Monday, December 17, 2018

Tuesday, December 18 ... EXAM REVIEW



  • Continue working on the "Character Analysis Essay - Letter to Santa"
    • MAKE SURE YOU POST IT TO CANVAS - IT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IN ANY OTHER FORMAT!
    • Remember is is due by midnight tomorrow (Wednesday, December 19); but this is the last day of classtime you will have on it.
    • Canvas is set up to accept it until midnight on Friday, December 21.  However, anything submitted after the Wednesday deadline will be considered late and will have points deducted per the district grading policy.
    • The essay will not be accepted after midnight on Friday.


  • EXAM REVIEW... ours will be a CBA/STAAR style exam with cold reads and questions from them as well as some questions over editing and revising.  You may want to review the following
    • WORDS TO REVIEW: Rectitude, Sophisticated, Elegant, Candid, Ponderous, Refined, Plausible, Forthright, Transparency, Desperation, Decisiveness, Uprightness, Induced, Retinue, Savor, Piety, Clemency
    • LITERARY CONCEPTS TO REVIEW: Figurative Language, Symbol, Tone, Theme, Conflict, Summary
    • REVISING/EDITING REVIEW: Capitalization Rules, Using Hyphens, Writing Numbers in a Sentence, Comma Rules, Using Colons and Semicolons...