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March 29, 2007

CRCT review continues through tomorrow and then will pick up again after the break. No homework tonight or Friday.

HAPPY SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!
(MAKE GOOD CHOICES!)
:)

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March 27, 2007

CRCT Review continues.

No homework tonight

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March 26, 2007

CRCT review is well underway. Students took a practice test today, and we will continue with more of the same tomorrow.

Homework:
Workbook pages 97-100.

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March 23, 2007

Beginning Monday, all classes will begin intensive reviewing for CRCT's. Please make an effort to attend school since each day will cover a myriad of topics.

Have a great week end and make good choices!

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March 21, 2007

Test Friday on The Wave.

All analysis work due Friday.

Below is a copy of the written assignment introduced today in class. If you were absent, make sure to speak with me for further clarification.

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Students were given class time to work on their stanza and metaphor interpretations. Those who finished worked on their stories that are due tomorrow.

Test tomorrow on "The Highwayman".

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March 20, 2007

We are wrapping up The Wave. Make sure all the literature analysis is completed by Friday of this week. A test will be given on Thursday. Be prepared to take it on Friday if you will be absent the day of the test.

CRCT review will begin after this and will continue until testing.

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The re-telling of "The Highwayman" is due this Thursday. If typed, it must be double spaced, Times New Roman; if it's handwritten, it must be in ink and also double spaced.

A test on the ballad will be given on Thursday. Study your class notes.

CRCT review will follow this unit. We will be staying with this until testing takes place. :)

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March 19, 2007

We will be wrapping up The Wave tomorrow. All analysis work will be due this Friday, 3/23. Expect a test on the novel by Thursday. I'll let you know for sure tomorrow.

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We continued our work with "The Highwayman" analyzing stanzas, going over vocabulary, and discussing figurative language and rhyme schemes.

Tomorrow all students must turn in the pictures of their assigned stanza with the stanza written/typed on the back, and be able to answer questions about it.

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March 15, 2007

We began work on "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes. Students will be discussing literary analysis and figurative language. Today's class notes are below.

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March 14, 2007

Read to the end of chapter 14.

Today we held a mini debate. The class was split in two; one side had to defend the Wave while the other presented the cons. We will continue tomorrow. (I think I have a class full of future lawyers!!!!!!!!!)

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Students design iced cookies with miniature M&M's by following 10 to 15 step directions. These had been written by a classmate. They commented on the directions and then compared their results to the colored picture that had been created by its author.

After a lot of fun and full stomachs, they realized that the simpler the picture, the simpler the directions, the easier it was to follow them!

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March 13, 2007

Verbals tests were returned. They have all been posted on i-parent.

Technical writing continued. Students had a lot of fun designing their cookies, and then they found out that the key to writing clear directions was keeping the cookie design simple!

ALL DESIGNS, DIRECTIONS, AND M&M'S ARE DUE IN CLASS TOMORROW.

*Students who will be away for a connection's field trip MUST TURN IN THE DIRECTIONS FIRST THING THURSDAY MORNING OR BEFORE LEAVING ON THE FIELD TRIP TOMORROW.

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March 12, 2007

Today there was a pop quiz on the first few chapters of The Wave. We continue to analyze the novel, take notes, and hold class discussions, all which will be used for assessment.

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The verbals test was today. Most are already graded and posted on i-parent.

Technical writing:

Instructions for the technical writing assignment were given out today. We will use most of tomorrow's class time to begin the assignment. All materials will ultimately be due on Wednesday when we will be decorating the cookies. See below for a copy of the instructions.

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March 09, 2007

Please read through chapter 6 for Monday. Keep up-to-date with the analysis information.

Click below for today's class notes.

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A test on verbals is scheduled for Monday. All students are to study from their notes, handouts, workbook, and textbook.

We begin technical writing next week.

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March 08, 2007

Students need to read to the end of chapter 4 for tomorrow.

We continued with character analysis and wrote on the board the main descriptors for each one. Focus was also placed on the relationships described so far.

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Students will have a quiz on verbals tomorrow. The unit test will now be on Monday.

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March 07, 2007

Continued work on The Wave. Class discussions primarily focused on characters, vocab., and the Nazis and what led to their actions against minorities, especially the Jews.

Students should have read up to the end of chapter 2. Please keep up with main ideas, characterization, theme, etc. Do not wait to do it all at the end of the novel.

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Students continued working with gerunds. They primarily focused on the gerund as predicative nominative. We checked homework and completed the next DOL assignment.

A possible test Friday on verbals.

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March 02, 2007

Participle tests were returned today; they have been posted on i-parent.

We continue working with DOL and gerunds.

Click below for class notes.

NO HOMEWORK

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Students completed writing their summary/analysis about hate crimes. Please type your final copies over the week end if you did not get a chance to do so in school.

We begin The Wave on Monday.

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March 01, 2007

The participles test was today. Students who were absent need to make it up upon their return.

We introduced gerunds at the end of class.

Homework: gerunds handout (p.59)

Click below for copies of class notes.

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