English 9:  Feel free to copy and paste the grid below into a Word document.  The skeleton of this grid will be due on Monday.

Presidential Candidate Research Gathering Grid

Research sites: (suggestions below)	http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/your-guide-to-the-2016-presidential-candidates/article/2564959
Gun control
Immigration
Climate change
Source of funding
Health care stand
Income tax
Research question:

English 9:  Pick your presidential candidate for a research paper.  See the list and details on the following website:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/your-guide-to-the-2016-presidential-candidates/article/2564959

First create a question that is researchable regarding your candidate.  Then create a gathering grid of information where you can store links to your resources.  Use Word to insert a table.

Check out the post on this website about killing off characters in your writing.  George RR Martin approved!

http://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/kill-a-character/

Writer's Notebooks are due this week!  See the list below for topics you should have written about before collection.

English 9:
9/30 Cloning plus story details
10/5 Wilson quote
10/7 Real monsters
10/14 Political process
10/19 Make a life; make a living
10/21 Life in 1948 in SRF
10/26 Strangest animal story
11/2 Creativity or Halloween or Nanowrimo
11/4 Jordan quote or choice from planner

English 8:
10/5 What does it mean to be a hero?
10/7 Halloween
10/14 Discussion questions on The Outsiders
10/19 Churchill quote
10/21 Advantages and disadvantages to living in Tulsa, OK in 1967
10/26 Story starter from literacyshed.com
11/2 Creativity and building a character questions
11/4 Jordan quote

English 7:
10/5 How to stop a bully
10/7 Disciplinary actions at SRF
10/14 Something you can make in the kitchen
10/19 "Mistatim"
10/21 Advantages and disadvantages to life on an Alaskan island like Cole
10/26 Literacy Shed starters
10/28 If you could be any animal
10/29 Poem response
11/2 Halloween
11/4 Jordan quote or any from your planner - respond

Links for ideas on starting your story for NANOWRIMO participants:

http://www.inkitt.com/blog/how-to-find-the-first-sentence-for-your-story/

First line generator

Some math for figuring out how to predict a successful word count:

Multiply the words you type in 10 minutes by the number of 10 minute blocks you will write in a day.  EX:  If you plan to write for 20 minutes, multiply by 2, 3 for 30 minutes.

Next multiply that number by the number of days you plan to write in November.  Just week days?  21.  All days?  30.  Haven't started yet?  26.  And hurry - that counts today!

Date	Title	Pages	Summary or Excuse
Mon  5/18	Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult	1-40	This book is about Jenna, who is 13.  Her mother has been missing for the last 10 years and her father is in a coma because of the reason her mom is missing.  Jenna lives with her grandmother who does not want to talk about her mom.  So Jenna is acting like a private investigator to find her mom.
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri

Reading Login Sheet

Name:__H Scott_______________________

English 8 Literature Circle choices:

Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

English 7

Writer's Notebook: 

What is intriguing about the way Sam has created his own life in My Side of the Mountain?  Would you be interested in trying out this way of life?  Why or why not?

English 9 activities at a glance for the week of 5/4-5/8:

Monday - Julius Caesar
Tuesday - To Kill a Mockingbird familiarization
Wed - National Players are coming to present on "Speak the Speech: Decoding Shakespeare - period 4
Thurs - Field Trip
Fri - Reading log