Have A Wonderful Vacation!

Be Ready For Culture Day. Don't Forget Food AND A List Of Ingredients. Mrs. Jaggers CORE Enrichment, Make Sure You Have Whatever You Need!

No Homework over the break. Come back with pencils, tissues, excitement and enthusiasm. Enjoy the time away from school. I'll miss you!

Enjoy Your Weekend! I'll Be Correcting Finals!

Final Tomorrow And Typed Open Response Due. See Yesterday's Post For More Specifics!

Typed Open Response Due This Friday, December 19th. Final This Friday, December 19th.

Respond to the following question.

Although the Cratchit family does not have much money, how and why can they be considered a wealthy family? Use specific evidence from the novel to support your answer.

12 font
Double-spaced
Type name and date at the top of the paper
You DO NOT have to type the question on the paper but please use all the conventions you have been taught this year.

40% Strong opening and closing sentences. (no talking sentences)
40% Strong and specific evidence to support your answer. DETAILS
20% Conventions (spelling,punctuation,capitalization,INDENTATION).

If you need a printer, PLEASE type in school and print here. Do not email me this open response, please.

Type Your Tradition Tonight. Make Sure The Margins Allow The Paragraph(s) To Fit Inside The Hat Which Should Be Colored In AND Decorated And Cut Out! Write Your Name On The Back Of The Hat. Actively Study For Final On Friday, December 19th.

Use 12 Font For Traditions.

READ BELOW!

HOMEWORK

1. Type tradition BUT...... Do Not Do Hat ,YET.

2. Fix any sheets from "A Christmas Carol" that need to be corrected.

3. Have test signed.

4. Actively study sequencing, figurative language, and know characters for Final on Friday, December 19, 2014.

5. Complete questions Stave Three Questions: First Half and Second Half.

Fix Mistakes On Tests And Have Signed. Make Sure Figurative Language Is Done According To Yesterday's Blog And Today's Clarification, Start Brainstorming A Tradition In Vocabulary Notebook.

Complete "More Problem Pairs" AND Type And Illustrate The Figurative Language Assigned In ELA Today. Read Below!

You only need to put your name on the back of the figurative language homework, do not forget the page number (p.  ) and don't put the word simile, metaphor, etc on the paper. Just the quotation, and the page number. Copy exactly as printed in the book.

Great Job Today. You All Looked Beautiful. Homework Due Tomorrow.

After listening to Staves Four and Five and seeing the performance today completing "Check for Understanding" should be pretty easy.

See you tomorrow!

Tomorrow "A Christmas Carol" Field Trip. Please Read Below.

Tomorrow is our field trip. You will receive extra points if you get dressed-up. You do not have to buy anything or go shopping; just look nice.

Listen to Staves 4 and 5 and complete Check for Understanding Staves 4 and 5. Just do the front. Homework is due on Thursday, December 11, 2014.

See you tomorrow!

Homework Below!

1. Complete Quiz Time! Section 2: "The First of the Three Spirits" and answer in complete sentences.

2. Actively study the 23 vocabulary words for the test on Monday, December 8, 2014.

3. Make sure you know all the characters from Stave One. Do you understand the dialogue?

4. Check the Spark Notes.

Homework Below!

Please finish listening to and reading Stave Two.

Answer the questions in complete sentences. Identify 6 places the Ghost of Christmas Past took Scrooge and explain what he was supposed to learn from each scene.

Make sure you are very clear about the six different scenes and can explain very clearly what Scrooge was expected to learn.

Bring in $$$$$ for Adopt-a-Family.

Dress up for "A Christmas Carol" and you earn 5 points!

BRING YOUR BOOK TO SCHOOL.

Homework Below!

Don't forget money for the Book Fair.

1. Finish answering the Quiz Time questions for Stave One, Part One and Part Two.

2. Study ALL of your vocabulary words for test on Monday, December 9th.

3. Listen to Stave Two if you have a chance.

4. Extra points next week if you dress up to see the play "A Christmas Carol."

Homework Below!

1. Finish reading Stave One of A Christmas Carol.

2. Answer Quiz Time questions 1-6 for Part One: Before Marley's Visit.

3. Actively study the first 10 vocabulary words we reviewed in class today.

DON'T GET FRUSTRATED. USE THE SPARK NOTES LINK AND THE AUDIO LINK ON THE BLOG TO HELP YOU.


DON'T FORGET MONEY FOR THE BOOK FAIR AND ADOPT-A-FAMILY!!!!!!

Read The First Ten Pages Of "A Christmas Carol" Slowly AND Write One Simile, One Metaphor, One Personification And One Idiom In Grammar And Mechanics Notebook.

Have your final signed and remember your book tomorrow.