Second Semester - 1st week's lessons 1/28-2/1-08

Welcome back and let's have fun with a new semester. Make sure you have a new spiral notebook and all the other materials good students need to be successful. We will start out with poetry and then study William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. If you have your spiral notebook before Wednesday and come before school you can earn twenty-five extra credit points.

Remember I will be here early: if you have questions, need help, need to make up work, or reading time.

Monday 1/28
1. Review Final
2. Read and have signed Class Guidelines (homework)
3. Do Vocab Lab 2 pages 88-96 (homework)

Tuesday 1/29
1. Guidelines due
2. Review and discuss homework-Vocab Lab 2
3. Organize Portfolio and writing handouts (S.S.R. reading cards) Homework

Wednesday 1/30
1. Review Portfolio
2. Lecture: Objectives of Poetry Unit
3. Read “The Wreck of the Hesperus” pages 124-130 (homework)

Thursday 1/31
1. Practice Vocabulary Test (Vocab Lab 2)
2. Read and discuss “The Wreck of the Hesperus”
3. Study for test and read S.S.R. book (homework)

Friday 2/1
1. Vocab Lab 2 Test
2. Read and discuss “The Wreck of the Hesperus”
3. Read S.S.R. Book (homework read 30 pages)

Freshman Final - 2007-2008

This is it - Finals are here. I know you can do well on your Lang Arts I Final.

Part I 25 matching synonyms

Part II 25 matching antonyms

Part III 25 matching antonyms

Part IV 25 matching synonyms

Part V 12 analogies

Part VI 13 sentence completion

Part VII 40 spelling exercises

Part VIII 25 idioms

Part IX 20 literary terms (know dilemma)

Each question will be worth 4 points for a total of 840 points on your final. Study! Study! Good Luck!

You may come early and get started if you think you will need extra time.

Week 18's lessons 1/14 - 1/18 - 2008

"This is the end." Ten points extra credit if you are first to tell me what group sang that line. Yes we are finally at the end of the first semester. Make sure you have checked Aeries, and your grade is correct. I will not change anything next week. You may make up Reading points before Thursday. Start studying for your finals - not just this class.

Monday 1/14
1. Review Unit 8 Vocabulary Test
2. Finish Poetry Journal (homework)

Tuesday 1/15
1. Proof Read and assemble Poetry Journal
2. Do Spelling pages 205 – 209 (110 points) homework

Wednesday 1/16
1. Poetry Journal due
2. Review Spelling
3. Put Spiral Notebook in order (homework)

Thursday 1/17
1. Grade Spiral Notebook
2. Study for Final and Read S.S.R. Book (homework)

Friday 1/18
1. Review for Final
2. Study for Final (homework)
3. Read S.S.R. Book (homework)

Week 17's lessons 1/7 - 1/8 - 2008

Aloha, and welcome to a new year and the end of your first semester at El Dorado. For the last three weeks of the semester you will be putting together a poem journal (check the last posting for directions), finishing your spiral notebooks, and then your final. Monday at 7 am is the last time I will let you make up your Tangerine final, the couple of you should have already taken it. If you are one of the students who picked up extra credit for vacation it must be graded and turned in by the end of the week.

On a side note the tennis team, which means me, still has ten Entertainment 08 books at $35. They are a great value. My wife and I use it for our date nights to explore new places. Last year we saved over $300. See me if your parents would like to get one.

Monday 1/7
1. Review Tangerine test and essay
2. Lecture: Poetry Journal
3. Do Vocabulary Unit 8 pages 81 – 87 (105 points) homework

Tuesday 1/8
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Read Honesty Policy (homework)
3. Write: Reminiscence, Name, Mock Serious poems (homework)

Wednesday 1/9
1. Idiom Test Weeks 1-11
2. Review Poems
3. Write: Haiku, Description, I do not Understand, poems (homework)

Thursday 1/10
1. Pretest Vocabulary
2. Review Poems
3. Write: Children’s Nonsense, Your Own Pattern poems (homework)

Friday 1/11
1. Unit 8 Vocabulary Test
2. Review Poems
3. Write Original poems (homework)