Student Portfolio Scrapbook

Following the tremendous success of our recent Poetry Chapbook project, students have begun working on their culminating activity for the year, a reflective Portfolio Scrapbook. Like Indiana Jones, students will be searching through their own histories to re-discover artifacts demonstrating their strengths and weaknesses.

Preliminary work was begun in classes today, with students being given the criteria and a graphic organizer on which to layout the ten artifacts which will demonstrate their strengths and weakness. At our next classes, we will begin drafting what will become the reflective paragraphs which combined with the artifact (work sample) become a Scrapbook Entry (an example of which can be seen here.

The due dates for the final prodcuts are once again dependent upon which "color" class you're in:

Red and Green: Wednesday, June 11

Blue and Yellow: Thursday, June 12

I am looking very forward to having the opportunities to review your final Scrapbook portfolios and having you share it with others!

Read Up and Write On!

Homework for December 4

Yellow Class

1. None!
2. Bring a flashdrive or disk to class.

Blue Class

1. None!
2. Bring a flashdrive or disk to class.

Green Class

1. Complete the LCP Worksheet (and loose-leaf) for Red Fern Chapter XIX using the following outline:

December 4, 2008
Where the Red Fern Grows by W. Rawls
Chapter XIX
Fiction

1. Active Reading Strategy: Billy Venn: compare the character of Bill from Ch. I and Ch. XIX. How is he different? The same? How are those differences evident in his behavior and actions?

2. Vocabulary (7): predatory, foliage, berserk, jugular, ghastly, canyon, cleaved

3. Summary: use complete sentences, check spelling, punctuation and mechanics.

Read Up and Write On!