Activities for week seventeen 1/11 - 1/15 - 2010

In his book My Personal Best, John Wooden writes, "There is a choice you have to make in everything you do, so keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make makes you." As we finish the first semester you can still raise your grade by doing well on your remaining assignments and making the choice to excel.

Monday 1/11
1. Idiom 1 – 9 Test
2. Review Vocabulary Test
3. Review and edit poems
4. Write Mock Serious and Haiku poems (homework)
5. Do Vocabulary 7 and 8 (homework)

Tuesday 1/12
1. Review Poems
2. Write: Description and I do not Understand poems (homework)
3. Finish Vocabulary (homework)

Wednesday 1/13
1. Review Idiom’s Test
2. Review Poems
3. Write: Children’s and Nonsense poems (homework)
4. Finish Vocabulary (homework)

Thursday 1/14
1. Review Vocabulary (70 points)
2. Review Poems
3. Write Your Own Pattern poem (homework)

Friday 1/15
1. Vocabulary Test
2. Review Poems
3. Write Original poem (homework)
4. Finish Poetry Journal (homework)

If your choice is to increase your points in this class you may go to glencoe.com and: enter your state and subject and click on student, browse the menu to the right for state and other general info, click to open the online learning center, select the online student edition, enter student and f81e73ce51, then open content and print page 440 and 448. On page 440, click on the filmstrip and watch the video and be able to tell me what is is about. This is due Wednesday or before (40 points Tuesday, 30 points Wednesday).