Homework 11/25/08

Period 1

1. Read Pages 65-72
2. Fill out the Temperance chart and keep up with it during the weekend.

Remember that you have integrity and are honest, right?

Period 3
Finish your Compare and Contrast Essay on Bradstreet and Sor Juana poems.
Please note:

1. IT MUST BE 2 PAGES IN LENGTH. AT THE VERY LEAST 1/2 A PAGE.
2. 12 POINT FONT
3. DOUBLE-SPACED
4. TIMES NEW ROMAN, ARIAL OR CALIBRI FONT
5. 1" MARGINS (this is usually automatic, so don't mess with the margins. Don't try anything sneaky;-) )
6. LEFT JUSTIFIED. DO NOT CENTER YOUR TEXT.
7. INCLUDE A TITLE (SOMETHING MORE CREATIVE THAN COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY)
8. MAKE SURE YOU INDENT EACH PARAGRAPH.

Homework due Monday 11/24

Period 1

1. Final, Typed Writing Option for "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
2. Post Vocabulary sentences

Period 3

1. Study for Vocab Quiz
2. Have a complete outline where you have chosen what points you are going to compare and contrast.
3. Your introduction Paragraph should be done

Homework 11/20/08

Period 1

1. Study for Vocab Quiz
2. Choose 1 activity in Edwards packet in the Writing Options section and bring in a paragraph that shows you have started it. :-)

Period 3

1. Decide what things you want to include in your essay and make a list
2. Work on an outline for your essay.
3. Type your first 2 paragraphs if you already have them hand written or if you want to get a head start.

Refer to your Venn diagram and comparison chart.

Homework 11/18/08

Period 1
• Finish the Reader’s notebook Chart
• Finish reading the packet.
Extra Credit post a comment on this blog, discussing your opinion on the sermon. At least 4 sentences.

Period 3

• Find 5 sentences form the vocabulary blog and correct them. Make sure that you write down the incorrect sentence and the revised sentence.

• Have 2 rough draft paragraphs for your essay.

Homework 11/17/08

Period 1

1. Have an adult revise your essay and sign revision sheet. Make sure they print their name and title under the signature .

2. Have a completed, typed final draft of essay

3. Make sure you have both the peer edit sheet, the adult revision sheet, and a rough draft attached to your final draft essay.

The order should be as follows:
Top: final draft
2nd: parent revision

3rd: peer review

4th: rough draft

Period 3

1. Post vocab sentences on blog

Homework due Monday 11/17

Period 1

1. Email revised Draft of Comparison Essay to ramirez.erendira@gmail.com


2. Post Vocabulary Sentences on blog


3. Final Essay will be due Tuesday

If you are still having issues with the layout, feel free to look at the links below in the 3 period assignments.

Period 3

1. Study for Vocab Quiz

2. View the compare and contrast file online (click the link)

[you will receive a handout similar to this in class]

3. Fill out the venn diagram sheet for both of the poems.

4. View the Outline Template File online (click the link)

5. Create an outline on a new Word file based on the Outline Template File

Email it back to me by Monday morning 8:15. Save a copy so you can print it and take it to class so you can share with classmates.

{Remember that you are writing a compare and contrast essay [click on the previous link for information on a compare and contrast essay] on both of the poems that we have looked at. "A few Verses upon the burning of our house" by Anne Bradstreet and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz' "World in hounding me"}

Homework 11/10/08

Period 1
1. Create a new outline for your essay and begin a rough draft (at least 2 paragraphs)
* You have the option of emailing them to me or writing them down and submitting them on Wednesday.
2. Study for Vocab Quiz

Period 3
1. Post vocabulary sentences on blog
2. Complete the chart on pg. 34 in the Writing section. Do this individually.
3. Compare your chart to another classmate's once they are completed (discuss and share) and then write a response (1/2 page minimum) that tells me:

• Whether you agree or disagree with your partner's responses.
• Who do you think is right?
• Explain why you think it's the right response.
• Do they better evdience or do you have better explanations for the answers?

Homework 11/7/08

Period 1
1. Post Vocabulary sentences as comment on this blog entry.
2. answer questions #3, 4, 6 on pg. 34 AND 4,6,7 pg 3o EMAIL TO THEM ramirez.erendira@gmail.com

Period 3
1. Study for Vocabulary quiz
2. Read pg 31-33 answer questions 2,4,6 EMAIL TO THEM ramirez.erendira@gmail.com

Homework 11/6/08

Period 1
1. make outline for compare and contrast essay on Bradstreet and Sor Juana's poetry
2. study for Vocab Quiz

Period 3
1. Write 8 bullets on what we learned/discussed in class today. You will only get points for things that are content related. (we learned other, non-academic things, but keep your bullets academic)
2. Re-read the Bradstreet poem and be ready to discuss the theme.

Homework 11/5/08

Period 1
Comparison Chart on pg. 34
If you are having trouble understand the poems, read them out loud and listen to the rhyming

period 3
Read the packet, answer the question and fill out the chart on the back in pencil.

Homework 11/4/08

Period 1

• Write a 4-5 sentence response to the Play that we seen today and POST IT AS A COMMENT ON THIS BLOG.
• Read pg 29-33
• ** You will have a reading quiz tomorrow

Period 3

• Post vocabulary sentences on the blog.
• Write a 4-5 sentence response to the Play that we seen today and POST IT AS A COMMENT ON THIS BLOG.

Homework 11/3/08

Period 1

Read pg. 11-19 and take one page of notes
Post vocab sentences

Period 3

Read pg. 13-19 and take 3/4 page of notes