Night of the Notables

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Night of the Notables:Guideline Sheet

Night of the Notables Biography Project Guidelines Due Date 2/17/2010 TBD: Date of Culminating Event 1. Select an eminent person for an in-depth biographical study who is in a field that is interesting to you. Think about how this person stands out as a positive change agent, tradition maker, or creative producer. Make sure you want to know this person better! You will be spending considerable time in the next few weeks researching this person! Research this person thoroughly. Use all avenues that are open to you to find out as much as you can. Be inventive in your research. Try to use as many primary sources as possible. Read all you can about your person, books written by him/her, books written about him/her, collective biographies, reference books, magazine articles, newspapers, periodicals, etc. At the same time, take notes. Do not forget to document sources in correct form. Do not plagiarize! Use the internet to gather information. Make sure to take notes and write down sources in correct form. E-mail or write letters to museums and/or peoples’ hometown libraries to obtain information. Do this early in your research. Save copies of all correspondence. View films, TV biography videos, and DVDs to gather facts and view pictures of your subject. Listen to tapes and recordings of your person to hear his/her voice and speech mannerisms. Interview people who know or may have known you person. Use note cards to record information and sources. Visit all the libraries in your area: school, and public libraries. Consider seeking permission to visit a college library also. When your research is complete, choose one of the following written products to do: biographical sketch in either the first or third person voice, or create a biography magazine. (specific guidelines attached) Make a lifeline of your person’s life. Include a few world or national events to help give perspective, along with major points of the person’s life. This lifeline may be done vertically or horizontally. Compose a bio-riddle about your person synthesizing your research on the life of your chosen change agent, tradition breaker, or creative producer. Use this information to provide identity clues. Utilize literary techniques such as alliteration, simile, metaphor, oxymoron, rhyme, rhythm, etc to add effectiveness of your riddle. Find provocative quotations made by your person. Choose one to be included in your presentation for the culminating activity. (Night of the Notables) Answer the questions listed in the role playing sheet (atached) Be able to present this information during the culminating activity. Design or plan a costume for portrayal of your person at the culminating program. Evaluation/Assessment Complete Self-Assessment Complete “Let’s Compare” activity Rubric assessment of bio-riddle; biographical magazine or biographical sketch Do not wait until the last minute to begin this project. Use this guideline sheet to help you plan your strategy for completing this project. If you need assistance in planning, see your teacher!

Homework: January 25-29

Homework for the Week of January 25-January 29

Writing: "Fun With Tunnels" prompt

Write 3 paragraphs responding to the prompt. Make

sure you use a minimum of ten adjectives, three

transition words, and five different sentence

beginnings.

Vocabulary: Choose 15 of your words to write into

sentences. Study for Friday's test.

Math: Puzzle #90 Complete the chart. Explain in one

well-written sentence how you found your answers.

Solving Equations sheets4/5 and 6/7

Reading: Spend 20 minutes minimum each night.

Work on your poetry books and your biography

project.

Homework for the Week of January 25-January 29

Writing: "Fun With Tunnels" prompt

Write 3 paragraphs responding to the prompt. Make

sure you use a minimum of ten adjectives, three

transition words, and five different sentence

beginnings.

Vocabulary: Choose 15 of your words to write into

sentences. Study all words for Friday's test.

Math: Puzzle #90 Complete the chart. Explain in one

well-written sentence how you found your answers.

Solving Equations sheets4/5 and 6/7

Reading: Spend 20 minutes minimum Homework for the Week of January 25-January 29

Writing: "Fun With Tunnels" prompt

Write 3 paragraphs responding to the prompt. Make

sure you use a minimum of ten adjectives, three

transition words, and five different sentence

beginnings.

Vocabulary: Choose 15 of your words to write into

sentences. Study all words for Friday's test.

Math: Puzzle #90 Complete the chart. Explain in one

well-written sentence how you found your answers.

Solving Equations sheets4/5 and 6/7

Reading: Spend 20 minutes minimum each night.

Work on your poetry books and your biography

project.

each night.

Work on your poetry books and your biography

project.

Homework January 19-January 22

Homework for this week includes: Math Multiplication sheet (both sides) Math Measurement Puzzle Writing Prompt (3 paragraphs focusing on organization: use transition words and colorful adjectives) Vocabulary-CSAP math words. Use words in sentences. You need to use all words, but you may use more than one in a sentence. Read nightly for at least 20 minutes.

Homework: January 11-January 15

Hello all! This week's homework will very closely resemble last week's homework! All assignments will be due on Friday. Math: Constructed response examples sent home on Monday. Writing: Zoo Day paragraph Vocabulary: Use all list words in sentences. Students may use more than one word in the same sentence, provided the sentence shows understanding of the meaning of the word. We have more vocabulary words, but the words should be familiar to the student already. List #15: 1. adjectives 2. adverbs 3. antonyms 4. author's tone 5. base word 6. biography 7. cause 8. character 9. compare 10. contrast 11. descriptive text 12. directions 13. draw conclusions 14. effect 15. events 16. fact 17. format 18. generalize 19. genres 20. graphic organizer 21. heading 22. infer 23. inference 24. inform 25. literary devices 26. main idea 27. metaphor 28. mood 29. nonfiction 30. opinion 31. passage 32. persuade 33. plan 34. plot 35. plot sequence 36. poetry Students should also read daily for at least 20 minutes. This week, students will also receive guideline sheets for the poetry book assignment as well as the biography assignment. Both of these projects will be due around mid-February.

Homework for 5 Jan-8 Jan

I am so sorry this is so late in being posted! I forgot! Thank you Camilla for reminding me! This week's homework consists of the following: Instead of Puzzles of the Week, we will be completing constructed response practice questions from our CSAP books for the next few weeks. Students received hand-outs and should answer questions as completely as possibly. The writing prompt must include a story map or plan, a rough draft and a final copy. The prompt was sent home also. Students need to write about how they would feel if the cafeteria stopped serving pizza. For vocabulary, we are also using words from our CSAP practice glossary. There are more words, but students should be more familiar with them. For homework, students must write each word in a sentence, due Friday. The list is as follows: 1. alliteration 2. analyze 3. audience 4.author's purpose 5. bias 6. cluster 7. constructed response 8. context 9. conventions 10. credibility 11. declarative sentence 12. descriptive 13. details 14. draft 15. edit 16. essay 17. exclamatory sentence 18. expository writing 19. fiction 20. figurative language