English Work for February 22-26

You get to start writing the mystery story this week! I know you will all be good at becoming detectives and investigators!

Monday: Write 3 character descriptions and a setting paragraph. These will both be included in your mystery story. They are all due on Thursday! We also started a noun review for our noun quiz on Wednesday.

Tuesday: Today we will write your introduction for the mystery story. Also in class we will work on "showing, not telling." This is a descriptive way of writing. Instead of saying, "I am scared." (telling), you could say, "My palms were sweating, my heart was beating out of my chest, and I felt cold all over." (showing) We will do the other side of the noun review worksheet.

Wednesday: After ROL and Caught 'Ya, we will take a noun quiz over all we have learned and practiced about nouns. That includes singular, plurals, possessives, contractions and possessive pronouns. We also will get a sheet for you to include clues and "red herrings" in your mystery story.

Thursday: (SSR) Today we will begin writing the mystery story rough draft and work on our Tic-Tac-Toe projects for the 200 page book we have been reading. The Tic-Tac-Toe project is due on Monday! The rough draft will be due on Tuesday!

Friday: (ROL and Caught 'Ya) We will enjoy a work day primarily for you to work on the Tic-Tac-Toe projects and the mystery rough draft. We will also start learning about verbs!

English Work for February 16-19, 2010

It's time to start writing again. We are preparing for writing a mystery story during this week.

Monday: No school--Winter Break Day

Tuesday: In class we handed in the "Room of the Future" with 12 inventions and explanations and floor plan in color with everything labeled. The idea of writing a mystery story was introduced and we read a mystery story as an example.

Wednesday: We handed in a literary passport about any character from the five short stories we read. Then we finished another exercise on possessive nouns (yellow worksheet). Next we read another mystery story called "The Purr-fect Mystery" and filled in a short story chart about it. This is due on Thursday.

Thursday: We are going to start planning for our mystery story today. We will fill in a short story chart about it and then start describing the main character of the story by filling in a character questionnaire.

Friday: We will have a short story quiz today! Make sure you know all the parts of a short story from the blue worksheet that we studied in class. Also, we will do another exercise on possessive nouns and work on our Tic-Tac-Toe book reports which are due on March 1. Make sure you keep reading over the weekend and choose the three projects that you are going to do for your book.

Homework for February 8-12, 2010

We are in the middle of our short story unit! We are also reviewing nouns and their plural spellings.

Here are your homework and classroom work assignments for the week!

Monday: You should have finished your "Making Nouns Plural" worksheet.

Tuesday: In class you will finish reading "The Veldt," a rather gruesome sci-fi short story.

Also, you will finish by the end of Tuesday in class, the short story chart (green worksheet) about "Priscilla and the Wimps" and the "Analyzing Characters Chart" about Priscilla, Monk, and Melvin.

Wednesday: In class we will answer discussion questions about "The Veldt."

Thursday: On this day we will review short story vocabulary and we will start our new writing assignment: a MYSTERY story. We will learn about the parts necessary to make a good mystery and you will be thinking of good ideas for your own story.

Friday: Today we will read a short story entitled "The Story of an Hour" and we will fill in the character chart and the short story chart. We will also do a literary passport about a short story character.

If you have any questions, email us!

Homework for Friday, February 4, 2010

The worksheet entitled "Introduction to Nouns" is due.

In class on Friday we will have ROL, Caught Ya, and then we fill have time to review nouns, and work on more plural nouns. We will also fill in a short story chart about "Never Trust a Lady" and we will read a new short story called "Priscilla and the Wimps."

Remember that you need to have a 200 + page book for the Tic-Tac-Toe Activities that are due on Monday, March 1, 2010.