Activities for week nine 10/31 - 11/4 - 2011

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 10/31
1. Review Tests
2. Finish “Reading Guides”
3. Do Root Words 4 Cards (homework)
4. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Tuesday 11/1
1. Review Vocabulary Cards
2. Review Part I Guide
3. Practice CAHSEE Test
4. Read and Discuss Fahrenheit 451
5. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Wednesday 11/2
1. Grade Quarter Notebook
2. Read and Discuss 451
3. Setting, Inference, Conflict Worksheets (homework)

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

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

Please see me if you want to raise you grade!

Activities for week eight 10/24 - 10/28 - 2011

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 10/24
1. Review Roots 2 Test
2. Read and Discuss Fahrenheit 451
3. Finish Part One Guide (homework)
4. Make Root Word Cards (homework)

Tuesday 10/25
1. Review all Vocabulary
2. Review Worksheets
3. Read and discuss 451
4. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework) and study

Wednesday 10/26
1. Idioms Weeks 1 – 4 Test
2. Lecture: “Genre and The Novel”
3. Study Glossary Vocabulary (homework)
4. Read “The Sieve and the Sand” (homework)

Thursday 10/27
1. Practice Vocabulary Test and Bingo
2. Fahrenheit Reading Quiz
3. Part Two Reading Guide (homework)
4. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Friday 10/28
1. Roots Words 3 Test
2. Read and Discuss 451
3. Finish Part Two Guide
4. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Check Aeries, and what are you doing about extra credit?

Activites for week seven 10/17 - 10/21 - 2011

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 and excel; if you are not meeting your expectations 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 started reading it Friday. Have you bought something for the Boxes of Love? (20 points or ?) Finally do you have an Aeries printout of your grade and parent's note and signature? "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."

Monday 10/17
1. Introductions due
2. Review Tests and CAHSEE
3. Read “The Pedestrian”
4. Make New Root word cards and Study (homework)

Tuesday 10/18
1. See The Veldt
2. Organize Collective Groups
3. Review Capitalization
4. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework) (Read 20 minutes/study Vocab 10)

Wednesday 10/19
1. Listen to CD and Write a Quick Write about “Struggle” Two Paragraphs
2. "Glossary and Censor" Worksheets
3. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework - same as Tuesday)

Thursday 10/20
1. Pretest Vocabulary and Word Roots Bingo
2. Lecture: "How to Mark a Book" Adler's strategies
3. Group work on Packets
4. "Building Background" Worksheets
5. Read Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Friday 10/21
1. Vocabulary Test
2. Practice CAHSEE Test
3. Read Fahrenheit 451
4. "Part One Reading Guide" (homework)

***Extra Credit***
Set up an interview of you with me.
(fifteen points for ten minutes)

Activities for week six 10/10 - 10/14 - 2011

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

Tuesday 10/11
1. Thesis Test
2. Take notes on “Attitude”
3. “Soft Rain” Reading Test
4. Read “The Pedestrian” pages 95 - 101 (homework)

Wednesday 10/12
1. Essay Terms Test
2. Read and Discuss “The Pedestrian”
3. Type an introduction – use “Connect to Your Life” page 86 (Introduction handout) (MLA format)

Thursday 10/13
1. Vocabulary Bingo and Pretest
2. Review Tests
3. Edit and Revise Introduction Paragraph
4. Finish “The Pedestrian”
5. Type New Introduction Paragraph (homework)

Friday 10/14
1. Introduction Paragraph due
2. Root words Test
3. Practice CAHSEE Test
4. Start reading Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

***Extra credit***
You can buy Fahrenheit 451, so that you can annotate it.
(50 points) See me.

Activities for week five 10/3 - 10/7 - 2011

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 10/3
1. Review Prefix Test
2. Practice CAHSEE Test
3. Read and discuss “By the Waters of Babylon”
4. Do “Thesis” Worksheet (homework)

Tuesday 10/4
1. Idioms Week 1 and 2 Test
2. Review Thesis worksheet
3. Finish “By the Waters …”
4. Read SSR Book, Study, and Finish “Babylon” Packet (homework)

Wednesday 10/5
1. “By the Waters of Babylon” Reading Test
2. Grade and Review Packet
3. Read “Interview with Ray Bradbury” and “There will come Soft Rains” pages 84-93 (homework)

Thursday 10/6
1. Prefix Review Test
2. Lecture: Multi-paragraph Terms
3. Read and Discuss “There Come Soft Rains”
4. Study for Test (homework)

Friday 10/7
1. Suffix Test
2. Finish Discussing “There Will Come Soft Rains” and Reading Test
3. Review Prefix Test
4. Make Cards for Word Roots # 1 (homework)

*** Extra Credit ***
Type MLA style - Grammar in Context: Action Verbs - page 94
Due Friday 10/7, 7:45am before class.