Homework/Classwork

Homework/Classwork - Complete Subject/Predicate packet finish the rest of the packet. Due Friday November 16.
Continue working on Long Term Project (reading a book written by a male). Read and take notes, place your notes in your Evernotes.com account.
Rough Draft due to be uploaded by December 3. The rough draft will be worth three (3) test grades. The final revised paper is worth 30% of your term grade.

Book Report Outline

Here is a copy of the outline for the long term project:

Pick a book written by any male author; please follow the guidelines listed below. Please bring in the book for pre-approval no later than November 5.

Rough draft is due December 3, final draft is due December 17, 2012; use Turnitin.com to submit your paper. Your paper must be at least 4 pages long; cover, 2 pages of body, and a work cited page.

MLA format:

a)     Times New Roman Size 12 Font

b)    One inch margins on all sides

c)     Double space only

d)    Cover Page has to include your name, homeroom, date, book title underlined, author, and my name, Ms. Chaney

BOOK REPORT OUTLINE

A.   Title: Give the title of your book – underline it once

B.    Author: Give the name of the author of your work. List details concerning his life work, and include any information that might have a direct bearing on the work that you have read by him. Is there a special reason why they wrote this work? Finally list all other works done by this author.

C.    Theme/thesis: Write on good paragraph about the subject/main idea of the story.

D.   Setting: Describe the setting or local in which the events in the story take place.

E.    Characters: List the main and minor characters. Write one good sentence about each; tell why they are important to the story.

F.    Action/situation: Use details to tell what happens in the story. Please be specific by using examples from the story.  Please write at least three (3) paragraphs for this section

G.   Opinion: What is your opinion of the story? Did you enjoy reading it yes/no, explain. List facts to back up your statements.

H.   Recommendation: Would you recommend this book to the rest of the class? Write at least one sentence for your recommendation

Homework

Homework - The Giver packet, chapters 5 and 6 is due Friday November 9.

Newspaper Summaries(3) are due on Friday November 16.

Homework

Homework - Please study for test tomorrow on Vocabulary Power Plus Lesson # 2.
Your Rough Draft is due December 3 for your long term project.
It will have to be uploaded to Turitin.com.

Homework

Homework - Please create an account for Evernote.com to be used to keep all of your notes for your long term project online. You will be able to access this information from any computer no matter where you are.

Homework

Homework - Study for Vocabulary test for chapters 1,2,3, and 4 in The Giver, on Tuesday.
Study for Vocabulary Power Plus test on Thursday.

Reminder Newspaper Summaries due Thursday.

Log into Turnitin.com and set your own password. Please write down your password in your agenda book. I will not have a copy of your password.

Start reading your book and taking notes on the information needed for your book report, the rough draft is due December 3 to be uploaded to Turnitin.com.

Homework

Homework - Vocabulary Power Plus  sentences for lesson # 2 (15), are due on Monday.
Sentences for chapters three (3) and four (4) are due on Monday (8).
Books for the next long term project are due to me for review, no later than Monday November 5.
Newspaper summaries, three articles, three paragraphs each. Due no later then November 8.