Activities for week one new semester 1/30 - 2/3, 2012

Orator, attorney, and political leader William Jennings Bryan said, "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." I hope you choose to work hard and work smart in our class. If you need help I will always be here. Remember when you are absent you need to make up your reading time and tests in the morning (7:25 am). Please let's get off to a great start.

Monday 1/30
1. Review Final
2. Review Poetry Journal
3. Common Usage Problems (homework)
4. Set Up New Notebook (homework)

Tuesday 1/31
1. Set up new S.S.R. Card
2. Review Usage Problems
3. Discuss Connotation and Denotation
4. Review for Benchmark Test

Wednesday 2/1
1. Discuss Active and Passive Voice
2. Common Usage Problems
3. Review for Benchmark Test
4. Read S.S.R. Book (15 pages) (homework)

Thursday 2/2
1. Second Quarter Benchmark Test
2. Review EDHS Dress Code
3. Study and Review All Idioms (homework)

Friday 2/3
1. Idiom Weeks 1 - 12 Test
2. Lecture: Studying Poetry
3. Read S.S.R. Book (30 pages) (homework)

Please come for help if you need it - I will be there.

Finals Week 1/23 - 1/27 - 2012

This is the end, all we have left is your final. If you have S.S.Reading points to make up you can do that Monday and Tuesday morning. Good luck on your final. Please check Aeries to make sure your grade is correct.

Final
55 clue context, prefix, suffix, root questions
30 vocabulary words
20 literature terms
25 parts of speech
20 idioms

Monday January 23th
Review for final

Tuesday, January 24th

Period 1 7:55 – 10:03 128 minutes

Break 10:03 – 10:12 9

Period 2 10:19 – 10:39 20

Period 3 10:46 – 11:06 20

Period 4 11:13 – 11:33 20

Period 5 11:40 – 12:00 20

Lunch 12:00 – 12:30 30

Period 6 12:37 – 2:45 128 minutes

Wednesday, January 25th

Period 2

7:55 – 10:03 128 minutes

Break 10:03 – 10:11

Period 3

10:18 – 12:26 128 minutes

Thursday, January 26th

Period 4

7:55 – 10:03 128 minutes

Break 10:03 – 10:11

Period 5

10:18 – 12:26 128 minutes

Friday, January 27^th

Non-Student Day

Activities for week eighteen 1/17 - 1/20 - 2012

In one of his notebooks Leonardo da Vinci wrote, "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." That distaste for inaction drove da Vinci's intellectual curiosity his entire life. His love for learning never stopped. I hope you have learned to love learning and love the feeling of accomplishment for a job well done.

Tuesday 1/17
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Final Edit of Poetry Journal
3. Review Parts of Speech
4. Review all Idioms (homework)

Wednesday 1/18
1. Poetry Journal Due
2. Read and Discuss "Dreams" Poems by Hughes
3. Review All Vocabulary and Prefixes and Suffixes and Root Words

Thursday 1/19
1. Grade Quarter Notebook
2. Vocabulary Bee
3. Review All Parts of Speech
4. Review All Vocabulary

Friday 1/20
1. Vocabulary 1 – 10 Test
2. Review Literary Terms
3. Review Parts of Speech
4. Review All Idioms

Do you have all your reading points?

Activities for week seventeen 1/9 - 1/13 - 2012

Moliere said, "Men are alike in their promises. It is only their deeds that they differ." We still have a notebook to grade and a Poetry Journal to complete before the semester comes to a close. Please make sure your deeds match the grade you promised yourself. Also please check Aeries to make sure your deeds for this class were recorded correctly. You may still make up S.S.Reading points in the morning or break, also you can see about after school reading.

Monday 1/9
1. Idiom 1 – 9 Test (100 points)
2. Review Vocabulary Test
3. Review Description Poem
4. Write I do not Understand Poem (homework)
5. Do Vocabulary 9 - 10 (homework)

Tuesday 1/10
1. Review Poems
2. Read and Discuss “O What is That Sound” – Work on Packet
3. Write Children’s Poem (homework)
4. Finish Vocabulary (homework)

Wednesday 1/11
1. Review and Grade Vocabulary (70 points)
2. Review “O What … Sound”
3. Write Nonsense Poem (homework)
4. Work on Poetry Journal (homework)

Thursday 1/12
1. Vocabulary Bingo and Pretest
2. Read “Song of the Open Road” and “The Road Not Taken”
3. Review Poems
4. Write Write Your Own Pattern Poem (homework)

Friday 1/13
1. Vocabulary 9 – 10 Test (100 points)
2. Discuss “Road” Poems
3. Edit all Poems and Explanations
4. Write Original Poem (homework)
5. Put Poetry Journal Together (homework)

Please remember I am here every morning to help you!
You can still improve your grade if you come and talk to me.