"A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." - from Madeleine L'Engle's Newberry Medal Acceptance Speech

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Overview of What's Due

Just a reminder, the following assignments are due soon:

Choose 3 out of 6 assignments from the list and post on blog. The 2-voice poem assignment given counts for 1 of these assignments, #6 on the list.
Due Monday, November 29.

Choose a social issue you care about that may turn into a good picture book; research and choose 2 of the most interesting articles on that 1 issue. Print out, read, and annotate articles. Finally, write a reading response on the articles. Include links to the sources on your blog.

Reading response due Friday, November 25.
Annotated sources due Monday, November 28.

3) Quiz on Tuesday, November 29 on all spelling rules, homophones, prefixes, suffixes, and roots, and parts of speech.
Study review sheet given in class which is also posted on this blog; see last post.



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