Thursday, February 7, 2008

HS 101

• Ms. Wood talked about having goals and striving for them.

WARM-UP #9

• COLLECTION DAY, #2-9
• A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under water. His record was 6 minutes. A kid that was listening said, “that’s nothing, I can stay under water for 10 minutes using no types of equipment or air pockets!” The magician told the kid if he could do that, he’d give him $10,000. The kid did it and won the money. Can you figure out how?

VOCABULARY-UNIT 7

• We went over yesterdays activities for words 6-10.

COMPOSITION

• Students spent about 15-20 minutes on evaluating and revising their essays.

LITERATURE

• Study Guide was issued for “Blues Ain’t No Mocking Bird” by Toni Cade Bambara, which is our next short story.
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• Here is a copy: study-guide.doc
• The students responded to the quickwrite prompt on p. 266.

HOMEWORK

• Compose complete sentences with words 6-10.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

I did not post this yesterday.  I apologize.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008:

HS 101-we discussed being proactive.

There was no warm-up.

Vocabulary-Unit 7, we went over words 6-10 and were assigned the following problems for homework: CS (4, 9, 10, 13, 17), SA (7, 9, 12, 13, 18), CRW (4, 6, 8, 12, 20), and VC (5).

Composition-I checked for rough drafts and students used class-time to write, evaluate, and revise their essays.