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December 21, 2006

Have a safe and happy winter break! See you next year!

Mrs. C.

Posted by Cushman at 03:55 PM

December 19, 2006

No homework.

Posted by Cushman at 02:44 PM

Finish your mini-book.

Posted by Cushman at 02:44 PM

No homework unless you need to finish your response to literature rough draft.

Posted by Cushman at 02:43 PM

December 13, 2006

Re-write your simple, compound, and complex sentences if your homework was incorrect.

DOL proofreading sheet from Tuesday is due Thursday.

Study for simple, compound, and complex sentence quiz tomorrow.

Mini-book project due Friday, 12/15

Posted by Cushman at 03:13 PM

December 11, 2006

Complete DOL Take Home. Do not re-write the sentences for all the sentences. Use proofreading marks to indicate corrections. We will have a contest to see which class does the best.

Simple, compound, complex sentence quiz is Thursday. Review conjunction notes (copy I gave you) and WAG pages 426-429.

Mini-book project due Friday!

Posted by Cushman at 03:56 PM

Write 9 sentences on the same topic skipping a line between each.
3 simple sentences--one with a compound subject, one with a compound predicate, and one with a compound subject and predicate.
Write 3 compound sentences--do not use the same coordinating conjunctions.
Write 3 complex sentences--do not use the same subordinating conjunction.

Your mini-book project is due Friday!!

Posted by Cushman at 03:18 PM

December 08, 2006

12/7 (I forgot.) Workbook pages 49 & 50 all

Reading log check Monday--10 entry minimum. Your log should reflect entries from your adventure or mystery novel.

Mini-book project due next Friday, 12/15.

If you were absent Thursday, be ready to make-up your "Stone" test Monday in class.

Posted by Cushman at 08:37 AM

December 06, 2006

Complete workbook pages 63 Ex. 1, p. 64 Ex. 1 & 2, p. 147 Ex. 1& 2, and p. 48 Ex. 1 & 2.

Finish your journal entry. Mrs. C. expects exemplary work because....... I am/ am not motivated to complete assignments......(how)
because..... Explain yourself in a paragraph.

"The Stone" test tomorrow.

Reading log due Monday, 12/18.

Posted by Cushman at 02:14 PM

December 05, 2006

Work on your mini-book project due 12/15.

Study for a test on "The Stone" p. 505 on Thursday. Make sure you are familiar with the vocabulary words that follow:
delved, gaped, plight, obliged, jubilation, rue, mired, and fallow. See margins and footnotes.

Posted by Cushman at 10:19 AM

December 04, 2006

Work on your mini-book project due 12/15.

See link for directions.
Download file

Posted by Cushman at 03:54 PM