Middle School Humanities and Language Arts Homework
Week of November 26, 2007
History
Complete the chapter notes for Chapter 2 “Solving the Mystery of Sumer”
Due in second block class this week.
Language Arts
6th grade
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Memoir Writing Timeline
Remember - SKIP LINES or DOUBLE SPACE!
Tuesday , November 27th
• The first 2 pages, about half, of the memoir are due. I will read them by Tuesday Dec. 4th, so you will have comments for writing the next section,
• Tuesday, Dec. 11h.
• The rest of your rough draft is due. You must include the previously commented upon drafts and the memoir plan.
Thursday, Dec. 20th
• The totally beautiful, completed memoir with author page (we’ll go over this later in class), cover, title page and dedication page is due.
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Hopefully the class book will be in and we will be starting it in class this week. If so, you will have lit log work related to the book. If not, I will let you know in class on Tuesday what we will be doing.
7th grade
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Memoir Writing Timeline
Wednesday, November 28th
• The first half of the memoir is due. The first section you turned in before Thanksgiving will be returned to you on Monday or Tuesday of this week.
Friday, Dec. 7th.
• The final half of your rough draft is due. You must include the previously commented upon drafts and the memoir plan.
Wednesday, Dec. 19th
• The totally beautiful, completed memoir with author page (we’ll go over this later in class), cover, title page and dedication page is due.
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2. Test on W.W. unit 4 this Friday, Nov. 30th.
3. Wordly Wise unit 5 will be due on Wednesday, Dec. 5th.
4. Punctuation skills will be assigned in class and due on Friday, Nov. 30th.
8th grade
1. Read to page 112 in To Kill a Mockingbird (end of Part One) by Thursday, Nov. 29th.
2. Do the vocabulary on pages 9, 12 and 14 of your TKAM packet. Due Fri., 11/30.
3. Write a literary log letter to your partner on the following topic (quoted from page 16 of your packet).
Literary Element: Characterization “It might be said that the events in chapters 10 and 11 served mainly to develop the character of Atticus. What was learned about Atticus’s character in the incidents with the mad dog and Mrs. Dubose? How might these character traits help him in the trial that faces him?
You must use a minimum of 2 quotes to back up your thoughts. Due Fri., 11/30.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
homework for week of Nov. 19, 2007
Middle School Humanities and Language Arts Homework
Week of November 19, 2007
No history homework this week (except for block I, which has the history test tomorrow).
6th grade
1. Your memoir plan will be returned on Tuesday. Two pages of your rough draft are due on Tuesday, November 27th. YOU MUST SKIP LINES. If you use the computer, be sure to save each draft as a separate document (memoir1.doc, memoir2.doc etc.). You can consider it a new draft each day that you work on it.
7th grade:
1. Turn in a minimum of 1.5 pages of your memoir TOMORROW. If you’re not doing it on the computer, we will make a photocopy so you can work on it over Thanksgiving break. The first half of the memoir is due on Wednesday, November 28th. YOU MUST SKIP LINES. If you use the computer, be sure to save each draft as a separate document (memoir1.doc, memoir2.doc etc.). You can consider it a new draft each day that you work on it.
8th grade:
1. Catch up on To Kill a Mockingbird (to chapter 10, page 89). There will be a quiz on the first 9 chapters on Monday, Nov. 26th.
• You will need to know the characters who are introduced so far and how they are connected to one another. This includes:
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Scout Miss Caroline
Jem Arthur (Boo) Radley
Dill Mr. Nathan Radley
Atticus Francis
Calpurnia Uncle Jack
Miss Maudie Atkinson Aunt Alexandria
• Using a post-it, mark a passage that has strong imagery. On the quiz you will be expected to write about his passage.
• Be prepared to find evidence of conflict in a relationship between 2 characters in the novel up to chapter 10. You will need to quote from and explain this conflict.
• In addition, there will be some true/false and multiple-choice questions to check comprehension.
IT’S AN OPEN BOOK QUIZ. YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO BORROW A BOOK.
Week of November 19, 2007
No history homework this week (except for block I, which has the history test tomorrow).
6th grade
1. Your memoir plan will be returned on Tuesday. Two pages of your rough draft are due on Tuesday, November 27th. YOU MUST SKIP LINES. If you use the computer, be sure to save each draft as a separate document (memoir1.doc, memoir2.doc etc.). You can consider it a new draft each day that you work on it.
7th grade:
1. Turn in a minimum of 1.5 pages of your memoir TOMORROW. If you’re not doing it on the computer, we will make a photocopy so you can work on it over Thanksgiving break. The first half of the memoir is due on Wednesday, November 28th. YOU MUST SKIP LINES. If you use the computer, be sure to save each draft as a separate document (memoir1.doc, memoir2.doc etc.). You can consider it a new draft each day that you work on it.
8th grade:
1. Catch up on To Kill a Mockingbird (to chapter 10, page 89). There will be a quiz on the first 9 chapters on Monday, Nov. 26th.
• You will need to know the characters who are introduced so far and how they are connected to one another. This includes:
•
Scout Miss Caroline
Jem Arthur (Boo) Radley
Dill Mr. Nathan Radley
Atticus Francis
Calpurnia Uncle Jack
Miss Maudie Atkinson Aunt Alexandria
• Using a post-it, mark a passage that has strong imagery. On the quiz you will be expected to write about his passage.
• Be prepared to find evidence of conflict in a relationship between 2 characters in the novel up to chapter 10. You will need to quote from and explain this conflict.
• In addition, there will be some true/false and multiple-choice questions to check comprehension.
IT’S AN OPEN BOOK QUIZ. YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO BORROW A BOOK.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Ancient Mesopotamian City of Ur
This is the entrance to the tomb in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur. This photo is from a large collection in the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. Click here for a link to the site.
Literary Log Letter on Character
November 4, 2007
Dear Seventh Graders,
I enjoyed reading the stick incident and more (the author wrote the title in lower case letters) with you on Friday. When I read it to myself at home, I didn’t realize how long it is. I particularly like Cheryl Peck’s sense of humor. Her sense of exaggeration does remind me of how I often felt as a child; incidents seemed so much bigger to me then. Adults often minimize how big things feel to children and the author really captured that childhood reality.
We discovered a great deal about her character through reading the memoir. One personality quality we agreed on was that she was very dramatic. For example, in her retelling of the stick incident, she relates the following to her friends, “My own father HIT ME WITH A STICK! I disowned him on the spot, there was no doubt about it----I would hate him forever.” Another example of her dramatic exaggeration was when she was describing how her mother “boiled” her children. “Moss grew on our sheets. The Wee One grew tiny slits in her nect, just behind her jaws, and as a teenager she could swim two or three miles underwater before needing to come up for air.”
We also decided she was accident-prone. “I had been walking through the gravel pit…when a stone leaped up and tripped me and I fell down and jabbed my own knife into my free hand.” There were numerous other accidents which she hilariously retold through the memoir.
I enjoyed her nosiness the most, perhaps because I can remember so well how much I wanted to know about everything that happened in my house, especially if I thought I wasn’t supposed to know it. “I could not huddle over my spy register, where I could see better and hear perhaps more clearly, because sooner or later someone would murmur something about the comparative size of the ears on my mother’s pitcher collection…..”.
The one aspect of her character that we didn’t learn anything about was any physical characteristics. I wonder what she looked like. I could picture a little girl hopping home with a nail sticking out of her foot, but I couldn’t picture hair or skin color, her size, or anything else physical. Other than that, I feel like I know quite a bit about Cheryl and would like to read more.
Sincerely,
Elena
Dear Seventh Graders,
I enjoyed reading the stick incident and more (the author wrote the title in lower case letters) with you on Friday. When I read it to myself at home, I didn’t realize how long it is. I particularly like Cheryl Peck’s sense of humor. Her sense of exaggeration does remind me of how I often felt as a child; incidents seemed so much bigger to me then. Adults often minimize how big things feel to children and the author really captured that childhood reality.
We discovered a great deal about her character through reading the memoir. One personality quality we agreed on was that she was very dramatic. For example, in her retelling of the stick incident, she relates the following to her friends, “My own father HIT ME WITH A STICK! I disowned him on the spot, there was no doubt about it----I would hate him forever.” Another example of her dramatic exaggeration was when she was describing how her mother “boiled” her children. “Moss grew on our sheets. The Wee One grew tiny slits in her nect, just behind her jaws, and as a teenager she could swim two or three miles underwater before needing to come up for air.”
We also decided she was accident-prone. “I had been walking through the gravel pit…when a stone leaped up and tripped me and I fell down and jabbed my own knife into my free hand.” There were numerous other accidents which she hilariously retold through the memoir.
I enjoyed her nosiness the most, perhaps because I can remember so well how much I wanted to know about everything that happened in my house, especially if I thought I wasn’t supposed to know it. “I could not huddle over my spy register, where I could see better and hear perhaps more clearly, because sooner or later someone would murmur something about the comparative size of the ears on my mother’s pitcher collection…..”.
The one aspect of her character that we didn’t learn anything about was any physical characteristics. I wonder what she looked like. I could picture a little girl hopping home with a nail sticking out of her foot, but I couldn’t picture hair or skin color, her size, or anything else physical. Other than that, I feel like I know quite a bit about Cheryl and would like to read more.
Sincerely,
Elena
Homework for week of 11/5/07
Middle School Humanities and Language Arts Homework
Week of November 5, 2007
History
1. Complete reading “The Great Leap Forward” (page 25 through 33). Specific questions will be assigned in class. Due in second block this week.
2. Complete the geographic terms glossary. Due in second block this week.
Language Arts
6th grade
1. Memoir work to be assigned in class.
2. Grammar and punctuation work to be assigned in class.
3. Correct the Wordly Wise units I and II at home.
7th grade
1. Complete reading the second collection of memoirs by Wed., Nov. 7th.
2. Write a literary log to Elena about character based on our work in class on Friday. The character should be from one of the memoirs we’ve read in either packet, but not the one I chose. A sample letter is on the reverse. Due Friday, Nov. 9th.
3. The Punctuating Titles worksheet handed out last week is due Wed., Nov. 7th
4. New grammar and punctuation work to be assigned and due next Wed., Nov. 14th.
8th grade
1. Read chapters 4 to 7 (to page 57) in To Kill a Mockingbird by Thursday, Nov. 8th. You may read ahead as far as you like, but we will go back and read much of it out loud in class. Keep using the post-its for questions and important passages. DO NOT bother writing them in your literary log.
2. Write a literary log letter to your partner about your thoughts and reactions to the novel so far. Remember, it is NOT a plot summary. New partners will be assigned in class. Due Friday, Nov. 9th.
3. Grammar and punctuation will be assigned in class and due Friday, Nov. 9th.
Week of November 5, 2007
History
1. Complete reading “The Great Leap Forward” (page 25 through 33). Specific questions will be assigned in class. Due in second block this week.
2. Complete the geographic terms glossary. Due in second block this week.
Language Arts
6th grade
1. Memoir work to be assigned in class.
2. Grammar and punctuation work to be assigned in class.
3. Correct the Wordly Wise units I and II at home.
7th grade
1. Complete reading the second collection of memoirs by Wed., Nov. 7th.
2. Write a literary log to Elena about character based on our work in class on Friday. The character should be from one of the memoirs we’ve read in either packet, but not the one I chose. A sample letter is on the reverse. Due Friday, Nov. 9th.
3. The Punctuating Titles worksheet handed out last week is due Wed., Nov. 7th
4. New grammar and punctuation work to be assigned and due next Wed., Nov. 14th.
8th grade
1. Read chapters 4 to 7 (to page 57) in To Kill a Mockingbird by Thursday, Nov. 8th. You may read ahead as far as you like, but we will go back and read much of it out loud in class. Keep using the post-its for questions and important passages. DO NOT bother writing them in your literary log.
2. Write a literary log letter to your partner about your thoughts and reactions to the novel so far. Remember, it is NOT a plot summary. New partners will be assigned in class. Due Friday, Nov. 9th.
3. Grammar and punctuation will be assigned in class and due Friday, Nov. 9th.
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