Activities for week one second semester 1/30 - 2/3, 2012

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). Please let's get off to a great start.

Monday 1/30
1. Review Final
2. Discuss Class Guidelines (homework)
3. Start Antigone Essay (homework)

Tuesday 1/31
1. Guidelines Due (25 points)
2. Review EDHS Dress Code
3. Practice CAHSEE Test
4. Usage Problems Worksheet
5. Discuss Antigone Essay (outline, brainstorm - homework)

Wednesday 2/1
1. Discuss Connotation and Denotation
2. Usage Problems Worksheet
3. Discuss Active and Passive Voice
4. Work on Antigone Essay (type essay - homework)

Thursday 2/2
1. Second Quarter Benchmark Test (60 points)
2. Discuss Commentary
3. Work on Antigone Essay (homework)
4. Review All Idioms Weeks 1-12 (homework)

Friday 2/3
1. Idiom Weeks 1-12 Test (100 points)
2. Edit and Revise Antigone Essay (100 points) (type second copy) homework
3. Practice CAHSEE Test

Please come see me if you have any questions?

Finals Week 1/23 - 1/27 - 2012

This is the end, all we have left is your final. If you have S.S.Reading points to make up you can do that Monday and Tuesday morning. Good luck on your final. Please check Aeries and make sure your grade is correct.

Final
55 clue context, prefix, suffix, root questions
20 vocabulary words
50 Antigone questions
20 literature terms
20 idioms

Monday January 23th
Review for final

Tuesday, January 24th

Period 1 7:55 – 10:03 128 minutes

Break 10:03 – 10:12 9

Period 2 10:19 – 10:39 20

Period 3 10:46 – 11:06 20

Period 4 11:13 – 11:33 20

Period 5 11:40 – 12:00 20

Lunch 12:00 – 12:30 30

Period 6 12:37 – 2:45 128 minutes

Wednesday, January 25th

Period 2

7:55 – 10:03 128 minutes

Break 10:03 – 10:11

Period 3

10:18 – 12:26 128 minutes

Thursday, January 26th

Period 4

7:55 – 10:03 128 minutes

Break 10:03 – 10:11

Period 5

10:18 – 12:26 128 minutes

Friday, January 27^th

Non-Student Day

Activities for week eighteen 1/17 - 1/20

In one of his notebooks Leonardo da Vinci wrote, "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." That distaste for inaction drove da Vinci's intellectual curiosity his entire life. His love for learning never stopped. I hope you have learned to love learning and love the feeling of accomplishment for a job well done.

Tuesday 1/17
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Test on Antigone Handouts
3. Presentation of Antigone
4. See and Discuss Antigone

Wednesday 1/18
1. Presentations of Antigone
2. See and Discuss Antigone
3. Type Antigone Essay (homework)
4. Review all Idioms

Thursday 1/19
1. Review Antigone Test
2. Presentations
3. See and Discuss Antigone
4. Edit and Review Essay (homework)
5. Study All Vocabulary

Friday 1/20
1. Antigone Essay Due
2. Vocabulary 1 – 10 Test
3. Presentations
4. Finish Antigone Study Guide – Due Monday

Do you have all your reading points?

Activities for week seventeen 1/9 - 1/13 - 2012

Moliere said, "Men are alike in their promises. It is only their deeds that they differ." We still have a notebook to grade and a presentation of Antigone to complete before the semester comes to a close. Please make sure your deeds match the grade you promised yourself. Also please check Aeries to make sure your deeds for this class were recorded correctly. You may still make up S.S.Reading points in the morning or break, also you can see about after school reading.

Monday 1/9
1. Idiom 1 – 9 Test (100 points)
2. Review Vocabulary Test
3. Read and Discuss Scene I of Antigone
4. Do Vocabulary 9 - 10 (homework)
5. Practice Dialogue (homework)

Tuesday 1/10
1. Lecture: Drama and Structure of Tragedy
2. Practice Dialogue
3. Finish Vocabulary 9 - 10 (homework)
4. Finish Reading Antigone (homework)

Wednesday 1/11
1. Grade and Review Vocabulary 9 - 10 (70 points)
2. Group Presentation Work
3. See and Discuss Antigone
4. Work on Study Guide (homework)

Thursday 1/12
1. Antigone Test
2. Grade Quarter Notebook
3. Group Presentation Work
4. Practice Dialogue (homework)
5. Work on Study Guide (homework)

Friday 1/13
1. Vocabulary 9 - 10 Test (100 points)
2. Give Group Presentation (variable extra credit points)
3. Practice Dialogue (homework)
4. Study for Handout Test (homework)

Remember you can come and talk to me about your grade.
Also if you have you dialogue on index cards - see me Monday
before 8:22 am, not after for extra credit points.