Keeping up!

Many of you are feeling overwhelmed this week with attending 3 funerals and the amount of work that has to be done before the end of the quarter (Friday). Your biography project is still due on Thursday unless you and I have already agreed upon another arrangement. Please get it done as soon as possible. We will be in the computer lab today and tomorrow.

If you are still missing work for me, please work on that as well. I want all missing work turned in Friday and it will take precedence over grading the biography projects this weekend. Your missing work must be in by the end of the quarter or your zeros will become permanent.

Friday will be SSR--and we will be doing a reading strategy with the book you are reading.
Bring your book of choice and your composition books to class.

Next week I will be introducing Writer's Workshop to you. Please bring a folder and your composition books to class.

Journal Topics
If you are missing journal topics here is a list of recent ones.

Topics below were collected on 9/18
Journals
9/1 Describe a time you were wrongly accused.
9/9 Will I ever be perfect? Why or why not?
9/15 (1st hour, 6th hour, and 7th hour) What is the difference between faith and belief?
9/16 What does it mean to be independent? How is it different than dependence?
9/17 Who are the people in the "We the people?" (all except 7th hour)

SSR
9/10 (5th hour only) SSR
9/18 Reflection on something from your book that interests you or is related to your life.

Topics below will be collected 10/16
Journals
9/23 Is soda becoming immoral? Why or why not? (all except 7th hour)
9/29 Create a definition for the term "lap potato."  Write a short story using the term.

SSR
9/24 Describe the theme of your book and give examples (7th hour only).
10/2  Describe the theme of your book and give examples, explain and evaluate (hours 1 through 6)
10/2 Freewrite on your book (7th hour only).
10/9 Freewrite on a topic of choice.
10/16 Somebody Wanted But So