6th graders - Don't forget that you have a quiz tomorrow and Wednesday on text structures and main idea.

Your homework (due tomorrow - A day and Wednesday - B day) is as follows:

•Find an article in a newspaper, magazine, or online resource.  It must be an article and not an advertisement!  Make sure it is appropriate!

•Read the article.

•On a separate piece of paper, identify the topic, the main idea, and supporting details in a web form, like the one below.

•Attach the article to your paper.

 

8th Grade - DO NOT FORGET TO BRING YOUR LITERATURE BOOK NEXT CLASS.  THIS WILL COUNT AS A GRADE!!!

Today, students were given an opportunity to work on missing assignments.  Some students took advantage of the additional extra time and will see at least a slight improvement on grades.  Others decided not to use the time and now have no more opportunities to make up their grades.  Please let this be a lesson for the second quarter; do your work on time and always turn it in!

2A - Your homework was to finish the chart and questions 4 and 7 on page 871 (the chart is the one that starts on page 865 under "Set a Purpose for Reading").  If you were working on make-up work, you need to do the same, but of course read the article first.
3A - You only needed to finish the assignment written above, in addition to page 877, question 4.
4A - We did not get very far, so you do not have homework for tonight!

The CGA results are in.  Over the next couple of days, I will put the scores into the gradebook.  In order to prevent grades being significantly altered (should a student score really low, for example), I am going to count the assessment out of 50 points, rather than 100.  In other words, if your child made a score of 70/100, for example, the grade book will show the score as 35/50.  The score remains the same, but the points influencing the gradebook are lessened.

Extra credit (the map of The Giver and hall passes) have not been entered in yet.  That is always the last piece of the grade that I complete.

6th Grade:  Your homework for tonight is to read (in your Literature book) pages R8-R13.  As you read, answer the "Practice and Apply" questions in the green boxes.  This is due next class.

8th Grade:  Tonight, you should make sure that your journal entries for each chapter (or your recycles for the previous chapters) are completed.  Make sure you turn your journals in next class so that you can get a grade for your work!  Also, the final assignment for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is posted below this.  The assignment is due next Tuesday and will most likely be on the second quarter's grades.

Choose one assignment from Column A and one from Column B
A	B
Create a “found poem” using lines and phrases from the novel that resonate about its ideas and themes.  First, go through the novel and make note of words, phrases, and sentences that might work with your poem.  Then, arrange those lines into a free verse poem.  Write a final copy of the poem and make it pretty!  Don’t forget a title!  Your poem must be at least a page long (if you mostly use single words), or ¾ a page (if you use longer lines).	Write an essay that answers the question, “are all people both good and evil?”  You might say that everyone is a little of both, everyone is both but one is stronger, everyone is all good, or everyone is all bad.  Use the novel as evidence for either side, making sure to explain your thoughts completely.
Draw a portrait of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that shows how they are the same person.  Your portrait should be drawn on white paper and then either colored or shaded to show features.  You are not drawing two different faces, but two merged together into one person.	Write an essay on the topic of scientific advancements.  This may require some outside research.  What is “too far” when it comes to science?  Think about modern advancements, such as cloning and genetic manipulation, artificial intelligence, organ transplants, and cryogenics.  Use the novel as potential evidence for your viewpoints.
Develop a conversation (a dialogue) that might take place between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, if they were two separate people.  What would each ask the other and how would each respond?  Think about the two different viewpoints and their personalities.	Write an essay that celebrates or criticizes the novella.  What are its strengths and weaknesses?  Where does the novella succeed?  Where is there something left to be desired?  Think about the presentations of themes, characters, symbols, setting, plot construction, and point of view.
Develop an original piece of art that showcases the novella.  In other words, how might the themes, plot, setting, etc. be shown in an artistic way?	Write an essay about the point of view of this novel.  Most of the novel is told from a third person limited point of view – we follow Mr. Utterson, but we don’t see his thoughts.  What is the effect on the reader of not knowing what is going on from Dr. Jekyll’s point of view (and never really from Mr. Hyde’s) until the end of the novel?