What Happened Today!

5-30 - Continue slam poetry presentations.  Membean test on Monday.

5-29 - Start poetry presentations - hand in typed copy when you present.   Don't forget Membean test on Monday.

5-28 - Work on slam poetry

5-27 - Work on slam poetry - have a typed final copy when you present your poem on Thursday/Friday

5-23 - PLP in computer lab.  Watch spoken word TED talks.  Rough draft of spoken word poem due Tuesday.

5-22  Continue watching documentaries.  Watch TED Talk about Slam Poetry.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI-KA3t0IEs

Homework - Take a piece of notebook paper and draw a line vertically in the middle.  On one side write "I am"  on the other write "I am from"  Completely fill these out by tomorrow and bring them to class.

5-21 - Membean quiz - 50 questions   Begin watching documentaries and filling out evaluation forms.

5-20  - Sestinas packet - in class only  MEMBEAN QUIZ TOMORROW

5-19 = SSR   FINAL SSR DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, MAY 23 AT MIDNIGHT!

5-16 - write a sestina!  Links for documentaries are due on Monday.  We will have SSR on Monday

5-15 - poetryfoundation.org - analyze poems from this website. - Links for documentaries are due on Monday.

Membean quiz will be on the 21st.

5-14 - Write your own sonnet!  Use the last page of yesterday's packet to figure out iambic pentameter and also pick up the sheet in class for your final copy.

5-13 - Sonnets - pick up packet in my room if you were absent.

5-12 - SSR - shape poems due

5-9 - Global warming poetry - in class and homework -concrete or shape poetry about global warming due Monday

5-8 - The 11th Hour

5-6 & 5-7 - STAAR A.M.  classes 1,3,5,7 (Tues) - 2,4,6,8 (Wed.) - Membean quiz - 50 questions

5-5 - Membean - 15 minutes then SSR.

5-2 - Work with groups on presentation.

5-1 - Blendspace with presentation options.  www.blendspace.com/lessons/bRSOuP9j5lcKbA/multimedia-resources 

4-30 - Review project instructions and rubric  Unit 5 EA Rubric.pdf (76802)  Research Guide for Environment Issues.pdf (88627)

View Part 1 - 11th Hour

4-29 - Warm up - There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

4-28 - SSR

4-25 - Divide into groups for embedded assessment project.  Choose topics.

4-24 - Reel or Real - Springboard - 352

4-23 - "I Need to Wake Up" in Springboard 348-351

4-22 - Antigone test

4-21 - SSR

4-18 - Finish Antigone and packet.  Antigone test - next Tuesday

4-17 - Membean quiz - Antigone

4-16 - Antigone - to Ode 3 - and packet  VOCAB quiz tomorrow

4-15 - Antigone - through page 298 - Guard

REMEMBER - The Membean assignment is for at least 3 sessions during the week acquiring at least 45 minutes.

4-14 - No warm up - SSR - turn in packets.

4-10 - No warm up - Structure in Persuasion packet due Monday.

4-9 - Warm up:  Kohlberg's dilemma  - discussion of Kohlberg's theory of morality.  Kohlberg 2.ppt (896512)

HW - Membean - next quiz on 4-17

4-8 - Warm up:  How does "Letter from Birmingham Jail" relate to civil disobedience and justice?

Color code ethos(green), pathos (pink), logos (blue), and opposition's arguments (purple) in the "chunks" of "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

4-7 - Warm up:  Journal Check  and then SSR

4-4 - Warm up:  What is the nature of justice?  

Read "Civil Disobedience" in your Springboard book.  Then read "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while summarizing the "chunks."

4-3 - Vocab quiz - grade multiple choice. Choose essay to grade.

4-2 - Library - Membean session and Goodreads website.  Vocab quiz tomorrow.

4-1 - STAAR testing - Review essays for 7th and 8th.

3-31 - STAAR testing - Review essays for 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

3-28 - Continue practice test, short answer questions, and write 26 line essay.

3-27 - Continue practice test and short answer questions.

3-26 - begin practice test

3-25 - Review of parallete structure, active/passive voice, and compound/complex sentences.  Pick up the 3 worksheets from me.

3-24 - SSR

REMEMBER - The Membean assignment is for at least 3 sessions during the week acquiring at least 45 minutes.

3-21 - In-class essay.  

Quote : "IF you came home and you found a strange man teaching your kids to punch each other, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it." --Jerome Singer

Write an essay supporting your opinion on this topic using specific reasons and examples to support your response.

3-20 - Journal - Correct the following sentences:

preparing our dinne the smell of the chicken made Ben hungry

Thaddeus a brilliant student will probably get a higher grade then i will Toby remarked

Work with short answer questions.

3-19 - Journal  - Correct the following sentences:

In The Scarlet Ibis a short story by James Hurst the character of Doodle is spiritually connected to a exotic bird the author does this to show the beuty of a fragile life.

The horse tale whipt wildly as it endures the long pencil sized needle that Dr Lopez used for vaccinations.

Continue with practice STAAR testing.  Short answers 21 & 23 tomorrow.

3-18 - Journal - Correct the following sentences:

the gallegos twins visited yellowstone national park with there family last summer they had to wait nearly ninety minutes to see old faithful erupt.

My dependible car who has taken me over 120,000 miles still has a smooth purring engine.

Work on a practice STAAR test in class. 

3-17 - Journal - Correct the following sentences:

Isabella washed the piles of dirty dishes, while Katherine vaccumed the filthy rug, they try to complete a months worth of cleaning in just one hour's time.

Wrestling looks like play it teaches lion cubs important survivel skills. 

SSR - three weeks left to get a booktalk in!  Sign up soon before all the spots are taken!

3-7 - Journal - •What clubs or activities are you currently in?  Why did you choose these?  Have you investigated other clubs or activities?  What other clubs and activities might you be interested in?  Write a paragraph evaluating your current choices and possibilities of future choices.

Spring board - pages 228 & 234  Grade will be taken on these following spring break.

Project instructions - Project.docx (104251)

3-6 - Vocab quiz - finish Julius Caesar  

Discuss project - directions should be online tomorrow.

3-5 - Julius Caesar 

Vocab quiz tomorrow!

3-4 - Julius Caesar - Follow Julius Caesar, Anthony, Brutus, Cassius and Casca as far as ethos, pathos, and logos throughout the play

3-3 - No school - ice

2-28 - No warm up - page 227 in Springboard.  Choose one of the prompts and write a 26 line essay.

2-27 - No warm up - SB pages 208-214

2-26 - Warm up - ¡Revise the following sentence:

Teenagers in our community serve an important role, work hard to gain respect, and deserving to stay out past 10:00.

2-25 - Warm up - explain CER in a paragraph.

TEA power point for grade points on STAAR for short answer - rewrite short answer for a 3 if possible.

2-24 - No warm up - SSR - finish benchmarks

2-21 - Membean - put address (https://membean.com/s/chhs) into journal.  Login is first name_last name_chhs  Your password the first time you log in is the same as your username.  Then change your password.  Do the calibration and at least one 15 minute session by Monday.

ALSO - do the Frayer model for the following adacemic words:  hook, thesis, argument, audience, and parallel structure

SSR is Monday.  If you have not finished the benchmark, you may do that during SSR time on Monday.

2-20 - No warm up.  Writing benchmark.  We will have SSR on Monday.  Some may need to finish any unfinished benchmarks.

2-19 - No warm up.  Reading benchmark - tomorrow will be writing benchmark

2-18 - Thinking maps and planning practice.  Warm up - How would knowing the parts of a persuasive essay help you in writing this essay?

2-14 - Continuation of organization of a rhetorical article

All grades are concluded as of today - grades must be turned in by teachers at midnight Sunday.

2-13 - Organization of a rhetorical article

2-12 - Stossel - Censorship on college campuses - decoding parts of an argument

2-11 - Vocab test 7-9 in computer lab.  Late start - short classes.

If you failed the test, you may write all 60 words and definitions 10 times each.  Hopefully, this will help you learn them.  This is due by Friday.

2-10 - Grade vocab review for units 7-9 - vocab test tomorrow

SSR

2-6 or 2-7 for 7th and 8th

TFA Test - turn in packets (test grade)

Bring TFA books for annotation check tomorrow

2-5 Grade vocab unit 9

Socratic discussion of TFA

TFA test tomorrow - Packet due

Vocab - pages 118-125 due Monday Feb. 10

Vocb test - units 7-9 next Tuesday, Feb. 11

2-4 - Timed Writing

50 minutes - Is Okonkwo a tragic hero?  Justify your answer with text evidence.  Parenthetical citations required.

We will grade Unit 9 vocab workbook on Wednesday.

TFA test on Thursday.  Packets due Thursday.  Springboard pages 154, 155, 157, 162

2-3  SSR

Finish Things Fall Apart

1-31  Watch and discuss ppt on short answers  STAAR EOC Scoring Guide - Single Selection.pptx (3241491)

Return short answers written last Friday, and revise to fit into this:  STAAR Short Answer Reading Questions2.docx (67023)

Read Chapters 20-22 of TFA by Monday - finish book by Tuesday.

Vocab 9 workbook due Monday - last time to take quiz by Monday night.

1-30 - Warm up -Chapter 14 - Cite several literary devices that Achebe uses when describing nature after    first rains and analyze the efect Achebe creates with their use.  (Find at least five examples.)

Prezi -  prezi.com/gumes_k_s-wp/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Extended learning obligation - Read chapters 16-19  (Book must be completed by Tuesday)

1-29 35 minute classes.  Read TFA 14 & 15 before Thursday.

1-28  - Warm up - write a summary of chapters 10 & 11 in your journal.

TFA ppt. thingsfallapart-091003213857-phpapp01.ppt (2,8 MB)

Bring TFA books tomorrow for reading in class.

1/27 - Grade Vocab 8 workbook

SSR

Vocab quiz 8 no later than 11:59 tonight.

1-24 - Warm up 

Identify subject, predicate, prepositions, adverbs, and adjectives.

"While the bubbles were yet sparkling on the brim, the doctor's four guests snatched their glasses from the table and swallowed the contents at a single gulp" (Hawthorne 102).

Write your own sentence, mimicking the pattern of the above sentence.

1-23 - Warm up:

 

Take grade on page 162

Read Chapter 8 by tomorrow.

1-22 - Warm up:

 

Read chapter 7 and do page 162 SB in your packet.

 

1-21 - Grade vocab unit 7 - Quiz due by tonight.

TFA quiz

Page 157 SB in your packet.  At least 5-6 entries on each side of the graphic organizer.

HW:  Chapters 5-6 in TFA

1-20 - No school MLK Day

1-17 - No warm up

Discussion of Venn Diagram on page 155.  Short answer practice - Prompt:  How does Okonkwo's father's influence connect to Okonkwo's character traits.  (Write a paragraph - 10-14 notebook paper lines - using the CER - claim, evidence, reason - method of writing.)

Homework - Read chapters 3&4 by Tuesday.  Check the study quide for any questions you could answer to this point. 

Vocabulary Unit 7 will be checked in class on Tuesday, and the quiz should be completed online by Tuesday evening.

1-16 - No warm up

Put together packet for TFA  Read Chapter 1 in class. Pages from Springboard (154, 155, 157, 159, 162, 173, 176, 179)  Attach these to the study guide handed out in class.  This will be completed and turned in at the conclusion of TFA study.

Complete the Culture Wheel on 154 and the Venn diagram on 155 and read Chapter 2 for Friday.

1-15 - Continue presentation.  Bring TFA book for Thursday.

1-14 - Today the groups will begin their presentations about Chinua Achebe & Nigeria.  This is background information for reading "Things Fall Apart."

1-13 - SSR

12-20 - Midterm examps for periods 6,7 & 8.

12-19 - Midterm exams for periods 1,4 & 5.

12-18 - Midterm exams for periods 2 & 3

12-17 - We had a review of vocabulary words from Units 1-6 to prepare for midterm exam.

12-16 - Reading

12-13 - Vocab test 4-6

12-12 - Socratic circle to discuss theme, motif, symbols and message of "Harrison Bergeron."

12-11 -  Read and discussed short story"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.

12-9 - ICE

12-7 - ICE

12-6 - no school - Essays will be due on the Monday we return.  Vocab test over units 4-6 will be Tuesday, December 10

12-5 - warm up - What do you plan to give your mother as a present over the holidays and why.

Work on raciocination.  Remember that papers must be turned in in the following order - final copy, rough draft, raciocination paper, and prompt paper with the rubric on the very back.

12-4 - warm up -

"There's a point, around age twenty...whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.? ~ Charles le Guin

Bring rough draft to class tomorrow!

12-3 - warm up - grade vocab review - TEST will be next Tuesday - December 10.

Begin synthesis essay.  Bring rough draft to class on Wednesday. Unit 2 EA 2 Synthesis Essay.docx (18782)

12-2 - No warm up

Turn in packet "Writing the Persuasive Essay"

SSR -- we will grade pages 80-87 vocab on Tuesday

11-22 - No warm up

Benchmark testing - multiple choice reading

11-21 - No warm up

Benchmark testing - persuasive essay

11-20 - No warm up

Work on persuasive essay packet. - Benchmark tests on Thursday and Friday.

Homework - complete essay packet by December 2.

11-19 Warm up - quick write on page 114 of Springboard

Begin persuasive writing - see me for packet if you are absent.

Homework - fill out chart on page 3 (this may require some research) and be ready to start writing tomorrow.

11-18 - Warm up - grade vocab 6

SSR

VOCAB pages 80-87 due Monday, Dec. 2.

11-15 No warm up

Finish Bend it like Beckham

HOMEWORK: pages 108-114 in Springboard book. "An Indian Father's Plea" due Tuesday and bring reading book on Monday.  Also, Unit 6 in vocab is due on Monday.

11-14 Grade comma worksheet

Continue with video.

11-13 - Warm up - page 89 in Springboard

Read poem on page 90, "Father and Son."

Complete comma worksheet in class.  Comma worksheet.docx (16975)

11-12 - Warm up - read "Marriage to a Proper Stranger" in the Springboard book.

Continue with video.

11-11 - Warm up - grade vocab 5 .  Vocab quiz is due today.  It opens at 4:00.  You have until  11:59 Thursday evening to complete this.

SSR

11-8 - Warm up - reflection on page 81 of Springboard: Identify a conflict from this segment of the film, and explain whether it is an internal or external conflict.  Address both side of the conflict, and describe how the resolution, if any, is reached.  Watch first 30 minutes of Bend It Like Beckham.

VOCAB 5 workbook due Monday!

11-7 - Warm up:

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” ~ Mark Twain

 

Springboard 2.6 page 80 - video clips of A Beautiful Life and My Big Fat Greek Wedding were used.

 

11-6 - Warm up - CBA - Curriculum based assessment

Read 2.5 "Us and Them" and fill in the chart on page 79.

11-5 - Warm up:

Adjectives

Commas separate two or more adjectives preceding a noun.

Example

It was a cold, snowy day.

Example

I slept in a big, tall, comfortable feather bed.

Commas do not follow all the adjectives in a series. Commas are not used to separate adjectives that are thought of as part of the noun, such as feather bed in the example above.  To determine if a comma is necessary, place and between the adjectives. If the sentence still reads well, use a comma. If it is awkward or unclear, do not use a comma.

Example

The salesperson was a friendly, talkative, well-dressed man.

The salesperson was a friendly and talkative and well-dressed man.

Example

My ideal vacation destination is a warm, deserted, sandy beach with my sweetheart.

My ideal vacation destination is a warm and deserted and sandy beach with my sweetheart.

When revising sentences, changing the order of adjectives in a sentence can change whether a comma is needed. Be sure to use the test above each time you proofread.

Direct Address

Whenever the name of a person being addressed is included in a sentence, it should be set apart by commas.

Example

Do you know, Kathy, where the canned tomatoes are?

Example

Sarah, please take care of the plants while I am gone.

Occasionally, the person being addressed is not named, but identified in another way.

Example

I promise you, my friend, the tour is well worth the wait.

 

Exclamations

Mild exclamations are also set apart by commas.

Example

Gee, the radio was turned off when we left.

Example

 

Man, that movie was way too long.

Rewrite the following sentences and add commas

where necessary. If the sentence is correct as it

appears, write correct.

29. By the end however the crowd was on their feet.

______________________________________________________________________

30. Gosh the hill looks steeper now that I am standing at the top.

______________________________________________________________________

31. You cover their point guard Norm and Hal you post up in the key.

_____________________________________________________________________

32. We expected to play for an hour not ten minutes.

 

______________________________________________________________________

 

Discussion of humor and terms:  Terms for Humor.docx (14241)

Vocab quiz 4 is active on Quia until Thursday night.  Vocab 5 workbook due on Monday.

 

11-4 - Warm up:  Grade vocab - Unit 4

SSR

Vocab quiz opens at 4 and should be completed before 11:59 Thursday evening.

11-1 - Warm up:

Dates and Addresses

Put a comma between the date and the year when writing the date in a month-day-year format.

Example

Walt married Jen on February 6, 1994, and then started his job with Kemper.

Example

Holly was born on April 17, 1987.

If using a month-year format for the date, no comma is needed. Notice that the preposition on becomes in when the date is written this way.

Example

Holly was born in April 1987.

Put commas on either side of the state or province when it is used to further identify a city.

Example

Only about 1,000 people lived in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1640s.

Example

The Liberty Bell is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Example

My favorite wax museum is in Victoria, British Columbia.

Commas separate the items in a street address.

Example

My friends found a house to rent at 1625 Pine Street N.W., Anchorage, Alaska.

Example

The job interview will take place at 3 Halsey Tower, Suite 104.

 

Rewrite the following sentences and add commas where necessary. If the sentence is correct as it appears, write correct.

 

23. The SAT exam will be administered on January18 2004 in the school auditorium.

_______________________________________________________________________

24. I sent the package to 7335 50th Street N.E. Seattle Washington 98115.

______________________________________________________________________

25. The air show was in March 1999 in Santa Clara.

______________________________________________________________________

26. Blake left for Minneapolis Minnesota yesterday.

______________________________________________________________________

27. The United Nations is headquartered in New York City.

______________________________________________________________________

28. The festival is in Las Vegas New Mexico in May 2004.

 

______________________________________________________________________

 

In-class timed writing over "Thanksgiving" in the Springboard book on page 66.  

Prompt:  Write a response to the questions that follow in 40 minutes.  Remember to use transitions as you draft your response to the questions.  What does the author struggle with as her perspective of Thanksgiving changes?  How do the external forces in her life (moving, getting older, influence of others) cause internal conflict?  What is the role of reflection in understanding the effect of changing circumstances?

A.  Intro

    1.  title, author, genre

    2.  nostalgic

    3.  thesis

B.  struggle as perspective changes

    1.  feelings

    2.  ideal of Thanksgiving

C.  external forces - internal conflict

   1.  moving

    2.  getting older

    3.  influence of others

D.  role of reflection

    1.  back to roots

    2.  changes made

E.  Conclusion

    1.  theme

    2.  wrap-up

 

Unit 4 vocabulary book is due on Monday!  Make sure you bring a book for reading!

10-31 - Warm up - Write a two sentence horror story.   

Edgar Allan Poe - "The Raven" Notes on Romantic Movement and Poe's life.

10-30 - Warm up: Journal Check

Pages 66-71 Springboard  Read and annotate "Thanksgiving," then fill out the graphic organizer on page 66.  Due at the beginning of class tomorrow.

10-29 - Warm up

Commas separate items in a series to make it easier for the reader to understand. These separated items can be words, phrases, or clauses. Usually, a conjunction comes before the last item in the series. A comma is optional before the conjunction, but when you decide to use a comma in this case, you should be consistent.

Words

Example

Michelle, Jordan, Andy, and Margo went to the dance together.

Example

 

I made sure I had a clean shirt, shoes, jacket, and tie.

In both of the above examples, a comma separates nouns in a list. Verbs can also come in a list and be separated by commas.

Example

The lawnmower rumbled, backfired, and died.

Phrases

Example

The skateboarder spun, hopped onto the railing, slid down, and landed gracefully at the bottom of the stairs.

Example

The aliens landed their spacecraft, opened the pod doors, and stepped out into the sunlight.

 

Clauses

Example

Dave packed the snow gear, Melissa cleared out the trunk of the car, and Felipe made some sandwiches to eat on the trip to the mountain.

Example

 

The office was closed for the night, my manager was out of town, and the report had to be sent to the main office tomorrow.

Rewrite the following sentences and add the correct punctuation. If the sentence is correct as it appears, write correct on the line.

19. The water damage caused the plaster to stain crack and fall apart.

______________________________________________________________________

20. The reservations only included me Phil and Charles.

_______________________________________________________________________

21. The basketball court was cracked concrete the rims were bent and the backboards were covered in graffiti.

______________________________________________________________________

22. Howard and Roberta own the jewelry store.

_______________________________________________________________________

 

Peer review compare and contrast papers.  Final copy due Wednesday.  No more than 4 comma mistakes accepted.

Page 65 SB

Journal check tomorrow!!!

10-28 - No warm up

Grade Vocab Book - Word Study - Units 1-3 - Unit 4 due next Monday - November 4

SSR

10-25 - Warm up:  Commas.pptx (558852)

Springboard - pages 63 and 64 due Tuesday - Word Study and books on Monday!

10-24 - Warm up:

 

Pages 61 & 62 in Springboard including the "Putting it all Together" at the bottom.  Write the paragraph in your jounal

Link to picture to analyze:  https://www.google.com/search?q=the+builders+the+family&espv=210&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=qVlpUoTpPKSr2wX864GQBQ&ved=0CEQQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=600

 

10-23 - Warm up:

10-22 - No warm up

Vocab test on Quia

Complete Word Study in Vocab Book due Monday.

10-21 - No warm up

Grade reading passage questions.

SSR and book talks

Vocab test - units 1-3 tomorrow.

10-18 - No warm up

Reading passage - excerpt from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

10-17 - Warm up

Personal learning plan and goal setting..

10-16 - NO warm up - PSAT - reading in class.

10-15 - Warm up - Where are you on your journey as a reader?

In library with Ms. Brem analyzing book genres. - Bring reading books for Wednesday class.

10-14 - NO SCHOOL

10-11 - No warm up - Students in computer lab with counselors.  If you were absent, you will need to get your transcript from the counseling office.

10-10 - No warm up

Finish monologue presentations

Active/passive voice worksheet - due Tuesday.passive-voice-worksheet (1).doc (28160)

10-9 - Warm up

1. What did you learn from writing your monologues?

2. What are some characteristics of good writing?

Monologue presentations.

10-8 - No warm up

Practice PSAT writing section.

10-7 - No warm up - grade Vocab workbook

Vocab quiz due by tonight!

SSR

10-4 - No warm up

The Poetry of Phrases done in class.

10-3 - Use 10 words of the 60 we have studied so far in the vocab book, and write a poem or a paragraph using the words correctly.

Peer edit first draft of monologues.  Both finished monologues are due Tuesday. (Embedded Assessment 2, pages 49 and 50)

10-2 - Warm up -

 "Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." ~ Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh

 

10-1 - Warm up - How does punctuation impact voice?

Activity 1.15 - pg 36 - 42  Choose one of the monologues and fill in the SOAPSTone chart on page 42.  Include the question "What does the punctuation tell us about the speaker's or writer's personality?"

9-30 - Warm up - grade vocab books

Review Poisonwood Bible reading passage and questions

Explain SSR and read...

Vocab quiz due by midnight tonight.

9-27 - No warm up because of Pep Rally schedule

Close reading practice - Poisonwood Bible

VOCAB QUIZ by Monday night.  VOCAB book Unit 2 graded on Monday.

9-26 - No warm up

In-class reading of tone papers done yesterday about "Imagine".  

Page 35 in Springboard - punctuation.

9-25 - No warm up

Journal check - 20 entries from 8-28 through 9-25

SB page 33 - John Lennon's "Imagine".  Evaluate for tone.  Divide into groups and write a response based upon the tone word given to the group.  

9-24 - Warm up

"Alas for those who never sing,
 but die with all their music in them!“
 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

 

Page 31 in Springboard Book.  Watch the Grease clip and fill in the page dealing with personas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS9SXH3DfT8

 

Start working on Unit 2 vocabulary.  Workbook is due on Monday.  Quiz opens Thursday and closes on Monday midnight.  PLEASE do it before Monday.

9-23 - No warm up

Grade one section of vocab lesson - Vocab quiz due by midnight tonight.

Discussion of "voice" and embedded assessment 2

Get your journals ready; they will be graded on Wednesday!!!

9-20

Finish TPCASTT on "Theme for English B" - then do TWIST on page 20.

Grammar practice sheet in class.

Vocab unit 1 due Monday - quiz due by Monday midnight.

 

9-19

Warm up

 

TPCASTT for "Theme for English B" on pages 19-20 in SB book.

 

Vocab Unit 1 due Monday - quiz is now available on Quia. Do not do writing exercises on page 20.

9-18 Warm up

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic – John F. Kennedy
(copy this quote on your paper)

Read "Funny in Farsi" excerpt in the SB book.  Write a response discussing how the author creats voice within this selection.  Be specific and use examples.

9-16  - Warm up

Write a one paragraph reflection on the process of creating your quilt square.  What did you learn?  Why was the process important to your study of culture?

Return essays.  Gallery walk of Quilt Squares.  Peer editing of paragraphs. Final copies due tomorrow.

Vocab quiz due by midnight tonight.

9-13 - No warm up because of pep rally schedule

Item analysis of grammar pretest.

Don't forget - quilt square is due on Monday along with rough draft of two paragraphs over two of the symbols on the quilt square

Vocab is due by Monday midnight. - Don't wait!  This will take practice!

Extra credit will be given if you write one more paragraph on a separate piece of paper and hand it to me. - this is only available if you see it online.

9-12

No warm up because of pep rally schedule.

Grammar pretest.

9-11

No warm up today.

Page 22 in Springboard - "Where I'm From"

Write your own "Where I'm From" poem due tomorrow.

Vocab quiz is due by midnight Monday night - don't wait until the last day!!!!

9-10

No warm up today.

Hand in essays - check homework.

Annotate "My Mother Pieced Quilts"

Assign embedded assessment on page 24.  Due - Monday, 9/16

Root vocab words are now available under vocab tab.  Quiz in on Quia and will be due next Monday at midnight.

9-9

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.  Just get people to stop reading them.

~ Ray Bradbury (copy this on your paper)

Intro Springboard Unit 1  pages 4-6; Answer essential questions on page 5; Fill in quilting circle on page 6

Homework - Fill out symbol chart on page 6 before class tomorrow.

Essays are due tomorrow.

9-5

Basic instruction for the essay and works cited page on archetypes.  Please check out the OWL of Purdue under helpful links on the website.

9-4

Picture Day!  Research of archetypes during class. 

Assignment:  Write an essay identifying the characters of a book or movie as to the archetypes within that book or movie and the importance of each.  Due Tuesday.  MLA format and Works Cited required.

9-3

Begin study of archetypes and the hero's journey.  Cornell notes taken in class.  If you are absent, please get notes from someone in your class.  Pictures are tomorrow.

8-28

Warm up:

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
(copy this quote on your paper)

8-27

Discussion of plagiarism (ppt).  Facebook page and parent contact sheet due by Friday. Please have spirals by tomorrow.

8-26

General information session.  Facebook page and Parent Contact Sheet should be returned by Thursday.  Facebook page is a grade.  Please have spirals by Wednesday.