CHALLENGES ! CONTESTS ! BE A BETTER YOU !

First of all , if you are entering the PTA Reflections Contest, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME? I would have let you skip today's essay and given mad hot extra credit.

Secondly, we are just one short week away from NaNoWriMo ! If any of you are strong enough, brave enough, psychotic enough to go there, I'll go, too.


Finally, the Scholastic Writing Awards deadline is January 7th, and there's an open house in DC on Tuesday:

October 26th, Mindful Hands Gallery (3rd floor)
211 King St., Alexandria, VA 22314
Tuesday, October 26th
6:00 - 8:00 p.m

Click here for lab instructions, 10/21

Tonight's Homework: a news article

The link for the extra credit comic strip (dark and stormy night, mysterious stranger, the number three): click here.

Day Thirty, TEN-TWENTY-TWENTY-TEN

Today's Homework: A small grammar paper (click here AND here) concerning pronouns. Don't forget your science fair introductions, and please keep reading!

Today's Song: "PDA", Interpol

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about the science fair introduction and about the snake that killed the Airedale.

Day Twenty-NIne, 10/19

Today's Homework: A small grammar paper (click here AND here) concerning pronouns. Don't forget your science fair introductions, and please keep reading!

Today's Song: "Sunlight", Tune-Yards

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's peer editing and pronouns!

Click here for lab instructions, 10/18

Xtranormal

Day Twenty-Six, 10-15

Today's Homework: Gingerbread and Exploding Moment due Monday!

Today's Song: No Song, unless you count "Giga Pudding".

Today's Slides: None, as it was a quiet test day.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's novel test!

Day Twenty-Six, 10/14

Today's Homework: Novel Test tomorrow; Gingerbread and Exploding Moment due Monday!

Today's Song: "Blazing Arrow", Blackalicious

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's work on the vocabulary!

Day Twenty-Five, 10/13

EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!

We won't be going to the computer lab until Monday! So, tomorrow, in class, you will have time to a) Read, b) Plan your essay, or c) Finish Gingerbread.

Yipes!


Today's Homework: Exploding Moment Draft!

Today's Song: "Johnny Come Home", Fine Young Cannibals

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's novel discussion and the Exploding Moment Essay!

Day Twenty-Four, 10-12

Today's Homework: Finish the Gingerbread Project!

Today's Song: "Tell Me What Will It Be?", Javelin

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's work on the Gingerbread Project and the new Exploding Moment Essay!

Click on the video for lab instructions, 10/7

Xtranormal

Day Twenty-Three, 10/7

Today's Homework: NO HOMEWORK!

Today's Song: "In Ruins", Fol Chen

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's novel discussion and the new GINGERBREAD PROJECT!

Day Twenty-One, 10-5

Today's Homework: NO HOMEWORK!

Today's Song: "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth", Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's short story and the comments they received from peers for his or her second essay.

Click on the video for lab instructions, 9/29

My nerves shred asunder.
My hair is now whitening.
My keys lost--a blunder.
My panic is heightening.
The sky flashes blue;
The air rips in two.
Thunder's a wonder,
While lightning is frightening.

Day Sixteen, 9/28

Today's Homework: NO HOMEWORK!

Today's Song: "Trainwrecks", Weezer

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about their new essay draft and their novel reading schedule.

Day Fifteen, 9/27

Today's Homework: Vocabulary paper!

Today's Song: "To the Dogs or Whoever", Josh Ritter

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about conflict types, the first class novel, and the new vocabulary.

Day Fourteen, 9/24

Today's Homework: Please read your book! A new book is coming by Monday! And here is the new essay prompt!

Today's Song: "Looking Glass", by Little Dragon

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Ask your child about the first essay they wrote--and its final score--and about the impact of the Internet on language.

Click on this video for lab instructions, 9/23

Day Twelve, 9/22

Today's Homework: Grammar Page and Grammar Page.

Today's Song: "Maps", by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Here's to you, World Geo Student!)

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Ask your child about the comic strip summary they are making and about how to decide which verbs go with None, Some, Many, and All.