October
Honors
*Schedules are flexible and subject to change.*
- Monday, October 1, 2012
- Bellringer- week 9 [PDF]
- PSA Reflections due 10/5/12 [PDF]
- Subjects and Predicates Quiz
- Complements: pg. 450 in Language books. Complete Exercise 12 & Review C
- Review and collect
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
HW: Complete Logical Fallacies Practice Sheet
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Homeroom LAST day to turn in absent work for the first 9 weeks!
- Bellringer- week 9 [PDF]
- Review last night's HW & finish viewing any PSAs from yesterday as necessary.
- Direct and Indirect Objects- pg. 456 Exercise 14 & Review D
- Review and collect
- News anchored bullied video clip [Link] Respond to video.
- Unit 5 Vocabulary
Thursday, October 4, 2012 Last day of the nine weeks!
- Bellringer- week 9 [PDF]
- Discuss and collect last night's homework.
- Assign novels and pass out unit schedule [PDF] (Please note all reading homework is listed on the unit schedule and may not always appear on the daily agendas.)
- Holocaust Intro PPT & discussion
- Introduce Survivor Project- due 10/23 [PDF]
Friday, October 5, 2012 Early Release
- Bellringer- week 9 [PDF]
- Collect PSA Reflections
- Quiz over Chapter 1
- 1st Journal Entry [PDF]
- Discussion over novel
Monday, October 8, 2012
HW: Read chapter 4: pg. 35-48 & Complete Journal #2
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
- Bellringer- week 10 [PDF]
- Quiz over chapters 2-4
- Discussion over novel
- 3rd Journal Entry [PDF]
- Complete Survivor Info with partner. [PDF]
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 PLAN Testing
Thursday, October 11, 2012
- Bellringer- week 10 [PDF]
- Quiz over chapters 5-7
- 5th Journal Entry [PDF]
- Discuss Socratic Seminar rules for tomorrow.
Friday, October 12, 2012
- Bellringer- week 10 [PDF]
- Vocabulary Unit 5 Quiz (moved to today due to PLAN Test)
- Socratic Seminar over novel
- Library for research
Monday, October 15, 2012 - Friday, October 19, 2012
Fall Break!
Use this time to work on your survivor projects.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
- Bellringer- week 11 [PDF]
- Journal Entries due
- Unit Review
- If time allows, we will write in the topic journals.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
- Bellringer- week 11 [PDF]
- Unit test
- Last day to work on projects
- Unit 6 Vocabulary
Thursday, October 25, 2012
- Bellringer- week 11 [PDF]
- Project presentations
Friday, October 26, 2012
- Bellringer- week 11 [PDF]
- Discuss story and new writing rubric [Link]
- Due 10/31: 500 word essay. Prompt: Based on what you know about the mother, infer how she would have reacted to Karl's last moments. Be sure to use evidence from the text to support your answer. These must be typed (Times New Roman, double spaced). [PDF]
Monday, October 29, 2012
- Bellringer- week 12 [PDF]
- Writing Improvement Time! Common Usage Problems, Language books pg. 636. As a class, we’ll do section A of the Diagnostic Preview and look over the glossary of standard usage. (Note: Students should take notes on any of the entries they have trouble with.)
- Students will complete Exercises 1-2 on page 642-643.
- Review and collect.
- By popular demand: “R.M.S. Titanic” in Literature textbooks page 392-405. Read “Before You Read” on page 390-391.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
- Bellringer- week 12 [PDF]
- Review more glossary of standard usage page 644 in Language textbooks.
- Complete Exercises 3-4.
- Review and collect.
- Read the rest of “R.M.S Titanic”- story quiz on Thursday.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Happy Halloween!
- Bellringer- week 12 [PDF]
- Collect “The Sunflower” Explanatory Essay
- Check Vocabulary
- Vocabulary Unit 6 Quiz
- The Zombie Survival Guide article
Thursday, November 1, 2012
- Bellringer- week 12 [PDF]
- Complete Zombie article
- Language books pg. 649 Exercises 5-6.
- Review and collect.
- Eye Witness accounts on pg. 406 from the Titanic
- “R.M.S. Titanic” discussion
- New writing prompt: a sample of what to expect on Monday!
Friday, November 2, 2012
- Bellringer- week 12 [PDF]
- Review and collect last night's HW.
- Complete Exercise 7 as a class.
- Language books page 654 Review A, B, & C. (Possibly as a game?)
- Review and collect.