September 28 Assignment

Lesson 3 from Student Book: Make a keyword outline (pg 22) summary --2 paragraphs
Write a rough draft summary report following checklist on pg 23.
Grammar: Resource Notebook pg 61, 64 and 66.
(Next week: Grammar quiz on rules 1-3)

Remember to read: The Legend Sleepy Hollow and Rip VanWinkle by Washington Irving ALSO
Read the following poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

"The Courtship of Miles Standish" http://wwwhwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=186-

"Paul Revere's Ride" http://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=35

"A Psalm of Life" http://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=36

Optional: Read "Evangeline" and/or "The Song of Hiawatha" (also by Longfellow)

Reading due by October 19, 2010

Assignment for September 21, 2010

You will be using your rough draft "Slavery" from lesson 2.
Reread Lesson 4. Write a cinquain entitled "The Slave". Use consonance, assonance or alliteration in the poem at least once.

Write a final draft of your slavery report with your cinquain at the beginning of the report. The cinquain will be centered, italicized and separate from the body paragraphs.

Add dress-ups and sentence openers as listed on your checklist. Be sure to indicate these as discussed in class. Remember to type, double-space, name/date etc. You will need to handwritten the indicators in the margin and underline dress-ups.

Review Lesson 4 vocabulary.

September 14 Assignment

Complete 3 paragraph essay on The Last of the Mohicans. Follow the Story Sequence Model and notes from class. Use MLA format (typed, double space, info in header).

Literature Assignment (Due to complete by October 19) Begin reading Rip VanWinkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Longfellow poems will be added).