Thursday, February 28, 2013

Week 25, Day 4
Objective: 

Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. Bell Work must now be done in your spiral, every day, in blue or black ink pen!
2. Bell Work: What companies would be affected if humans had no hair?  Write about life in a hairless world.  
3. Open Book Test over "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
4. Multiple Choice portion, due at the end of class.
5. Short-Answer due tomorrow.  
6. Reminders:
1. SAT Quiz tomorrow
2. Bring $$ for Pennies for Patients
3. Bring a book tomorrow

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Week 25, Day 3

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. Bell Work must now be done in your spiral, every day, in blue or black ink pen!
   1.  
2. Bell Work: "Down in the dumps" is an idiom that means one is feeling sad or depressed.  Write down 10 other idioms and their meanings. 
3. Grammar and Style: Fixing Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
4. Vocabulary Builder

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Week 25, Day 2

Objective: work collaboratively in groups to create a video of a short story we have read.  

1. Bell Work must now be done in your spiral, every day, in blue or black ink pen!
2. Bell Work: Write a speech which would cause lots of classmates to vote for you if you were running for class president.  Make sure your speech contains at least five good reasons why people should vote for you.
3. Act out "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" as a class.  
4. Announcements:
1. Bring money for Pennies for Patients.
2. SAT Quiz on Friday
3. TAKS is next Monday, March 4th. 

Monday, February 25, 2013

Week 25, Day 1
Objective: Bullying Open Forum Class Discussion

1. We will watch two videos first, then I will let you do your Bell Work.  
2. Discussion
3. Announcements:
1. Don't forget to bring money for the Pennies for Patients.
2. SAT Quiz on Friday--new words will be up before the end of the day.

Friday, February 22, 2013

Week 24, Day 5

Objective: SAT Words Week 24 Assessment; Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. Bell Work: Free Write...at least 80 words.  Underline every 10th word, please.
2. Take Week 24 SAT Quiz
1. Quizlet
2. Click on Avalos Week 24
3. Click "test"
4. Uncheck "Written and True False"
5. Change it to 50 questions
6. Click Reconfigure
7. DO NOT CHEAT!  IF YOU CHEAT, IT WILL BE A ZERO AND A WRITE-UP!  Just be honest!  Really!  Your conscience will thank you.
3. Send me your grade via email: cavalos@godleyisd.net
4. EMAIL ME THE LINKS TO YOUR VOCAB. AND LIT TERMS!!!!  DUE TODAY!!!!!!  
5. Then you may read SILENTLY or play FREE RICE.  You may NOT work on work from another class.  Sorry!  
6. Have a GREAT weekend!  Be safe!

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Week 24, Day 4

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. Bell Work: open up textbook to page 470
2. Read from "Life on the Mississippi: The Boys' Ambition" by Mark Twain
3. Read from "How to Tell a Story: An Essay by Mark Twain"
4. Read "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain
5. Discussion
6. Reminders:
1. Vocab. and Lit. Terms from "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" due tomorrow
2. Vocab. and Lit. Terms from "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" due tomorrow
3. SAT Quiz tomorrow

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Week 24, Day 3

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. Bell Work: Get on Quizlet or Study Stack and review for your SAT Quiz on Friday.
2. Turn in your literary questions from "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
3. Work on Literary Terms and Vocabulary
1. Literary Terms
1. Humor
2. Rhetorical Techniques
3. Incongruity
4. Overstatement
2. Vocabulary
1. Transient
2. Prodigious
3. Eminence
4. Garrulous
5. Conjectured
6. Monotonous
7. Interminable
4. Vocabulary and Lit. Terms Due Friday
5. Show me your Vocab. and Lit. Terms from "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
6. SAT Quiz on Friday, words will be up on Quizlet and Study Stack by the end of the day.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Week 24, Day 2

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. Bell Work: Turn in your literary questions from "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
2. Grade SAT Quiz from Friday.
3. Mark Twain author information (p. 564-568)
4. Literary Terms
1. Humor
2. Rhetorical Techniques
3. Incongruity
4. Overstatement
5. Vocabulary
1. Transient
2. Prodigious
3. Eminence
4. Garrulous
5. Conjectured
6. Monotonous
7. Interminable
6. Vocabulary and Lit. Terms Due Friday
7. Show me your Vocab. and Lit. Terms from "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
8. SAT Quiz on Friday, words will be up on Quizlet and Study Stack by the end of the day.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Week 23, Day 3

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Questions
1. LA-p. 481
2. RC-p. 481
3. RC-p. 483
4. RS-p. 484
5. RC-p. 485
6. CV-p. 486
7. RC-p. 487
8. LA-p. 488
9. -14. Critical Reading Questions from p. 489
10. Must be complete sentences.
11. Provide text evidence.
12. This will be due next Wednesday.
13. Must be done on a separate sheet of paper, in ink.

Tuesday, February 13, 2013

Week 23, Day 2

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. Bell Work: Discuss as a class what we went over yesterday with 
1. Point of View
2. Omniscient Point of View
3. Limited Third-Person Point of View
4. Plot
5. Stream of Consciousness
2. Author Information: Ambrose Bierce, p. 479.
3. Read or listen to "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," p. 480

Monday, February 11, 2013

Week 23, Day 1

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. Bell Work: Study on Quizlet or Study Stack for your SAT Quiz on Friday (15 minutes)
2. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" 
1. Literary Terms, p. 478
1. Point of View
2. Omniscient Point of View
3. Limited Third-Person Point of View
4. Plot
5. Stream of Consciousness
2. Vocabulary, p. 478
1. Etiquette
2. Deference
3. Dictum
4. Summarily
5. Apprised
6. Ineffable
3. Author Information: Ambrose Bierce, p. 479.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Week 22, Day 5
Objective: determine the meaning of grade-level technical academic English words in multiple content areas derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes; recognize and use knowledge of cognates in different languages and of word origins to determine the meaning of words; evaluate how different literary elements (e.g., figurative language, point of view) shape the author's portrayal of the plot and setting in works of fiction; silent sustained reading

1. Week 22 SAT Quiz (on paper)
2. Bell Work: Free Write...
3. Silent Reading

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Week 22, Day 4

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. Bell Work: Write a paragraph supporting the statement "Beauty is only skin deep."
2. Discuss Bell Work
3. SAT Quiz tomorrow
4. Sign Up on NoRedInk.com
1. Use the following invitation code:
1. 2nd period: 5b279c26
2. 3rd period:76115745
3. 5th period: 15a06b0a
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Week 22, Day 3

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool.  

1. Bell Work: Think of a food you strongly dislike.  Imagine that you have been put in charge of an advertising campaign for that food.  Write a tempting description of the food.  
2. Continue working with a group of 2-3 to finish your Unit 3 Introduction
3. The link for the Unit 3 Introduction is on my blog from Monday.
4. This is the last class day we will be working on this.  Due Friday!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Week 22, Day 2

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool.  

1. Continue working with a group of 2-3 to finish your Unit 3 Introduction
2. The link for the Unit 3 Introduction is on my blog from yesterday.   

Monday, February 4, 2013

Week 22, Day 1

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. Bell Work: What historical events occurred during the time period 1850-1914?  Think of as many as you can that are specific to America.
2. Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion
3. Unit 3 Introduction 

Friday, February 1, 2013

Week 21, Day 5

Objective: Demonstrate familiarity with works by authors in American fiction from each major literary period; Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve logical organization by adding transitional words and phrases; Write an interpretation of a literary text that identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text and anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension.  Using technology as a tool for classroom discussion. 

1. Bell Work:  you have witnessed a Random Act of Kindness today, fill out a chain link and attach it to our chain. If you have not, your bell work is to perform a Random Act of Kindness today! :-) The more you do something the quicker it becomes a habit. Random Acts of should be a habit!
2. Then you may read SILENTLY or play FREE RICE.  You may NOT work on work from another class.  Sorry!  
3. Have a GREAT weekend!  Be safe!