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.