Homework: May 13 - 20, 2013

1. Read each night for at least twenty minutes. If you did not complete your Charlotte's Web reading earlier during silent reading time you can finish this up at home. Otherwise, read from your personal reading book.

2. On Monday you'll bring home the rough draft you finished just before PASS testing. This is the piece where you are working to describe setting, use dialogue, and include all punctuation (including quotation marks). Edit and revise with an adult at home and bring them back on Wednesday, 5/15. You'll take your draft home again on Thursday and publish them either on the computer or by hand. These published drafts are due back on Tuesday, May 21st.

3. To help fuel our study of songwriting in writer's workshop you need to supply the class with a favorite song of yours as well as a copy of the lyrics. You can send the song to me via a Youtube link or bring a CD in. I'd prefer Youtube but CDs are fine if that's easiest for you. You also need to search for the lyrics online, cut-and-paste them into a Word document, format it to fit the page nicely, and then send this to me electronically. If you cannot send it electronically then print it out and bring a hard copy. We can use the document camera to put it up on the board for everyone to see. When you present your song to the class be ready to tell us about all the things you notice about the song - particularly things that will give us ideas for how we might write, format, or sing our own songs. Here's the example I provided in class...

Almost There – Opus Orange

So much time spent in slow motion,

Don’t need to worry about this commotion

You and I will get to catch this flight before it’s gone

once or twice we’re going to catch this flight before it’s gone.

Doot doot doo

doot doot doo

doot doot doo

doot doot doo

Open your eyes! Open your eyes! Open your eyes! Open your eyes!

cause we’re almost there,

yeah we’re almost there.

So much time spent moving quickly

Don’t need to worry we’ll get there you’ll see

You and I will get to catch this flight before it’s gone

once or twice we’re going to catch this flight before it’s gone

Doot doot doo

doot doot doo

doot doot doo

doot doot doo

Open your eyes! Open your eyes! Open your eyes! Open your eyes!

cause we’re almost there,

yeah we're almost there. 

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The line-up for presenting songs is as such:

TUESDAY - Ashley, Ryan, Maisy, Jalen

WEDNESDAY- Laila, Rachael, Anna, Trent

THURSDAY- Chandler, Chase, Jackson, Connor

FRIDAY - Surya, Abrianna, David, Ellis

MONDAY- Jade, Tyler, Micah, Jasier, Grace