ENGLISH 7

Graded Spelling tests/exercises and The Giver test.

New grammar handouts. Mugshot handed out on Wednesday.

No spelling this week.

Quick “Grammar Girl” review of plagiarism. Overhead.

*Plagiarism tips, plainspoken, from the University of South Carolina:

“There are some actions that can almost unquestionably be labeled plagiarism. Some of these include buying, stealing, or borrowing a paper (including, of course, copying an entire paper or article from the Web); hiring someone to write your paper for you; and copying large sections of text from a source without quotation marks or proper citation.

But then there are actions that are usually in more of a gray area. Some of these include using the words of a source too closely when paraphrasing (where quotation marks should have been used) or building on someone's ideas without citing their spoken or written work. Sometimes teachers suspecting students of plagiarism will consider the students' intent, and whether it appeared the student was deliberately trying to make ideas of others appear to be his or her own. The key to avoiding plagiarism is to make sure you give credit where it is due.”

Bottom line for the Jonas Character study: Write your own. There is no need to be on the Internet to do any of this work. Use what you read, the book in front of you and your own ideas and writing. In the long run, it is your writing and your learning that matter.

Worktime, Jonas Character Study. Rough draft for peer edit due Weds.

HW: Weds RD for peer edit Jonas character study

       Thurs: Mugshots 18/19 and grammar packet

        Fri: Final draft Jonas character study.

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ENGLISH 8

QW “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” – Martin Luther King, Jr.  Write for at least 5 minutes. Think. React. Respond.

Graded Friday’s Hemingway video tests.

Finished note taking on Hemingway and Old Man and the Sea. Go here for a copy of class notes on Hemingway.

Pre-reading activity. Finish vocabulary handout for homework.

Novella as parable. About life. About man's struggle for survival in a world seemed designed to destroy him. Handouts.
 

HW: Weds: Finish vocabulary handout