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Monday, January 7, 2013

PBH Due 1.14.13

Hello All,

Welcome to Marking Period 3! You are half way towards graduation. Please note that you have many opportunities to go online, whether at the school's computer lab, during Miss. N's Reading Room days (Tue/Wed) assigned to your class, at a library or any other safe way to use the internet in order to complete assignments. BASICALLY, THERE ARE NO EXCUSES!!!!!!!

Please do the following:

I. Argumentative Writing PBH Assignment
  • Print three articles (each article reflecting each one of the three points stated in your thesis statement) that counterargues (goes against/opposes) your thesis statement. Due 1.14.13
  • Introductions must be completed on the worksheet I handed out to the class. Due 1.14.13
II. The Reading Cafe Blogspot Reading Logs
  • Post your reading logs online using the steps I will demonstrate in class. Please read a nonfiction book. However, if you are currently reading a fiction text and would rather use this for your logs, that would be ok as well. I provided a list of WDM books in Oct/Nov that I did not have in class but available at the library. Feel free to use this list if you are out of ideas of what to read for the online blogspot reading logs.
  • Focus Question is: How is the title an appropriate or inappropriate choice for this book?
  • Reading log posting date has been changed to  Monday, January 21, 2013 no later than 7pm. This is the same day your nonfiction book review is due. I will provide the outline to you in class, in addition, I will compose a list of nonfiction books for you to choose from. Please note that you have until 1.21.13 to post, therefore, if you choose to post earlier, you may do so.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at thereadingcafe@aol.com, or call Dial-A-Teacher at 212.777.3380 to assist you in other subject areas M-F 4-7 pm.

Miss. N :)


1 comment:

  1. Name: Saiful Same

    Book Title: The Race to Save the Lord God Bird

    Author: Phillip Hoose

    Week of: 01/04/2013 – 01/19/2013

    Number of Page: page 05 to 46 page

    Question: Was the title an appropriate choice for this book? Why or why not? Explain your reasoning using two or three details from the book.

    Reading Response: Yes, Hoose was very successful appropriate choice for this book, the book title is “The Race to Save the Lord God Bird”. This is story from author Phillip Hoose, who love birds, he want save them from extinct and he curious why people killed them. There most incredible bird name “Ivory - Bill the woodpecker”. “When taken the hand”, wrote Wilson, “they strike with great violence, and inflict very server wounds with their bill as well as claw, which claw, which are extremely sharp and strong.” That mean ivory bill the woodpecker they’re very strong because of they have sharp claw and ivory bill can attack their pray easy for their sharp long beak. It’s also helping them to protect from the predator too. “There was but one young one about,” Beyer noted, “and it remain in close vicinity of the entrance, notwithstanding that it was almost fully feathered and able to fly. Both patents were still feeding it.” In the bird nest birds family eat together and share it. Help young bird help to learn how to fly in the sky and stick close to each other. Parents protect their with their feathered.

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