Tuesday, February 5, 2008

HS 101

• Ms. Wood began talking about the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Students.
• Today she focused on “Being Proactive”

WARM-UP #8

• Proofread the following:
• There is a small town in california called sutter’s Mill, where the God Rush of 1849 begun.

VOCABULARY

• We reviewed the definitions of words 1-5 in Unit 7 of the Vocabulary Workbook.
• We went over the answers to the problems from last night’s homework.

LITERATURE

• Test on “Gift of the Magi”

COMPOSITION

• Pre-writing and drafting stages of an expository essay about “Gift of the Magi”
• Here is the assignment sheet and rubric: expository-essay-for-gift-of-the-magi.doc

HOMEWORK

• Complete the rough draft of the expository essay.
• Write complete sentences with words 1-5 of Unit 7 Vocabulary.