Absent last class?
Turn in your stamp sheet. We have
reached 15 total stamps. See class
copy on the back wall for
assignments. This stamp sheet check is
worth two daily grades!
OCTOBER 13TH 2015
Grammar Assessment of Knowledge
While you’re testing…
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Your phone should not
be on you
Your mind should be
focused on your test
and doing your best!
After you finish testing…
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Please place your test
on the front desk
While you wait for
others to finish, quietly
organize your notebook
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(page numbers, titles,
dates, complete past
incomplete assignments,
etc.)
Response Notebook Rubric
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ToC complete/accurate (5 points)
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All right sides complete (5 points)
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All pages dated (5 points)
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All pages numbered (5 points)
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All pages titled (5 points)
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Three relevant left sides (15 points)
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Assignment handouts attached (5 points) ________
Graded right side (5 points)
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Check out copies
Why bother with To Kill A
Mockingbird?
Disclaimer: this book will be boring, it will be useless to you, if you take that kind of an attitude into reading it.
What kind of “work” can I expect from
this unit?
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Reasonable reading homework
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will carry over to the Thanksgiving Break as well
Reasonable reading check quizzes
Reasonable questions to help you keep up with your
reading
Vocabulary tests before the end of the book
Where I Am From
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Part One: Prewriting: The House that Built Me
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Turn to your next clean right
sided page. This should have an
ODD page number.
Today you will need to spend time writing about the one place you have lived that most
represents Where You Are From; this is the place you would name if someone asked you
“where are you from?” If you have lived in a number of houses, choose the one that you
remember the most. Spend some time writing about and remembering this place. Focus
on this place in your journal writing—continuously write about this place for at least ten
minutes.
Try to capture the sights, smells, sounds (Imagery!)—the overall feeling (mood!) of this
home in your writing. Imagine you are writing this description for someone who has never
seen this house/neighborhood.
What does this place mean to you now? What did it mean to you then? What memories
do you have of this house? What people are associated with this place? What roles did
they play in your life? Then? Now? What do you remember most about your
surroundings? What do you remember least (things you wish you could remember)? What
emotion did you feel most often there? Where did you play inside the house? Did you
spend a lot of time alone? How did you pass the time? What did you think about? What
were your hopes, fears, etc.? What was your favorite place inside/outside the house?
Minimum 15 sentences.
The House That Built Me
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I know they say you cant go home again.
I just had to come back one last time.
Ma'am I know you don't know me from Adam.
But these handprints on the front steps are mine.
And up those stairs, in that little back bedroom
is where I did my homework and I learned to play
guitar.
And I bet you didn't know under that live oak
my favorite dog is buried in the yard.
I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself
if I could just come in I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.
Mama cut out pictures of houses for years.
From 'Better Homes and Garden' magazines.
Plans were drawn, concrete poured,
and nail by nail and board by board
Daddy gave life to mama's dream.
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I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself.
If I could just come in I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.
You leave home, you move on and you do the best
you can.
I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.
I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself.
If I could walk around I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.
-Miranda Lambert
Homework
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Complete “Where I’m From” assignment
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for stamp #16 on 10/15
If you haven’t already, go to noredink and finish the
following assignments:
 Identifying
Action Verbs
 What Does An Adjective Describe?
 Identifying Adjectives 1
 Identifying Pronouns