1) Artifact - Due Aug. 4 : Bring an item or refer to an item in a short writing piece that tells a little bit about the student such as a trophy, necklace or other prized possession. 
2) Warm up Week 1 - Due Aug. 8 : Three days worth (20 questions) of warm up assignments. 
3) Noun illustrations - Due Aug. 12 : On one sheet of notebook paper, three illustrations (pictures, print outs, drawings) of nouns, labeled. 
4) Bonus Point Opportunity - Extra Credit - Due Aug. 20 : Pick one part of speech and illustrate it on an 8.5 by 11.5-inch paper (vertical alignment) with the term in large letters at the top and the illustration (drawing, prints, pictures cut from another source and mounted) at the bottom in color. Not a required assignment but will replace any missing assignment at the end of the grading period. 
5) Narrative Story Idea/Details - Due Aug. 26 : Students should have completed the following assignment in class last week but will turn it in Tuesday. They should select one of the three narrative story ideas (an event that had an impact on their life such as learning to ride a bicycle or hit a ball with a bat) they chose and provide 10 supporting details (such as when it happened, where it happened, who was involved, why it happened, how it happened, what happened, etc.,) for the event. 
6) Conference - Began Sept. 4 - Students met individually with me and received credit and a test grade for producing all of the rough draft materials including retaining the story idea and 10 details sheet, similes and metaphors, main idea and new lead, and rough draft. They also had to turn in their final draft with a cover sheet. Conferences were completed Sept. 11. 
7) Narrative Unit exam - Sept. 11. This test covers all of the terms and vocabulary words up to this point, and also required identifying narrative story elements from a story we have used in class. 
8) Book review - Due Sept. 12. The first draft of the book review is to be turned in on notebook paper patterned after the graphic organizer they have in their Writer's Workshop notebooks (which can also be found online.) They have been given three class periods to complete the assignment. The review has to be on an Accelerated Reader book they have taken a test on this nine-week grading period. 
9) Final Essay draft - Due Sept. 11. Students were to turn in the entire rough draft packet (See Assignment 6) as well as the final draft of the paper with improvements made during individual conferences. In addition, a plot map of the story was due and they received a grade on the cover they created in class illustrating the story.  

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