Freshman English
Welcome!
Our class goal for this year is to develop ourselves as readers and writers. We'll be learning about strategies to help each of us capitalize on our strengths and move beyond weaknesses in both reading and writing. Organization skills are another area of concern. I do my best to help students coordinate and organize their efforts and materials.
Students need to have a composition notebook and a binder. The composition notebook will be used as a reading journal and the binder for classwork, homework, handouts, vocabulary, and papers among other purposes.
I provide students with two hanging folders, one for in-class writing activities and works in progress and a second for finished pieces that are ready to be read aloud or published in our class magazine.
Also, please remember to read for at least 20 minutes a day and complete at minimum 3 journal entries a week.
Homework for Thursday, September 4
The basic idea for this assignment is to practice marking up a text. I don't care if you can understand the news stories. I do care about you understanding how to mark up text. Consequently, there are two parts to this assignment.
1. Mark up the news stories that I handed out in class.
2. Write about what you marked and why. Perhaps, you can add a thought or two about what happened to your understanding after you marked up the copy and reviewed what you chose to mark. See what happens.
Homework due Monday, September 8
1. Journal entries for SSR book.
2. The newspaper summary and work sheet.
Homework: Monday, Sept. 15
For anyone who didn't finish the current events homework over the weekend, please download the current events sheet (see below) and complete the exercise for class on Tuesday. Also, remember to read your SSR book and make a journal entry.
Homework: Thursday, Sept. 18
Poem essay #1: Write one double, spaced typed page about the poem "The Summer I Turned Sixteen." Remember to share the Google Document with me. My email address is fortier.david@gmail.com. Be sure to bring a printed copy of your essay to class tomorrow.
Bring your SSR book and Reading Response Journal to class with you tomorrow. See you then.
