Thursday, May 30, 2013

Week 37, Day 4

Objective: Analyze textual context to draw conclusions about the nuance in word meanings; infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships; recognize and use knowledge of cognates in different languages and of word origins to determine the meaning of words; use general and specialized dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries, histories of language, books of quotations, and other related references (printed or electronic) as needed.  

1. Bell Work: Here are some words which, when they are reversed, spell other words.  Can you think of others?  
1. STRAP-->PARTS
2. BARD-->DRAB
3. STRAW-->WARTS
4. MOOD-->DOOM
5. REPAID-->DIAPER
6. DEVIL-->LIVED
2. Final Exam Review

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Week 37, Day 3
Objective: Analyze textual context to draw conclusions about the nuance in word meanings; infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships; recognize and use knowledge of cognates in different languages and of word origins to determine the meaning of words; use general and specialized dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries, histories of language, books of quotations, and other related references (printed or electronic) as needed.  

1. Bell Work: Do you think it would be harder to be blind or deaf?  Why?
2. Final Exam Review

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Week 37, Day 2
Objective: Analyze textual context to draw conclusions about the nuance in word meanings; infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships; recognize and use knowledge of cognates in different languages and of word origins to determine the meaning of words; use general and specialized dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries, histories of language, books of quotations, and other related references (printed or electronic) as needed.  

1. Bell Work: "The quick fox jumps over the lazy brown dog." This sentence uses every letter of the alphabet.  Create your own original sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet.
2. Final Exam Review

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Week 36, Day 4
Objective: None
Awards, Senior Pep Rally, Senior Slide Show, and Wildcat Day

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Week 36, Day 3
Objective: Analyze textual context to draw conclusions about the nuance in word meanings; infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships; recognize and use knowledge of cognates in different languages and of word origins to determine the meaning of words; use general and specialized dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries, histories of language, books of quotations, and other related references (printed or electronic) as needed.  

1. Bell Work: "The quick fox jumps over the lazy brown dog." This sentence uses every letter of the alphabet.  Create your own original sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet.
2. Final Exam Review

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Week 36, Day 2
Objective: Analyze textual context to draw conclusions about the nuance in word meanings; infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships; recognize and use knowledge of cognates in different languages and of word origins to determine the meaning of words; use general and specialized dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries, histories of language, books of quotations, and other related references (printed or electronic) as needed.  

1. Bell Work: Write your bell work over anything you want today.  However, you may NOT use any word that contains the letter "e."  Good Luck!
2. Talk about short stories
3. Read "The Story of an Hour"
4. Discuss

Monday, May 20, 2013

Week 36, Day 1

Objective: Analyze textual context to draw conclusions about the nuance in word meanings; infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships; recognize and use knowledge of cognates in different languages and of word origins to determine the meaning of words; use general and specialized dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries, histories of language, books of quotations, and other related references (printed or electronic) as needed.  

1. Bell Work: Make up funny good news-bad news pairs like the examples.  Examples:  Good news:  I just got my allowance.  Bad news:  It's three cents.; Good news: I just got a new watch.  Bad news: I dropped it and it broke.; Good news: My mom bought me an ice-cream cone.  Bad news: The ice cream fell out of the cone.
2. Number a piece of paper 1-39.
1. I will put a story on the board.  You will have to decide if there, their, or they're goes in the blank.  Write your answer on the notebook paper.  We will go over the answers when everyone is finished.
3. Then, number the back of your paper 1-47.  
1. I will put a paragraph on the board.  Write the incorrect homophone on the paper, followed by the homophone that should go there.  For example, four-for.
4. We will go over this, when we are finished.
1. It was probably very difficult for you to read this paragraph and for it to make any sense.  When you use the wrong spelling of a word (ie. homophones), you make it extremely difficult for your reader to understand what you are trying to say.      
5. Please work on writing carefully and using the correct form of a word.  

Friday, May 17, 2013

Week 35, Day 5

Objective: Analyze textual context to draw conclusions about the nuance in word meanings; infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships; recognize and use knowledge of cognates in different languages and of word origins to determine the meaning of words; use general and specialized dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries, histories of language, books of quotations, and other related references (printed or electronic) as needed.  

1. Week 35 SAT Quiz
2. Bell Work: Free Write
3. Turn resumes in here.
4. Free Rice/Free Read

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Week 35, Day 4

Objective: Analyze textual context to draw conclusions about the nuance in word meanings; infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships; recognize and use knowledge of cognates in different languages and of word origins to determine the meaning of words; use general and specialized dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries, histories of language, books of quotations, and other related references (printed or electronic) as needed.  

1. Bell Work: A tornado picked your house and taken it to a fictional land (think Wizard of Oz.)  Describe your fictional land.
2. Open this document and add to it.  List as many homophones/homonyms as you can think of.  (Please only use YOUR brain...not the internet...)
3. Homophone/Homonym Definitions and Differences
4. Homophone Discussion
5. Homophone Quiz--please do not do this until I give you directions.  
6. Look up "homophone" on the internet and see what all you can find.  

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Week 35, Day 2

Objective: Creating a college leadership and membership resume as well as a professional job resume.  

1. Bell Work: Read brief article that Mrs. Avalos has and discuss.  
2. Continue working on your Leadership and Membership Resume and Professional Job Resume.  See the blog post from May 13, 2013.   
1. Please collaborate with your peers or ask me for help.
2. Turn resumes in here.
3. Reminders: 
1. SAT Quiz on Friday

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Week 35, Day 2

Objective: Creating a college leadership and membership resume as well as a professional job resume.  

1. Bell Work: Why is it important to have a resume? Why should you constantly update and change it?
2. Continue working on your Leadership and Membership Resume and Professional Job Resume.  See the blog post from May 13, 2013.   
1. Please collaborate with your peers or ask me for help.
2. Turn resumes in here.
3. Reminders: 
1. SAT Quiz on Friday

Monday, May 13, 2013

Week 35, Day 1

Objective: Creating a college leadership and membership resume as well as a professional job resume.  

1. Bell Work: Read this brief article
2. Brief Discussion
3. Create a Leadership and Membership Resume
1. Make a copy of this Leadership and Membership Resume
2. Fill it out with YOUR information
3. Keep this document handy and add to it as the years go by
4. Here is an example of a completed Leadership and Membership Resume
4. Create a Professional Job Resume using these documents to guide you
1. Professional Job Resume Assignment
2. Resume Personal Data Sheet
3. Myths and Facts about Resumes
4. Resume Key Words
5. Example 1
6. Example 2
7. Peer Review
5. We will work on these in class on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and they are due Friday, May 17th at 4:00pm.  This really shouldn't take you very long.  I will put a FORM on my blog for you to turn these in to.  
6. Please collaborate with your peers or ask me for help.
7. Reminders: 
1. SAT Quiz on Friday

Friday, May 9, 2013

Week 34, Day 5Objective:demonstrate familiarity with works by authors of American Literature from the time period 1914-1945, analyze the ambiguities, nuances, complexities within the text and anticipate and respond to readers' questions or contradictory information, reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension, use technology as a tool to accomplish these objectives, read for detail. 

1. SAT Quiz Week 34
2. Bell Work: Free Write
3. Free Read/Free Write

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Week 34, Day 4
Objective:demonstrate familiarity with works by authors of American Literature from the time period 1914-1945, analyze the ambiguities, nuances, complexities within the text and anticipate and respond to readers' questions or contradictory information, reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension, use technology as a tool to accomplish these objectives, read for detail. 

1. Bell Work: "Everyone is a moon that has a dark side." --Mark Twain  What is your "dark side?"  Write about the "me nobody knows."  (We will NOT share!)  OR Write about why you love your mom.  Mother's Day is Sunday, don't forget!!!!
2. End of the Year Survey
1. Please be honest, but not mean!
3. Reminders:
1. SAT Quiz TOMORROW!

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Week 34, Day 3
Objective:demonstrate familiarity with works by authors of American Literature from the time period 1914-1945, analyze the ambiguities, nuances, complexities within the text and anticipate and respond to readers' questions or contradictory information, reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension, use technology as a tool to accomplish these objectives, read for detail. 

1. No Bell Work
2. Finish watching The Great Gatsby
3. Reminders:
1. SAT Quiz on Friday
2. Letters of Appreciation due TODAY!

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Week 34, Day 2
Objective:demonstrate familiarity with works by authors of American Literature from the time period 1914-1945, analyze the ambiguities, nuances, complexities within the text and anticipate and respond to readers' questions or contradictory information, reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension, use technology as a tool to accomplish these objectives, read for detail. 

1. No Bell Work
2. The Great Gatsby Paragraph Test, Part II
1. Due at the end of class today.
3. Reminders:
1. SAT Quiz on Friday
2. "My Ethics, My Codes of Life" Essay TODAY!!!!!
3. Letters of Appreciation due Wednesday

Monday, May 6, 2013

Week 34, Day 1
Objective:demonstrate familiarity with works by authors of American Literature from the time period 1914-1945, analyze the ambiguities, nuances, complexities within the text and anticipate and respond to readers' questions or contradictory information, reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension, use technology as a tool to accomplish these objectives, read for detail. 

1. No Bell Work
2. The Great Gatsby Paragraph Test, Part I
1. Due at the end of class today.
3. Reminders:
1. SAT Quiz on Friday
2. "My Ethics, My Codes of Life" Essay due tomorrow
3. Letters of Appreciation due Wednesday

Friday, May 3, 2013

Week 33, Day 5
Objective: Students use elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose text.  Plan a first draft by selecting the correct genre for conveying the intended meaning to multiple audiences, determining appropriate topics through a range of strategies, and developing a thesis or controlling idea; structure ideas in a sustained way and develop drafts in open-ended situations that include transitions and rhetorical devices to convey meaning; revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve specific rhetorical purposes, consistency of tone, and logical organization by rearranging the words, sentences, and paragraphs to employ tropes, schemes, and by adding transitional words and phrases; edit drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling; revise final draft in response to feedback from peers and teacher and publish written work for appropriate audiences.

1. Bell Work: Free Write
2. SAT Quiz
1. Show me your grade when you are finished.  
2. You shouldn't have to make any changes to the formatting.  
3. Finish watching The Great Gatsby movie
1. Final test over The Great Gatsby, next Monday and Tuesday.
4. Final Draft of "My Ethics, My Codes of Life" is due on Tuesday, May 7.
1. MLA Format
5. 4 Letters of Appreciation --4 separate daily grades.
1. Due next Wednesday
2. Turn them in to me, as you get done.  

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Week 33, Day 4
Objective: Students use elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose text.  Plan a first draft by selecting the correct genre for conveying the intended meaning to multiple audiences, determining appropriate topics through a range of strategies, and developing a thesis or controlling idea; structure ideas in a sustained way and develop drafts in open-ended situations that include transitions and rhetorical devices to convey meaning; revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve specific rhetorical purposes, consistency of tone, and logical organization by rearranging the words, sentences, and paragraphs to employ tropes, schemes, and by adding transitional words and phrases; edit drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling; revise final draft in response to feedback from peers and teacher and publish written work for appropriate audiences.

1. Bell Work: Today is "Make Your Dreams Come True" Day.  What are your dreams?  Write about the dreams you have for the future.  Explain how you are going to make them come true.  
2. Pass back graded papers.  Corrections are due by Monday.  
3. Watch The Great Gatsby movie
1. Final Test over The Great Gatsby on Monday!
4. Final Draft of "My Ethics, My Codes of Life" is due on Tuesday, May 7.
1. MLA Format
5. 4 Letters of Appreciation --4 separate daily grades.
1. Due next Wednesday
2. Turn them in to me, as you get done.  
6. SAT Quiz tomorrow!!!!!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Week 33, Day 3
Objective: Students use elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose text.  Plan a first draft by selecting the correct genre for conveying the intended meaning to multiple audiences, determining appropriate topics through a range of strategies, and developing a thesis or controlling idea; structure ideas in a sustained way and develop drafts in open-ended situations that include transitions and rhetorical devices to convey meaning; revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve specific rhetorical purposes, consistency of tone, and logical organization by rearranging the words, sentences, and paragraphs to employ tropes, schemes, and by adding transitional words and phrases; edit drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling; revise final draft in response to feedback from peers and teacher and publish written work for appropriate audiences.

1. Bell Work: Why is it important to show our appreciation for those that have made a difference in our lives?  
2. Pass back papers, corrections for Chapter 7-9 are due on Friday.
3. 4 Letters of Appreciation (Handwritten) --4 separate daily grades.
1. Due next Wednesday
4. Watch The Great Gatsby movie
5. Reminders:
1. Final Draft of "My Ethics, My Codes of Life" is due on Tuesday, May 7.
1. MLA Format
2. SAT Quiz on Friday