Activities for New Semester week 1 1/28 - 2/1 - 2013

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), and also have a readmit. Please let's get off to a great start.

Monday 1/28
1. Review First Semester
2. Practice CAHSEE Test

Tuesday 1/29
1. Practice CAHSEE Test
2. Usage Problems Worksheet
3. Discuss Antigone Essay
4. Write Thesis and Bubble Cluster (homework)

Wednesday 1/30
1. Discuss Connotation and Denotation
2. Usage Problems Worksheet
3. Discuss Active and Passive Voice
4. Write Antigone Outline (homework)

Thursday 1/31
1. Second Quarter Benchmark Test
2. Type Antigone Introduction (homework)

Friday 2/1
1. Practice CAHSEE Test
2. Edit and Revise Antigone Introduction (type second copy with Body Paragraphs) (homework)

********** Extra Credit ***********
See me for a project on renting an apartment.

Finals Week 1/22 - 1/24 - 2013

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.

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

Tuesday, January 22nd

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 23rd

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 27th
Non-Student Day

You can still make up Reading Points Wednesday and Thursday.

Activities for week seventeen 1/14 - 1/18 - 2013

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 1/14
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Practice CAHSEE Test
3. Presentations
4. Do Vocabulary 9 - 10 (homework)

Tuesday 1/15
1. Idiom 1 – 9 Test (100 points)
2. Presentations
3. Finish Vocabulary 9 - 10 (homework)
4. Finish Reading Antigone (homework)
Wednesday 1/16
1. Grade and Review Vocabulary (70 points)
2. Presentations
3. Lecture: Drama and Structure of Tragedy
4. Antigone Worksheets (homework)

Thursday 1/17
1. Antigone Test (100 points)
2. Vocabulary Bingo and Pretest
3. Presentations
4. Finish Antigone Worksheets (homework)

Friday 1/18
1. Vocabulary 9 - 10 Test
2. Review and Grade Antigone Worksheets
3. Presentations
4. Grade Notebooks
5. Study for Finals (homework)

                 *** Extra Credit ***
If you have all your vocabulary cards from the first quarter they are due Wednesday in a Ziploc bag.
Also you can do Quizlet also due Wednesday.