You will get four hours in school this week for typing the rough draft, revising with peers, and finishing the good copy.
Travelogue or Comparison:
- you will have four hours between Monday and Wednesday in the computer lab for this assignment
- rough draft must be completed before or during Wednesday class, ready for peer editing
- due Thursday, 12/19
- read, from memory, without a paper in your hands, in Thursday's class
- you will have four hours between Monday and Wednesday in the computer lab for this assignment
- rough draft must be completed before or during Wednesday class, ready for peer editing
- due Thursday, 12/19
- read, from memory, without a paper in your hands, in Thursday's class
- printed before class, Thursday
- emailed to Mr. S. before class, Thursday (I have to check for plagiarism), as an attachment
- between 150 and 250 words
- in sentences and paragraphs
- your name and a title
- format is Times New Roman 12, black, double-spaced
Readings before January 6, 2014:
- you can probably finish reading all of them this week
- it is important to read these so that you are ready to write your unit assignment before the exam break mid-January
Instructions
- Language and Writing 7, pp. 96-97
- Working Together Magazine, p. 45
Reports
- Language and Writing 7, pp. 104-105
Explanations
- Language and Writing 7, pp. 112-113
Readings before January 6, 2014:
- you can probably finish reading all of them this week
- it is important to read these so that you are ready to write your unit assignment before the exam break mid-January
Instructions
- Language and Writing 7, pp. 96-97
- Working Together Magazine, p. 45
Reports
- Language and Writing 7, pp. 104-105
- Working Together Magazine, pp. 6, 20-23
- Mystery and Wonder Magazine, pp. 25-27, 29-31, 39-42
- Language and Writing 7, pp. 112-113
- Working Together Magazine, p. 7
- Mystery and Wonder Magazine, pp. 6, 7, 44
- Working Together Anthology, pp. 8-10, 101-104
- Working Together Anthology, pp. 8-10, 101-104
Non-Fiction/Descriptive Writing Unit Assignment
- not due until January 16, 2014; however, that is less than two weeks after we return from holidays
- it will be a choice of one of these styles: instructions, report, explanations
- this will be an audio-visual presentation, so what you can do on break is choose and learn how to use an a/v medium of your choice that we can present at school (Prezzi, Powerpoint, video-editing program...)
- more details to follow, including length, etc.
