Turtles Unite

Four Minor Publications:

1) Science Fair Research Papers: First Draft due on Monday — Publication due Friday 4/11 (This publication is to help students feel confident in writing research papers)

I’m extending the due date for the Science Fair Research Papers to Wednesday 4/16.

2) News Story: I will assign the students a specific story on Friday 4/11. They will gather information over the weekend and we will work on a dead-line to finish the story on Wed. 4/16. They will all be working on the same story and they will all create a headline for their story and determine the key facts to be presented, and in what order.

News Story update: Students were assigned story 4/16 to write a story on an activity during recess. They need to use the 5 w’s and 1 h to write a hard news story one paragraph long or two at the very most! This news story will be due 5/2.

3) Periodic Letters/ Friendly, Business, Editorial/Persuasive: These letters will be written in class and will be edited in class, and will be written out in class. I haven’t set any dates on these, because they will all be done in class.

4) Poetry: We are going to do a group personality poem on 4/24 after SATs.

One Major Publication:
Students are able to write a 4-5 page publication on a topic of their choice. 7/8th graders can do their sermons.

Idea due: 4/11

First draft due: 5/2  5/6th graders will be due 5/7

Peer Edit 5/14

2nd draft due: 5/20

Teacher edit due: 5/23