Monday, October 20, 2014

October 20

1. SSR
2. Kahoot (vocabulary review)
3. Vocabulary assessment.
4. We read to page 90 in class today.

Homework

  • You need to write an "unwritten rules of" list.
  • Your list needs to have a minimum of 8 things in it.



  • You have a vocabulary assessment this Friday.

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Where I'm from

Your homework is to write about where you are from.

  1. You can write a poem or a list. 
  2. You can write a paragraph.
  3. It needs to be a minimum of 15 lines.
  4. It needs to be interesting/unique.
  5. You can include pictures, but you don't need to.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The following are topics that came up in our reading today. Please write about ONE of these topics OR select your own topic from the reading.


  1. Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
  2. Cartoons are Juniors tiny little lifeboats in the world. He uses them to escape and to survive. What is a lifeboat in your life?
  3. Write about a pet you've lost or a pet you still have. 
  4. Write about someone you know who could have been very different if someone had paid attention to their dreams.
  5. Write about someone you know who had people in their lives who paid attention to his/her dreams.