May 21 - 25
Mrs. Andrews' Writing Class
Extra Credit Opportunity!
If you have visited my homework page this week, you are eligible to win up to 3 points of extra credit, simply for answering some easy questions about things we've learned this year! Write your answers to the following questions on a piece of paper and turn it in to me sometime this week.
1. What do we call a type of writing that tells a story? (hint: you wrote one of these types of essays for Ms. Kinsherff last fall, and your Forget-Me-Not projects are another type of this genre)
2. Which part of speech modifies an adjective?
3. What is the last part of speech we learned this year? Examples include Wow! and Ouch!
Monday, May 21 - Friday, May 25
Can you believe that the end of the school year is already here? Don't give up on me now, cause we'll be writing up until the very end. This week, we will be working on our Forget-Me-Not Holocaust Diaries. At the end of the week, you should have 4 entries completed and ready for me to grade. Each diary entry must contain the following:
1. a complete date (which you can choose, of course, but it must be historically sound)
2. a biographical or historical fact (based on what we know about your child's life and the historical time period)
3. an inference (something we don't know to be true about your child, but it's plausible based on what we do know to be true.)
4. the sentence variety technique of the day (this will be taught in mini-lessons)
1st entry: a sentence that starts with an adverb or is inverted word order
2nd entry: an expanded sentence
3rd entry: a rhetorical question
4th entry: a stacatto sentence
I will be grading your entries on the computer as the week progresses, and you will be turning in the Interactive Rubric as you complete each day. Please save all work to the student sharing file!
*Please note: I make every effort to make my homework page as accurate as possible - I may update the page several times a week in order to achieve this. However, sometimes the day's events can affect the day's homework and I may not have a chance to change this page. Additionally, from time to time, one class period's homework may differ from another. Please be aware that the homework that is written on the classroom board prevails. Please encourage your student to be responsible about writing the homework down in class!
