ELEMENTARY HOMEWORK

WRITING:
  •  A few weeks ago an animal wrote a letter to you.  Now it’s your turn to write a letter back! It can be the same animal who wrote you OR a different animal.
  • Remember, letters start with "Dear Name," and end with something like "Sincerely, Name"
  • Don't forget to draw a picture too!
  • Use your best spelling, but don’t let it slow you down too much.
  • Length: 1st-2nd grade, 3-5 sentences.  3rd grade and older, 6+ sentences.
  • Parents can transcribe what the student says; please keep their words.
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HANDWRITING:
  • Blue, Yellow, and Orange Books: Do pages 15, 16, & 17

(NEW!) MEMORIZATION:
The kids chose poems this week to begin memorizing.  If you can practice the first few rhyming lines with them 3 times in a row on 3 different days, that would be wonderful!  They will be working to memorize their poem for about 6 weeks.

HIGH SCHOOL

HIGH SCHOOL CLASS HOMEWORK
  • Homework:  Revise something you’ve written so far.  KEEP A COPY of the ORIGINAL (save it with "original" or "first" in the title)
  • “True revision involves re-seeing, rethinking, and reshaping the piece...” (Erika Lindemann, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers).
  • Please type it.
  • Revision is truly reworking a piece of writing with things such as :  word choice (action verbs, sensory details, exploding the moment or zooming in—and out), sentence fluency (sentence length, varying sentence beginnings), organization (hooks, transitions, etc.).
  • Revision is not editing.