This is it! - 6/8 - 6/11 - 2009

In The Muppet Movie they say, "Life's like a movie, write your own ending." As we finish the school year you have a chance to write your own ending. First study hard for your final, that is in your own hands. Your final will be just vocabulary lessons 1 - 20. The parts of your final will be just like the workbook you have used all year: critical reading, sentence completion, and analogies. You will have 200 questions worth 800 points, and you will need a number two pencil. Monday 7:15 am you can take a Idiom Test for extra credit and a Literary Term Test also for extra credit or if you have a zero period you may take one at the beginning of break. Write you own ending to this semester.

Monday 6/8
1. Collect Books
2. Act IV and V Test

Final

"Our doubts are traitors
and make us lose the good we oft might win
by fearing to attempt."

-William Shakespeare-

4th 1/4 - week 18's lessons - 6/1 - 6/5 - 2009

Mark Twain said, "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." This is the last week before finals please make sure you are reviewing all your vocabulary, idioms, literary terms and Julius Caesar. Do you know where you stand in this class? I am still here everyday at 7 am, break, and the beginning of lunch to help you or answer any questions you may have.

Monday 6/1
1. Act IV Test
2. Review Act IV Packet
3. Read S.S.R. Book

Tuesday 6/2
1. Work on Act V Packet
2. Read S.S.R. Book

Wednesday 6/3
1. Review Act IV Test
2. Read and Discuss Act V
3. Read S.S.R. Book

Thursday 6/4
1. Review Act V Packet
2. Read S.S.R. Book

Friday 6/6
1. Act IV and V Test
2. See Julius Caesar Study for final

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
- Booker T. Washington -

4th 1/4 - week 17's lessons - 5/26 - 5/29 - 2009

Michael Johnson says, "Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best." We are in the final lap and you should now be sprinting to the finish line. If you would like you may do one final extra credit project. The project is to answer the questions on page 799 and they are due Friday.

Tuesday 5/26
1. Vocabulary 23-24 Test
2. Review Act II and III Test
3. Read and discuss Act IV
4. Work on Act IV Packet (homework)

Wednesday 5/27
1. Idiom 17 - 21 Test
2. Read and discuss Act IV
3. Finish Act IV Packet (homework)
4. Read Act V (homework)

Thursday 5/28
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Read and discuss Act IV
3. Review Act IV Packet
4. Read S.S.R. Book (homework)

Friday 5/29
1. See Julius Caesar
2. Act IV Test Monday
3. Read Act V

"The secret is this: Strength lies solely in tenacity."
Louis Pasteur

4th 1/4 - week 16's lessons - 5/18 - 5/22 - 2009

Larry Grant says, "there are three types of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, 'What happened?'" Which one are you? If you want to make something happen then you may answer the questions After You Read page 782. (MLA format, complete sentences) You must do your Act III packet first. You may also make up reading points - please check Aeries. You have been fun, now let's finish strong so you can have fun in the sun.

Monday 5/18
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Read and Discuss Act III
3. Do Lessons 23-24, exercises 2-3 pages 91-98

Tuesday 5/19
1. Review Act III Packet
2. Do Lesson 12 Analogies page 137
3. Read Act IV

Wednesday 5/20
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Read and Discuss Act III
3. Do Lesson 12, Exercises 1 and 2, pages 209 - 214

Thursday 5/21
1. Act II and III Test
2. Review Vocabulary
3. Act IV Packet

Friday 5/22
1. Vocabulary 23-24 Test
2. See Julius Caesar
3. Work on Act IV packet

"Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?"
Frank Scully

4th 1/4 - week 15's lessons - 5/11 - 5/15 - 2009

I am a little upset with last week's response to extra credit. Many of you should have taken advantage of the opportunities. Time is running out and last week most of you said that you were not satisfied with your grade, so you should have done something about it. Remember, Yoda said, "There is no try in do." This week you have only one thing you can do for extra credit. You need to copy and paste last week's message from the blog and the bottom table from Aeries of your grade, both on the same page, and have your parents write a short note of what they think of your grade this semester. They need to both print their names and sign it as well. This is due before the warning bell in class Tuesday 5/12.
There are no exceptions to the directions.

Monday 5/11
1. Review Act II Packet
2. Do Vocabulary Lesson 21-22, Exercise 2 and 3 pages 83 - 90 (homework)
3. Work on your study guide

Tuesday 5/12
1. Read and discuss Act II
2. Do Analogies 11 page 136 and Context Lesson 11 pages 203 – 208, Exercises 1
and 2 (homework)

Wednesday 5/13
1. Act II Test
2. Read and discuss Act III
3. Work on Act III Packet

Thursday 5/14
1. Review Vocabulary
2. See Julius Caesar
3. Work on Act III Packet (homework)

Friday 5/15
1. Vocabulary 21-22 Test
2. Read and discuss Act III
3. Finish Act III Packet

You control your destiny!