Activities for week five 9/29 - 10/3

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 Aeries and your S.S.R. Reading points - you can still come in and make them up (10 minutes reading for 10 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 "I know you can, if like the Little Blue Engine you think you can."

Monday 9/29
1. Grade Suffix Cards
2. Check Bubble Cluster
3. Check out Fahrenheit 451
4. Read pages 1 - 25 (homework)

Tuesday 9/30
1. Work on Outline for Narrative Essay
2. Practice Suffix Test
3. Read "The Little Big Things"
4. Start Part I Worksheet (homework)

Wednesday 10/1
1. Suffix Test and CAHSEE Practice Test
2. Outline due
3. See The Veldt and Discuss relationship to  Fahrenheit 451
4. Type Introduction of Narrative Essay (homework)

Thursday 10/2
1. Edit and Revise Introductions
2. Read pages 25 - 45 (homework)
3. Make Cards for Word Roots #1 (homework)

Friday 10/3
1. Review Suffix Test
2. Discuss Fahrenheit 451
3. Write and Type Body for Narrative Essay (homework)
4. Read pages 45 - 72 (Finish Part I) (homework)

***Extra Credit***

1. Do you have your own copy of Fahrenheit 451?

2. Test Corrections due Monday.

3. Listen in class for your third opportunity.

Activities for week four 9/22 - 9/26 - 2014

Nothing is more important than relationships. As the school year moves on let us build our relationship. Andrew Carnegie once said, "There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself." I hope you want to climb the ladder of success - your success. We have a very busy week stay on top of things. If you are missing something from the first three weeks please get it to me before Wednesday.  Also you can email me at jcyrus@pylusd.org. if you have any questions.

Monday 9/22 
1. Read "Take charge of your time ..."
2. Review Prefix Test
3. Read and Discuss "By The Waters of Babylon"
4. Finish your "Babylon" Packet (homework)

Tuesday 9/23
1. Review and Grade "Babylon" Packet
2. See Planet of the Apes
3. Test-Taking Skills Packet (homework) 
4. Review and Study: Vocabulary, Literature Terms, and "Babylon"

Wednesday 9/24
1. "By The Waters of Babylon" Test
2. Literature Terms Test (you need your spiral notebook)
3. Read "Coach Holtz's philosophies don't just apply to sports"
4. Study for Prefix Test and Read S.S.R. Book (homework)

Thursday 9/25
1. Prefix Test
2. Read "Creativity lives in all of us"
3. Start Narrative Essay (your own personal experience)
4. Make Suffix Cards (homework)

Friday 9/26
1. Suffix Cards due
2. Review Tests
3. Work on your Narrative Essay (homework)
4. Check out Fahrenheit 451

                     *** Extra Credit ***
1. Prefix Test Corrections (due Tuesday)
2. Fahrenheit 451 (your copy to annotate in it)

Activities for week three 9/15 - 9/19 - 2014

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)(Mondays at 8:15). Aeries is up - please use it to know where you are in our class.  You can still make up reading points.

Monday 9/15
1. Review “Interlopers” Test
2. Portfolios due and Pre-writing Assessment
3. Finish Literary Terms Lecture
4. Practice CAHSEE Test
5. Read S.S.R. Book (homework)

Tuesday 9/16
1. Practice Prefix Test
2.  Journal: Struggle
3.  Start Idioms
4.  Read "By The Waters of Babylon" pages 42 - 55 (homework)

Wednesday 9/17
1. Prefix Test
2. Read and Discuss “By The Waters of Babylon”
3. New Prefixes, Suffixes and Make Cards (homework)

Thursday 9/18
1. Prefix cards due
2. See "Genre Fiction" and "Figurative Language"
3. Read and Discuss “By The Waters of Babylon”
4. Test Taking Tips (homework)

Friday 9/19
1. Read and Discuss “By The Waters of Babylon”
2. Practice CAHSEE Test
3. "By The Waters of Babylon" Packet (Due Tuesday)(homework)
 

*** Extra Credit *** 

Listen in class for extra credit.

Activities for Week Two 9/8 - 9/12 - 2014

I am glad you are in my class, and I enjoyed our week together last week. This week we want to get going and start working on our reading, vocabulary, and writing. Do you have all your materials for class (SSR book, spiral notebook)? Charles Schulz stated "Life is a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." This year let's see if both you and I can use all our gears. Remember - I will always be here in the mornings.

Monday 9/8
1. Review Grammar Worksheet and Exit Exam
2. Read “15 Study Tricks” and “Choosing Success…”
3. Get Spiral Notebook

Tuesday 9/9
1. Pass out Books
2. Read “On Being Responsible
3. Setup Spiral Notebook
4. Study Prefixes and Make Note Cards 

Wednesday 9/10
1. Lecture: “Literary Terms”
2. Study Prefixes
3. Read “The Interlopers” pages 8 - 13

Thursday 9/11
1. Review Literary Terms
2. Read and Discuss “The Interlopers”
3. Do “The Interlopers” Worksheets
 
Friday 9/12
1. Review Worksheets
2. “The Interlopers” Test
3. Practice CAHSEE Test
4. Practice Prefixes Test

 *** Extra Credit ***

In MLA format compare and contrast "Choosing Success ..." and 

"On Being Responsible ..." (Due Thursday 9/11 before class - on the stool).

Activities for week one 9/2 - 9/5 - 2014

Welcome back to El Dorado, I look forward to working with you this year and watching you develop. 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 7:10 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 9/2
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 9/3
1. Guidelines due
2. Class and CAHSEE Overview
3. “Who are you?” Worksheet
4. Read and Discuss MLA Format
5. Read and Think Through “The Race” (homework)

Thursday 9/4
1. Read and Discuss "The Race”
2. Read and Discuss "Attitude"
2. Review “Who are you?”
3. Get SSR Book from list (homework)

Friday 9/5
1. Fill out Silent Sustain Reading Card (SSR Book)
2. Grammar quiz (Spell Checker)
3. Read and Discuss Articles on "Exit Exam"

EXTRA CREDIT

1. Get Three Section Spiral Notebook

2. MLA format relate "The Race" to school. (Due 9/4)