Activities for week 1, New Semester 1/28 - 2/1 - 2013

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), and also have a readmit. Please let's get off to a great start.

Monday 1/28
1. Review Final
2. Review Poetry Journal

Tuesday 1/29
1. Portfolios and S.S.R. Cards
2. Discuss Connotation and Denotation
3. Read and Discuss “Dreams” Poems by Hughes

Wednesday 1/30
1. Discuss Active and Passive Voice
2. Common Usage Problems
3. Review for Benchmark Test

Thursday 1/31
1. Second Quarter Benchmark Test
2. Read “Song of the Open Road” and “The Road Not Taken” pages 288-292 (homework)

Friday 2/1
1. Review and Discuss “Road Poems”
2. Read S. S. Reading Book Should have read 50 pages this week. (homework)

********** Extra Credit ***********
See me for a project on renting an apartment.

Finals Week 1/22 - 1/24 - 2013

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.

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

Tuesday, January 22nd

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 23rd

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 27th
Non-Student Day

You can still make up Reading Points Wednesday and Thursday.

Activities for week seventeen 1/14 - 1/18 - 2013

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 1/14
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Review Poems
3. Write Children’s Poem (homework)
4. Do Vocabulary 9 - 10 (homework)

Tuesday 1/15
1. Idioms 1 – 9 Test
2. Review Poems
3. Read and Discuss “O What is That Sound”
4. Write Nonsense Poem (homework)
5. Finish Vocabulary (homework)

Wednesday 1/16
1. Review and Grade Vocabulary
2. Parts of Speech Review
3. Write, Write Your Own Pattern Poem (homework)

4. Work on Poetry Journal (homework)

Thursday 1/17
1. Vocabulary Bingo and Pretest
2. Parts of Speech Review
3. Read “Song of the Open Road” and “The Road Not Taken”
4. Review Poems
5. Read S.S.R. Book (homework)

Friday 1/18
1. Vocabulary 9 – 10 Test
2. Grade Notebook
3. Edit all Poems and Explanations
4. Write Original Poem (homework)
5. Put Poetry Journal Together (Due Monday)

                  *** Extra Credit ***
If you have all your vocabulary cards from the first quarter they are due Wednesday in a Ziploc bag.
Also you can do Quizlet also due Wednesday.