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Saturday, November 26, 2005

Week 13's Lessons

Monday 11/28
1. Fahrenheit 451 Final Quiz
2. Do Assessment Practice page 143 - Rewrite paragraph
3. Review Commentary
4. Do Vocab Unit 7 Part A and B (25 points) Homework

Tuesday 11/29
1. Review Vocabulary and Open Note Test
2. Read and discuss Writing Workshop (Opinion Statement) pages 138-142
3. Body Paragraph handout
4. Vocabulary do Unit 7, Part C and D (50 points) Homework

Wednesday 11/30
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Idiom Test (week 1-9) 100 points
3. Read Montgomery Boycott page 124 - 133 (Homework)

Thursday 12/1
1. Vocabulary Bingo and Vocabulary Pre-test
2. Read and discuss Montgomery Boycott
3. Write developed complete sentences and answer questions 1-8 page 133 (60 points)
Homework - answer each bullet

Friday 12/2
1. Unit 7 Vocabulary Test (100 points)
2. Review homework and discuss
3. Pass out practice CAHSEE books

Extra Credit: Buy or have your own copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, that you can take notes in by Monday, and show it to me before school or at break and you can earn 33 extra credit points. Monday 12/5

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Happy Thanksgiving lessons 11/21 - 11/23

Monday 11/21
1. Review Test: Glossary Test and Vocabulary Unit 6 Test
2. Finish lecture: Ideas about the Novel
3. Commentary Practice

Tuesday 11/22
1. Fahrenheit 451 Notes Test
2. Lecture: Commentary
3. Personal Commentary Practice
4. Review Vocabulary 5 and 6

Wednesday 11/23
1. Practice CAHSEE Test
2. Review Idioms
3. Review Commentary Practice in groups. The best commentary packets gets extra credit
points.

EXTRA CREDIT
*You have to read aloud "A Thanksgiving Fable" in a family gathering. Then write a paragraph explaining the moral. Finally have a parent write a note and sign your paragraph; that you read the fable aloud to your family. (points vary from 10 to 30 points)

Sunday, November 13, 2005

11th week 11/14 - 11/18

Monday 11/14
1. Review Tests: Quarter Final, and Fahrenheit 451
2. Groups: Set up Presentations and Review
3. Do Vocab Unit 6 Part A&B

Tuesday 11/15
1. Review Vocabulary
2. 451 Glossary Bee
3. 451 Group Presentations
4. Do Vocabulary Unit 6 Part C and D (50 points)

Wednesday 11/16
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Lecture: Symbols
3. Study Fahrenheit 451 Glossary
4. Multi-paragraph Commentary

Thursday 11/17
1. Vocab Bingo and Pre-test
2. Fahrenheit Glossary Test (100 points)
3. Lecture: Ideas about the Novel
4. Commentary Practice

Friday 11/18
1. Unit 6 Vocabulary Test (100 points)
2. Review Glossary Test
3. Finish Lecture: Ideas about the Novel

Be ready for a pop quiz this week. Also, this is the last week for cans.

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Start of the second quarter 11/7-11/10

Monday 11/7
1. Collect Fahrenheit 451 books
2. Take Language Arts Benchmark Standards Test
3. Do Reading Guide (Part two and three) *Homework* (85 points)

Tuesday 11/8
1. Review and discuss Reading Guide
2. Lecture: Title
3. Work on Strategic Reading and Literary Concept packet *Homework*
4. 1st Quarter Grade printout *Homework* (35 points) Write a note
home about your 1st quarter language arts grade. It should be a
paragraph fully developed and neat.

Wednesday 11/9
1. Fahrenheit 451 Test (100 points)
2. Finish Title lecture
3. Work on Fahrenheit 451 Packet, please develop your answers and write
complete sentences. *Homework* (55 points)

Thursday 11/10
1. Finish packet and discuss in groups
2. Discuss in groups "For Your Information" handouts.
Group Presentations Monday of "For Your Information"

*** Study your Fahrenheit 451 Glossary, test next week ***

I can check your work in the mornings.