Grade 7
On Monday, students will write round robin stories. Students should pay particular attention to indentation, vivid detail, capitalization, punctuation, and complete sentences. Students will participate in a speed edit on Tuesday. Students will rotate throughout the room editing various stories for the focus correction areas given on Monday. For the rest of the week, students will identify characteristics of well-written opinion essays, analyze the writers use of quotations, analyze the relationship of visuals and text, and write personal and critical responses.
Students will not have any work to complete outside of class.
*Please note that students may retake any test and/or redo any assignment if they are unsatisfied with their score. All submissions are due 3 days prior to the end of the marking period.
Grade 9
*Report to room 830 on Monday and Tuesday.
On Monday and Tuesday students will continue to compare and contrast the play to the film version. Venn diagrams are due on Wednesday. Students will take an open-book assessment on Romeo and Juliet on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Questions will require students to apply what they've learned and cite evidence from the text to support responses. Teacher will introduce Night on Friday.
