Wednesday, December 19, 2007

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Not much was done these last few days. Tuesday and Wednesday were interrupted during 4th periods for the student/faculty basketball and volleyball games.

I did give out a reading schedule for the holidays to guide you in completing the reading of To Kill a Mockingbird, as well as the remaining study guides for chapters 15-31. In that packet I also included a list of four possible extra credit projects that you have the option of completing to turn in upon returning on January 7th, 2008.

Here are links to these two items:

• Reading Guide and Extra Credit Projects:
  • holiday-reading-schedule-for-to-kill-a-mockingbird-by-harper-lee.doc
• Study Guides for TKAM:
  • study-guides.ppt

This is your chance to help your grade and to prepare for the final test on the novel. The reading schedule is just a suggestion. You can follow and schedule you choose or you may use mine.

When we return, we will review the study guides, watch the movie, and take the final test.

During those two weeks, we will also be working on a research project that will be turned in on Monday, January 14th and preparing for the mid-term exam on January 17th.

As you can see, the last two weeks of the semester are packed with important activities. We will be working hard from the very first minute of class on Monday, January 7th. Be prepared.

If you have any questions or concerns as you finish the novel or work on the projects, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me at: scedge@yahoo.com

Monday, December 17, 2007

Friday

• Test on Part One of To Kill a Mockingbird (Chapters 1-11).
• Worksheets on Helping  verbs, main verbs, transitive and intransitive verbs.

Monday

• HS 101–Would you turn a friend in who was talking about doing something harmful to themselves or to someone else.
• Warm-up #14
  • Understanding the rhyme scheme of a sonnet can help you understand their meaning.
• Grammar:
  • Go over worksheets from Friday
• Literature:
  • Review chapter 12.
• HOMEWORK:
  • Read TKAM, chapters 13-14.
  • Quiz on verbs tomorrow (verbs, action, linking, helping, main, transitive, intransitive, and direct objects).

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Sorry that I was out on Wednesday.  I was sick.

Tuesday:  Warm-up #12, Grammar, The Write Source, p. 716-717, Literature: Complete study guide for chapter 11.  Homework—Grammar and Composition Handbook, p. 107.

Thursday:

Warm-up #13

• Shanshan was a Teenager during the Cultural Revolution in china when criticism of her mothers work begins

Grammar:

• The Write Source, p. 718-719

Literature:

• Review for Test on Chapters 1-11.

Homework:

• Test on Part 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird, ch. 1-11.

Monday, December 10, 2007

8 more days!!!

HS 101:

• The discussion today was about being honest and the choices we make.

Warm-up #11:

• neither his father or the elder in the Village was happy to hear of Nnaemekas decision.

Grammar: Auxiliary verbs and Verb Phrases

• Writer’s Craft, p. 586, Exercise A

Literature: TKAM

• Discuss chapters 8, 9, and 10 Study Guides.  (I forgot to give you the study guides on Friday so we will go over 9-11 on Tuesday instead.)
• Read Chapter 11.

Homework:

• Read Chapter 11.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

I missed yesterday.  Sorry about that.

Wednesday:

HS 101

• talked about what to do when the person you are supposed to ride with has been drinking.  What should you do to get home.
• Most of you gave the answer that we want to hear (call another ride), but the statistics say that most of you don’t do that.
• This is a choice of life or death.  Make sure you make it a wise choice.

Warm-up #8

• “I prefer Mora’s essay, said Monica, because its more persinal than Atwoods.”

Literature:

• I checked your study guides for 4-6 and then we went over them.  We continued reading chapter 7.

Homework:

• Finish reading chapter 7 and complete the study guide.

Thursday:

No HS 101 today.

Warm-up #9

• I don’t agree said Roy.” I prefer Atwood’s essay, it gives you more information about American culture, perceptions about americans, and information about canadian culture.”

Grammar:

• Verbs (Action and Linking)

• The Writer’s Craft p. 583-584

Literature:

• Went over Chapter 7 study guide
• Began reading chapter 8.

Homework:

• Finish reading chapter 8 and complete the study guide.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

HS 101—

• What if you found yourself failing your math class? Summer school costs $250. You must pass in order to stay with your current class. What would you do?

Warm-up #7

• “Did you ever go to there native country,” asked Agnes.
• Warm-ups 1-7 collected today for a grade.

Literature:

• Quiz on Chapter 5.
• Read Chapter 6

Homework:

• Finish reading chapter 6 and complete the study guide for Chapters 4-6.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Thursday–Test on Adjectives

Friday–Pop Quiz on Reading TKAM, ch. 1-4. Vocabulary Quiz moved to Monday.

Monday–No High School 101, Warm-up #6, Vocabulary Quiz, Notes on TKAM and discussed ch. 1-4, began reading chapter 5. HOMEWORK: Finish reading ch. 5 (beware the quiz that is sure to accompany this assignment!!!)

Proposed reading assignments for the rest of the week:

Tuesday–ch. 6

Wednesday–ch. 7

Thursday–ch. 8