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All of you: Persepolis dialogue journals are past due, as well as your research papers! Do not put this off!

Period 2: read to page 47. There will be a quiz on Monday. Graphic Novels are due on

Period 6/7: Monday: Read to page 71 in The Alchemist. Scroll down for your homework questions and link to be completed in your notebook.

Graphic Novels are due on Wednesday.

The Alchemist

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Homework Due Monday 6/2

An alchemist is a person who practices a form of chemistry from the Middle Ages which was concerned with transforming various metals into gold. (noun)

Alchemy may be considered as the precursor to the modern science of chemistry. This image gallery displays some of the images and pictures associated with alchemy and the history of chemistry.

Some background work on Paolo Coelho:

The following link to the Wikipedia site, will offer you what I think is one of the most interesting descriptions of a writer I have ever read there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho

From the brief biography, answer the following questions in complete sentences in your spiral:

1. When and where was Paolo Coelho born?
2. After research, what did Coelho conclude after researching "what it meant to be a writer"?
3. Where was Coelho sent at the age of 16? Why?
4. How did he explain his parents actions?
5. How do you feel about what they did?
6. What did Coelho end up doing with his early life? List 3 things.
7. How many copies of The Alchemist were originally published? How many have sold to date? Into      how many languages has the book been translated?
8. Name 3 additional facts you find interesting about Coelho.

Period 2:

Bring Supplies for your Graphic Novels Thursday.

Dialogue journals for Persepolis are due. Turn in ASAP.

Your polished research papers are due on Thursday.

Periods 6/7

Periods 6 and 7:

Dialogue journals for Persepolis are due on Wednesday.

All unfinished drafts are due Wednesday.

By Wednesday you need to have read to page 44 in The Alchemist.There will be a quiz on Friday.

Bring materials to class on Friday to work on your graphic novels.

Week of May 27:

Period 2: Bring your polished drafts to continue peer-editing. Bring your completed dialogue journals for Persepolis.  Final, final drafts are due Thursday.

Dates and Times

All students should be finished with Persepolis by the end of the week. Question packets need to be turned in at that time.

Period 6: Bring your drafts for Peer-Editing!

Period 7: Final Drafts of your research papers are due Wed. Thurs. (the 21st and 22nd respectively).
On Friday we will have a socratic seminar and discuss Persepolis.

Period 2: your first but complete draft needs to be in class and ready to edit on Thursday. We will spend half the class peer-editing and the other half the class in a socratic seminar using your questions.

Your final project will be to create your own graphic novel depicting a major political struggle that has affected your life. We will discuss this in class.

Due Dates:

Period 2: Your outlines are due at the end of class tomorrow. We will work on them together during class.
Period 6: Your first draft of your research paper is due Monday.
Period 7: Your first draft of the research paper is due Friday. Come ready for peer editing.

All of you: We will continue to work on Persepolis. You need to have the entire packet of discussion questions filled out up to the chapter "Wine" (page 102). We will discuss on Friday.

I look forward to reading your research!

Outlines are due on Monday.

• Use your notecards to arrange a structure for your writing that makes sense,  is interesting, and is original. Remember, the "voice print" of your research will be mostly in the organization. Your analysis may state what is evident, but you are not composing a paper based on what you think. Rather, you are composing a paper based on what you have FOUND.  The way you present the information will be the way you cast a light on your subject.
• Everybody read to page 72 in Persepolis.
• We will finish our in-class writing on WWII on Monday.

Have a great weekend!

Period 6-7:

Come with your annotated bibliographies (if you haven't already turned them in) as well as 3-4 printed articles. We will be making notecards tomorrow and if you don't have articles, you will not be able to participate in this important activity!

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Period 7: Make sure you complete your 6-10 line found poem derived from all of the WWII writing you have done. Write it in your notebooks ready for Monday.