Wednesday, February 13, 2008

I have gotten behind.  I apologize.

Friday — We worked on the study guide for “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird” by Toni Cade Bambara and began reading the selection.

Monday — I was absent, but the following activities were assigned by the substitute:

• Here is a copy of the assignment list from Monday:  monday-2-11-08-sub-plans.doc
• Here are the worksheets needed for the assignments: graphic-organizer-language-link-and-daily-oral-language-activity.pdf

Tuesday — I collected your essays.  We did warm-up #10.  We reviewed the vocabulary words for Unit 7 from Monday, I collected the sentences for words 11-15,  and I introduced words 16-20.  We began talking about “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird,” but didn’t get very far.  The test for the story will be on Thursday and the Vocabulary Test will be Friday.

Wednesday – Now we’re back on track, I hope.

HS 101

WARM-UP #11

• Proofread this sentence.
• Parents often argues about what is best for they’re children.

VOCABULARY

• Collect sentences for words 16-20.
• Review words 16-20
• Go over activities for Unit 7

LITERATURE

• Quiz on the reading.
• Review the selection PowerPoint
• Here is a copy of the PowerPoint: powerpoint-1.ppt

HOMEWORK

• Test on “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird”

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.
• 
• 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.

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.

Monday, February 4, 2008

HS 101

• 1st & 3rd period – none.
• 4th period – Officer Cooper

WARM-UP #7

• Hard-working Miners, who discovered gold, had a wonderful opportunity to make alot of money.

VOCABULARY

• Unit 7, p. 84.
• adieu, advent, apex, assimilate, and bogus

LITERATURE

• Review “The Gift of the Magi”, p. 202-207, Study Guide, and questions 1-6 on p. 209.

HOMEWORK

• Test on “The Gift of the Magi”
• Vocabulary Unit 7 Activities
  • CS (1, 7, 12, 18, 20)
  • SA (1, 6, 10, 14, 19)
  • CRW (7, 9, 10, 17, 18)