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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

April 6 #1 Quote Sandwich May 18 #4 Quote Sandwich
 April 20 #2 Quote Sandwich June 1 #5 Quote Sandwich
May 4 #3 Quote Sandwich June 15 #6 Quote Sandwich

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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Phoenix ELA Calendar

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
          1 2
3 4 QS 3 due 5 6 7 Persuasive Letters due 8 John Irving author study 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 QS 4 due 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 No School 26 27 28 29 30
31 1 QS 5 due          

 

Nightly homework consists of reading from self-selected texts 20-30 minutes per night.  Occasionally, written work will be assigned.  There are 5 summaries due by the end of Trimester. These are due approximately every two weeks.

Independent reading log sheets , summary form, summary sample, summary organizer  Quote Sandwich organizerpdf Quote Sandwich (Word) Quote Sandwich Exemplar can also be downloaded here for home.  Completing these sheets in a timely manner will help you to keep better track of your reading:) Books should be annotated at home and brought to school to be placed in reading folder.

(Note: I will try to revise this page as I assign new writing pieces or projects. In addition, I will keep older assignments on the page for at least one month. If there is nothing new here, it simply means that you should be doing your nightly reading and continuing your in-class assignments. PARENTS: Many students will take their in-class assignments home to work on. This is fine, but please remind them to bring them to school on a daily basis. Thank you.