1.) Essay #5: My goal
All evidence due MONDAY! Make it your best work yet! Remember: we're using the MCAS scoring guide to evaluate this one, so smart kids will remember to compare their work to the scoring guide and make any necessary improvements before Monday.
2.) Conclusions Practice:
Please arrive Monday with yet another new conclusion for "American Dream?" This time your SIZZLE is... "connect to the reader's life, experience, or emotion." Remember: all quality conclusions...
- Restate the thesis in different words.
- Review the main points.
- Show Some Sizzle!!
3.) "I Pledge" Fall Exhibition
As explained in class today, our grade seven "I Pledge" Exhibition will take place this month. More details on this major assignment will be given early next week, but you should begin thinking this weekend about which one of your "I Pledge" books you would like to present at your exhibition.
Mr. Hurley's Ocean students will present on November 20, 2012.
Mrs. Smith's River students will present on November 21, 2012.
4.) Twenty-Minute Habit, Log
Enjoy this first weekend in November. I can smell the turkey already...
