Below are the warmups for the week: 

English 7            Writer’s Notebook                       28 March 2016

Write for 5 minutes listing holidays of the year, and then describe your favorites and tell why.

Jan – New Year’s

Feb – Valentine’s Day

March – St. Patrick’s (?)

April – Easter

May – Memorial Day + my birthday

June – Last day of school!

July – 4^th of July

August –

September – Labor Day

October – Halloween

November – Veterans’ Day + Thanksgiving

December – Christmas +Hanukkah

3/29/16                      Language Sentence            English 7

Please fix this sentence:

That poem contained several examples of figurative language metaphor simile personification and symbol

Items in a series

Punctuation

3/30 Writers’ Notebook:  Write about collections.

Language Sentence            3/31/16             English 7

Fix this sentence:

The telling of the westing game is undertaken by a omniscient third person point of view the reader is able to see into all of the characters minds

Title

Article

Plural possessive

Runon

Punctuation

8th grade research information

Here is a sample 8th grade research paper.

https://k12.thoughtfullearning.com/studentmodels/mir-pushed-frontier-space

Today, you are responsible for the following activities:

Writer's notebook:

a. Spend 3 minutes writing what you know about your topic.

b. Next spend 3 minutes writing about what you want to know to make your paper interesting.

Use the topics in  parts a and b above to create an electronic gathering grid.  You can copy and past the grid below into a word document.

Main topic:	Source #1:	Source #2:	Source #3:	Source #4	Source #5	Source #6
Subtopic #1:
Subtopic #2:
Subtopic #3:
Subtopic #4:

Save this grid to your h drive in a folder labeled English 8.

Print one article to be used in class next week as we discuss notetaking and avoiding plagiarism.  Use the guidelines in the site below to help choose your article.

Here is a website that will help you evaluate your sources for reliability.

https://k12.thoughtfullearning.com/FAQ/how-can-students-judge-sources-internet