Thursday, 05/27/10

Academic Skills
1. IR Habits Journals, binders, food prep

Composition
1. Start thinking about how you will answer the Lord of the Flies essay question...
2. Any students with a 'D' or 'F' in class are REQUIRED to complete one of the three extra credit essays. Get started as soon as possible! You can download the planning sheet we have used in class by clicking here.

World Literature
1. Socratic Seminar #2 questions for The Joy Luck Club. Be ready for the discussion on Tuesday.
2. Start working on the introduction for The Joy Luck Club essay.

Wednesday, 05/26/10

Academic Skills
1. IR Habits Journals (due tomorrow), Binders, food prep.

Composition
1. Finish tribe symbol mini-posters. Be ready to present them tomorrow.
2. Any students with a 'D' or 'F' in class are REQUIRED to complete one of the three extra credit essays. Get started as soon as possible! You can download the planning sheet we have used in class by clicking here.

World Literature
1. Continue working on the Socratic Seminar questions (be ready for the Seminar by Tuesday).

Tuesday, 05/25/10

Academic Skills
1. IR Habits Journals, Binders, food prep.

Composition
1. JOTF #19, finish "Cry of the Hunters" (193-202) and the book!
*If you are planning on doing an extra credit essay, you will need to pick one of the three and get started on it. Students with a grade of 'D' or 'F' are REQUIRED to do one or more of the extra credit essays. You can download the planning sheet we have used in class by clicking here.

World Literature
1. JLC projects - due tomorrow.

Monday, 05/24/10

Academic Skills
1. IR Habits Journals. And binders.

Composition
1. JOTF #18: ch. 12 "Cry of the Hunters" (183-192).

World Literature
1. JLC projects - now due Wednesday.
2. Do the summary/reflection for your Socratic Seminar notes.

Friday, 05/21/10

Academic Skills
1. IR Habits Journals & Binders!

Cooking schedule for the next week:
Monday - Gilberto & Adrian cook, Sherrylee & Bryan prep
Tuesday - Sherrylee & Bryan cook, Daniel & Kendall prep
Wednesday - Daniel & Kendall cook, Quinton & Josh prep
Thursday - Quinton & Josh cook

Composition
1. JOTF #17 - "Castle Rock" (169-182). Use the pre-printed journal sheet from class. CLICK HERE to download and print the sheet yourself.

World Literature
1. Socratic Seminar discussion questions sheet (make sure this is done by Monday!)
2. JLC Final Projects - due Tuesday.
3. Make sure your Mothers & Daughters sheets are finished.

Thursday, 05/20/10

Academic Skills
1. IR Habits journals & Binders, as always. Binder checks tomorrow.

Composition
1. JOTF #16 - "The Shell and the Glasses" (155-168).
2. Be ready for the Ralph & Piggy on trial tomorrow.

World Literature
1. Finish the Mothers & Daughters sheets.
2. Work on your Socratic Seminar discussion questions sheets.
3. Work on your JLC final projects due Tuesday, May 25.

**JLC reading test tomorrow**

Wednesday, 05/19/10

Academic Skills
1. IR Habits Journal & Binders!

Composition
1. JOTF #15 - "A View to a Death" (145-154). We read it in class. Now you finish the journal.
2. Read the first four pages of the next chapter: "The Shell and the Glasses."

World Literature
1. Finish any intro story/SAT sheet stuff that you haven't done yet.
2. Finish the book and the questions on the last two chapters (due tomorrow ).
3. Finish the Mothers & Daughters sheets.
4. Work on your JLC final projects due Tuesday, May 25.

**JLC reading test Friday**

Tuesday, 05/18/10

Academic Skills
1. Keep doing your IR Habits Journal at home!
2. Be prepared for your group's recipe.

Composition
1. JOTF #14 - fix up, add in entries. At the bottom, copy and answer this question:
What is significant about the scene with Simon and the pig's head at the end of the chapter? What is going on? What does it all mean? What is symbolic?

World Literature
1. Finish any intro story/SAT sheet stuff that you haven't done yet.
2. Finish the book and the questions on the last two chapters (due Thurs).
3. Finish the Mothers & Daughters sheets.
4. Work on your JLC final projects due Tuesday, May 25.

**JLC reading test Friday**

Friday, 05/14/10

Academic Skills
1. Make sure your binders are organized and ready to be checked.
2. Start your IR Habits Journal - text-text connections are the focus.
3. If you are preparing food next week, prepare your ingredients.

Composition
1. VPP crossword review (due Monday).
2. JOTF #13 - ch. 8 "Gift for the Darkness" (124-132). Use the pre-printed Cornell note sheet I gave out in class.

World Literature
1. Finish the following by Monday:
-Reading up to and through the chapter "Magpies"
-Intro/folk-tale story S.A.T. page
-Mothers & Daughters sheets (except for the three stories we haven't read yet)
-Vocab crossword review

Thursday, 05/13/10

Academic Skills
1. Get binders ready for binder checks tomorrow.

Composition
1. VPP crossword review - now due MONDAY.
2. JOTF #11 ch. 6 - "Beast from Air" (95-108) - finish...we started it in class.
3. JOTF #12 ch. 7 - "Shadows and Tall Trees" (109-123) complete.

World Literature
1. VPP crossword review
2. JLC - read "Magpies" (215-241). Do a response to the chapter - your choice! You can write a song, poem, letter to or from a character, personal response....you can make a picture, collage, sculpture.... The only requirement is that the response does these two things:
-show that you read the chapter
-show your personal response to the chapter.

Wednesday, 05/12/10

Academic Skills
1. Fix up binders.
2. Finish your IR Habits Journals.

Composition
1. VPP crossword review
2. JOTF #10 ch. 5 - "Beast from Water" (76-94).

World Literature
1. VPP crossword review
2. Read The Joy Luck Club chapter "Best Quality" (197-209).
3. Fill in the Mothers & Daughters sheet as you read and take notes - be ready for the quiz tomorrow.

Tuesday, 5/11/10

Academic Skills
1. Tutorial notes summary, IR Habits Journal.

Composition
1. VPP crossword review (due Friday).
2. Start doing JOTF #10 - ch. 5 "Beast from Water" (76-94).

World Literature
1. VPP crossword review (due Friday).
2. Read "Without Wood", answer the two questions:
-How is Rose 'without wood?'
-How is this related to her choice to be more 'American' than 'Chinese?'

Monday, 05/10/10

Academic Skills
1. Tutorial Qs sheet
2. IR Habits Journal
3. Clean up the cake notes from today, add the headings/questions/main ideas on the left, and add the summary. We'll turn them in tomorrow.

Composition
1. Work on your MASK projects (due tomorrow).
2. JOTF #9 (63-75). Finish the chapter "Painted Faces and Long Hair."

World Literature
1. The Joy Luck Club reading catch-up.
2. Work on your Mothers & Daughters sheets (the first one should be completely finished!).
3. VPP crossword review

Friday, 05/07/10

Academic Skills
1. IR, continue journal

Composition
1. Work on your MASK project (due Tuesday).
2. Read and catch up or read and move ahead in Lord of the Flies.

World Literature
1. Read "Four Directions" (16-184), Waverly Jong's second story. Fill in the Mothers & Daughters sheet #2 for it, and take notes on it. Open-note quiz on Monday.
2. FINISH Mothers & Daughters sheet #1.

Thursday, 05/06/10

Academic Skills
1. Binders...

Composition
1. VPP15 - test tomorrow.
2. JOTF #8 (58-63) from Lord of the Flies chapter "Painted Faces and Long Hair."
3. Start working on your MASK projects. They are due on Tuesday.

World Literature
1. VPP15 - test tomorrow.
2. Read The Joy Luck Club chapter "Rice Husband," Lena St. Clair's next story (149-165). Then do one of the following:
a. Draw a picture of Lena and her husband in one scene from the chapter. Put a CD at the bottom as a caption.
b. Draw a symbol that represents the relationship between Lena and her husband. Then, at the bottom, explain how and why that symbol stands for their relationship.

Wednesday, 05/05/10

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Academic Skills
1. Binders - fix them up and organize them so they are ready to be checked tomorrow.
2. IR Habits Journals - due tomorrow
3. Study Homophones - test tomorrow
(bring in expository food texts if you have them)

Composition
1. VPP15 - study words, finish Words in Context & Sentence Completion in vocab books.
2. Lord of the Flies catch-up: Work on catching up on reading, journals, and journal fix-ups.

World Literature
1. VPP15 - study words, finish Words in Context & Sentence Completion in vocab books.
2. Read "Two Kinds", Jing-Mei "June" Woo's story in The Joy Luck Club (132-144).
3. Fill in the Mothers & Daughters sheet for "Two Kinds."
4. Do the Two Kinds questions and write Your Story (on the sheet passed out today).

-If you'd like to do the extra credit personal essay, here is the prompt:
In the chapter “Half and Half” from the novel The Joy Luck Club, author Amy Tan’s character Rose Hsu Jordan says "I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control" (121). Do you agree or disagree? Write a personal essay* in which you explain why, using examples from your experiences to illustrate your answer.

*a personal essay means you're actually allowed to use first person personal pronouns

Monday, 05/03/10

Academic Skills
1. Finish Tutorial Tuesday Qs sheets.
2. IR Habits Journals
3. News Notes #2: Go for speed and volume.

Composition
1. VPP15 flashcards & notes pictures
2. Lord of the Flies JOTF #6 (39-47) - finish "Fire on the Mountain."

World Literature
1. VPP15 flashcards & notes pictures
2. Read "Rules of the Game" and "The Voice from the Wall" (89-115). Quiz tomorrow - open-note.