HW Due Tues. 10/31; Other Due Dates Below

Due tomorrow: Complete reading and annotating the chapter, "The Ghost Soldiers" - focus your annotation on verisimilitude - a literary device in which the author blends the truth and fiction, or reality and fantasy.
We will be writing a claim/counterclaim argument essay in class Monday and Tuesday of next week. You will only be able to use your annotated book and an outline. Take good notes and make thorough annotations about VERISIMILITUDE.

Reminders:

• You need your own copy of Night. See "required texts" list to purchase the correct version on Amazon.com. You must bring in your own copy next Wed., Nov. 8.
• Vocabulary.com assignment: Contra and Counter due Friday, Nov. 3.
• IRR Book #2 due Mon. 11/6. Book titles will be recorded. Pick a text that is of interest to you. You will use the Choice Board and choose a response that is different from the first one you completed. If you need a book, visit the library, a bookstore, or our classroom library.

Narrative Nonfiction (The Things I Carry Project) Scoring Rubric and Self-Assessment/Reflection

You must be signed into your WJPS email to view and print this rubric and self-assessment/reflection.
RUBRIC

Please refer to this rubric as you continue to revise and edit your project.
Use this rubric as a point of reference as you continue to peer review another person's narrative.
Print this rubric and complete the self-assessment and reflection by the due date, Nov. 10 (Friday). It must be turned in with your printed story, and all drafts/organizers you worked on leading up to the final piece.

HW Due Fri. 10/27

IRR #1 due.

Vocab.com assignment: Promises, Promises due.

The Things I Carry project: Draft must be shared with at least one other classmate. Draft should match Organizer.

HW Due Thurs. 10/26

Draft The Things I Carry chapter, your own story in Tim O'Brien's style.
You will share you draft with at least one other class member tomorrow, and peer review.

Due Friday: Vocab.com "Promises, Promises" and IRR #1 *shared and printed*

The Things I Carry Project: Classwork (10/24), Homework (10/25)

Make a copy of this document: TTIC ORGANIZER. Follow directions on the document!

Due Tomorrow (10/25): Complete STEPS 1-3 by tomorrow (start of class).
Sharing the document and titling it correctly (STEP 1): 1 Homework grade
Completing Organizer STEPS 2-3: 1 Classwork grade

Due Friday (10/27): IRR #1, Vocab.com #4.

HW Due Tues. 10/24

Due Tomorrow (10/24):

• Choose a chapter on which to base your personal narrative, "The Things I Carry"
• Make an outline of your story (timeline or points) - to show order in which you will tell your story and the details you will include. Remember, your story has to not only show what you carry (or carried) but how it affected (or affects) you.

Due Friday (10/27):

• Read and annotate TTTC chapters, "Notes" and "In the Field"
• Vocab.com #4: Promises, Promises.
• IRR #1: Follow Directions! See assignment choice board and rubric. Must be printed and shared via Google Drive by Friday 8 AM.

HW Due Fri. 10/20

Vocab.com Assignment #3 due at 8 AM. Late work will not be accepted. Must be completed 100%.

Free write for "The Things I Carry Project" should be completed, on loose leaf.

IRR #1 due Oct. 27.

HW Due Thurs. 10/19

Read and annotate chapters: "Stockings", "Church", "The Man I Killed", "Ambush", "Style".

Fri: Vocab.com Assignment #3 due.

HW Due Tues. 10/17

Read and annotate the entire chapter: "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong".

Due Friday: Vocab.com assignment #3
IRR #1 Due Oct. 27
Buy: Night

HW Due Friday 10/13

Vocabulary.com Assignment #2 due at 8 AM. Late assignments do not get credit. You must complete the activity 100%.

Independent Reading Response #1 due Oct. 27. Please review choice board options and directions, and refer to rubric.
You all got printed copies. Links are on the top menu of the blog.

HW Due Thurs. 10/12

Read TTTC through the end of the chapter "How To Tell a True War Story".

Vocabulary.com Assignment #2 due Friday (field day).

HW Due Wed. 10/11

Due Tomorrow 10/11 -Complete Stations Round #2. You must submit an annotated article and completed classwork at the start of the period.

Complete reading TTTC chapter, "On The Rainy River". May be entrance slip tomorrow...

Due Friday 10/13 at 8AM - Vocab.com assignment #2 TTTC Vocab Part 2

Vocabulary.com Assignment #2 due Fri. 10/13

"The Things They Carried Vocabulary from Part 2" Quiz -100% completion - due Friday, Oct. 13 at 8AM.

HW Due Fri. 10/6

Complete draft and/or classwork for Station #1.

Vocabulary.com assignment: Mood Words due.

Read "On the Rainy River".

Due Friday Oct. 6; Due Tues. Oct. 10

Due Friday: Vocabulary.com activity - 100 Mood Words.
Due Tuesday: Finish reading and annotating the chapter, "On the Rainy River" in TTTC.

HW Due Tomorrow; VOCABULARY.COM 2nd Notice: Sign up. Homework assigned due every Friday.

HW Due Tomorrow (Tuesday Oct. 3)
Period 3 & 4: Read The Things They Carried through the end of the chapter "Spin". Be prepared to speak about and/or write about what you have read.

VOCABULARY.COM
At this point, you should all be signed up for Vocabulary.com. As of now, only 2 students in period 4 and 1 in period 2 are signed up.
Starting this week, you will have a vocabulary practice set due each Friday. These will count as homework. You must sign up to be able to do these assignments.
Again, here is the sign-up info:
We will be using Vocabulary.com this year. Please sign up using the appropriate Class Code for your period of English:
Period 3: http://vocab.com/join/1QPNAW4
Period 4: http://vocab.com/join/3TYY3Z9

The "Mood Words" activity is due anytime before 8 AM on Friday.
"The Things They Carried Part 1" vocabulary activity is ongoing and is closed on Monday Oct. 9.
The next vocab set will begin soon after.