2nd Semester 5th lesson 2/25 - 2/29 - 2008

Greetings! Don't forget to keep reading To Kill A Mockingbird. Since progress reports are coming out next week, keep checking Aeries so you know where you are. If you or your parents have any questions, please ask! Both myself and Miss Takeda are in the class every morning at 7:00 am to help you.

Monday 2/25
1. Review Reading Quiz
2. Review The Real Cause
3. Write Journals for Chapters 4 and 6 (homework)

Tuesday 2/26
1. Practice CAHSEE Test
2. Discuss Study Guide questions
3. Review Unit 9-10 Vocab
4. Read TKM (30 minutes) (homework)

Wednesday 2/27
1. Journals Due
2. Vocabulary 9-10 Test
3. Chapters 1-8 TKM packet (homework)

Thursday 2/28
1. Write in class Journal for chapters 7 or 8
2. See To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Work on Chapters 1-8 Packet (homework)

Friday 2/29
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Mockingbird Quiz
3. Practice CAHSEE Test
4. Finish TKM Packet (homework)

2nd Semester 4th week's lessons 2/19 - 2/22 - 08

Please check your Aeries account and if you have questions or problems see me. Stay up with your read of To Kill a Mockingbird, you will have quizzes. Also remember you have CAHSEE practice books at home to study for your test March 11,12.

Tuesday 2/19
1. Glossary React
2. Review Idioms
3. Practice CAHSEE Test
4. Read To Kill a Mockingbird (homework)

Wednesday 2/20
1. Unit 10 Vocabulary Test
2. Explain Dialectical Journals
3. Type two journals (homework)

Thursday 2/21
1. Week 13-14 Idiom Test
2. Review Vocabulary Test
3. Review Journals
4. Do The Real Cause

Friday 2/22
1. Review Idiom Test
2. Reading Quiz
3. Finish The Real Cause (homework)
4. Read To Kill a Mockingbird (homework)

Second Semester lesson # 3 2/12 - 2/15 - 2008

Who has shared their wisdom with you; what have you learned? Now we are reading To Kill a Mockingbird and you will need to understand what Atticus is trying to teach his children. Please use your study guide to direct your reading and SparkNotes: To Kill a Mockingbird
The TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Student Survival Guide

both sites should help you.
Tuesday 2/12
1. Review Unit 9 Vocabulary Test
2. Lecture: Objectives of To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Read TKM, Chapters 1 and 2 (homework)

Wednesday 2/13
1. Read and discuss pages 819 – 821 "Symbolism and figurative Language"
2. Handout and Discuss “Study Guide”
3. Do all of Unit 10 Vocabulary (homework)

Thursday 2/14
1. Lecture: Author – Nelle Harper Lee
2. Discuss "Connotation" and "Denotation"
3. Read TKM and finish Vocabulary (homework)

Friday 2/15
1. Review Unit 10 Vocabulary (100 points)
2. Discuss Reading
3. Glossary React (homework)

Please use your resources.

lesson #2 second semester 2/4 - 2/8 - 2008

Do you have To Kill a Mockingbird? We start reading it this week, and I will provide a copy of the novel for you if you cannot get your own copy. Please stay up with your reading, so you will be prepared for all quizzes.
Also you have your S.S.R. book as well to read.

Monday 2/4
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Read and discuss Montgomery Boycott
3. Do all of Unit 9 Vocabulary (homework)

Tuesday 2/5
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Finish Montgomery Boycott
3. Read A Eulogy to Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. (homework)

Wednesday 2/6
1. Review and discuss Reading
2. Quick write – listen to the story of the geese. How should we as humans be like the geese? Must be typed and should be a body paragraph. (homework)

Thursday 2/7
1. Quick write due
2. Vocabulary Bingo and Pretest
3. Read Writing Workshop (opinion statement) pages 138-142

Friday 2/8
1. Unit 9 Vocabulary Test
2. Pass out To Kill a Mockingbird books
3. Practice CAHSEE Test
4. Read TKM (homework)