English Homework - Grade 8

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Go there for details today...but just in case...here's today's homework:

Monday Assignment –

-Come up with the longest word you can that starts and ends with a vowel, but that has no vowels in between...like aha but longer!

-Read and answer questions to chapter 19.

-write a paragraph of 3-5 sentences as a new post on your blog...without ANY punctuation! Try and build sentences that SHOULD have all of the following... :;.""...'?!,\

-Wednesday Recitals and Debates

Visit three blogs and DO BETTER – the three names below you on your class list here…if your name is at the bottom, go to the top of the class…make sense?

In each case, pick one of the poems (at least) and leave a comment with your name on it. Try and be real – leave some constructive feedback, and be specific. Say something positive, and make a suggestion if you can…

Possibilities – corrections, word changes, isolate a line to make it stand out, add more, take air words out, work on your incentive, etc…

Here’s an example of a brief but reasonably constructive note: (yours might well be longer and more helpful to the writer) If writers want to respond to comments on their blog, feel free.

Sam -

Just read your poem - thought it was great - very little air words, nicely polished, and I really like a few of the words you used: "see my true mileage", "destined to eternal solitude"...

Is there space between the "shallow desires" line and the final line for a bit of explanation?

For example:
Beyond their shallow desires
-belongings, image, envy -

See my true mileage.

-Mr Coles

October 25, 2007 6:02 AM

8H

Essery - http://www.stallion22.blogspot.com/

All others end the same way… “.blogspot.com”

Essery - http://www.stallion22.blogspot.com/
Mattan – reidblog08
Boas – mongouse1
Noble-Marks – adamsbloggg
Goldfarb - jake-sterlinghall
Harris - samharris55-archie
Mahoney - alexsawesomeblog11
Parker – wwwalexparkermetal
Shopsowitz –
Hanmer – marshallhanmers
Macdonald –e-macsblog
Jamieson – amwj98
Lawson – Lawsoncd
Oh – pizzadoh
Stein – lukesawesomeblog
Wilder, Shane – shanespoems
Glatt – lgnygiants

8C

Almadi – atvguysworld
Baum - baum-poem
De Pasquale - mdp232
Farrill - maxf
Gordon - shspeotry
Isberg - duff-duffsblog
Kalifer – benkali61
Mandel – jakemandel
Medjuck - medjuck15
Page - poetry8c
Parker – parkerinodude
Pennock - newtworld
Sullivan – sullyspot
Urback - shspoetry-urback
Wilder, Mac - macwilders
Yanofsky - hacked61yanof4u

8H Debate Teams

BIRT the time is now for the Canadian National Anthem to be changed.

Essery and Mattan
vs.
Boas and Noble-Marks

Goldfarb and Harris
vs.
Mahoney and Parker

Shopsowitz and Hanmer
vs.
Macdonald and Jamieson

Lawson and Oh
vs.
Stein and Wilder
IN THE HOLE: Lewis Glatt

8C Debate Teams:

Almadi and Baum GOV
vs.
De Pasquale and Farrill OPP

Gordon and Isberg GOV
vs.
Kalifer and Mandel OPP

Medjuck and Page GOV
vs.
Parker and Pennock OPP

Sullivan and Urback GOV
vs
Wilder and Yanofsky OPP

The Boshmods

Mr. and Mrs. Boshmod (a lawyer and Chartered Accountant respectively) are 45-50 years old, and have two kids - their son is in Grade 6 at Sterling Hall, and their daughter is in Grade 10 at BSS. They live on Glenview Avenue in the Lytton Park/Lawrence Park neighbourhood.

Charlie

Charlie is a single father of two kids - aged 6 (a boy) and 8 (a girl). The three of them live in a semi-detached house in East York. He bought out his wife and now pays the mortgage by himself. Charlie is a bartender downtown Toronto, working on Yonge Street.

Sarah Keswick

Sarah is a 19 year old university student. She is in her second year at McGill University in Montreal, and she wants to become an architect.

Her tuition fees are paid by her parents, and they also give her an additional $200 per month to help with her rent payments. She is renting a house with friends.

What else about her do you think is relevant? Hit the "comments" button below and add your piece. How does she look when you picture her? (Be appropriate, of course...!)

Welcome to our Blog

To the 7 fine young men who signed on for our Business and Finance Elective...

This will be our home for the year...

And our first task is to ensure that we have a firm understanding of each of our three case studies.

Please open up the Three Posts with our case study names...

Beneath the post, you'll see a "comments" section. Click on that to comment on each of the three posts. Please comment on all three case studies posts. If you have nothing to add, just write that everything seems cool to you. Try and add something in each case, though! We should feel that we know these people before going on to learn about them in depth.

So...your only task for this Thursday's class is to comment on the three.

More later!