| December, 2002 | | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | 
| 1 | 2 Emma's Birthday! 
Peer edit rough draft of Comparison and Contrast essay
Homework:  Final draft of C-C essay due this Friday
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Peer edit rough draft of Comparison and Contrast essay
Homework:  Final draft of C-C essay due this Friday
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Writing a conclusion for your paper
Peer edit rough draft of Comparison and Contrast essay
Homework:  Final draft of C-C essay due this Friday (or Monday)
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Peer edit rough draft of Comparison and Contrast essay
Homework:  Final draft of C-C essay due tomorrow (or Monday)
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Turn in final draft of Comparison and Contrast essay
Celebrate completion of the project by sharing a few and eating some cookies!
Free writing or reading
Homework: If you did not turn in your comparison and contrast essay today, you must turn it in Monday.  Projects will not be accepted after Monday.
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Turn in final draft of Comparison and Contrast essay
Chapter 11 spelling pre-test
Punctuation:  end marks (p. 586-593)
Homework: Complete Exercise 2, p. 588-89 and Review A, p. 593
 | 10 Sara's Birthday! 
Spelling practice - p. 72 Practice; p. 73 1-20; p. 75 1-25 OR
Writing fun
Homework: Spelling test on Friday
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Clarke Scholars
Hand out service records
Recycling plan
Homework: Get signatures for Clarke Scholars; spelling test on Friday
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Recycling plan handout
Free writing or choose a topic
Sharing time
Homework: Get signatures for Clarke Scholars; spelling test Friday
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Recycling Day!
Chapter 11 spelling test
English Grammar: Standard Deviants video
Homework: Read for pleasure! Get signatures for Clarke Scholars
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Make-up work for orchestra students
Commas - items in a series; with adjectives; in compound sentences (p. 594-598; Exercises 4, 5, and 6)
Continue free writing or choose a new topic
Homework: Finish comma work from today; read for pleasure; get signatures for Clarke Scholars
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Go over commas homework
Commas as interrupters (p. 599 - 604; Exercises 7, 8, 9)
Homework: Finish comma work from today; read for pleasure; get signatures for Clarke Scholars - due tomorrow!
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Collect Clarke Scholars booklets
Go over last night's comma homework
Semicolons (p. 604-606; Exercise 10)
Colons (p. 607; Exercise 11)
Homework: Recycling teams meet in Mrs. H-B's room tomorrow; bring Clarke Scholars booklets tomorrow; return all books from Mrs. H-B's library; read for pleasure
 | 19 Jeron's Birthday! 
Last day of the 2nd 9 weeks
Recycling Day!
Incentive Day!
 | 20 Winter holiday begins - no school
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| 22 Winter Solstice | 23 No school | 24 No school | 25 Christmas - no school | 26 No school | 27 No school | 28 | 
| 29 | 30 No school | 31 New Year's Eve - no school |  |  |  |  |