Some last-minute reminders for the test tomorrow! (Reminders for Taking the ELA 1 STAAR Exam) Good luck — I know that you will do well!

Tomorrow you will be writing your last pre-STAAR essay: here is that prompt (STAAR Preparation Essay 2 Rubric).

Homework for tonight is Chapter 24 (Dracula Reading Guide – Chapter 24).

This week’s extra credit film will be a little different (Dracula’s Legacy — Free Choice Film Analysis Extra Credit) — you can choose which film you would like to see and watch it at home.

In class, we had more STAAR revising and editing practice, and we’re on Chapter 23 for Dracula homework (Dracula Reading Guide – Chapter 23).

Today we did some practice for the STAAR revising and editing section. Homework is Chapter 22 (Dracula Reading Guide – Chapter 22)!

We took our Dracula-themed critical reading exam in class today! For homework, please read Chapter 21 of Dracula and complete the reading guide (Dracula Reading Guide – Chapter 21).

Today in class we completed some prewriting for the essay that you will compose tomorrow (STAAR Preparation Essay 1 Rubric).

I also told you about the Dracula-themed critical reading exam (multiple choice) that you will take on Monday instead of a quiz; you’ll read three different kinds of passages (a poem, a nonfiction article, and a selection from a novel that is not Dracula) and answer some STAAR-style questions.

Homework for tonight is the next chapter of Dracula (Dracula Reading Guide – Chapter 19).

Today I passed out permission slips to watch the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola version of Dracula (rated R). You have three options if you would like extra credit for this:

1. You can watch this with our classes after school on Friday — I will be editing out what I consider to be the R-rated material.
2. You can watch it at home with your parents over the weekend — I will give you the viewing guide along with the times of the pieces that I will be skipping.
3. If your parents are not comfortable with you watching an edited version of the film either with me or with them, talk with me one-on-one and we can find an alternate vampire film for you to watch.

With our class time today, students read this piece of literary criticism (The Zoophagous Maniac) and compared it to Chapter 18 (Dracula Reading Guide – Chapter 18).

We started today with a lesson on subjects and predicates (Subject and Predicate Notes     Subjects and Predicates and Evil Kittens). After that, we looked at the beginning of Chapter 17 — please finish that for homework (Dracula Reading Guide – Chapter 17).

Today we took our third Dracula vocab quiz. Homework is to compare La Belle Dame Sans Merci to Lucy in Chapter 16 (Dracula Reading Guide – Chapter 16).

We began today by reading Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and practicing answering some multiple choice questions. Then we took a look at Dracula, Chapter 15 (Dracula Reading Guide – Chapter 15). Please make sure that you have finished Vocab.com and are ready for your quiz on Monday (which will also include infinitives).