FRESHMAN ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT LOG
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Updated: 3/27/08

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Date Assn'd

Assignment

Due

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No.

Date Assn'd

2008

Due

Done

1
3/3
Voc #5 notebook and test
3/7
2
3/3
Poetry Packet: Personification Poem
3/4
3
3/3
Parent Signature on Forecast Sheet
3/5
4
3/5
Poetry Prep: Simile Poem
3/5
5
3/6
Poetry Prep: Metaphor Poem
3/6
6
3/7
Poetry Packet: Examples
3/7
7
3/7
Poetry Packet: Questad Poem
3/7
 
8
3/7
Read Picture Bride: Finish the book and be ready for a test
3/11
9
3/10
Take notes on Internment video
3/11
10
3/12
Simulation: WASL Reading Test
3/14
11
3/17
Color Poem - optional: You may type up at home and turn in 3/18
3/17
12
3/17
Voc #6 notebook and test
13
3/18

Picture Bride Writing Test: Third Period + Thinking Page

Fourth Period is doing the SAT Writing Test and it is due 3/19

3/20
14
3/18
Return Picture Bride
3/20
15
3/19
Poetry Packet: Lyrics Analysis
3/24
16
3/20
Poetry Packet: Poetry Book Rubric -
If you are going on vacation, your poetry book is due before you leave.
Sick? Have someone turn it in for you.
3/28
17
3/24
Voc. #7 Notebook and Test
3/26
18
3/24
Poetry Prep: Haiku
3/25
19
3/24

Type up poems at home and transfer them to a Flash or Jump drive
Use ClipArt for images so you don't have to site them
Photograph citation: Questad, Bev. Mom. 4 Sept. 2001.
Drawing credit: sign your name and print the date
Internet Image: Click here

3/25
20
3/27
Movie Notes
3/28
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30
 

 

No.

Date Assn'd

Assignment

Due

Done

1
2/26
Voc #4 Notebook and Test
3/2
2
2/26
Read PB: Chapters 22-23
2/27
3
2/26
Simile Poem
2/27
4
2/27
Read PB: Chapter 24
2/28
5
2/27
Questad Poem
2/28
6
2/27
PB Pop Quiz: Chapters 13-20
2/27
Remember to bring your copy of Picture Bride to school every day.
7
2/28
Haiku
2/28
 
8
2/28
Read PB: Chapters 25-26
3/1
9
3/1
First Poetry Portfolio Corrected: Fifth Period and Sixth Period
3/2
10
3/1
Second Poetry Portfolio Completed: Fifth Period and Sixth Period
3/2
11
3/1
Read PB: Chapters 27
3/2
12
3/2
Finish PB: Finish Picture Bride while you drink hot chocolate and munch over warm, buttered popcorn over the weekend
3/7
13
3/2
Test on PB [changed to 3/8]
3/7
14
3/5
Color Poem
3/6
15
3/6
Lyrics: Prepare at home on jump drive and type up in Tech using TPCASTT
3/8
16
3/7
Voc #5: Notebook and test
3/9
17
3/7
Blue forecasting sheet: show parent, make changes for next year as you see fit, have parent sign and submit tomorrow for credit.
3/8
18
3/8
PB test
3/8
19
3/12
DVD on Internment: Notes due
3/12
20
3/12
Picture Bride thesis organizer due during class time
3/13
21
3/12
Picture Bride book report: handwritten draft
3/14
22
3/12
Picture Bride book report: typed and due in Tech
3/15
23
3/12
Third Poetry Progress submitted with Second Poetry Progress [Second Poetry Portfolio Completed: Fifth Period and Sixth Period] submitted with corrections
3/19
24
3/15
Rhymes
3/16
25
3/15
Parody: due typed for Third Poetry Progress Portfolio: Example of format for Parody: remember to type/paste in the original in the left column of the chart
3/19
26
3/19
Voc #6 Notebook and Test
3/22
27
3/22
Second Free Choice Poem
3/22
28
3/23
Poetry Book
3/28
29.
3/26
Voc #7 Notebook and Test
3/29
30
3/26
Return Picture Bride
3/26

 

No.

Date Assn'd

Assignment

Due

Done

1
2/28
Complete half of your fantasy book
3/3
 
2
2/28
Fantasy Book Report: No report is credited unless the book is completed
3/
 
3
2/28
Parody: first draft during class, final typed in chart on Friday
3/3
 
4
2/28
Lyrics: homework
3/1
 
5
3/1
Poetry Progress #3
3/3
 
6
3/1
3 Quatrains: hand-out
3/1
 
7
3/2
Haiku: first draft during class, final typed in chart on Friday
3/3
 
8
3/3
3 Free Choice Poems: Poem Ideas
3/5
 
9
3/5
Voc #6: Notebook and Test
3/8
 
10

3/6

Poetry Book: Rubric

3/15

 
11
3/13
Reading and Writing WASL simulation tests
3/16
 
12
3/20
Voc #7: Notebook and Test
3/24
 
13
3/21
Snow White Thinking Page (excused if absent)
3/21
 
14
3/22
Fantasy thinking page
3/22
 
15
3/22
Fantasy book report: first draft handwritten in class
3/27
 
16
3/22
Fantasy book report: hand in final draft typed
3/29
 
17
3/27
Third Quarter Final: over Voc 1-7 and Poetic Devices
3/31
 
18
3/30
Read "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" in brown Lang of Lit textbook and do Bass worksheet
3/30
 
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APRIL STUDENT LOG

No.

Date Assn'd

Assignment

Due

Done

1

3/2

Book Report: Picture Bride or Animal Farm

3/30

 

2

3/7

Forecasting Sheet filled out and signed by parent

3/17

 

3

 3/7
Voc #5 test, worksheet and notebook
3/10
 

4

 3/8
Hyperbole and Alliteration worksheets
3/9
 

5

3/8
Poetry Folder: 2 pockets
3/10
 

6

3/9 
Metaphor worksheet and poem requirement
and Onomatopoeia worksheet
3/10
 

7

1st and 2nd period only
Animal Farm Packet
3/22
change from 3/21
 
8
3/14
Voc #6 curriculum words (no worksheet this week) and test
3/17
 
9
3/14
Poetry Devices Worksheet
3/15
 

10

 3/14
Sense Poem with picture from a magazine
3/15
 

12

3/15 
Simile Poem
3/15
 

11

3/15 
Bio Poem
3/15
 

13

3/15 
Haiku
3/16
 

14

3/16
Questad Poem
 3/17
 

15

 3/16
Lyrics: analysis, paragraph and presentation
 3/21
 

16

 3/17
Metaphor #2: brainstorm and then write a poem from the brainstorming isspiration. Just take 1-3 of your metaphors and expand on them
3/17
 

17

3/21 
Voc #7 notebook, worksheet and test
3/25
 

18

 3/21
Color Poem
 
 

19

 3/22
Finish your book (Picture Bride or Animal Farm) by midnight Thursday
3/25
 

20

 3/22
First Draft of Book Report
3/28
 

21

3/22
Final Draft of Book Report: You may type your report at home or in Tech on Tuesday
3/24
 

22

 3/22
Poetry Book: There is a no absence policy for this project. You may turn it in to Mrs. Schmidt on 3/31 for earlybird credit or you may turn it in 4/1 for regular credit. No late books are accepted. If you are planning a trip, get the book in before you leave. If you are absent for sickness, please have a parent contact me.
3/31 or 4/1 
 

23

 3/23
1. Rhyming: Couplet, triplet and quatrian on same topic - in to box
2. Sonnet - keep for class use on 3/24
3/23 
 

24

 3/24
Parody - example
 3/25
 

25

 3/25
  4 Free Choice Poems: Ideas
 3/29
 
26
3/29
Redo February Book Report: Optional - staple to back of orginal book report and rubric - not accepted without that
4/13
 
27
3/28
Voc #8 notebook and test
 3/30
 
   
Poem Contest: submit two copies of your best poem to me. Include your name
   

  Turn in log on 4/1/2005  

April 2005 Log