1. Vocab CH 1 (p.11) in HW section
-Read and Blog due MON 09/22 2. Read CH 1-4 (pp. 3-28) of Al Capone -in Lang Reading section of binder 3. Answer Blog questions (doc is in Lang Reading folder on laptop) 1. Compose a September Journal Entry -Topics are in the WRITING section of binder and form is in Journal folder on laptop 2. Then, complete the Journal Editing Checklist (on bottom of journal form) 3. Last, move entry to HW DONE folder
1. Read each book description below. 2. Then, VOTE for your preferred Outside Reading Book (on website) 3. Vocab worksheet (in HW section of binder) Al Capone Does my Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko Today I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only kid who lives here. There's my sister, Natalie, except she doesn't count. And there are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cook's or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does. Plus, there are a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars, kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two, though I doubt it. The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don't want. I never knew prisons could be picky, but I guess they can. You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to. TWERP, by Mark Goldblatt It's not like I meant for Danley to get hurt. . . Julian Twerski isn't a bully. He's just made a big mistake. So when he returns to school after a week-long suspension, his English teacher offers him a deal: if he keeps a journal and writes about the terrible incident that got him and his friends suspended, he can get out of writing a report on Shakespeare. Julian jumps at the chance. And so begins his account of life in sixth grade--blowing up homemade fireworks, writing a love letter for his best friend (with disastrous results), and worrying whether he's still the fastest kid in school. Lurking in the background, though, is the one story he can't bring himself to tell, the one story his teacher most wants to hear LAWN BOY, by Gary Paulsen One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow their lawns. And more and more. . . . One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about "the beauty of capitalism. Supply and Demand. Diversify labor. Distribute the wealth." "Wealth?" I said. "It's groovy, man," said Arnold. If I'd known what was coming, I might have climbed on my mower and putted all the way home to hide in my room. But the lawn business grew and grew. So did my profits, which Arnold invested in many things. And one of them was Joey Pow the prizefighter. That's when my 12th summer got really interesting. 1. Bring in Book Talk Project and
practice Book Talk for an ADULT 2. REVISE BOY-7th grade Reflection (in HW TO DO folder on laptop) 3. Review Handbook with an ADULT and get it SIGNED (in HW section of binder) 1. Bring in your Summer Book Talk Project 2. Practice your Summer Book Talk for an ADULT 3. Complete BOY-7th grade Reflection (in HW TO DO folder on laptop)
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