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Your homework tonight is the current events booklet on the Olympic torch. All pages should be completed except the last one. Make sure you choose three separate visual images to write a phrase about and then draw the image you imagined as you read that phrase. You may need to read the article more than once.
The homework due for Thursday is a re-write of the “Really Bad Paragraph.” Please redo it with more powerful descriptive language, a hook, and replacement sentences for the weak writing.
Remember this is a RESPECT assembly so no hats and no need for applause after performances.
Today we looked at a Remembrance Day video and posted messages to the troops. You do not need to use your last name, just your first and you can use my email address at this site. (val.sawyer@sd72.bc.ca)
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=feature/vetweek/postpeace/postsend
and then clicking on “The Canadian Forces Message Board,” just go directly to the Department of National Defence web link at:
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/Commun/message/index-eng.asp
Thanks for noticing Cole that the due date is wrong. Most of you have handed in the assignment but if you still haven’t please get it in as soon as possible. The right date was LAST Friday.
Your final copies are due on Friday, November 6, 2009.
No homework for the weekend but we have two writing projects on the go.
Remember the rough draft of your Ferry Tale is due and we are going to work on the end of the Radio Quadrant assignment on Monday. Have fun and be careful trick-or-treating!
Your Descriptive to Dull Writing Assignment is due tomorrow.
7-3
Larry’s Surprise
Simile Showdown Tomorrow!
Have an amazing original simile ready to share with the class!
7-4’s..
You are one class behind and will do this tomorrow!
No homework tonight but a lot of people need to hand their H1N1 booklets back in after using them for group work. Lots were handed in without names so please check the “No Name No Credit” Bin.