Persuasive Writing is All Around You

You might be surprised at how many people and businesses are trying to convince you to do things every day. You only have to watch commercials, read the paper, look at the ads in your magazines, or read the billboards as you’re driving home to see that persuasion is all around you. 

Tonight for your homework find a persuasive piece to bring to or share about in class. It can be an article in the newspaper, a letter to the editor, a movie or book review, a commercial, or an advertisement in a  magazine or newspaper. Once you have found your persuasive piece, answer the questions below. 

1. Where did you find your persuasive example? 

2. Who is trying to persuade you? 

3. What are they trying to persuade you to do? 

4. Do you think their argument is convincing? Why or why not?

Answer in the comments section or on a sheet of notebook paper. 

From www.readwritethink.org 

Homework - November 26, 2012

Assignments

- Read for 20 minutes.

- Practice Weekly Poem.

- Visit www.studyisland.com for 20 minutes. You may choose the topics that you would like study.

- Write 3 paragraphs about your break.

Weekly Poem - Wind Pictures

Wind Pictures

By: Mary O'Neill

Look! There's a giant stretching in the sky,
A thousand white-maned horses flying by,
A house, a mother mountain with her hills,
A lazy lady posing in her frills,
cotton floating from a thousand bales,
And a white ship with white sails.

See the old witch fumbling with her shawl,
White towers piling on a castle wall,
the bits of soft that break and fall away,
Airborne mushrooms with undersides of gray -
Above, a white doe races with her fawn
On the white grass of a celestial lawn.
Lift up your lovely heads and look
As wind turns clouds into a picture book.

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems17.html

Homework - November 12, 2012

Assignments
*Get your Progress Report signed by your parents and return it tomorrow. I will award 5 minutes of extra recess to all students who return their signed Progress Report on Tuesday, November 13, 2012.

-Read 20 minutes. 

-Practice poem.

- Solve the following problems using the Partial Quotient method.
1. 982/5
2. 657/4
3. 9,031/7
4. 8,134/9
5. 682/4
Remember that / mean divided by.

-Read Chapter 10 of Johnny Tremain.

-Finish your rough draft of your Philosophy of Learning. 

Weekly Poem - Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks

Author Unknown

For the hay and the corn and the wheat that is reaped,
For the labor well done, and the barns that are heaped,
For the sun and the dew and the sweet honeycomb,
For the rose and the song and the harvest brought home -
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!

For the trade and the skill and the wealth in our land,
For the cunning and strength of the workingman's hand,
For the good that our artists and poets have taught,
For the friendship that hope and affection have brought -
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!

For the homes that with purest affection are blest,
For the season of plenty and well-deserved rest,
For our country extending from sea unto sea;
The land that is known as the "Land of the Free" -
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!

Homework - November 5, 2012

NO SCHOOL - Tomorrow, November 6, 2012 (Election Day)

Assignments
Read for 20 minutes on Monday night and Tuesday night.

Practice "Jacques Cartier" poem.

Reading - Read Chapter 8 of Johnny Tremain. 
Identify 5 examples for each type of pronoun (subject pronoun, object pronoun, possessive pronoun, relative pronoun)
Write the sentence, underline the pronoun, label the pronoun and write the page number. 

Math - Visit ixl.com for 20 minutes on Monday and Tuesday. 
Practice any multiplication skills of your choice. 
**Remember, I can check how much time you spend on the each activity and see how well you are doing. :) 

If you have time, check out studyisland.com and visit different activities. 

Weekly Poem - Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier By LdH
In 1491 Jacques Cartier's life had just begun. He did not know that he was going to live a life of explorations,
And even find a great many new nations. As a boy he fished with his father off the coast of Newfoundland,
And wished he could go beyond the icy mountain. Years later the king did request
That he find a passage to the northwest. Of course he did not protest,
For he wanted to sail to the northwest. When he was 43, he set out to sea. He went through the Strait of Bella Isle, After he had travelled for several miles. He had been trying to find a waterway,
But instead he ended up near Chaleui Bay. He saw a polar bear,
But he was aware that the king wouldn't care. When he returned to France, Crowds cheered,
But Jacques feared, That the king would not be happy. A year later he stepped onto another ship
For he was going on his next trip.
http://www.kathimitchell.com/explpo1.htm#Cabot