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Asteroid Challenge: [|Matched] * [|City of Ember] * [|The Girl Who Owned a City] * [|A Wrinkle in Time] * [|Uglies] * [|Among the Hidden] [|Linking and Helping Verb Practice] [|AAAWWUBBIS and FANBOYS] [|Sentence Types] Quizlets: [|QTheGirlWhoOwned] * [|Matched] * [|City of Ember] * [|A Wrinkle in Time] * [|Uglies] * [|Among the Hidden] **2018 BOOK GROUPS** ** Group Project (10 pts) - ** Each group needs to agree on one project to do jointly. You will have class time to work on this. Story Elements Chart Notice and Note Chart ** Individual Project (15 pts) - ** Choose **ONE** of the following projects to work on by yourself. Click on each link for descriptions and requirements for each choice. Character Scrapbook Character Bubble Maps Draw or Create a model of your Novel's Setting Create a graphic novel of one chapter Character Letters Create a Boardgame based on your novel Complete the group project that your group did NOT choose!
 * EXTRA CREDIT???!! ** That's right! Earn up to 5 points (for Term 3) of extra credit by doing any of the following. Note: Just because a choice is worth a certain amount of points, doesn't mean you'll necessarily earn that number of extra credit points just for doing it. Even though this work is optional, I expect to see your best efforts as usual!

1 point - Acrostic Poem using the first and last name of your main character 1 point - Crossword Puzzle (At least 5 terms Across and 5 terms Down) based on your novel 1 point - Current Events and Your Novel 1 point -Sentence Examples 1 point - Memorize AAAWWUBBIS and FANBOYS words. Be able to write them down from memory when asked to do so next week, 1 point - Memorize 23 Linking and Helping verbs. Be able to write them down from memory when asked to do so next week Words to Linking and Helping Verbs songs 2 points -Character Tweets 2 points- Create a new cover for your book 2 points -Make a movie trailer about your book using iMovie 2 points -Double Bubble Map 3 points - Use iMove (or any other video-making program) to recreate and act out a scene from your novel 4 points - ABC Poster 5 points -Read one of the other book choices or (a book sequel )and complete a second individual project based on that novel **GREEK ROOT STUDY** ** WORD LISTS ** gen   hydr   phon   poli   eu   therm & meter gram & graph opt & scop ast cycl dem

[|GREEK ROOTS GAME: IT'S GREEK TO ME] ** PODCASTS ** [|Phon.] [|graph] [|Onym] [|Path] [|Log] [|Morph] [|Greek and Latin Roots lists] [|List of Greek and Latin Roots in English] [|Greek and Latin Roots - Michigan State] [|Membean Word Trees] Save the following PDF files into your iBooks app:
 * FOR ALL OTHER ROOTS, CHECK THESE RESOURCES **

  MYTHS TO READ FOR PLOT STRUCTURE AND CHARACTER TRAITS

** RED LIST - shorter stories, easy vocabulary ** [|The Great Flood] [|The Nymph Who Had the Last Word] [|King Midas' Golden Touch] [|The Reason for Seasons] [|Icarus and Daedalus] ** GREEN LIST - medium length stories, clear plot structure, 6th grade vocabulary ** [|Echo and Narcissus] [|Hermes]  [|Midas and the Golden Touch]  [|The Hero and His Horse - The Story of Bellerophon] [|The God Who Was Captured by Pirates - Dionysus] [|Robber Baby - Hermes] or [|Hermes] (Choose ONE)  [|Zeus][|Aphrodite][|Ares] ** ORANGE LIST - longer stories, more challenging plot structure and vocabulary ** [|Persephone] [|Jason and Medea] **PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE**  (You can find the following stories in the brown textbooks at the front of the room)   "Arachne" p. 623   "The Gorgon's Head" p. 633 or [|Perseus]( Choose ONE) **GREEK MYTHS** by Olivia Coolidge (You will find these stories in the books on the counter!) Trickery of Hermes p. 3 - 8 Phaeton, Son of Apollo: p. 12 - 17 Niobe p. 79-84 Daedalus p. 85-89 Lover of Beauty p. 107-109 Baucis and Philemon p.125 - 128