Activities for week one 9/6 - 9/ 9 - 2011

Welcome back to El Dorado, I look forward to working with you this year and watching you develop over the next three 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 7:05 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 9/6
1. Introductions and check phone numbers
2. Discuss “Guidelines” (have signed) and Reading List
3. Share your summer
4. Make a Name plate for your desk (homework)

Wednesday 9/7
1. Guidelines due
2. Powerpoint Overview
3. “Who are you?” worksheet
4. Read “Since I Have My Life Before Me” Brooke Bronkowski
5. Write Your Own Poem (homework)

Thursday 9/8
1. Read and Discuss “The Fence” and Lessons in Leadership – “Foster teamwork through respect”
2. Review “Who are you?” and Your Own Poems
3. Get SSR Book from list (homework)

Friday 9/9
1. Fill out Silent Sustain Reading card (SSR Book)
2. Grammar quiz (Spell Checker)
3. Edit Poems
4. Discuss and Review MLA format

"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times."
- Johann von Schiller -