writing prompt for homework

Imagine you had the opportunity to live anywhere in the world for a year. Where would you live? Why would you choose this place to live? What would you hope to learn there? Think of where in the world you would choose to live for a year. In a well-developed composition, explain the reasons you would choose this place to live and what you would hope to learn there.

reading selection for homework 3/15

Here's a great Short Story on page 80-83. Read and answer questions on "What the Moon Saw"

http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/2011/release/g10ela.pdf

"yoga" reading for homework 3/14

read + questions for "Yoga" article, pages 68-74
http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/2009/release/g7ela.pdf 

mcas reading on "The Pioneers" for 3/13 homework

read +questions pages 75-79, "The Pioneers"
http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/2011/release/g7ela.pdf

"Scorpions" article for 3/12 homework

here is a link to our "Scorpions" homework. Read and answer the questions, pages 9-14.

http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/2010/release/g7ela.pdf

Notes/Homework for 3/9

Hey everyone. Since so many of you missed class, here are the notes/instructions for the weekend homework:

1) we looked at shifts in tone in "Valentine for Ernest Mann"
2) we decided to write our own poem for Monday, and looking at how you will need to decide:
STYLE: organic or formal/traditional?
SPEAKER: who is telling the poem?
SHIFTS: how does the speaker change emotion or attitude in the poem?

3) Poem practice w/MCAS questions

Click here: the poem is "On a Night of Snow" p. 12-14