Speak Reading Assignment for 9/30/10

Read pages 120-137.  Object projects due Friday.

Speak Reading Assignment for 9/28/10

Please read pages 95-118 (up to "Picasso").

Speak Reading Assignment for 9/27/10

Please complete "Third Marking Period" (up through page 92).

Journal # 10: Write a poem about your object.

Write a poem of two or more stanzas of at least five lines each about your object.  If you're stuck, look back at your previous writings and choose your favorite chunks of your writing and arrange them on a page.

Speak Reading Assignment for 9/23

Read to page 77 in Speak, up to "Coloring Outside the Lines."  Be prepared for a reading check tomorrow.

Journal #9: A "Showing" Paragraph About Your Object

First, write a "Telling" sentence about your object.  Then turn your sentence into a "Showing" paragraph.

Journal #8: "Showing" Paragraph

From the list of "telling" sentences you received in class, choose one and turn it into a "showing" paragraph in your journal.

If you don't have your list with you, here a couple you can choose from:
School lunches are unbelievably bad.
It was a great game.
School is so boring.
The old man is lonely.

Speak Reading Assignment for 9/21/10

Read Speak to page 65 (up to "Peeled and Cored").

Speak Reading Assignment for 9/20/10

Finish "First Marking Period."

Journal #7: Perspective of Someone Using Your Object

Write two paragraph from the perspective of someone utilizing (using) your object.  Use lots of details.
                                                                                    

Object Project-Due October 1

Now that you have been doing some writing about your object, I want you to take your ideas and turn your project into a piece of art that has no words, but expresses something meaningful. It should express something about you, life in general, or society. You can make a sculpture, a drawing, a collage, a painting, a film, or any other form of artistic expression that you come up with. R-read your writing to get some inspiration and perspective. You have two weeks to do this project, so i am expecting to see two weeks worth of effort.

I will grade you on the following:

1. Effort and time put into the piece.
2. No words used in the piece.
3. The piece expresses something meaningful about your, life, or society.
4. The object you assigned is either the subject of the piece, or a significant element in the piece.
5. Your piece of art is original and a product of YOUR OWN creative expression.
6. Piece is completed and presented in class on October 1.

Speak Reading Assignment for 9/16/10

Speak pages 20-30 for tomorrow, Friday.  Also, remember that final drafts of Courage Essay are due by 3:45 in paper form.

Journal #6: Grade Your Paper on the 6-Traits Rubric

Re-read your Courage Essay before you hand it in on Friday.  Look at your 6-Traits Rubric for Ideas and Organization.  What score do you think your essay would get for Ideas and Organization, and WHY?  Also, what would you have to do to get your score up to the next level?  (One 8-sentence paragraph worth 5 points.)

Speak Reading Assignment for 9/13/10

Please read pages 13 through 20.

Journal #4: A Day in the Life of Your Object

Pretend you are your object.  What are you doing and/or what is happening to you?  What are you feeling like?  Let your object take on the human feelings and emotions that you give it—also known as personification.  So, personify your object.   Two 8-sentence paragraphs worth 10 points.

Friday, 9/10 Reading Assignment for Speak

Read Speak through the Chapter entitled "Sanctuary"  (page 12).  If you missed class today, you need to choose an "object" out of the Nuth's classroom globe, tape it to the inside of your journal, and be prepared to take a month-long journey.  :)

Journal #3: Letter to Nuth (for 9/2/10)

In 2-3 paragraphs (8-sentence paragraphs), write a letter to Ms. Nuth in your journal that focuses on the following:
- How do you feel about reading and writing?  Be honest.
- Explain why you feel the way you do.
- Discuss your personal history with reading and writing.  What can you remember about reading and writing during your childhood?
- What are your favorite and least favorite things to read and write?

Journal #2 - Courage Paragraph

Write an 8-sentence paragraph describing your definition of courage.