5th Marking Period Students: Arts Exploratory

Welcome 5th Marking Period Students!

Today, and every day in the lab, please check this blog site for details, the daily agenda, and writing advise or prompts.

Today's Agenda:
1. Introduction to the lab. Create a new folder for creative writing.
2. Use the wordspill exercise to write something new.
3. Type up any old work we've written so far in this class.

Please type up some of your previously written work. What we've done so far:

Poetry:

1. An ode
2. A limerick
3. A clerihew
4. A cinquain
5. The wordspill
6. Other poems

Fiction:

1. The "glove" story and the story prompt exercise
2. The genre story
3. Journal exercises that lead to a story
4. Other stories

NOTE: The lab is to be used for writing. Please avoid watching youtube or other non-class websites. It is likely you will fail this course if you spend too much (or any) time on these sites.

Homework: week of 3/12

Brent: Monday: All the vocab on page 821; Tuesday pg. 631  # 16-21;

All  vocab    on  822: Remember that all 8 recent assignments will be checked tomorrow (Friday).

Homework: Week of 3/5

Brent: Monday    page   684     1-6; Tuesday  page 688    15-25   odd ones only;
Coughlin: Students have an article that was published in the newspaper.  Read the article and use it to answer the questions on the last page.  Finish reading of The Watsons Go to Birmingham.

Homework is due Tuesday. 

Homework: Week of 2/27

Brent: Monday: page  680, #1-7; Tuesday: page 684   8-13;

Wednesday    homework is page 688   1-4  and 8-12  Thursday:  all the  vocab on page 818

 Also…..the 4  homeworks for this week will be checked tomorrow

Mr. Brent will also be checking students math composition notebooks tomorrow.

Homework: Week of 2/13

Brent: Monday   page 588,  1-7; Tuesday: page  588,  8-13

Coughlin: Begin reading: The Washingtons Go to Birmingham
Birmingham, 1963
Civil Rights Movement

Homework: Week of 2/6-2/11

Coughlin:  Revisiting the benchmark assessment. Use the TREE strategy to complete body paragraphs.
The assignment is due Tuesday, 2/7.
Brent: Monday:  page 536, #1-6, Tuesday: Page  509,  #18-26;  
Thursday page  544   #1-5; Wednesday:  page  575, #1-14 

Brenton: Complete p. 188 questions 4-13.  Start chapter 7 at the end of each section there are questions to complete.
Lavin: memorize the Preamble to the Constitution and review the vocab from the section on the Philadelphia Convention.


We the People...
WOLF: CHAPTER ONE, Questions 1-4; Test on Friday on Rocks and Minerals.  Monday pg.12 # 1-4, Tuesday, pg. 18 # 1-4, Wednesday, pg. 25 # 1-4.

CONTESTS:
--Art Majors or Artistic Students: Enter the Protect the Hood Poster Contest. Rules in front of room.
--Interested in writing and reading?: Join the Rochester Reader's Express Contest. Rules in front of room.

Posts for Study Hall: Week of 1/30-2/3

Brent: Monday 1/30:  page 526 #1-9; Tuesday    page  540    1-5; Wednesday: page:  526   11-19


Coughlin: Poetry unit. Theme: identity;  "Go home and write a page tonight.  Let that page come out of you, then it will be true"

Fusco: Read a chapter a night and work on study guide questions for The Face on the Milk Carton. An essay related to the protagonist's choices and consequences will be coming up.