Period 3, 5, and 6, March, 2013

Week of March 18, 2013

Homework: All Homework and Quizzes are due FRIDAY, if you are absent on Friday, plan to come in at lunch Monday to have your HW checked and take your quiz.

1. Read Chapters 6-7, quiz

Reading Schedule

2. Chapter summaries and questions, page 3 in yellow packet- due Friday

3. Annotate AoW- page 22 - 24 in packet, look for rhetorical devices, create multiple choice answers for questions on page 24, quiz, NOTE: you no longer need to make multiple choice answers, just write or highlight the answer.

4. SMELL  - AoW response

5.  Active and Passive voice worksheets - page 29 and 30 in packet

Friday, March 22, 2013

Agenda:

1. SSR/questions

2. Go over passive voice worksheets

2. Quiz -  Nelson Mandela's Ingugural Speech, use notes

3. Quiz - chapters 6 and 7, Power of One

4. Have a great Spring Break!


Wednesday/Thursday, March20/21, 2013

Objective: students will analyze rhetoric for emotional and logical appeals

Agenda

1. ssr/questions
2. active and passive voice - pgs 29 -30 in packet
3. Questions at the end of AoW, page 24
4. SMELL

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Objective: students will analyze a speech for rhetorical devices

Agenda 

1. SSR
2. Jigsaw rhetorical devices
group 1 - paragraphs 1 and 2
group 2 - pp 3, 4, and 5
group 3 - pp 6, 7, and 8
group 4 - pp 9 and 10
group 5 - pp 11, 12, and 13
group 6 - pp 14 - end   
3. Work on Questions

Monday, March 18, 2013 

Objective: students will analyze a speech for rhetorical devices

Agenda

1. SSR
2. Review rhetorical devices, page 18 and 19 in packet
3. AoW -annotate and answer questions, page 22 - 24

Week of March 11, 2013

Homework: study for the CaHSEE: CaHSEE review packet

1. Read Chapters 4-5, quiz - due Friday

Reading Schedule

2. Chapter summaries and questions, page 3 in yellow packet- due Friday

3. Cornell Notes (front of yellow packet)- The Boer War due Friday

Friday, March 15, 2013 

Objective: students will understand historical background for a literary work and practice taking effective notes

Agenda

1. Quiz chapter 4 and 5
2.Apartheid notes
3. SSR and questions

Thursday, March 14, 2013 

Objective: students will understand historical background for a literary work and practice taking effective Cornell notes

Agenda

1. Cornell Notes (on yellow pages packet)- The Boer War
2. SSR - quiz tomorrow, chapter 4 - 5

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

CaHSEE test!!!

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

CaHSEE Test!!!!

6th Period: Documentary - 21 Up South Aftrica (Mandela's Children)

 

Monday, March 11, 2013

Objective: students will practice answering CONVENTION questions before tomorrow's CaHSEE

Agenda

1. SSR
2. Moodle - CaHSEE reivew
Directions:
Moodle to Amy Hrin to Test Prep to "test prep for writing conventions adaptive mode"
when finished "test prep for vocab adaptive mode"

 

Week of March 4, 2013

Homework: study for the CaHSEE: CaHSEE review packet

1. Pick up novel The Power of One if you were absent Monday, bring to class everyday

2. Read Chapters 1 - 3, quiz

Reading Schedule

3. Annotation of pages 7 and 8, 9 and 10 - CaHSEE questions

5. ROTO practice - Block day

6. Packet due Monday

 

Friday March 8, 2013

Objective: students will understand how CaHSEE questions are constructed and answered

Agenda

1. SSR
2. Quiz - Chapter 1 - 3
3. CaHSEE Questions - multiple choice

Wednesday/Thursday March 6/7, 2013

Objective: students will write a three pronged thesis to prepare for the CaHSEE essay.

Agenda

1. SSR - The Power of One  and Annotation page pg 9 and 10 in packet
2. How to write a thesis
3. Roto page 27 in packet
4. Write an intro paragraph: Healthy Communities

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Welcome Parents!

Objective: students use prior knowledge, context clues, and speaking and listening skills to preview literature
Agenda
1. groups of 6
2. picture quests
3. return to group, describe picture
4. fill in the paragraph together
5. Review all pictures 
pic 1  pic 2
pic 3 pic 4
pic 5 pic 6

Monday, March 4, 2013

Objective: students will practice reading comprehension skills
Agenda
1. Pick up novel
2. Review reading schedule, homework for the week
3. annotate pages 7 and 8
4. read The Power of One  Chapters 1 -3

Friday March 1, 2013

Objective: students will practice reading comprehension skills
agenda:
1. How to write CaHSEE questions (Reading Comprehension questions in review booklet pages 35 - 76).
CaHSEE review packet
2. Write 5 CaHSEE questions with multiple choice answers based on the article Fast Food Statistics and Obesity in America on pages 5 and 6 of your packet.
3. Write questions on google docs, work with a partner and share with Mrs. Hrin
No comments:

Period 2 and 4, March 2013

March 22, 2013

SSR - turn in weekly log
1. Review modifiers
2. Often misused modifiers, bad, badly, good, well, slow, slowly, real, really
3. Modifiers Quiz
4. Spelling packet - review

March 21, 2013
Agenda
1. 30 mins SSR (silent reading), students fill out their reading log before and after reading
2. (4th period already started this) Finish Worksheet - Correcting Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers B. Go over answers.
Spelling packet,
·      1st page, practice writing the words
·      2nd page, all
·      3rd page, Proofread for careless errors, and Proofread Directions
·      4th page, Who Said That, Dictionary
·      5th page, Vocabulary Activity. Student picks one: asymmetrical, synchronize, chronicle. Make the “poster” on the back of the packet.
4. Any time left? Homophones and easily confused words worksheet.

March 19, 2013
Agenda
1. SSR
2. more sentence structure practic

 March 18, 2013
Agenda:
1. SSR - new procedure and goals
2. sentence structure practice

  March 15, 2013
Go Here
a. Pick a level: Beginning, Intermediate, or Advanced
b. Pick an article
c. Complete as many as you can until you can master the Advanced level every time.

March 14, 2013
1. Sophomores catch up on Scavenger Hunt
2. When finished:
 Go Here
a. Pick a level: Beginning, Intermediate, or Advanced
b. Pick an article
c. Complete as many as you can until you can master the Advanced level every time.
 
March 12, 2013
1. SSR
2. Finish Lit Scavenger Hunt
3. Sentence Structure Review
4. Online Practice:
Parts of Speech
Word Confusion
Plurals
Root Words
 
March 11, 2013
Agenda:
1. SSR
2. Finish Bingo from last Friday and Bingo scavenger hunt for literary elements - 
3. Writing conventions Carousel

March 8, 2013
Agenda:
1. SSR
2. CaHSEE Bingo!

March 7, 2013
Agenda:
SSR
1. Text structures BINGO- Amelia Earhart, page 116
2. Text structures Bingo - review
3. Sentence Structure Practice page 138 - 141
4. Sentence structure carosel


March 5, 2013
Welcome Parents!
Agenda
CaHSEE Bingo! review DRAMA

March 4, 2013
Agenda
1. Finish multiple choice questions for Education beyond High School Pays Off
2. Quiz
3. Practice CaHSEE test - reading comprehension
4. Drama! Practice on page 32 -34 of CaHSEE review book

March 1, 2013
Agenda
1. Read and annotate the article:
2. Education beyond High School Pays Off
3. Make multiple choice answers for the quiz questions
4. Quiz
5. Practice CaHSEE test - reading comprehension



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