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This Week

May 7

Persuasive letter final drafts are due Monday. Several students submitted their final drafts today.

Students may use the Easy Bib or Citation Machine to assist them in developing a works cited page.

 Home Reading - Response to Literature

All students must respond to their independent reading using the quote sandwich format.  These responses are due approximately every two weeks.  The trimester schedule is below:

Trimester Lit Response Schedule Organizer (pdf) Organizer (Word) Exemplar

Note: Students may turn in quote sandwiches BEFORE  the due date.  Students may revise their work as many times as they like-however, I do require that students revise assignments below meeting expectation at least 3 times.  Also, should a student struggle with this writing assignment, they may email to me their work for my suggestions, come for extra help at lunch, or come for extra help after school. 

Also, about 60 of our 74 families have signed up for the listserv.  If you have not done so already please do so.  This allows us to send electronic messages to you (in lieu of the cavern in backpacks).  Additionally, I like to email individual parents when students are not turning in work regularly.  This has been very helpful to parents in the past in keeping on top of what is really happening in school. Sign up for the Velocity listserv

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E-mail Mrs. Mary Lou Bettez  rid23598@ride.ri.net