English I Skills Assignments

All homework assignments are stated at the beginning and ending of every class, and posted on the board in room 224.  Students are reminded to write down their homework in assignment notebooks, as homework may change due to class work.

English I Skills

11/15-11/19

PLEASE NOTE:  Every night this week, you will have two parts to your homework:

1. A reading assignment
2. A graphic organizer for one of the body paragraphs in your essay.

Monday, November 15

• Vocab
• Matt and Ursula’s friendship paragraph two brainstorming
• Start Graphic Organizer for paragraphs 1-2

HW:  Read pages 210-238

Finish graphic organizer for paragraph 1 (REMEMBER:  CONTEXT, QUOTATIONS and EXPLANATIONS).  I will collect your graphic organizer.

Tuesday, November 16                                            No Class

Wednesday, November 17

• Vocab
• The mystery of pumpkin
• Graphic organizer for paragraph 2

HW:  Finish Big Mouth & Ugly Girl

            Finish Graphic Organizer for Paragraph 2. I will collect your graphic organizer.

Thursday, November 18

• Vocab review

• The ending DYRT
• The ending to Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
• Graphic organizer for paragraph 3

HW:  Finish Graphic Organizer for paragraph 3. I will collect your graphic organizer.

Complete vocab take home sentences.  I will collect these sentences and use them as your quiz grade.

Friday, November 19           

• Hand in Graphic Organizer
• Hand in Vocab Sentences

HW:  Write your introductory paragraph and your first body paragraph for your essay.

Monday, November 22                                No Class

Tuesday, November 23

• Write your 2^nd and 3^rd body paragraphs for your Big Mouth & Ugly Girl essay.

HW:  Finish your Big Mouth & Ugly Girl essays

Wednesday, November 24

• Use criterion to proofread Big Mouth and Ugly Girl essay