Week 11-18 through 11-20

Nov 18 - Look at deadlines below - don't procratinate....
**Grades will be posted in E2 & A4 on Tuesday morning.
1) Discuss recent vocabulary tests & Qtr grades.
2) Presentations 11-14
3) Quiz Ch 12-14 bonus questions ...coming here [tomorrow 11/17 eve].
4) Take questions on Outside Reading projects.
5) Review Literary terms for BT test / review themes

**Bean Trees essays are due Thursday / complete novel if you have not already.
Reminder: NO LATE WORK IS ACCEPTED - not essays, not Outside Reading projects...

Nov 20 - **Bean Trees Essay are due / hand-in novels
1) Review for BT Test [test on Monday 11/24] / return packets to students to use for studying
2) Review vocabulary BT#1, Lessons 1-2 & prefixes
3) Review Jeopardy game...
4) Check out novels - All Quiet on Western Front
***Book reports extended - due 11/26 [turn in early if you are leaving town]

Reminder: NO LATE WORK IS ACCEPTED - not essays, not Outside Reading projects... Most of you are doing a great job - keep it up!

Outside Reading: One True Media password...

Email if you want to use this app. I DO NOT want to post our special password on a public BLOG. amyfleur@gmail.com OR afleur@seq.org Our account has special options - the highest level of options.
check out samples...http://www.onetruemedia.com/gallery/funny?mode=viewed&period=week

Week 11-10 through 11-14

Wednesday 11/12
1) We will review CAHSEE Word Analysis & take a CAHSEE quiz
2) We will review VOCABULARY words / voting on favorite cards
3) Presentations of Ch 10, 11 (2) and 12 will take place.
HW: Complete Journal #4 - Character/Concept Comparison chart &
Study for Vocabulary test#2 *Make sure you have completed your reading!

We will finish the Bean Trees on Tuesday next week, please continue to read ahead.
NOTE: CHANGE in Outside Reading Book - new Due Date __11/24/08______

Friday 11/14
1) Take vocabulary #2 quiz
2) Take Bean Trees chapter 11-14 reading quiz
3) Complete prefixes worksheet & review
4) Free Time to work on OR presentations / outstanding writing [Ch #13-16 next week].

Week 10-20 through 10-24

Monday: 10/20 through Friday 10/24:
Review Vocabulary quiz -> postponed until absentees take make-up

**Please bring your Outside Reading books back..._Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian_. We'll need to make some dialetical journals

Monday:
1) Take notes & review CA Standard Read.Comp 2.4 and be ready for another CAHSEE quiz on Tuesday Oct 28.
2) Ch9 presentation: Bring your BT novels, we will be reviewing the novel while chapters are presented.
HW: Complete all of "What is a refugee" & take notes on Ch 9-11 be prepared to review/discuss BT Chapters 9 through 11.

Wednesday: 1) "On-time to graduate?" Counseling presentation.
2) Review more CA Standard - Reading Comp.
3) Fragment & Pronoun replacement strategy [HW -> worksheets]
HW: Complete the grammar strategy with pronouns & fragment worksheet.

Friday: new seating chart
1) BRING OR novel - S.Alexie's _Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian_
2) CAHSEE review: more Reading Comp practice & notes
3) Review grammar worksheets / start vocab unit #2
HW: Take dialectical journal notes on _Part-Time Indian_ & create timeline [need quotes] Note: OR assignment DATE change - new Due date 11/14/08.

Week 10-14 through 10-16

Tuesday - 10/14: Vocabulary quiz -> postponed until Thursday

We will review CA Standard Writing Strategy 1.9 and by doing so will understand the necessity and importance of revising our writing. Good writing is a process - learning that process is what we will embark upon after our short CAHSEE quiz.

Please bring your BT novels, vocabulary packets [quick review for Thursday] AND you what is a refugee sheet?

Thursday - 10/16: Vocabulary quiz [over WORD packet1 including 4 affixes]

HW: Please read & be prepared to review/discuss BT Chapters 9 through 11.

Week 10-6 through 10-10

10-6________Writing Strategies & Grammar____________________
Your _Strong Family_ essay is due in class.
We will also consider these question[s}, how does our weekend essay tie into our semester theme? Our semester theme is how young adults transition into becoming adults, consider the essay you wrote over the weekend when you answer:

How does having a strong family contribute or take away from becoming an adult?
What if someone does not have a 'strong' family - are they doomed to fail?

In class: Read Damon & Pythias and discuss BT chart [p.5] Climax & Building Action. If you COME TO CLASS W/O your essay, please make sure your parents sign your LATE paper on Wed - noting they know you did not complete your homework. [Presentation on Ch 7 Wed].

HW: Complete your vocabulary packet up to page 6. Also please be prepared for a quiz on Ch6-8 on Wed, revisit our BLOG for BONUS quiz questions. Reminder NOTE: vocabulary quiz: WORD Unit1 & prefixes [10/14]

10-8 more BT themes, Grammar & Vocabulary review
Character sheets in packet should be complete, fill-in notes on people while considering the theme of "relationships".

WORD Unit 1 will be reviewed - VISUAL vocabulary will be created. We will have voting...winners of the most votes will get double points [make sure you have a showing sentence that explains your WORD].
HW: If I can create your accounts in time - we will have an Outside Reading BLOG discussion...for a grade.

10-10 ________Ch 7 & 8 presentations, review "what is a Refugee?"
Literary terms - discuss Symbols & Ch7-8 questions.

HW: _______________and redraft family essay over the weekend.

Outside Reading...coming soon!

Please create a question you think most of your colleagues are thinking while they read _The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian_. Write down your question & hand-it to me...the first 10 people to hand it to me will get BONUS passes.

I will select the 2 best ACTIVE READING questions and once I complete creating your accounts, I will ask you to reply online...