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Sunday, December 18, 2005

Lessons for 12/19 - 12/23

Merry Christmas, let's have a great week before vacation. You can see me before school or at break about extra credit.

Monday 12/19
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Discuss The Real Cause
3. Chapters 1- 8 To Kill a Mockingbird packet
4. Review Unit 1 and 2 Vocabulary (Test Thursday)

Tuesday 12/20
1. Revise essay (use power word lists)
2. See To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Read and work on packet
4. Idiom Test (week 1 - 11)

Wednesday 12/21
1. Work in groups on packet
2. Practice CAHSEE test
3. Read To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Write one Journal for Chapters 6 - 8

Thursday 12/22
1. Vocabulary Test units 1-2
2. Review and discuss packet
3. Read To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Review Idiom Test

Friday 12/23
1. Essay due
2. Discuss and read To Kill a Mockingbird
3. See To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Spelling do pages 202 – 209 in your vocabulary book
5. Read and enjoy

Have a Merry Christmas, and a safe vacation

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Lessons for week 15 (progress report home this week)

There is no extra credit this week, but you can make up points by doing a good job this week. You can come in the mornings and let me check your work so you can earn the maxium points possible. Check your Reading points did you lose any there? I will let you make those up in the morning. Please read To Kill a Mockingbird

Monday 12/12
1. Finish "Author" lecture
2. Review Spelling Test
3. Edit Essay
4. Do Unit 8 Vocabulary page 84 – 90 (100 points)
5. Pass out To Kill a Mockingbird books

Tuesday 12/13
1. Review Unit 8 Vocabulary
2. Read To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 1-5
3. Hand out Study Guide Questions
4. Glossary React

Wednesday 12/14
1. Vocabulary Bee
2. Watch To Kill a Mockingbird video
3. Explain Dialectical Journals
4. Write one journal from Chapters 1-5

Thursday 12/15
1. Work on The Real Cause
2. Watch To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Review and study Unit 8 Vocabulary
4. Read To Kill a Mockingbird

Friday 12/16
1. Unit 8 Vocabulary Test (200 points)
2. Review TKM Glossary
3. Discuss Study Guide questions
4. Read To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Real Cause due Monday

Saturday, December 03, 2005

Week 14's lessons

Don't forget Angel Tree

Monday 12/5
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Vocabulary Bee
3. Review and do Literary Analysis page 133 (work in groups)
4. Spelling Do pages 198-202 (60 Points)

Tuesday 12/6
1. Review Spelling
2. Do and discuss Vocabulary in Action and Grammar in Context pages 134-135
3. Read pages 948-952 Writing workshop

Wednesday 12/7
1. Spelling Bee
2. Review and discuss homework do Assessment Practice
3. Do Activity page 818 – Type a five paragraph essay (60 Points)

Thursday 12/8
1. Spelling Bee
2. Writing workshop: edit essay and discuss conclusion handout
3. Revise essay (100 Points)

Friday 12/9
1. Spelling Test (100 Points)
2. Lecture: Author Nelle Harper Lee
3. Practice CAHSEE Test
4. Read pages 819-820