Homework

Tonight, you should complete the brainstorming activity page that was handed out in class. I need for you to identify a story that you'd like use for your personal narrative. Please describe (with detail) the exposition, climax, and resolution of the story. Be ready to share at the beginning of class tomorrow :)

This Weekend

Hello all!

I need for everyone to brainstorm for a personal narrative that we will be working on in class next week. Your personal narrative should be similar to the message in Waters of Gold: "Kindness comes with no price."

Remember that a personal narrative is a story that you'll come up with from events in your own life. Be thinking about a time in your life when kindness was shown to you, or when you displayed kindness.

Below you'll find the audio from the story. Listen to it if you were absent, or need to hear it again to think of a good topic for your personal narrative.

Waters of Gold Audio

If you were absent, please view the below document as it will help you brainstorm for your own for your personal narrative...

Brainstorm for your personal narrative


We will begin writing our first draft on Monday. Have a great weekend y'all!

Week Overview 9/3-9/6

Tuesday:
We will be learning about static and dynamic characters. We will also begin reading the Medicine Bag and making inferences about our characters.

Wednesday:
Continue reading The Medicine Bag, filling out our inference tables as we read.

Thursday
We will finish reading The Medicine Bag
ELAR classes: will complete a Dynamic vs. Static character chart.
Pre-AP classes: will write a 6+ sentence response in their Response to Literature section about the different characters in the story. They must identify whether the main characters are static or dynamic. They must include 3 characters at least and evidence from the text.

Friday
We will be learning a new topic (it's a secret!). To practice this new topic, we will listen to the folktale "Waters of Gold." Homework: complete the brainstorming hand out for your personal narrative if it was not finished in class.



It's going to be a great week! 

Alternate Extra Credit

I had spoken with a few of you in 7th period (Pre AP) who had lost their packet. Here is the topic for your essay: "Who impacted Ben Carson's life most?"

We had talked about an essay regarding writing in all classes but I feel this topic will be more appropriate since you read the book. Write a 1-2 page well developed essay. Make sure if you use any outside sources to make a note of where you got the information from on the last page of your paper. 

In order to receive full credit, you must turn this is by Tuesday. Thank you all!

8/30

Hello! 

Tomorrow we will be going over the test and making corrections. :)

Also, we will begin reading a story called "The Medicine Bag" and analyzing our main character Martin. We are going to find out if he is a static or dynamic character. We will talk more about what those terms mean tomorrow! Have a great night everyone!

Test Review

Hey everyone! So if you will click on the link below, you'll find the review for our test tomorrow. You can write your answers down, and then check them (the answers are on the last page of the document with explanations). I highly encourage you to test your knowledge using this review *it is very similar to the test!*


Have a great day everyone!

Click here >> Test Review!

TEST THURSDAY!

So there is a test on Thursday! We will be reviewing tomorrow. It will cover summary, inferences, and plot! There really isn't a way to study (nothing to memorize). The test will be an application of your skills. Like I said, we will review applying our skills tomorrow. Everyone have a restful evening :)