Academic Skills
1. Complete the tutorial sheet summary/reflection section on what you learned today during the tutorial.
Composition
1. VPP (Vocab Power Plus) spelling quiz word write-out.
2. Type up your memoirs! Final draft due FRIDAY: Typed, double-spaced, 12 pt. font.
3. Bring Writer's Inc books tomorrow!
World Literature
1. VPP (Vocab Power Plus) spelling quiz word write-out.
2. Song lyrics & theme. Copy/print the song lyrics of your choice. Include the name of the artist and song title, and write out the theme(s) communicated by the song. Remember that themes are general statements (not specific) about life/people, not clichés, and not advice.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Tuesday, 9/29/09
Academic Skills
1. Organize your binders! Make them 0h-so-nice.
Composition
1. Create vocabulary flashcards - word on one side, definition and picture/inyourownwordsdefinition on the other side.
2. Study for the vocabulary spelling quiz tomorrow.
3. FINISH YOUR MEMOIR ROUGH DRAFT.
World Literature
1. Create vocabulary flashcards - word on one side, definition and picture/inyourownwordsdefinition on the other side.
2. Study for the vocabulary spelling quiz tomorrow.
3. Finish your POV (point of view) conflict journal narrative. It must be either written neatly in ink or typed. Be creative!
1. Organize your binders! Make them 0h-so-nice.
Composition
1. Create vocabulary flashcards - word on one side, definition and picture/inyourownwordsdefinition on the other side.
2. Study for the vocabulary spelling quiz tomorrow.
3. FINISH YOUR MEMOIR ROUGH DRAFT.
World Literature
1. Create vocabulary flashcards - word on one side, definition and picture/inyourownwordsdefinition on the other side.
2. Study for the vocabulary spelling quiz tomorrow.
3. Finish your POV (point of view) conflict journal narrative. It must be either written neatly in ink or typed. Be creative!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, 9/28/09
Academic Skills
1. Continue reading in your IR book. Try to practice empathizing with the characters as you read.
2. Be ready for tutoring tomorrow.
Composition
1. Vocabulary lesson 2 (p. 23) in the VPP books: Copy the word on the left of a Cornell note sheet and the definition on the right. Draw a picture next to each definition that shows the definition.
World Literature
1. Vocabulary lesson 2 words -- finish drawing the pictures next to the definitions on the right side of your Cornell notes.
2. Read the "Story of Your Choice" listed on the sheet and start the worksheet that goes along with it (due Weds). Your story choices are:
“By Any Other Name” – p. 113
“By the Waters of Babylon” – p. 141
“The Storyteller” – p. 155
“The Cold Equations” – p. 164
“Typhoid Fever” – p. 194
3. Write (or type up!) the Point of View Conflict Journal Narrative we started going over in class. The assignment details are as follows:
-Two separate written journals with the date of the event at the top.
-One journal will be from your point of view. The other will be from the other person's point of view. Try to write in the voice of each 'character' of your conflict event.
-Journals must be written in past tense.
-Journals must be typed or written neatly to look like a journal entry.
-There should be a detailed account of the conflict in the event (think 1 page for each journal).
-Make it look nice! Extra points for creativity.
-Due Wednesday for a project grade.
1. Continue reading in your IR book. Try to practice empathizing with the characters as you read.
2. Be ready for tutoring tomorrow.
Composition
1. Vocabulary lesson 2 (p. 23) in the VPP books: Copy the word on the left of a Cornell note sheet and the definition on the right. Draw a picture next to each definition that shows the definition.
World Literature
1. Vocabulary lesson 2 words -- finish drawing the pictures next to the definitions on the right side of your Cornell notes.
2. Read the "Story of Your Choice" listed on the sheet and start the worksheet that goes along with it (due Weds). Your story choices are:
“By Any Other Name” – p. 113
“By the Waters of Babylon” – p. 141
“The Storyteller” – p. 155
“The Cold Equations” – p. 164
“Typhoid Fever” – p. 194
3. Write (or type up!) the Point of View Conflict Journal Narrative we started going over in class. The assignment details are as follows:
-Two separate written journals with the date of the event at the top.
-One journal will be from your point of view. The other will be from the other person's point of view. Try to write in the voice of each 'character' of your conflict event.
-Journals must be written in past tense.
-Journals must be typed or written neatly to look like a journal entry.
-There should be a detailed account of the conflict in the event (think 1 page for each journal).
-Make it look nice! Extra points for creativity.
-Due Wednesday for a project grade.
*remember, two assignments are due Wednesday!
Friday, September 25, 2009
Friday, 9/25/09
Academic Skills
1. Try to find 30-60 minutes to spend with your IR book.
Composition
1. Work on the setting sheet and tone of YOUR memoir event.
World Literature
1. Write out one person vs. person conflict that you have had in your life. Write it from your limited, unreliable, 1st person point of view.
1. Try to find 30-60 minutes to spend with your IR book.
Composition
1. Work on the setting sheet and tone of YOUR memoir event.
(bring VPP books Monday)
World Literature
1. Write out one person vs. person conflict that you have had in your life. Write it from your limited, unreliable, 1st person point of view.
(bring VPP books Monday)
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Thursday, 9/24/09
Academic Skills
1. IR in your books.
2. Practice tie-tying! Test tomorrow.
Composition
1. Study your vocabulary flashcards and be prepared for tomorrow's lesson 1 test. Do the sentence completion in your book to help you study!
2. Finish your 'House' setting writing passage.
World Literature
1. Study your vocabulary flashcards and be prepared for tomorrow's lesson 1 test. Do the sentence completion in your book to help you study!
2. Finish reading "Flowers for Algernon" part 2.
3. Finish the FFA alternate point of view journal. In case you missed it, here are the options:
Pt. 1
*Progress Report Mar 8 – from Dr. Strauss’s or Dr. Nemur’s POV
Progress Report Mar 10 – Dr. Strauss’s or Dr. Nemur’s POV
Progress Report Mar 25 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report Apr 3 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report Apr 9 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report Apr 15 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report Apr 28 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Pt. 2
*Progress Report May 15 – from Dr. Strauss’s POV
Progress Report July 10 – from Mrs. Flynn’s POV
Progress Report July 25 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report July 27 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report July 28 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
*really hard ones
1. IR in your books.
2. Practice tie-tying! Test tomorrow.
Composition
1. Study your vocabulary flashcards and be prepared for tomorrow's lesson 1 test. Do the sentence completion in your book to help you study!
2. Finish your 'House' setting writing passage.
World Literature
1. Study your vocabulary flashcards and be prepared for tomorrow's lesson 1 test. Do the sentence completion in your book to help you study!
2. Finish reading "Flowers for Algernon" part 2.
3. Finish the FFA alternate point of view journal. In case you missed it, here are the options:
Pt. 1
*Progress Report Mar 8 – from Dr. Strauss’s or Dr. Nemur’s POV
Progress Report Mar 10 – Dr. Strauss’s or Dr. Nemur’s POV
Progress Report Mar 25 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report Apr 3 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report Apr 9 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report Apr 15 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report Apr 28 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Pt. 2
*Progress Report May 15 – from Dr. Strauss’s POV
Progress Report July 10 – from Mrs. Flynn’s POV
Progress Report July 25 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report July 27 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report July 28 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
*really hard ones
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Wednesday, 9/23/09
Academic Skills
1. IR practice - read 30-60 minutes of your IR book. Practice inferring (focus on predicting) as you read.
2. Bring your ties in again tomorrow (and Friday). Tie test on Friday!
Composition
1. Finish "Dog Star" timelines.
2. Work on the My Memoir plot chart (plot side only).
World Literature
1. Make a list, on looseleaf paper, of the characters in FFA ("Flowers For Algernon") by Daniel Keyes.
2. Write out, on the same paper, five conflicts from the story. Label what type of conflict they are (person vs. _______).
3. Finish "Flowers For Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. Click here to read the entire text online.
1. IR practice - read 30-60 minutes of your IR book. Practice inferring (focus on predicting) as you read.
2. Bring your ties in again tomorrow (and Friday). Tie test on Friday!
Composition
1. Finish "Dog Star" timelines.
2. Work on the My Memoir plot chart (plot side only).
-=study the vocab on your flashcards for the test Friday=-
World Literature
1. Make a list, on looseleaf paper, of the characters in FFA ("Flowers For Algernon") by Daniel Keyes.
2. Write out, on the same paper, five conflicts from the story. Label what type of conflict they are (person vs. _______).
3. Finish "Flowers For Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. Click here to read the entire text online.
-=study the vocab on your flashcards for the test Friday=-
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, 9/22/09
Academic Skills
1. Finish the summary/reflections section on the tutorial Cornell notes page based on what you learned during today's tutoring.
Composition
1. Complete your vocabulary flashcards: word and part of speech on one side, definition and picture/your-word-definition on the other side.
2. Pick your 'top three' events (out of the 10) that changed you as a person the most. On the back of the 10 events, describe these 'top three' in more detail, explaining how they helped change you.
World Literature
1. Finish reading "Everyday Use." Be ready for a reading quiz tomorrow.
2. Finish the indirect characterization boxes for Dee (one one side) and Maggie (on the other side).
3. Create you vocabulary word flashcards.
1. Finish the summary/reflections section on the tutorial Cornell notes page based on what you learned during today's tutoring.
Composition
1. Complete your vocabulary flashcards: word and part of speech on one side, definition and picture/your-word-definition on the other side.
2. Pick your 'top three' events (out of the 10) that changed you as a person the most. On the back of the 10 events, describe these 'top three' in more detail, explaining how they helped change you.
World Literature
1. Finish reading "Everyday Use." Be ready for a reading quiz tomorrow.
2. Finish the indirect characterization boxes for Dee (one one side) and Maggie (on the other side).
3. Create you vocabulary word flashcards.
***Extra credit option: Click here to read the entire text of "Alyosha the Pot" by Leo Tolstoy and, on looseleaf, copy and discuss this question-
What happened in the story of "Alyosha the Pot?" How did the story affect you personally?
What happened in the story of "Alyosha the Pot?" How did the story affect you personally?
Monday, September 21, 2009
Monday, 9/21/09
Academic Skills
1. Fill in the tutoring questions sheet.
Composition
1. Draw a picture that shows each vocabulary definition (next to the written definition) on your vocab Cornell notes.
2. Brainstorm 10 significant memories in your life and write them down.
3. Finish the 'conflict' boxes on our Marigolds head/plot/conflict sheet. We'll turn it in tomorrow!
World Literature
1. Draw a picture that shows each vocabulary definition (next to the written definition) on your vocab Cornell notes.
2. Study character & conflict for the quiz tomorrow.
3. Answer the "too good for you" question on looseleaf:
Write about a person you have known who thought he or she was "too good for you." How did you know he or she felt that way? Explain using all four types of indirect characterization (showing): Appearance, Actions, Dialogue, Effects.
Click here to read the full text of Leo Tolstoy's short story "Alyosha the Pot."
1. Fill in the tutoring questions sheet.
Composition
1. Draw a picture that shows each vocabulary definition (next to the written definition) on your vocab Cornell notes.
2. Brainstorm 10 significant memories in your life and write them down.
3. Finish the 'conflict' boxes on our Marigolds head/plot/conflict sheet. We'll turn it in tomorrow!
World Literature
1. Draw a picture that shows each vocabulary definition (next to the written definition) on your vocab Cornell notes.
2. Study character & conflict for the quiz tomorrow.
3. Answer the "too good for you" question on looseleaf:
Write about a person you have known who thought he or she was "too good for you." How did you know he or she felt that way? Explain using all four types of indirect characterization (showing): Appearance, Actions, Dialogue, Effects.
Click here to read the full text of Leo Tolstoy's short story "Alyosha the Pot."
Friday, September 18, 2009
Friday, 9/18/09
Academic Skills
1. IR (Independent Read) for 60 minutes or more.
2. As you read, practice our four Good Reading Habits: Reacting, Questioning, Making Connections, and Making Images.
3. Fill in the Reading Habits Practice Cornell notes as you read. Fill in the Summary section when you are done.
Composition
1. Fill in the 'plot' part of the "Marigolds" plot & conflict chart (the back side on the other side of the empty head that we did for last night's homework).
World Literature
1. Bring Vocabulary Power Plus Book Two books on MONDAY!
2. Make sure you bring your character observations on Monday, as we didn't have class time today to complete them.
3. Be thinking about this question: Think about a person you know or knew who thought he/she was "too good" for you. How did you/would you know? Explain your answer in terms of the four types of indirect characterization.
1. IR (Independent Read) for 60 minutes or more.
2. As you read, practice our four Good Reading Habits: Reacting, Questioning, Making Connections, and Making Images.
3. Fill in the Reading Habits Practice Cornell notes as you read. Fill in the Summary section when you are done.
Composition
1. Fill in the 'plot' part of the "Marigolds" plot & conflict chart (the back side on the other side of the empty head that we did for last night's homework).
World Literature
1. Bring Vocabulary Power Plus Book Two books on MONDAY!
2. Make sure you bring your character observations on Monday, as we didn't have class time today to complete them.
3. Be thinking about this question: Think about a person you know or knew who thought he/she was "too good" for you. How did you/would you know? Explain your answer in terms of the four types of indirect characterization.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Thursday, 9/17/09
Academic Skills
1. Fix-up binders so they are perfectly organized.
2. Keep bringing your ties (formal uniform tomorrow for Mass).
Composition
1. Finish reading "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier.
2. Draw in Lizabeth's 'open head' sheet, showing her thoughts and conflicts. Use color!
World Literature
1. Observe a stranger after school today -- someone you don't know at all.
2. Take notes on the stranger, writing down his or her indirect characterization (actions, dialogue, appearance, effects on others).
1. Fix-up binders so they are perfectly organized.
2. Keep bringing your ties (formal uniform tomorrow for Mass).
Composition
1. Finish reading "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier.
2. Draw in Lizabeth's 'open head' sheet, showing her thoughts and conflicts. Use color!
World Literature
1. Observe a stranger after school today -- someone you don't know at all.
2. Take notes on the stranger, writing down his or her indirect characterization (actions, dialogue, appearance, effects on others).
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