Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Wow.  I am really behind.  Happy Thanksgiving.  Let’s recap.

Monday, Nov. 19 — Read 2 poems “Fog” and “in Just” and answered questions on each.

Tuesday, Nov. 20 — Test on 4 poems: “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,” “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” “Fog,” and “in Just”, along with the poetic devices: line, stanza, meter, rhythm, rhyme, allusion, alliteration, approximate rhyme, and imagery

Monday, Nov. 26 — Issued the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” which will be referred to from now on as TKAM for brevity’s sake.  We also reviewed adjectives. Homework was to complete the activity on p. 111 of the Grammar and Composition Handbook.

Tuesday, Nov. 27 — Identified vocabulary for TKAM chapters 1-8 in the study guide for those chapters and created study aids for them.  We began reading TKAM, ch. 1.  Homework was to finish reading the chapter and complete the study guide.

Wednesday, Nov. 28 — We reviewed adjective forms of comparison.  For more practice, see the Grammar and Composition Handbook, p. 112-114.  We discussed chapter 1 and continued reading TKAM.  Homework was to prepare for the adjective test tomorrow and to continue reading through chapter 4 of TKAM.

I hope this catches us up now.  I’ll try to keep this more up to date in the future.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

I have fallen behind this week.  I apologize.  Here is a recap.

Monday–notes on poetry elements and read “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”,  p. 490.  Write a summary of the meaning of the poem.

Tuesday–notes on poetry elements and read “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”, p. 496.  Pretest on modifiers.  Collected summaries for a grade.  Homework was to answer questions 1, 3, 4, & 5 on p. 498.

Wednesday–Finished discussing “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” on the powerpoint.   Discussed and collected homework for a grade.  Overhead activity with imagery in the poem. Video on adjectives in order to take notes and introduce the subject.  Homework is a worksheet on imagery in the poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.”

Friday, November 9, 2007

This post is for yesterday and today.  I am sorry that I wasn’t here yesterday.  I was in Charleston with my mom who was having hip replacement surgery at MUSC.  The surgery went well and was over by 9:45, but when I left at 6:30 last night, they still had not put her in a room.  We sat in the waiting room for over 12 hours.  Not fun at all.  I am going to see her tonight and to video a friend’s band.  They are The Beggars Guild.  Google them and check out their myspace page.

www.beggarsguildmusic.com

HS 101: 

• Ms. Wood led a discussion about honesty and integrity and choices that we make that may sometimes be hard.  Get ready…life is full of hard choices that don’t always have happy endings.

VOCABULARY:

• Review Unit Test on 4-6.

LITERATURE:

• Continuing with the notes on poetry.

HOMEWORK:

• Have a great weekend, but be safe.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

HS 101:

• We discussed the implications of drought in our area.

VOCABULARY:

• We reviewed the words from Unit 6.
• Go to www.vocabtest.com and www.salier-oxford.com to  study these units

LITERATURE:

• We discussed the first few elements of poetry elements on the following PowerPoint.
• innocence-unit-poetry.ppt

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

There was no post yesterday.  Sorry about that.  We had the bomb threat first thing in the morning and the day never really recovered enough for me to post.  Basically all we did was review for the pronoun test for today that was originally scheduled for Monday, and then we reviewed the vocabulary words for Unit 4 to prepare for the review unit test on units 4-6 on Friday.  That’s it.

Tuesday:

HS 101:

• Writing prompt: “What is your DREAM JOB and why?

GRAMMAR:

• Pronoun Test #2
• After test worksheet activity on editing and reading comprehension.

VOCABULARY:

• Review Unit 5 words.

HOMEWORK:

• Read p. 489 in the literature book and create an outline of the most important information.

Friday, November 2, 2007

TGIF!

HS 101:

• Ms. Wood discussed the concept of self-evaluation in regards to school.  Which class is your best?  Your worst?  What should you do to improve?

LITERATURE:

• We went over the answers to the Poetry Introduction worksheet from p. 554-5 and 559-60 that you completed in class yesterday after the test.

GRAMMAR:

• We did some exercises with pronouns to review for the test on Monday.

HOMEWORK:

• Test on pronouns on Monday.

Thursday, November 1st

Already November?  Wow!

LITERATURE:

• Test on non-fiction selections for Innocence Unit.
• Worksheet on introductory sections for poetry.