Fourth week's Activities 9/28 - 10/2 - 2009

Nothing is more important than relationships. As the school year moves on let us build our relationship. Wednesday night is back to school night and I would love to meet your parents and start a relationship with them. You can earn 25 extra credit points if they sign in Wednesday night during your period. Andrew Carnegie once said, "There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself." I hope you want to climb the ladder of success - your success. Remember I will always be here in the mornings, break, and the beginning of lunch, or come to the tennis courts after school.

Monday 9/28
1. Vocabulary Bingo and Pretest (prefixes and suffixes)
2. Review Reading Test
3. See the end of Planet of the Apes
4. Do Thesis worksheets (homework)

Tuesday 9/29
1. Prefix and Suffix Test
2. Review Thesis
3. Read and Discuss “By The Waters of Babylon” pages 42-55
4. Work on “Babylon” Packet (homework)

Wednesday 9/30
1. Read and Discuss “By the Waters of Babylon”
2. Make Suffix Cards (homework)
3. Finish “Babylon” Packet (homework)

Thursday 10/1
1. Thesis Quiz
2. Finish discussion of “Babylon”
3. Review “Babylon” Packet (should be done)
4. Review All Vocabulary and Read SSR Book (10 pages) (homework)

Friday 10/2
1. Reading Test - "By the Waters of Babylon"
2. Review “Babylon” Packet
3. Practice CAHSEE Test
4. Pleasure Read and Study (homework)

*** Extra Credit ***
Go to Aeries and print your grade, then have a parents write me a note on the printout that they understand your grade and have them print their name and sign it, for ten points extra credit. This is due Monday before the warning bell of class.
(Make sure I have added your SSR reading points to Aeries for the last two weeks.)

Activities for 3rd week 9/21 - 9/25 - 2009

Orator, attorney, and political leader William Jennings Bryan said, "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." I hope you choose to work hard and work smart in our class. If you need help I will always be here. Remember when you are absent you need to make up your reading time and tests in the morning (7:25 am). Aeries should be set up by the end of the week - please use it to know where you are in our class.

This is the Bell Game Week and the Aloha Dance on Saturday. Enjoy and don't forget, high school is only once.

Monday 9/21
1. Prefix Cards, Portfolios due and Prefix Bingo and Quiz
2. Put Notebook together
3. Start Idioms (you will have four idioms a week to learn)
4. “Interlopers” Usage and Mechanics worksheet and Conflict worksheet and Test
(homework)

Tuesday 9/22
1. Prefix Test
2. Review “Interlopers” work
3. See “Harrison Bergeron”
4. Read Pages 20 – 29 “Harrison Bergeron" (homework)

Wednesday 9/23
1. Read and discuss “Harrison Bergeron”
2. Make new Prefix Cards (Test - 9/29) (homework)
3. Language Arts Reference Guide

Thursday 9/24
1. “Harrison” Reading Quiz
2. Lecture: Multi-paragraph Terms
3. Read “By The Waters of Babylon” pages 42 - 55 (homework)

Friday 9/25
1. Review Reading Quiz
2. Practice CAHSEE Test
3. Read and discuss “By The Waters of Babylon”
4. Read twenty pages of S.S.R. book (homework)

Go Hawks!

Week 2's Activities 9/14 - 9/18 - 2009

I am glad you are in my class, and I enjoyed our week together last week. This week we want to get going and start working on our reading, vocabulary, and writing. Do you have all your materials for class (SSR book, spiral notebook)? Charles Schulz stated "Life is a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." This year let's see if both you and I can use all our gears. Remember - I will always be here in the mornings.

Monday 9/14
1. Read and edit “The Race” paper – Revise and type final draft
2. Read and discuss “15 Study Tricks”

Tuesday 9/15
1. Race paper due
2. “Literary Terms” Test (assessment)
3. Lecture: Literary Terms
4. Read SSR Book 30 min.

Wednesday 9/16
1. Finish “Literary Terms” lecture
2. Honesty Policy
3. Read "The Interlopers" pages 8 - 13

Thursday 9/17
1. Handout – Literary Terms
2. Review Reading
3. Study Prefixes --- quiz 9/22
4. Prefixes – make note cards and study (xv - xvi)

Friday 9/18
1. Portfolio Exchange
2. Pre-Writing Assessment
3. Read and discuss “Test Taking Tips”

Extra credit this week:

For fifteen points you can set up a ten minute meeting with me.

Welcome back to El Dorado week 1's lessons 9/8 - 11 - 09

Welcome back to El Dorado, I look forward to working with you this year and watching you develop over the next four years. In They Call Me Coach, John Wooden defines the elusive quality of success as: "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." This is what I will be looking for all year - "Your Best" - that is not a grade. I will always be here every morning at 7 am - 7:45 am to help you or answer any questions you might have. I will also be here at break, the beginning of lunch, and on the tennis courts after school if we do not have an away match. Let's work together and let's have fun together.

This week you can earn 25 extra credit points by getting a college rule, three section only, spiral notebook by Friday.

Tuesday 9/8
1. Introductions and phone numbers
2. Discuss and sign Guidelines and Literature List (homework)
3. Share your summer
4. Fill out Harvard Resume (homework)

Wednesday 9/9
1. Overview of class
2. Read “I Can!” and “Risk”
3. Read “MLA Format” and “The Race”
4. Write two paragraphs about a positive lesson. (homework)
Type and double space (MLA format)
Think about a time where you over came something. Who helped you and what did you learn? Describe the situation and what the lesson was. Use the five W’s :who, what, when, where, and when.

Thursday 9/10
1. Review and discuss Harvard Resume
2. Read and discuss “Bill Gates Speech”
3. Explain “Marvin” comic

Friday 9/11
1. Grammar Quiz, “Spell Checker”
2. “The Race” paper due (20 points)
3. Edit, revise and retype (homework)
4. Set up Reading Cards (10 points a day for book in class and reading)

Go Hawks!