This blog is your lifeline this semester. I hope that it will help you to come to class prepared and actively participate in your learning.

12/16/2006

Merry Christmas week 16 12/18 - 12/22

Make sure you have your notebook up to date. If you have all your journals done and well developed you can see me for a Christmas project to raise your grade. You can't get ahead unless you are finishing things, then the extra helps your grade.

Monday 11/18
1. Chapter 17 – 22 Test
2. Review Vocab Test 7
3. Lecture : Setting
4. Do Spelling pages 208-212 (homework)
5. Do Vocabulary Corrections (homework)
Tuesday 12/19
1. Grade and Review Spelling (140 points)
2. Review Reading Quiz
3. Lecture : Style
4. Study for Spelling Test
5. Brainstorm and Outline for your To Kill a Mockingbird essay (homework)

Wednesday 12/20
1. Spelling Test
2. Lecture : Structure and Point of View
3. Write Three Journals from Chapters 27 - 31 (homework) three total

Thursday 12/21
1. Notebook due
2. Review Spelling Test
3. To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 23 – 31 Reading Test
4. Type Essay (homework)

Friday 12/22
1. Review Reading Test
2. Edit Essay
3. Retype Essay (due Monday 1/8/2007)
4. Review To Kill a Mockingbird for major test upon return from vacation
Merry Christmas

12/13/2006

Progress Report Time week 15 12/11 - 12/15

One more week and we will be on Christmas vacation. If you have all your journals done by next week you can see me for an extra credit project over vacation. If you come and see me tomorrow before 7:40 am I will give you 10 extra credit points because this was posted late. If you have a zero period then you need to be in my room by the first five minutes of break.
Monday 12/11
1. Review Spelling Test
2. Finish grading Packet
3. Spelling Corrections in Spiral notebook
4. Vocabulary 7- do A and B
Tuesday 12/12
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Review Grade printout
3. Lecture: Characters
4. Read – Finish TKM
Wednesday 12/13
1. Groups do Vocabulary 7
2. Lecture: Characters
3. Write Journals for Chapters 23,24, and 25
Thursday 12/14
1. Pretest and Vocabulary Bingo
2. Read Aloud Chapter 26
3. Lecture: Characters
4. Work on Spiral Notebook
Friday 12/15
1. Unit 7 Vocabulary Test
2. Lecture: Characters
3. Write Journal for 26

If you don't like your grade work and see me.

If you don't pass this class, you didn't want to pass.

12/01/2006

Week 14's Lesson 12/4 - 12/8

Our focus remains To Kill a Mockingbird, please read and use the websites. If you are below a "C" see me zero or break.

Monday 12/4
1. Idiom Test
2. Review Vocabulary Test
3. Discuss To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Do Vocabulary Test Corrections in your spiral notebook (homework)

Tuesday 12/5
1. TKM packet chapters 9 – 22 (due Friday 12/8)
2. See To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Do Spelling pages 202 – 208 in blue vocabulary book (homework)

Wednesday 12/6 (Late Start Day)
1. Review spelling
2. Discuss TKM
3. Work on packet

Thursday 12/7
1. Chapters 9-22 Test
2. Practice Spelling Test
3. See TKM
4. Finish TKM Packet

Friday 12/8
1. Spelling Test
2. Grade TKM Packet
3. Share your best Journal
4. Read !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Next week I will be lecturing on To Kill a Mockingbird.