Activities for week five 1st semester 9/28 - 10/2 - 2015

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 9/28
1. Mrs. Madrigal "El Dorado Student Expectations"
2. Check Bubble Cluster
3. Study Suffixes
4. Read pages 1 - 25 Fahrenheit 451 (homework)

Tuesday 9/29
1. Work on Outline for Narrative Essay
2. Practice Suffix Test
3. Read "The Little Big Things"
4. Start Part I Worksheet (homework)

Wednesday 9/30
1. Suffix Test 
2. Outline due
3. See The Veldt and do Worksheet
4. Type Introduction of Narrative Essay (homework)

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

Friday 10/2
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. Vocabulary Test Corrections due Monday.
    Check last week's blog

3. Listen in class for your third opportunity.

Activities for week four first semester 9/21 - 9/25 - 2015

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 9/21 
1. Read "A sure alphabet for success"
2. Study Prefixes and Suffixes
3. Read and Discuss "By The Waters of Babylon"
4. Finish your "Babylon" Packet (homework)

Tuesday 9/22
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 9/23
1. "By The Waters of Babylon" Test
2. Literature Terms Test (you need your spiral notebook)
3. Read and Discuss "Creativity lives in all of us"
4. Study for Prefix Test and Read S.S.R. Book (homework)

Thursday 9/24
1. Prefix Test
2. Read College Writing Papers
3. Start Narrative Essay (your own personal experience)
4. Make Suffix Cards (homework)

Friday 9/25
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 - Write word and definitions each ten times in columns - one side of the paper only (due Tuesday)
2. Get Fahrenheit 451 (your copy to annotate in it) 50 points

Activities for week three first semester 9/14 - 9/18 - 2015

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 9/14
1. Review Lecture of Literature Terms
2. Read and Discuss "The Interlopers"
3. Do "The Interlopers" Packet (homework)

Tuesday 9/15
1. Practice Prefix Test
2. Review Homework

3. "Interlopers" Test
4.  Read "By The Waters of Babylon" pages 42 - 55 (homework)

Wednesday 9/16
1. Prefix Test
2. Read and Discuss “By The Waters of Babylon”
3. New Prefixes, Suffixes and Make Cards (homework)

Thursday 9/17
1. Prefix and Suffix cards due

2. Start Idioms in Notebook
3. Read and Discuss “By The Waters of Babylon”
4. Test Taking Tips (homework)

Friday 9/18
1. Read and Discuss "Give yourself something to achieve"
2. Journal in Notebook - "Image"
3. Start "By The Waters of Babylon" Packet (Due Tuesday)(homework)

*** Extra Credit *** 

Print your Aeries Grade Thursday night and have a parent print their name and signature.

Activities for week two first semester 9/8 - 9/11 - 2015

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.

Tuesday 9/8
1. Grammar quiz (spell checker)
2. Fill out Silent Sustain Reading Card
3. Read “15 Study Tricks” and “Choosing Success…”
4. Get Spiral Notebook (homework)

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

Thursday 9/10
1. Lecture: “Literary Terms”
2. Cards due and Study Prefixes
3. Read “The Interlopers” pages 8 - 13 (homework)

Friday 9/11
1. Finish and Review Lecture
2. Read aloud and Discuss "The Interlopers"
3. Do "The Interlopers" worksheet (homework)

***Extra Credit***

Print the blog and have a parent print their name and sign that they have seen it and know that all work will be listed there. This is due Wednesday before class on the stool by the podium.