First Week

Welcome! I am Miss Takeda and here you will find all you need to know for each week. I hope that we can enjoy the coming semester that I am honored to be your teacher. By the way, every week that I post the assignments and agendas for each week needs to be printed out and pasted in the third section of your spiral notebook.

Tuesday, 9.02
1.Introductions
2.Discuss Guidelines and get parent letter signed (homework)
3.Get spiral notebook by Wednesday (extra credit 25 points by Friday)


Wednesday, 9.03
1.Signed guidelines/parent letters due
2.Fill out reading cards
3.Study Buddy Activity
4.Exit Slip: What was the highlight of your summer?


Thursday, 9.04
1.Discuss ongoing assignments: prefixes/suffixes, parts of speech, and literary terms.
2.Discuss first unit: Short Stories


Friday, 9.05
1.Discuss public speaking
2.Deliver impromptu speeches
3.Take semester pre-test

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

-Michaelangelo