Activites for week nine 11/1 - 11/5 - 2010

As we finish the First Quarter most of you have done a nice job. So, finish this quarter strong understanding this truth: spectacular achievement comes from unspectacular preparation. There are no standing ovations for studying or doing homework, just self-respect, and higher scores. Finally please make sure you check your grade on Aeries, and if you are not sure about something please see me. There is still time that you may contribute to "The Boxes of Love" for extra credit - see me.

Monday 11/1
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Read Fahrenheit 451 Background handout
3. Finish Part Two “Reading Guide”
4. Do Root Words 4 Cards (homework)
5. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Tuesday 11/2
1. Idiom Test (week 1 and 2)
2. Review Vocabulary Cards
3. Discuss Fahrenheit 451 Background
4. Practice CAHSEE Test
5. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Wednesday 11/3
1. Grade Quarter Notebook
2. Review Reading Guide One
3. Start "Setting, Inference, Conflict" Worksheets (homework)

Thursday 11/4
1. Reading Guide Part Two - Due
2. Fahrenheit 451 Test
3. Vocab Pretest and Bingo
4. Work on "Setting, Inference, Conflict" worksheets (homework)

Friday 11/5
1. Vocabulary Seven Test
2. Practice CAHSEE Test
3. See Fahrenheit 451
4. Finish Worksheets (homework)

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"Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ."

Who said this, what does it mean, and where are you in your deeds? In MLA format type the answers to these questions in a well written paragraph blending your answers into a cohesive paper. Extra Credit Due by Tuesday!

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Activites for week eight 10/25 - 10/29 - 2010

Discipline means doing what you have to do when you need to do it, whether you want to or not. Self-discipline - the only kind that lasts - is action oriented. It doesn't procrastinate, and it doesn't makes excuses. "Setting a goal is not the main thing," said Tom Landry, who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. "It's deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. The key is discipline." As we move to the end of the first quarter I hope you are disciplined and have your notebook current, all your vocabulary cards, and are caught up with your reading. What grade do you want from this class? Are you doing the things that will produce that grade? Remember I am here to help you reach your goal.

Monday 10/25
1. Reading Quiz - Fahrenheit 451
2. Review Roots 2 Test
3. Review Introduction Paragraph
4. Finish Worksheets (homework)
5. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Tuesday 10/26
1. Review all Vocabulary
2. Review Worksheets
3. Read and discuss Fahrenheit 451
4. Part One Reading Guide (homework)

Wednesday 10/27
1. Lecture: “How to Mark a Book” Adler’s strategies
2. Lecture: “Genre and The Novel”
3. Read “The Sieve and the Sand” (homework)
4. Finish Reading Guide (homework)

Thursday 10/28
1. Practice Vocabulary Test and Bingo
2. Review Reading Quiz and Part One Guide
3. Part Two Reading Guide (homework)
4. Study all Vocabulary for Test (homework)

Friday 10/29
1. Roots 2 Test
2. Read and Discuss 451
3. Finish Part Two Guide (homework)
4. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Talk is Cheap!

Activities for week seven 10/18 - 10/22 - 2010

Having the right expectations going into anything is half the battle. John C. Norcross, a clinical psychologist, has studied people and their goals, and he has found a characteristic that distinguishes those who reach their goals from those who do not:EXPECTATIONS. I hope you expect to pass this class; if you are not passing right now you need to see me to find out what you can do to raise your grade. Have you bought Fahrenheit 451? (50 points) We start reading it on Tuesday. Have you bought something for the Boxes of Love? (25 points or ?)

Monday 10/18
1. Introduction due
2. Review Test
3. Read “The Pedestrian”
4. Make New Root word cards (homework)

Tuesday 10/19
1. See The Veldt
2. Read and discuss Fahrenheit 451
3. Review all vocabulary
4. Read Fahrenheit 451

Wednesday 10/20
1. Listen to CD and write a quick write about “Struggle” two Paragraphs
2. Glossary and Censor worksheets (groups)
3. Read Fahrenheit 451

Thursday 10/21
1. Pretest Vocabulary and Word Roots Bingo
2. Group work on packets
3. Building Background worksheets
4. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Friday 10/22
1. Vocabulary Test
2. Practice CAHSEE Test

3. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Are you reaching your potential?

Activities for week six 10/11 - 10/15 - 2010

Have you known people who should have risen to the top but didn't? They had all the talent they should ever need, but they still didn't succeed. Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to a new power as a benefactor." I hope you are enjoying our class and are working to fully develop yourself to be your best and help our world to be its as well.

For extra credit you can bring something off the list for "Box of Love".
It is a Canning Hunger project to provide holiday dinners to needy families throughout the Los Angeles area during the holiday season.
See me and I will explain the project, and how you can make a difference.

Monday 10/11
1. Review Suffix Test
2. “Soft Rain” Test
3. Finish Essay Terms Lecture
4. Study Root words and Thesis for Tests (homework)

Tuesday 10/12
1. Thesis Test
2. Review Reading Test
3. Take notes on “Attitude”
4. Read “The Pedestrian” pages 95 - 101 (homework)

Wednesday 10/13
1. Essay Terms Test
2. Review Thesis Test
3. Read and Discuss “The Pedestrian”
4. Type an introduction – use “Connect to Your Life” page 86 (Introduction handout) (homework)

Thursday 10/14
1. Vocab Bingo and Pretest
2. Review Essay Terms Test
3. Edit and Revise Intro ¶
4. Finish “The Pedestrian”
5. Type New Intro ¶ (homework)

Friday 10/15
1. Introduction Paragraph due
2. Root words Test
3. Practice CAHSEE Test
4. Start reading Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Is better to give or receive?

Week five activities 10/4 - 10/8 - 2010

It is one thing to believe that you possess remarkable potential. It is another thing to have enough faith in yourself that you think you can fulfill it. Let's keep working together to tap into all you can be. I have seen good things from you and I hope to see much more. Please check our past blogs and see if there is something you can still do to earn points, that also includes S.S.R. Reading points.
Remember "Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man,
But soon or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can."
anonymous

Monday 10/4
1. Review Tests
2. “Babylon” packet due
3. Read and discuss “By the Waters of Babylon”
4. Do “Thesis” Worksheet (homework)

Tuesday 10/5
1. Study Vocabulary
2. Review “Babylon” Packet
3. Review Thesis worksheet
4. Read “Interview with Ray Bradbury” and “There will come Soft Rains” pages 84-93 (homework)

Wednesday 10/6
1. Prefix Review Test
2. Read and Discuss Story
3. Type Grammar in Context: Action Verbs – page 94 MLA format (homework)

Thursday 10/7
1. Homework due
2. Read "Making writing fun, or at least less painful"
3. Lecture: Multi-paragraph Terms
4. Study for Tests (homework)

Friday 10/8
1. “There Will Come Soft Rains” Test
2. Suffix Test
3. Review Prefix Test
4. Make Cards for Word Roots # 1 (homework)

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