOR RESEARCH PAPER ON A PERSON
DUE NO LATER THAN April 5, 2012
PLEASE UPLOAD YOUR PAPER TO TURNITIN.COM BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Use MLA format, total of five (5) pages typed. Page one cover, two, three, and four text, page five Work Cited. You need a minimum of three sources. Do not label the sections of your paper.

A. Work Cited – List all of the places that you gathered information from, including page numbers, dates of publication, title of and author of books used. This information comes at the end of your paper. If this information isn’t included, you get no credit.
B. Cover – Give the name of your person; and underline it once on your cover page. Your name, grade, date, teacher’s name, and class period.
C. Childhood – Describe the subjects’ childhood. Where was he or she born? Were they rich or poor? Were there any significant events or facts in his or her childhood that made them what they later turned out to be?
D. Education – Describe the general educational experience. Private school or public, were there any influential teachers or friends at school. Did they attend college, which one, how important was education to their lives?
E. Life Crisis or Major Events – What major event or life crisis best illustrated the character and personality of the subject? Write about anything that made this person who they later became.
F. Impact – What impact or influence did the subject have on history and the lives of others?
G. Did you benefit from this research experience, in what way? Be specific.

Homework

Homework - Newspaper articles summaries (3) will be due on Monday March 5. Please write at least (5) sentences for each of your (3) paragraphs. I will NOT accept any summary that is less than (3) paragraphs or (5) sentences in each paragraph.

Power Plus Vocabulary Test on Tuesday March 6, Lesson number 12. Please review all definitions, including synonyms and antonyms for the test on Tuesday.