Activities for week nine 10/28 - 11/1 - 2013

Discipline means doing what you have to do when you need to do it, whether you want to or not. Self-discipline - the only kind that lasts - is action oriented. It doesn't procrastinate, and it doesn't makes excuses. "Setting a goal is not the main thing," said Tom Landry, who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. "It's deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. The key is discipline." As we move to the end of the first quarter I hope you are disciplined and have your notebook current, all your vocabulary cards, and are caught up with your reading. What grade do you want from this class? Are you doing the things that will produce that grade? Remember Ms. Davilla is here to help you reach your goal.

Monday 10/28
1. Review Roots Three Test
2. Read and Discuss Tangerine (Use Adler's strategies)
3. Make Cards for Roots Four (homework)
4. Read Tangerine (homework)


Tuesday 10/29
1. Review Essay Terms
2. In Groups do pages 7-16 and 16-38 worksheets
3. Read Tangerine (homework)

Wednesday 10/30
1. Essay Terms Test
2. Review Root Four Cards
3. Finish Tangerine Worksheets
4. Read and Study (homework)

Thursday 10/31
1. Vocabulary Bingo and Practice Test
2. Review Tangerine Worksheets
3. Read Tangerine (homework)
4. Do Tangerine Worksheets 38-45 (homework)
 

Friday 11/1
1. Vocabulary Seven, Roots 4 Test
2. In Groups Discuss 38-45 Tangerine Worksheets
3. Do pages 49-60 Tangerine worksheets (homework)
4. Read Tangerine (homework)

*** Extra Credit ***

You may do test corrections for Roots Three (Due Wednesday)
Also you can turn in all your vocabulary cards if they are rubber banded in stacks for each separate week. (Due Monday 11/4 in class)
      http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Tangerine_Edward_Bloor/Tangerine_Study_Guide01.html?gclid=CK-32tK7uLoCFco9Qgod9w0AKw        
This site should help you understand Tangerine.

Activities for week eight 10/21 - 10/25 - 2013

Having the right expectations going into anything is half the battle. John C. Norcross, a clinical psychologist, has studied people and their goals, and he has found a characteristic that distinguishes those who reach their goals from those who do not:EXPECTATIONS. I hope you expect to pass this class and excel; if you are not meeting your expectations right now you need to see Ms Davilla to find out what you can do to raise your grade. Do you have all your S.S.R. points?

Monday 10/21 
1. Review Roots Words 2 Test
2. Finish Reading "Scarlet Ibis"
3. Make Cards for Root Words 3 (homework)
4. Do "Scarlet Ibis" Packet (homework)

Tuesday 10/22
1. Lecture: "How to Mark a Book" Adler's strategies
2. Review Root Words 3 Cards 
3. Finish "Scarlet Ibis" Packet (homework)
4. Read Tangerine (homework)

Wednesday 10/23
1. Grade "Scarlet Ibis" Packet
2. Read and Study all Vocabulary (homework)

Thursday 10/24
1. Vocabulary Bingo and Pretest
2. Read and Discuss Tangerine
3. Do "Before you read" Tangerine (homework)

Friday 10/25
1. Vocabulary Root Words 3 Test
2. Review "Before you read"
3. Read and Discuss Tangerine

                *** Extra Credit ***
 Test Corrections for Root Word 2 - Due Tuesday

Activities for week seven 10/14 - 10/18 - 2013

Have you known people who should have risen to the top but didn't? They had all the talent they should ever need, but they still didn't succeed. Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to a new power as a benefactor." I hope you are enjoying our class and are working to fully develop yourself to be your best and help our world to be its best as well.  
Do you have all your S.S.R. reading points? If you do then you can do test corrections for your last root words test. (Copy word and definition 10 times each - handwritten)

Monday 10/14
1. Review Tests
2. Read and Discuss “The Scarlet Ibis”
3. Study for Tests (homework) 

Tuesday 10/15
1. Library Orientation
2. Write a Journal “Connect to Your Life” page 592(two paragraphs) (homework)
 
Wednesday 10/16
1. Work in Library on muck fires and lightning
2. Read Ten pages in SSR Book (homework)
3. Study, Study, Study

Thursday 10/17
1. Finish Library Research
2. Read Twenty pages in Silent Sustain Reading Book (homework)

Friday 10/18
1. Vocabulary Roots Test
2. Finish Reading “The Scarlet Ibis”
3. Start reading Tangerine (homework)
 
*** Extra Credit ***
MLA format - type a paragraph and tell me about Emerson. Due Tuesday

Activities for week six 10/7 - 10/11 - 2013

It is one thing to believe that you possess remarkable potential. It is another thing to have enough faith in yourself that you think you can fulfill it. Let's keep working together to tap into all you can be. Ms Davilla has seen good things from you and I hope to see much more. Please check your Aeries account and see if there is something you can still do to earn points, that also includes S.S.R. Reading points. Remember "Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, But soon or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can." anonymous

Monday 10/7
1. Grade Root Words Cards
2. Review Tests
3. Do Thesis Packet (homework)
4. Study for Idiom Test (homework)
 
Tuesday 10/8
1. Idioms Weeks 1 and 2 Test
2. Grade Thesis Packet
3. Start Essay Terms Lecture
4. Parts of Speech Packet (verbs) (homework)
 
Wednesday 10/9
1. Finish and Review Essay Terms Lecture
2. Take Notes on “Attitude”
3. Study for Tests (homework)
 
Thursday 10/10
1. Root Words Test # 1
2. Review Verbs Worksheet
3. Make New Root Cards (homework)
4. Review for Thesis Test (homework)
 
Friday 10/11
1. Thesis Test
2. Grade Root Words Cards
3. Start Reading and Discussing “The Scarlet Ibis” page 592 – 607

*** Extra Credit ***
You may buy your own copy of Tangerine, by Edward Bloor to annotate. (50 points)

You may also print the Aeries grade sheet I sent to your parents and on the backside print this blog. One page only due Monday only. (20 points)