Homework for week of 3/4

This is Mrs. Guimond!  I will be taking over for the next 3 weeks, so get ready!  Please contact me with any questions or concerns.  My email address is mvaughan@gorhamschools.org.

Monday: Read chapter 12 and annotate, keeping the guiding questions in mind.  See last week's blog for Part Three question. Bring one page of typed biography notes to class on Thursday (these can be an expansion of your thoughts from the free write), and an idea for an opening scene.
Here are the process questions in case you missed them last week:Biography Process questions

Tuesday: Read epilogue.  Annotate, keeping the guiding questions in mind.  Biography notes and idea for opening scene due Thursday.

Thursday: Review the expectations for the final assessment and come to class tomorrow with a comprehensive outline from which to brainstorm.  

Friday: Complete a draft of your narrative and have three copies, either in electronic or paper form, for your peer-editing group on Monday.

Final assessment overview and rubric: Final Assessment Butterflies

Homework for week of 2/25

Monday: Read chapter 9 of In the Time of the Butterflies, referring to guiding questions as you annotate:Part Three Guiding Questions Journals will be due at end of class on block day. Biography interviews and transcriptions are now due on block day.
Tuesday: Read chapter 10 of In the Time of the Butterflies, referring to guiding questions as you annotate. Biography interviews and transcriptions due on block day.
Block day: Read chapter 11 of In the Time of the Butterflies, referring to guiding questions as you annotate.
Friday: Read chapter 12 of In the Time of the Butterflies, referring to guiding questions as you annotate.

Homework for week of 2/11

We have one more week until vacation, so stay with us!
Biography work: Make sure you are scheduling your interviews. Remember that the reminder of your interviews should be completed and transcribed by Tuesday, February 23rd.

Monday: Due to the snow day, please complete Friday's assignment today: Read and annotate chapter 5 In the Time of the Butterflies. See the guiding questions for Part Two: Butterflies Part Two
Tuesday: Read and annotate chapter six.
Block day: Read and annotate chapter seven
Over vacation: Read and annotate chapter eight (end of Part Two). Complete interviews for biography project.

Homework for week of 2/4

Monday: If necessary, complete webquest.

Tuesday: Read chapters 1-2 of In the Time of the Butterflies. Complete annotations. Due block day.
Here are the guiding questions and narrative chart we suggest you use to guide your annotations:
Butterflies guiding questions chapter 1-5

Block day: Read chapters 3-4 of In the Time of the Butterflies. Complete annotations. Due Friday.

Friday: Read chapter 5 of In the Time of the Butterflies. Complete annotations. Due Monday.

In the Time of the Butterflies journals

Journal #1:
Look at the photos in class. Try to observe the sensory details in the picture and capture them for a reader who is not able to look at the picture. Then create a micro-story about the photo. Imagine what people live there. What might be happening inside? Outside? This should just be a glimpse into this world. Each entry should be about 250 words.  Try to think about vivid diction to convey sensory details.

Journal #2:
Think of an object that has some significance for you. It can be something you have saved over the years, a photograph, a Chinese fortune you got when you went to a birthday dinner with your favorite uncle or anything that has a story to tell.  Then, write the significance of that object in the voice of the object (yes, a persona poem! Woohoo!). In this poem, use specific diction to relay a tone. What story would that object tell? More importantly, what would this story reveal about you and your memories?
Be haunted and obsessed with word choice as you revise. Don't necessarily choose the first word that comes to mind (especially if that word is stuff or thing).

Journal #3
What is your definition of courage? Would you consider yourself a courageous person? Under what circumstances would you act on this courage. Be specific!

Journal #4:

How do the Mirabel sisters become heroes? Do you consider each sister equally heroic? In a double-entry journal, select one quote (not from quiz) for two of the sisters and analyze what this evidence illustrates about her heroism (or lack thereof). Evidence should be carefully selected and analysis should be complex and nuanced.

Welcome to Second Semester!

Can you believe it? I can't! Our work for this week wraps up first semester, sets some goals for second and then leaps into third quarter. I am so excited to have Mrs. Guimond, a student teacher from University of Southern Maine, with us for the spring semester. You can read her introduction letter here: Mrs. Guimond's introduction letter

 See below for specific assignments this week:

Monday: Make sure I have checked off your goal sheet for second semester and you have saved it somewhere you can find. Here is the goal sheet:second semester goal sheet
Your BIG work this week is to complete at least 30 minutes worth of interviews AND transcribe them. I'll check both the audio file and the transcription on block day.
Tuesday: Interview and transcription due on block day
Wednesday: Finish webquest Due Monday.
Find the link for the webquest:http://www.zunal.com/process.php?w=172951
Complete worksheet for webquest and submit to work space when completed: Butterflies webquest

Homework for week of 1/14

Your work this week is twofold:

1. To revise your essay when you get feedback and turn in by Friday, 1/18.
2. To prepare for the midterm.

This is fairly straight-forward. Please make sure you leave enough time for someone to review your portfolio in a timely manner. Unless I hear from you, I would like your outside reader to be a parent or relative. Let me know if this is an issue by this Friday, 1/18. See details for midterm below.