Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Homework – Due Tues. 4/24/12 and Wed. 4/25/12

Homework – Due Tues. 4/24/12 and Wed. 4/25/12

1.) Focus Achieve – all work must be completed, including your tables that you created (showing which questions were missed, why, including a reflection) – worth 110 points.

2.) Lady or the Tiger Project
Review “The Lady or the Tiger”

I Illustration:
Create the scene that illustrates which comes from behind the unknown door: The lady or the tiger. Be sure your illustration resembles a reference to the architecture in that time period. No stick people!

RUBRIC for Illustration• 5 points – Colorful
• 20 points – Visuals are accurate according to the text.
• Total of 25 points for your illustration.

II Written Explanation:
Your 2-paragraph explanation Must address the following:

• What door does the princess’s lover open?

• Defend your prediction with textual evidence (w/ at least 3 text references).

RUBRIC for Explanation
• Your explanation must include two TYPED paragraphs ( close to ½ page – in length)

• 10 points – Introduction: include important writing elements (engaging beginning, background knowledge, transitional signals, and implied thesis statement).

• 15 points – 2nd paragraph explains who comes out of the door. Include FRIESS and cite examples from the text.

• Total of 25 points for your Explanation.

Please attach or incorporate Explanation to/in illustration. This assignment will NOT be accepted late.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

4-Day Weekend: NO HOMEWORK - enjoy and relax

Hi Students,

We are here. We are finally in the 4th Nine Weeks of learning. I am excited and I know you are.

I am especially excited because we are in our final week before FCAT. I am so proud of every student, and I can’t wait until you have your chance to apply your reading comprehension strategies and skills on this year’s FCAT 2.0.

Since there is NO Homework during this 4-day weekend, have fun and relax.
Next week, we will be using "Focus--Florida Achieves" interactive reading comprehension website to fine-tune and sharpen our reading comprehension skills. Beginning Monday you will have activities for homework each night. I will give you more details next week.

If you want to take a sneak peak at "Focus--Florida Achieves" SEE THE LINK LOCATED TO THE RIGHT or log on to

http://focus.florida-achieves.com/(S(1msvns45atdc2ib1rn3b1v45))/login.aspx

*Type in your FCAT Explorer I.D. and Password.


Enjoy your time off and I'll see you next week!