We continued working on your multi-genre portfolios – they are due on Monday! No additional homework. And please consider coming to see Selma on Friday afternoon!

We continued working on your multi-genre hero portfolios today. Your homework is to keep working on whatever you listed as your goal for the evening.

And remember – the extra credit film for Friday afternoon is Selma! 🙂 The film will be over at 5:40 PM.

Today students turned in their documented essays. We began working on the portfolio portion of the project: Multi-Genre Portfolio Project Rubric – Chapman 2016. This is due on Monday, February 22, and is worth a major grade. We’ll be working on it for the next three days in class.

We continued to work on our documented essays about heroes! (Due Monday – no vocabulary quiz.)

You all promised me that you will have printed copies, ready to turn in when class begins. Remember that it’s a major grade.

The extra credit movie for this week was Belle; here’s the viewing guide: Belle Viewing Guide

Today students had the period to begin drafting their keystone essays about their heroes. Please make sure that you have read the handout on introductions in your project packet.

No homework for tonight! 🙂

Happy Friday!

We spent today in the library again. Students completed their notes pages to be used for their research-based essays.

REMEMBER TO MEET IN THE MPR ON MONDAY MORNING FOR YOUR MOCK STAAR!

And just to be clear – no homework for this weekend! 🙂

And here is the extra credit viewing guide for The Count of Monte Cristo film: The Count of Monte Cristo Film Viewing Guide

We spent today in the library completing the following assignments for your hero projects:

• Statement of Purpose, Research Questions, and Plan
• Notes Research Page

Please remember:

• We are meeting again in the library tomorrow.
• You will take the Mock STAAR in the MPR on Monday. Please come there directly at 7:25 – you will miss periods 1, 2, 3, and 4. This assessment will count for two major grades.

In class today, we introduced the Hero Research Project (Heroes Research Project). Students completed a notes page (Quotations Handout Notes Page) on the quotations handout (Quotations Handout). Please see the new tab that I put on the menu for examples of finished products from last year.

Periods 1 and 3 finished up reading The Count of Monte Cristo in class today, while period 4 attended the special Leakey Foundation lecture on the origins of tuberculosis.

No additional homework for tonight – please just make sure your last reading guide is done. By “done,” I mean, “done by you” – as in, “not copied from a friend.”

Some items to remember:

1. Please bring your laptops tomorrow, and on every day over the next two weeks as we work on a major research project.
2. We’ll be meeting at the library on Thursday – go there instead of the classroom.
3. You have your mock STAAR on Monday – meet in the MPR. We’ll talk more about this later.

Students took their vocabulary quiz over The Black Count today. If you were absent, please come make it up on Friday during lunch tutorials.

The substitute also passed out your final CMC Reading Guide! Here it is: CMC Reading Guide 10. This was originally supposed to be due on Tuesday, but I’m going to extend the deadline until Wednesday. Please put the word out to your friends via social media, since I didn’t get to tell you all in class today.

And fourth period – remember to meet at the MPR tomorrow for class!