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Monday, March 30, 2015

March 30th (A) and 31st (B)

Journal #52


Goals for 4 quarter; come up with at least 3 and write them in FULL SENTENCES!

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

March 25th (A) and 26th (B)

Journal #51:
Pick 3 terms you don’t know and find the definition!
Quick Review with Your Notes/ Neighbors!


—Tone
—Point Of View (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
—Plot elements (exposition, climax, resolution, etc.)
—Irony (verbal, dramatic, situational)
—Indirect/ Direct characterization

—Alliteration
Foil character
Analogy
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Cliché
Pun
Idiom 

Monday, March 23, 2015

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

March 17th (A) and 18th (B)

No journal/silent reading today. 

Went over end of the quarter assignments/what has already been put into the gradebook vs. what WILL be in the gradebook by the end of the quarter.

WROTE ESSAY! 


Friday, March 13, 2015

March 13th (A) and 16th (B)

Journal #50- JOURNALS DUE TODAY!

1) To use a quote from a source as an authority or voice of relevance is called:
a)Plagiarizing
b)Proving
c)Citing
d)Referring

2) The heading of my paper includes____ in this order:
a)name, date, class, teacher
b)Teacher, class, date, name
c)Name, teacher, class, date
d)Class, name, date, teacher

3) A parenthetical citation is:
a)When you cite an original source within a document
b)When you use parenthesis around names and dates
c)When you quote a source and put it in parenthesis

d)When you add missing information to a text using parenthesis 

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

March 11th (A) and 12th (B)

Journal #49:

1) A works cited page is:
a)The first page of the paper
b)The last page of the paper
c)Found under the title page
d)Found only in 10 page papers

2) A list of the places information was borrowed from and used in a paper is called:
a)MLA Formatting
b)A Works Cited page
c)Internal documentation
d)Quotations and summaries

3) Articles, websites, and books, where information is used for writing a paper, are called:
a)Quotations
b)Listings
c)References

d)Sources 

Monday, March 9, 2015

March 9th (A) and 10th (B)

Journal #48 (corresponds to the middle square in your Pearl packet):

◦Find examples which show how each of these “themes” (you’ll have to fix them) is dealt with in the novel:
–Greed
–Natural world (nature vs. nurture; survival of the fittest)
–Dignity 

Thursday, March 5, 2015

March 5th (A) and 6th (B)

Journal #47:
—To prepare for our trip to the library today, brainstorm a list of different online sources (where you can go to find quotes) that are available to you down in the library.