St. Jude the Apostle School

Ms . Dawson 7A Homeroom

Week of 2-6-12 - 2-10-12. School Mass 2-6-12 8:45.

EDLINE NOTE: Homework/participation grades change almost daily. I will try to update Edline often, but it will not be on a daily basis. H/P grade is 50 points each half of the 9 week period.

Cultural Literacy - all classes

ALL CLASSES
One word is given each day. A 100 point test will be given toward the end of each 9 weeks. You should learn these words each day as homework. Do not wait until right before the test to study.

8B Literature

Shakespearience Thursday 2-9-12 7:45.
Study your parts at home.

Vocab Unit 10 Test 2-10-12.
Field Trip 2-7-12 Pride & Prejudice <

We will leave school at 9:15 and return around 1:15.

Independent Novel see 8H

A Year Down Yonder

Stock Research Project - Directions are given.

Poem direction sheet is due 2-10-12.

8 H Literature

Vocab Unit 10- see 8B

Frankenstein

Field trip 2-7-12.

Independent Novel Report #2 & 3
All 8th Literature classes will be reading Pride & Prejudice as our independent novel for both 2nd & 3rd 9 weeks. No written book report will be required for this novel, but some sort of quiz will be given after each assigned portion. Please refer to letter of 10-28-11.
Shakespearience- see 8B
cougartracks@stjudebr.org
Poem direction sheet is due 2-10-12.

8A Literature

Vocab Unit 10 See 8B

A Long Way from Chicago
Independent Novel Report #2 & 3 see 8H Lit.
Cougartracks@stjudebr.org- see 8H Lit.
Poem direction sheet is due 2-10-12.
Shakespearience- see 8B

Literature 7 H

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer novel test 2-14-12.

Vocab. Unit 10 test: 2-10-12.
Independent novel 3rd 9 weeks: A Little Princess - no book report- novel test 2-28-12.
Poem direction sheet is due 2-10-12.

literature 7 A

3rd 9 weeks independent novel test 2-16-12. Firegirl

Unit 10 Vocab Test 2-10-12.
Poem direction sheet due 2-10-12.
"Two Kinds"

literature 7B

see 7A Literature

Book List 2011

All students will read one independent book each 9 weeks. You will be assigned one independent book, as a class, for one of the nine weeks and will be tested on the book. You will choose a book from my list for each of the other three nine weeks periods and write a book report- see below.

Follow the guidelines below for the book report. You may not choose a book we will read in class or that you have read before.
Independent Novel Book Reports
1) Instruction sheet should be attached to your report.
2) Heading: name,class section, date,
title and author. On top of summary
page. 1 page summary, single space, 12
font.
3) paragraph statement telling what
stands out most about the book.
(minimum of 6 sentences explaining
this)
100 point total: On Time 10 points
Neatness 5 points
Directrions 14 points
Opinion 30 points
Content 41 points

Ms. Dawson’s Book List 2011 -2012 for Independent Novel Reports
(3 page total to turn in): Due dates:
3) February 16,2012
4) April 19, 2012
If you choose a book which is not on this list, it must be approved, in writing, by your parent and by Mrs Dawson and be grade level appropriate. You may choose only one book which is not on my list. Books are listed by level of difficulty; * ** ***
1.A Lantern in Her Hand- Bess Aldrich ***
2. White Bird Flying - Bess S.Aldrich ***
3. Crispin & the Cross of Lead - Avi *
4. Crispin,at the Edge of the World Avi *
5. The True Confessions of Charlotte
Doyle - Avi **
6. Nothing But the Truth - Avi **
7. The Barn - Avi *
8. Persuassion - Jane Austen ***
9. Charley Skedaddle - Patricia Beatty *
10. The Shakespeare Stealer -G Blackwood**
11. Shakespeare’s Scribe- Gary Blackwood**
12. Shakespeare’s Spy - Gary Blackwood**
13. Year of the Hangman - Gary Blackwood**
14. Second Sight- G. Blackwood"uchronia" *
15. * Matilda Bone - Karen Cushman
16.Catherine Called Birdy - Karen Cushman*
17.Midwife’s Apprentice - Karen Cushman*
18. Rodzina - Karen Cushman *
19.Incident at Hawk’s Hill-Allan Eckert**
20. Silas Marner - George Eliot ***
21. One Eyed Cat - Paula Fox **
22. The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke **
23. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke **
24. Julie of the Wolves - Jean George *
25.Summer of My German Soldier-B Greene **
26.* The Old Man and the Sea-E.Hemingway *
27. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer
P. Figg - Rodman Philbrick *
28. Hiroshima - John Hershey *
29. Letters from Rifka - Karen Hesse *
30. Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse *
31. Stowaway - Karen Hesse **
32. Fever- Laurie H. Anderson **
33. Redwall - Brian Jaques **
34. Red Scarf Girl - Ji Li Jiang **
35. The Road from Home- David Kherdian ***
36. The View from Saturday - Konigsburg**
37. To Kill a Mockingbird -Harper Lee **
38. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis *
39. The Magician’s Nephew - C.S. Lewis *
40. The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis *
41. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis *
42.The Voyage of theDawn Treader-Lewis*
43. The Silver Chair - C. S. Lewis *
44. The Last Battle - C. S. Lewis *
45. *The Call of the Wild - Jack London**
46. White Fang - Jack London **
47. A Boy at War – Harry Mazer *
48. A Boy No More - Harry Mazer*
49. Heroes Don’t Run - Harry Mazer *
50. Macbeth, A Retelling - Adam McKeown *
51. Beware,Princess Elizabeth- C. Meyer **
52. Mary, Bloody Mary - Carolyn Meyer **
53.Stonewall’s Gold - Robert J. Mrazek ***
54.Anne of Green Gables- L.M.Montgomery**
55. American Plague - Jim Murphy **
56. The Boy’s War - Jim Murphy **
57. A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park *
58. Hatchet - Gary Paulson *
59. The River - Gary Paulson *
60.*A Long Way from Chicago-Richard Peck *
61. * A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck *
62.A Day No Pigs Would Die - R. N. Peck **
63. A Part of the Sky - R. N. Peck **
64. Elephant Run - Roland Smith **
65. All Quiet on the Western Front -
Erich Maria Remarque ***
66. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott ***
67.The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Speare **
68.The Bronze Bow -Elizabeth G Speare **
69. The Pearl - John Steinbeck *
70. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson***
71. The Black Arrow - R. L. Stevenson ***
72. Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde - Stevenson **
73. Treasure Island STevenson **
74. * The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien **
75.The Fellowship of the Ring **
76.The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien **
77.The Return of the King - Tolkien **
78. ** Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain **
79. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain ***
80. Homecoming - Cynthia Voight **
81. Angel in the Square - Gloria Whelan *
82. Homeless Bird - Gloria Whelan *
83.Th Code of the Woosters–P.G.Wodehouse**
84.Girl in a Cage -Yolen & Harris **
85.The Devil’s Arithmetic -Jane Yolen**
86. The Queen’s Own Fool - Jane Yolan**
87.Sword of the Rightful King- Yolan **
88 Millicent Min, Girl Genius-Lisa Yee *
89.Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time – Yee *
90.So Totally Emily Ebers Lisa Yee *
91. Milkweed - Spinelli ***
92. The Fighting Ground - Avi **
93.Alchemy & Meggy Swann - K Cushman*
94. The Cottonmouth Club - Lance Marcum **
95. The Sacrifice - Kathleen B Duble **
96. Blood Red Horse - K. M. Grant **
97. Basketball (Or Something Like It) -**
98. Black Storm Comin - **
99.Night of the Howling Dogs- G.Salisbury*
100.Secrets of the Cheese Syndicate-*
Donna St Cyr
101. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate -
Jaqueline Kelly **
102. Chasing Lincoln's Killer - James L
Swanson **
103.The Young Man & the Sea - RPhilbrick *
104.The Talking Earth - Jean C. George *
105. Hard Gold - Avi *
106.The Ravenmaster's Secret -E Woodruff *
107. Brian's Hunt - Gary Paulsen *
108. Ten True Tales-voices from
Afganistan - Allan Zullo **
109.Mother Angelica-life story - O.'Neil**
110. Iron Thunder - Avi **
111. The Seer of Shadows - Avi *
112. The Hunger Games suzanne Collins *
113. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins **
114. Mockinjay Suzanne Collins **
115. Horse Thief Robert Newton Peck **
116. Biography of St. Jean Vianny *
117. * Fire Girl Tony Abbott *
118. Project Mulberry - Linda Sue Park *
119. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- B Smith***
120. The Squire's Tale Gerald Morris **
The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung Cart Kinght Gerald Morris
121. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte **
122. Where the Lillies Bloom - Vera &
Bill cleaver **
123. Kimchi & Calamari - Rose Dent *
124. Flipped - Wendelin Van Draanen *
125. The Robe - Lloyd Douglas ***
126. Dark Water Rising - Galveston
hurricane of 1900rd - *
127. It Only Looks Easy - Pamela Swallow *
128. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - **
129. Adam of the Road - *
130. Esperanza Rising - Pam M. Ryan *
131. The Big Wave- Pearl Buck * (Reg only)
132. Orwell's Luck - R. Jennings *
133.The Secret Garden - F. H Burnett- **
134. A Little Princess - F. H. Burnett **
135. Cracker Cynthia Kadohata
136. Kira, Kira Cynthia Kadohata
137. Chains Laurie H Anderson
138. Forge Laurie H Anderson
139. Woods Runner - Gary Paulsen
140. The Wednesday Wars -

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