Stephanie Missing Work(1/18)=)

I think that our country's formatation is fair, because everyone worked for freedom and in the long run it was granted. Now I don't understand because it's happening all over again. There is a big war, and we are fighting for freedom. I feel that their should be no war, and their will finally be PEACE!!! Too many peoples lives were taken over a war, that was first over a big deal, but now it's for oil. It doesn't make sense. I think that our country fought enough.

Stephanie Missing Work(1/3) =)

My main concerns for the E.L.A. exam are not answering the questions carefully, and correctly. I'm not too nervous about the multiple choice, but on the other hand I'm nervous about my writing and my notes.(Will they be neat enough, easy to read?)

Today's Treasure Hunt

Please continue work on your treasure hunts... in class tomorrow you will have time to work from the text book, but you will have no more than class tomorrow to finish.

On Thursday, you will have to turn in a copy of your works cited from this assignment. You will do your own works cited. It will be graded like a quiz.

In class on either tomorrow or Thursday or Friday, you could possibly get a quiz on the work you've been working on in the treasure hunt. Please be prepared with your notes. Take this assignment seriously.

Your Constitution projects are due on Thursday... you should be ready for presentation on Thursday and we will be selecting a winner on that day.

Historical Fiction Publication

After reviewing everyone's historical fiction final drafts, I need everyone to send me a copy of their final drafts via email in the following format:

It should be a word doc. attached... do not send it to me as an email UNLESS you have a version of word that is newer than xp that my computer won't read. I also can't open word perfect. So if these are the softwares you use, please email it as an email.

It should be single spaced, justified (you can do this in the paragraph settings), 12 pt font, Times New Roman, 1 inch margins (can be changed in page setup in the file pull down menu).

Your name should appear in the upper right hand corner - You do NOT need your section, just your name.

A Title should appear centered on the page on the next line beneath your name

Pages should not be numbered

Please run your story through a spell check and grammar check.

Please get it to me as soon as possible.

Thank you in advance.

Ms. Sackstein

weekend homework and other reminders

Read 3 chapters in your lit. circle books and do a double entry journal focusing on author's craft in your reader's sourcebook.

You will have a notebook check on April 18

Your constitutional powerpoint presentations are on Thursday, April 3. We will choose our winner after viewing the presentations.

Parent/Teacher conferences are Thursday night and Friday afternoon. School will end at 12. You can go home before or after lunch this week. Please make sure you have pulled your portfolio pieces and written your reflections.

compare/contrast drafts on the Revolutionary War vs the War of 1812

Yesterday, 731 started work on this essay today, 702 will. Please make sure to have a draft of an essay based on today's class work.

731 had a draft due today.

Beginning: Your intro should consider the causes of both wars and who was involved.

middle: information that shows the similarities and differences between the two wars

end: the effects of both wars... what resulted because of both wars

Here is a website that you can use to help:
http://www.brtprojects.org/cyberschool/history/ch09/cause.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/chart.1812.html

Tonights homework- interesting people

For the interesting people homework I choose James Madison not only because he was the president during the war of 1812, but because he was one of the greatest writers of that time period. He wrote the declaration of independence and the response to it each one the person who read it was so impressed he had to write a response which James Madison was asked to write and this is why I chose James Madison.