13th week's lessons 11/27 - 12/1

Tukey time is over - let's work to finish Great Expectations and not be turkeys, but super thinkers and writers. Remember your extra credit is due Monday before the warning bell or it is late. I am also still in class everyday at 7am, or at break.

Monday 11/27
1. Review Reading quiz
2. Write Journals for Chapters 12 – 15
3. Do Vocabulary Unit 6 Part A and B (homework)

Tuesday 11/28
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Read and discuss Great Expectations
3. Do Vocabulary Part C and D (homework)
4. Read Chapters 16 - 18 of Great Expectations

Wednesday 11/29
1. Review Vocabulary and Spelling and Wordplay (crossword puzzle) 65 points
2. Read and discuss Great Expectations
3. Great Expectations Packet Chapters 9 – 23
4. Read Chapters 19 - 21 Great Expectations

Thursday 11/30
1. Practice Vocabulary Test
2. See Great Expectations
3. Work on Chapters 9 - 23 Packet
4. Study for Unit 6 Vocabulary Test

Friday 12/1
1. Unit 6 Vocabulary Test
2. Read and discuss Great Expectations
3. Read Chapters 22 -23 Great Expectations
4. Finish Packet Chapters 9 - 23

Thanksgiving week 11/20 - 11/22

Let's have a great short week of school. There is a vacation extra credit project. First pick up from me "A Thanksgiving Fable" and read it aloud in a family gathering. After you read it aloud write a paragraph explaining the moral, and have a parents sign the paragraph stating that you read the fable aloud in a family gathering. This is due Monday 11/27.

Monday 11/20
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Reading Quiz
3. Read and discuss Great Expectations
4. Read Chapters 9 - 11 (homework)
5. Vocabulary corrections (homework)

Tuesday 11/21
1. Review Journals
2. Read and discuss
3. Great Expectation Packet (homework - major project)

Wednesday 11/22
1. Read and discuss Great Expectations
2. Work on Packet
3. Write Journal for Chapter 11 (homework)
4. Read Chapters 12 -15 (homework)

Enjoy your family and time together - happy Thanksgiving.

The Burial at Thebes (EXTRA CREDIT)

For extra credit you can go and see the school play The Burial at Thebes.After seeing the play which is a version of Sophocles' Antigone that you will be reading next year, write a summary of the play, and staple your ticket to the summary. Make sure to describe the conflict of the play and characters involved. Type your summary MLA style. (from 50 to 100 points - your choice it can go into homework or test category) The Show dates are November 15 - 17 at 7:30 p.m. The running time is one hour with no intermission. See you there.

Lesson # 11 11/13 - 11/17

Don't forget about the Can Food Drive. Please may sure you read Great Expectations, and if you have questions come and ask them.

Monday 11/13
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Edit essay and retype it final due Friday 11/17
3. Read pages 753 – 756
4. Do Unit 5 Part A and B (homework)
1. Read first chapter G.E. (homework)

Tuesday 11/14
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Discuss Anticipation Guide
3. Read First chapter aloud
4. Do Vocab Unit 5 part C (homework)
5. Read Chapters 2 and 3 (homework)

Wednesday 11/15
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Discuss Dialectical Journal and write one for Chapter 2
3. Do Vocabulary Part D (homework)

Thursday 11/16
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Pre-test and Vocab Bingo
3. Listen to Great Expectations
4. Read Chapters 4 - 8 (homework)

Friday 11/17
1. Unit 5 Vocabulary Test
2. Final copy of essay due
3. Read and discuss G.E.
4. Write Journals for chapters 4, 5, and 8 (homework)

Stay caught up with your Dialectical Journals - they go in the second section of your spiral notebook, and must be in the order they were assigned.

Week ten's lessons 11/6 - 11/10

Aloha, we are starting a new quarter - let's get off to a great start. We are also starting "The National Honors Society Canned Food Drive" The drive is from 11/6 - 11/17, and the food is donated to needy families in the area. Finally we are starting to read and study Charles Dickens's Great Expectations

Monday 11/6
1. Review Spelling Test
2. Clean backpack and review first quarter
3. Read and discuss "The Wreck of the Hesperus"
4. Spelling corrections (homework)

Tuesday 11/7
1. Printout of first quarter grade (homework - parent signature)
1. Vocabulary Bee
2. Review "Hesperus" Packet
3. "Hesperus" Test
4. Pre-write and outline for essay on "The Wreck of the Hesperus" (homework)

Wednesday 11/8
1. Review Reading Test
2. Journal - listen to CD on "integrity" and Quick write about "integrity" – When you build a house you must build both the exterior and the interior. What are you building?
3. Discuss handout on the body paragraph
4. Write "Hesperus"essay – due tomorrow (homework)

Thursday 11/9
1. Take Review Vocabulary Test (units 1 – 3)
2. Edit "Hesperus" essay
3. Pass out Great Expectations book
4. Type "Hesperus" essay MLA format (homework)

Friday 11/10
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Edit essay
3. Read and discuss pages 753 – 756 The Novel and introduction to Great Expectations
4. Read first three chapters of Great Expectations (homework)

I will still be here to help you every morning. If last quarter was not good, I would come and try to make up some points.