Language Arts for Nov. 1-8,2010

Language Arts for November 1-8,2010/6-1/LaBarbera

Homework:
1. Due Nov. 8---Reading response. Compare the setting of the novel you are currently reading with where you live. Compare city/rural/suburban/other settings with Oak Park.
Compare transportation and communication. Answer this question: How does the setting of the story affect the action ? If the story took place in Oak Park, how would the characters react?

2. Study for November 3 Compound Sentence Test. Students will be given a paragraph to revise . They will combine related sentences.
Example: They couldn't think of anything better to do. They decided to bake cookies.
They couldn't think of anything better to do, so they baked cookies .
(Use commas and conjunctions.)

3. Work on 3 HOOT projects due November 12. A rubric for excellence will be distributed in class. Projects will be presented in cooperative groups.
4. The novel exam on HOOT is scheduled for November 15, but students who have completed the book may take the test in class this week .

Up and Coming:
---New writing projects. Start pre-writing ( thinking, listing, webbing, clustering ideas.).....
Short adventure story, travel brochure, persuasive composition writing.
--Grammar---prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, subject/predicate.
--Vocabulary----Study HOOT vocabulary, words with suffix "less", as in motionless, helpless. We will cover Grammar and Writing text page 670 and 671.