. Monday, October 26: Finish working on found/shape poem. We will copy out on computer paper and color with colored pencils in class. Tuesday, October 27th: fill out tan worksheet writing 10 sentences with instructions using October by Robert Frost. Since it is raining, use the senses of smell and sound the most. You can simply stand at a window or in a car roll down a window and experience Nature on a rainy day. There is a definite scent of rain on wet fall leaves. Use ASSAP. Wednesday, October 28th: work on green seed poem. Another found poem with lines from your observations on the tan worksheet last night plus October by Robert Frost and my October poems. Your found poem is made up of incomplete sentences, colors, and sounds. We will finish this in class and color. Monday, November 2: Answer questions on Pumpkin Paragraph worksheet. write 10 complete sentences in pumpkin. Due Wed 4th. Wednesday, 4th: read in your book for 20 minutes. Find one spot that surprises, amuses, teaches you and jot down the page number on post it note. Thursday, November 5th: finish copying out October by Robert Frost in best handwriting and decorate it appropriately. Weekend: read twenty minutes Saturday and Sunday in your ssr book and do two post-it-notes of passages that you found interesting, surprising, sad, happy, or you learned something from and why. We will do the same thing in class, write about them briefly in our journals. This reading is separate from the reading you do for English A. Monday, 11/9/09 Go outside in Nature and describe how you feel. Indian Summer is when Mother Nature gives us the gift of warmer weather in late fall and then takes it back. She is an Indian giver. Use ASSAP in your paragraph as well as new colors and vocabulary. Tuesday, 11/10/09 Fill out worksheet on double entry journal system on 3 quotes in your SSR book. This is a take home quizlet. Use the gray worksheet with the format. Wednesday, 11/11/09 Make index cards for each new vocabulary word on the lavender sheet. Word and part of speech on one side and definition on other. See Handouts icon for words. Thursday, 11/12/09: Draw symbols for each new word on your index cards on the definition side. Add to scorn to your list: to scorn means to show contempt or anger and disgust about something or someone. Rogue also means a scoundrel and a scamp, a dishonest person, a thief. Friday the 13th: Do blue worksheet on "Nature and You in Late November." You'll need Frost's poems and my October. Monday, 16th: study index cards for a quizlet. Word bank, no spelling mistakes, fill in the blanks in the sentences. Tuesday, 11/17/09 Finish Ana's apartment and Gonzalo/Tio Juan's apartment. Start brainstorming your legend on worksheet. Wednesday, 11/17/09 Brainstorm legend ideas: how and why the hippo lost her polka dots and became a ballerina. She got plastic surgery and lost weight so she could fit into her tutu. Have fun with your ideas. Thursday, 11/18/09 Index cards checked and graded. Lists of words are under Hand-outs: Vocab for Calm Before the Storm and October and November. Continue brainstorm for legend. Monday, 11/23/09 No homework. We will finish journals in school. happy turkey. Tuesday, 11/24/09 There is a long list of owe me's on the board for Monday. Anyone who owes me work should try to get it done asap. I need to record the grades. Thank you. Monday, 11/30: Copy your favorite entry from your Colebrook journal on a separate piece of paper plus a colorful drawing. You may include a photo. Tuesday, 12/1: Finish your Colebrook journal by Friday. I will give you directions for the found-shape poem with your Nature's charms to do for the weekend. It will be a poster decorated with the things you collected glued on around it. I will tell you the exact measurements for the poster. It is not a big poster. The poster will be 12 by 18" made of tag board. This is the size and typed of poster board used for your science foldable project with Mrs. Fine. It is a good idea to buy the small packet at the store because you will need more of the posters for later on. Paste your found/shape poem on the poster and decorate around it with collection of nature charms, photos, and or colored drawings. You must have your name on the poster. This is due Monday, December 7, 2009. Wednesday, 12/2/09: Correct Silver Team letter. Quizlet on Friday. Notice 12 by 18" tag board. Thursday, 12/3/09 Study for the quizlet on Silver Team Letter 51 mistakes. Colebrook Journals due. Poster due Monday. Friday, 12/4/09 Poster: make it "wow" full of color and fun. Use magazine pictures, clip art if you need to plus photos and color pencil drawings. Make it neat and clean and clever. Put your found/shape poem in the middle and decorate around it with your nature collections, colored drawings, and photos. Monday, 12/7/09 Brainstorm on paper 4 characters from Seedfolks to write about and draw. This will become a storyboard. Tuesday, 12/8/09 Work on your legend. Make sure it has an interesting beginning, a middle full of action and surprises, and an ending that makes the reader want to read more. Wednesday, 12/9/09 Correct the Silver TEam letter. Quizlet on Friday. Thursday, 12/10/09 Study for quizlet on letter. Friday, 12/11/09 Continue to work on your legend. Picture your main character and show that the character changes during the legend. Start typing up first draft, double spaced #14. Actually start a drawing for your legend. Let it help you viualize the plot and the characters. Monday, 12/14: Work on the coloring and drawing of your Seedfolks storyboard. All due Friday for that. Tuesday, 12/15: Try to finish your storyboard. Color and draw too. make it neat and legible for me. Due Friday. Wednesday, 12/16: Work on your legend. due Tuesday, 12/22/09 first typed draft. Wednesday, 16th: Correct Silver Team letter. Quizlet on Friday. Finish storyboard due Friday 18th. Work on first draft of legend typed #14 Times New Roman double spaced due Tuesday 22nd.