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What We're Focusing on in the Third Quarter
 
** Research skills with relevant and irrelevant resources and a bibliography
  
** Using what you have:  analyzing media for meaning, tone, cultural significance, historical significance, setting, and purpose
 
** Book Club:  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry  or  Maniac Magee 
 
** Grammar Stuff:  new vocabulary, and simple, compound, and complex sentences
 

What's Due
 
 

ALL WORK IS DUE NO LATER THAN TUESDAY,
MARCH 6, 2012.  NO EXCEPTIONS!
 
1/6/2012   -- Monday Musing for "Wade in the Water"
                      -- Journal for Week 1
                      -- signed Quarter 3 GradeKeeper sheet
 
1/13/2012 -- First Semester Review Test
                      -- Monday Musing for "Strange Fruit"
                      -- Journal for Week 2
 
1/20/2012 -- Monday Musing for "Change is Gonna Come" 
                       --Reader Response Letter #1: Book Club
                       -- Short Story called "The Escape"
                       -- Journal for Week 3
 
1/27/2012 -- GRID box #1: "You Teach"
                       -- Monday Musing for "Redemption Song"
                       -- Interview someone you owe an apology
                          (must use provided questions)
                       -- Journal for Week 4
 
2/3/2012  -- Monday Musing for "Me and Bobby McGee"
                      -- Related Song or Poem for "Wade..." to
                         "Redemption..."
                      -- Journal for Week 5
 
2/10/2012 -- Monday Musing for "Legend"
                       -- PPPoem called "Freedom in My Eyes"
                       -- Journal for Week 6
 
2/17/2012 -- Monday Musing for "Happy Valentine's Day"
                       -- Research Paper: African American Inventor
                       -- Journal for Week 7
 
2/24/2012 --Monday Musing for "Desert Song"
                       -- Reader Response Letter #2
 
2/27/2012 -- Journal for Week 8
 
3/5/2012    -- Signed Reading Log
                       -- GRID box #2 (choose from options)
                       -- Book Club Project: skit and report                    
 
 
 
Monday Musing 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
 
 
Due 1/6/2012 --  "Wade in the Water" by Fisk Jubilee
        Singers    download: 15WadeintheWater.mp3
 
 
Due 1/13/2012 -- "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday
        download:  05StrangeFruit.mp3
 
 
Due 1/20/2012 -- "Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke
        download:  29-AChangeIsGonnaCome.mp3
 
 
 
Due 1/27/2012 -- "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley
         download:  11RedemptionSong.mp3
 
 
 
 
Due 2/3/2012 -- "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin
          download:  07_-_Me_And_Bobby_McGee.mp3

 
Due 2/10/2012 -- "Legend" by Nelly Furtado
           download:  10Legend.wma
 
 
Due 2/17/2012 "Happy Valentine's Day" by Shemekia
        Copeland   download:  06HappyValentinesDay.mp3
 
 
Due 2/24/2012 -- "Desert Song" by Alice Smith
            download:  07DesertSong.mp3
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    

READERS' WORKSHOP  (T & Th)

 
 
Pay attention to your GradeKeeper sheet! In addition to varying assignments, EVERY week students will be responsible for:
  • "Monday Musing" based on the weekly song or poem
  • 2 pages front and back in Class Journal 
Lost something?  Download and Print copies.
 
 

 
 
 WRITERS' WORKSHOP  (M & W)
 
 
Pay attention to your GradeKeeper sheet!  Unless told otherwise, EVERY Quarter students will be responsible for writing 6 final pieces to be considered for the class book.  Each piece should be turned in with a draft (edited by peers).  Students are responsible for:
  • 2 original poems (at least 8 lines each)
  • 1 short story (1pg front and back)
  • 1 memoir (1-2 pgs front and back)
  • 1 research paper (5 paragraph essay)
  • 1 interview (1-2 pgs front and back)