Continuous Learning Assignments

CLA #4: Tweentribune.com –

This is a daily news site for teens. Each day they will post compelling, relevant and interesting news for teens. Stories are selected by teens working closely with professional journalists. Readers can comment upon these stories. They can also submit their own stories and photos.
You will need to:
1.Choose three news articles.
2. Read the articles.
3. Write a brief summary for each article that you read. (You should have three summaries and each summary should be at least a paragraph.)
Please bring this completed assignment back to school with you.

CLA #5:Sentence Practice –

Rewrite each run-on sentence correctly. Practice using the different variations that we have focused on.

  1. In 1860, the Pony Express started in St. Joseph, Missouri the route began where the railroads ended.
  1. People in the West wanted faster mail service, the mail took six weeks by boat.
  1. Mail sent by stagecoach took about 21 days, the Pony Express averaged ten days.
  1. The Pony Express used a relay system riders and horses were switched at 157 places along the way to Sacramento, California.
  1. Because teenagers weighed less than adults, most of the riders were teenagers the horses could run faster carrying them.
  2. Riders had to cross raging rivers, the mountains were another barrier.

CLA #6: Plot, Setting, and CharacterizationReview –

Think about your favorite movie. Choosing one that you have seen multiple times will help so that you can be descriptive or if you have time, pop in that blu ray you haven't had a chance to watch yet.

#1 Complete a plot diagram chart for your movie. It should include exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. YES, you need to write with complete sentences. Be complete and descriptive. List all events that happen in both rising and falling action.

#2 Complete a characterization chart for all of the main characters (review characterization notes on web page if you need to). You should include the characters' appearance, dialogue, private thoughts, actions, and effects (how people respond to them).

#3 Provide a written response discussing how the setting is significant to the story. If you feel that the setting is not significant, you still need to provide a written response discussing why you feel it is not.