Tuesday, February 26

Due Wednesday, February 27

1. You must post on the Sustainability Green Core Site (see below for directions–all kids’ names in the grade are up there; ask classmate if you are confused about how to log in and post). At least 1 post and 1 journal entry due by tomorrow; even if all you can post about is a phone call and future arrangements, you must have something to say by now!

2. Gather the poems you have written since we started the poetry unit so that you can choose the best ones to turn in later.  For now, just locate the following (some will be in your writer’s notebook–that’s fine). Come to Writing Workshop Wednesday, February 26 with AT LEAST 10 completed poems in your hands (typed OR handwritten).

Choose from the following:
1. On Turning ___

2. “So Much Depends Upon” poem based on Williams’s poem

3. odes to everyday things

4. garbage poems (garbage, diamond in the rough, unbeautiful)

5. word poem based on “Guitar”

6. shape poem

7. perspective poem based on Gary Soto’s “Oranges”

8. poems apologizing for something you are secretly glad you did based on Williams’s “This is Just to Say”

9. a one word per line poem based on something you can see

Due Thursday, February 28

Read JOY Hakim Chapters 26 and 32. Look up vocabulary and develop five questions for each chapter–see handout for specifics.

o n g o i n g h o m e w o r k

Keep meeting with your sustainability organizations and posting on the blog: your hours to the log section and reflection to the journal section. Aim to meet once per week, and remember to gather photos and other materials to use on the April 30 Day of Learning. Click here for updated contact info (updated 2/26). Click here for detailed directions about how to post. Any work you do related to sustainability counts, whether or not it is in your assigned sustainability project group!

DO NOT FORGET TO TITLE YOUR ENTRIES CORRECTLY (date of work, name of organization) AND TO SPELL-CHECK BEFORE YOU POST!