Word on the Street

All Language Arts Classes – We went over the requirements of the moldy bread essay rough draft which is due on Friday, October 30.  Students will have at least one class day (Tuesday, October 27) to work on their rough drafts in class, and students might be given Thursday as well. We have to see how it goes tomorrow.

Handouts:

Rubric & Check Lists

Essay Format

Graphic Organizer – Prewriting/Planning Moldy Bread Essay  – This is due in class Tuesday, October 27!

Rough Draft Requirements

• Can be typed or handwritten
• If typed, two pages, double-spaced
• If handwritten, four pages, skipping lines, front only
• Rough Draft Due in Class on Friday, October, 30

Moldy Bread Schedule:

• Tuesday, October 27 – Using graphic organizer completed for homework, writing workshop to work on rough draft in class.
• Wednesday, October 28 – Wildcat Day – no class
• Thursday, October 29 – Possibly another writing workshop day to work on rough drafts and information about bringing bread to class on Friday.
• Friday, October 30 -Rough Draft and Moldy Bread due in class.  Moldy Bread judging for smelliest, most colorful, and grossest.  Students need to have three different colors of highlighters so they can work on their self-evaluation of the essay in class.  After the self-evaluation, students will be assigned a partner for peer editing of the rough draft.  If students do not finish peer-editing in class, they will be given time to finish up this step in class on Monday.
• Monday, November 2 – Any pairs that did not finish peer editing will be able to do so, and students who have finished peer editing will have time to work on revising their essays.
• Friday, November 6 – Final Moldy Bread Essay is due. Students will follow the check lists on the back of the rubric to prepare the essay for submission.  Students will be turning in all of the following: rubric/check list, final essay, peer-edit worksheet, rough draft, self-evaluation/revising worksheet,  graphic organizer for planning/prewriting essay, and observation log.

Language Arts Advanced – Students were given several due dates for Hound of the Baskervilles.

Tuesday, November 3:

• Book must be completed
• Turn in chapter responses for chapters 12-15
• Turn in Vocabulary Ch. 12-15

Friday, November 6:

• Unit Test – Hound of the Baskervilles
• Annotation Check
• Students will be able to use annotated book for at least one essay question.

Monday, November 9:

• Hound of the Baskervilles Unit Projects Due (For information, please see the tag “The Hound of the Baskervilles.” The handout describing the project and the rubrics that were distributed to students are available there for downloading if you have lost your copy.)

I will update this post as we go along so that you have one place to go to find handouts you may want to print.  Not all handouts given out in class will be downloadable here, but I will add the ones I can.  You can return to this post by using the tag “Hound of the Baskervilles.”  Here is also a powerpoint you may want to look over about the Victorian literary period that gives background information you may find helpful  Elementary My Dear Watson!

Unit Projects

Vocabulary

Chapter Responses Respond to each chapter.

A Brief Guide to Annotating Text What should I be annotating?  Using three colors of highlighters (your own book) or sticky notes (borrowed book), highlight in one color personal notations – things that need clarification, quotes/passages you feel are significant, particularly suspenseful moments, important quotations, whatever you feel you should make note of; in a second color highlight information related to the major conflicts in the story as they develop; and in the third color, highlight information related to characterization of the major characters.

Cohort Questions All Chapters Hounds