Due January 16, 2019 (PORTFOLIO)

It is time to pull together that PORTFOLIO of your work for this class. Write your RESUME and add a TABLE of CONTENTS  to your Portfolio.

Your Portfolio is due on our first day back - January 16, 2019

RESUME EXAMPLE 

                                                           

Pablo L.Cortez

The Woodlands,Texas 

PLC@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Northwoods Catholic School                                                

Trace Creek Academy                                                         

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Tuesday Tamales  Matthew 25:34            11 years old  - to present  

   Proprietor - marketing, customer service                      

• Gaudete  Luke 1:43-45                              10 -14 years old     

   Rosary Artisan

• ReUsables  Mark 2:21                             9 -10 years old       

   Hand crafted, Earth-friendly gift bags   

• Animal Crackers  Genesis 1:26              8 -19 years old       

   Pet-sitter, Dog walker                            

PUBLIC SPEAKING and THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE

• Northwoods Catholic School Poetry Contest Participant      

  Finalist and Honorable Mention                                            

• Great Day in Bethlehem                                                        

• Godspell                                                                                        

• Acorns to Oaks                                                                             

• Sermon on the Mound                                                                 

ORGANIZATIONS and COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Catholic Institute of Apologetics (founder)

• Knights of Columbus Columbian Squire  (trail blazer & initiator @ St. Anthony of Padua)            

• Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church Altar Server          

• Immaculate Heart of Mary Student Teacher              

• Kindermusik - Bringing Babies & Senior Citizens Together                    

• Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church Parishioner           

HOBBIES

Hobbies include traveling, reading, biking, football, basketball, climbing

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Youngest sibling, Uncle, and Master to three dogs.

Due December 12 (ABC Book)

Easy as ABC!

Bring in your Alphabet Book about your CAREER and make sure it is wonderful.







Submit your Alphabet Book in a finished form. 

You could use a very slim 3-ring binder with page protectors
OR
a report folder
OR
you may hand bind it

Illustrations are encouraged!

All Dress-ups
Openers: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 

DECs
alliteration
simile
4 more - your choice

DO NOT INDICATE your dress ups and openers, but be very clear on your CHECKLIST!

No contractions or banned words

Due December 5 (Aesop Fables)

1. Pick an Aesop's Fable.
2. Re-write it in 3 paragraphs (You might have to add lots of detail. You have artistic license to change characters, time period, and setting. You may also play with the plot a bit)
3. Make sure it can be recognized.
4. Make it better.
5. Make it great!
6. It is not required but you MAY add: 

"The moral of the story is __________________"  or                  "MORAL: ________________ "

https://iewnotebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Aesop

Varsity                                                         JV
all dress-ups                                                 all dress-ups
all openers                                                    #2, #3, #5, #6 (#4 extra credit, as discussed in class)
2 DECs in each paragraph                           1 DEC in each paragraph

Due November 28 (Saint Essay)

Your assignment is to write a wonderful 3 paragraph essay about a Saint. 

Here is a great resource: https://www.franciscanmedia.org/sod-calendar
These are listed calendar style so you'll need to know your Saint Feast Day to find him/her here.

Another great resource: http://catholicsaints.info

JV: 
All Dress-ups, 2, 3, 5, 6, in each paragraph. 
In the essay: sim or met, and an alliteration, plus 2 DECS

VARSITY: 
All Dress-ups, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1-different DEC in each paragraph. 
In the essay: sim or met, and an alliteration

Due November 14 (5 senses descriptive essay)

ESSAY assignment
JV:
One Descriptive Paragraph utilizing every single sense. 

Varsity:

Three paragraph essay utilizing every single sense.

Describe a place, event, or scene in vivid detail. Use ALL the senses to walk us through your place, event, or scene. You might want to use a different perspective to make your essay a bit unusual.
JV: One paragraph . . . . One amazing paragraph!  :-)
Varsity: Three amazing paragraphs. 

More than one sentence will be needed for each sense. You should write @ least 3 sentences per sense. You may wrap these requirements into a story or just make your descriptive paragraph come alive in the reader's mind.

Make sure you have utilized each sense.
 Smell     
 Taste      
 Hearing  
 Touch      
 Sight       

~~> NO BANNED WORDS
~~> NO CONTRACTIONS
~~> Highlight vocabulary words in blue.
~~> KWO, rough draft, and checklist, as always

JVs:                       VARSITY:
ly                            ly
w/w                        w/w
b/c                          b/c
QA                          QA
SV                          SV
asia                         asia
#2                            #2
#3                            #3
(vss)                        (vss)
TC (Topic/Clincher)    TC (Topic/Clincher)
                        #4
                                 #5
                                 #7
                                 Met or Sim (metaphor or simile)

 

Writing Prompts - Place Essay Topics

1. Describe your favorite place.
2. Describe your ideal bedroom.
3. Describe the house in which you grew up.
4. Describe what the first house on the moon would look like.
5. Describe some of your favorite places in your hometown.
6. Describe a peaceful place that you’ve visited.
7. Describe a place that exists only in your imagination.
8. Describe a friend’s or family member’s house where you enjoy spending time.
9. Describe your perfect fantasy vacation destination.
10. Describe your favorite store.
11. Describe your favorite teacher’s classroom.
12. Describe a museum that you’ve visited recently.
13. Describe a place you have dreamed about that doesn’t exist in real life.
14. Describe a place where your pet likes spending time.
15. Describe an outdoor place that you know well.

Writing Prompts - Memories Essay Topics

1. Describe your oldest memory.
2. Describe a memorable trip you took.
3. Describe a special time that you and your family had together.
4. Describe the first time you met one of your friends.
5. Describe one of your happiest memories.
6. Describe one of your saddest memories.
7. Describe a time that you felt scared.
8. Describe a time that you felt excited.
9. Describe a time that something totally unexpected happened.
10. Describe a memory of someone whom you miss.
11. Describe one of your most embarrassing moments.

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Due November 7 (2nd Poetry Recitation will be assigned today & Letter due)

Our assignment is simple. Write a letter to a loved one. Please include all dress-ups

JV requirements              Varsity requirements
all dress-ups                      all dress-ups
#3                                    #2            allit
#6vss                               #3            sim or met
                                        #6 vss
DO NOT INDICATE THEM! 

Bring your finished letter, along with your addressed and stamped envelope. 
DO not seal the envelope. I will mail them for you.

REMEMBER
• Write a letter to someone you love or someone who is special to you.

• Your letter must be to a real person.

Brainstorming Notes & KWO, Rough Draft, and Checklist are required as always.

Be sure to use a proper letter writing format. Please check the guidelines below for help.

No Banned Words (see side bar for the list)
No Contractions

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Personal letters, also known as friendly letters, and social notes normally have five parts.

1. The Heading. This is where you write the date. It can also include the return address.

Skip a line after the heading. 

2. The Greeting. The greeting always ends with a comma. 

Dear Uncle David,

3. The body. Also known as the main text. This includes the message you want to write. 

Normally in a friendly letter, the beginning of paragraphs is indented. 

If it is not indented, be sure to skip a space between paragraphs. 

Skip a line after the greeting. AND Skip a line before the close.

4. The complimentary close. This short expression is always a few words on a single line. It ends in a comma.  Skip one to three spaces (two is usual) for the signature line.

5. The signature line. Type or print your name. 

Postscript. Although there is no postscript in our example above, it is quite common.
If your letter contains a postscript, begin it with P.S.
Skip a line after the signature line to begin the postscript.

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Brainstorming Notes-- example. 

Letter to GRANDMOM

Aug. - Nov. trip 6000 miles

Desmond  Astros

Homeschool updates

Speech & Debate     P & C     Duo

Dogsittting adventures w/ Simba

Stuffy       sick       better

Nativity    Ninja     Night

Neighborhood       Decorations      & Contest

Max       Birthday        Bucca

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                                                        KWO Letter to GRANDMOM

P1)

Aug. - Nov. trip 6000 miles

TX, Mississippi, TN, NC, NCFCA intensive, VA, PA, VT, B&B, IN, 

Speech & Debate     P & C     Duo

P2)

Dogsittting adventures w/ Simba

Stuffy       sick       better

P3)

Nativity    Ninja     Night

Neighborhood       Decorations      &Contest

Max       Birthday        Bucca

Desmond  Astros

Homeschool updates

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FIX ITs weeks 10 & 11

Week 10  --  Sentence Openers: #1 Subject, #2 Prepositional Phrase

The dress-ups are one part of IEW style. The five dress-ups are -ly adverb, who-which clause, strong verb, quality adjective, and www.asia words (clause starters). The dress- ups help you use stronger vocabulary and more complex sentence structure.

Now that you are familiar with all the dress-ups, you can learn some sentence openers. Since you have learned about clauses and phrases, these will be easy.

#1 Subject Opener

You have already learned that main clauses usually start with a subject or with an article (a, an, the)and/or adjectives plus subject. You also learned that sometimes the subject-verb will be switched. Examples: [There gathered around him displaced countrymen]. [Up rose his Merry Men].

We call the sentences that start with this pattern subject openers.. When you see a sentence starting with a main clause, it is a subject opener.

#2 Prepositional

This is another kind of sentence opener. When a sentence begins with a prepositional phrase, mark it a #2 prep.

Be sure the #2 follows this pattern: preposition + noun/pronoun (no verb). These openers are not clauses; they are phrases. A clause must have a subject and a verb. Prepositional phrases have no verb.

Continue to underline all prepositional phrases, including #2 openers. Do not include #2 openers with the main clauses after them when adding brackets.

Example: In the tree [Robin safely hid].

Week 10

the yeomen vowed that they would in return rob there/their/they’re oppressors as they

themselves had been robbed

if possessions were plundered by even the most powerful baron abbot knight or squire, the yeomen would recapture the goods and return them to the poor

to those in need, these brave and upright men would offer succor

besides this, they earnestly swore never to harm a child or to wrong a woman whether she was a maid wife or widow

Week 11  --  Sentence Openers: #3 -ly Adverb, Combining Sentences w/ a Who-Which

This week you will learn the next sentence opener.

#3 -ly Adverb Opener

The difference between an -ly adverb dress-up and an -ly adverb sentence opener is simply where the word appears: It will be the first word in the sentence if it is an opener; it will be later than the first word if it is a dress-up.

Continue to label all the -ly adverbs with an ly. If it is the first word of a sentence, mark it with a #3 ly.

Do not include the #3 opener in the MC brackets. It is just tacked onto the front of the sentence. 

Example:Regularly [the common folk came to praise Robin and his Merry Men].

When you decide on the strongest dress-ups, choose from one of the -ly dress-ups if there are any that week, not an opener.

Combining Sentences

Who-which clauses are handy because they can often be used to combine sentences. This week and on occasion in the future, you will be asked to create your own sentence by combining the two sentences provided with a who-which. Combine the sentences as instructed. Complete the labeling and brackets using the new sentence.

Week 11

in times of desperation, these yeomen transferred money or food from the pockets of

the corrupt nobility into the hands of impoverished families

First, combine the two sentences by starting a new who clause after folk.The new sentence should have two verbs,

one that goes with who and one that goes with folk. Use the new sentence for the rest of your Fix It work.

regularly the common folk came to praise robin and his merry men. they related many tales of his audacious escapades

naturally, because of robin hood’s magnanimous work in sherwood forest, people felt that he was like them

in a sense, robin had therefore returned to the town he had left, living vicariouslythrough the town folk whom he was forced to leave

October Essays (Career & SUGAR)

FIX-ITs will be posted separately in October. Be on the look-out!

Your first essay is due October 3rd (email to PeggyCortez@hotmail.com).
Write your essay about a career you are interested in OR on someone who has (or had) the career that you are interested in.

JV - 1 paragraph ALL DRESS-UPs, Openers 2, 3, 4, 6, and a DEC of your choice

Varsity - 3 paragraphs  ALL DRESS-UPs, Openers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and a DEC of your choice 
Include and properly indicate these in each paragraph. Please vary your DECs

Examples:
If you are interested in becoming an astronaut, you might want to write about John Glenn or Neil Armstrong.

If you are interested in teaching, you might want to write about Aristotle or St. Elizabeth Ann Seton or Anne Sullivan.

If you are interested in becoming a lawyer, you might want to write about Abraham Lincoln or Sam Houston or Teresa Collett.

If you are interested in becoming an artist, you might want to write about Botticelli or Caravaggio.

If you are interested in working to forward the pro-life movement, you might want to write about Abby Johnson or Tim Tebow.

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Your second essay is due by October 17th  (email to PeggyCortez@hotmail.com).
Write and essay using this word as your prompt:  SUGAR

JV - 1 paragraph ALL DRESS-UPs, Openers 2, 3, 4, 6, and a DEC of your choice

Varsity - 3 paragraphs  ALL DRESS-UPs, Openers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and a DEC of your choice 

Include and properly indicate these in each paragraph. Please vary your DECs

It can be a research paper, a persuasive essay, or creative writing essay. You could find something of interest to you that has the word in it or implies the word sugar. You could choose an idiom with the word sugar in it.