Friday, October 30, 2009

Happy Halloween!

AGENDA:
1. Poe's "The Raven"
2. Outline Lab Work

HOMEWORK: OMM Outline due Monday

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

OMM Outline Review

AGENDA:
1. Warm-Up: Vocabulary Review
2. Outline Format Review

HOMEWORK: Vocab Quiz tomorrow

OMM Outline

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

OMM Outline

AGENDA:
1. Active Voice vs. Passive Voice: p. 179, Ex. 9 #1-5
2. OMM Outline

OMM Outline

HOMEWORK: Introduction to OMM Outline, Vocab. Quiz Thursday

Monday, October 26, 2009

Active Voice vs. Passive Voice

AGENDA:
1. WARM-UP: Vocabulary Review
2. Active Voice vs. Passive Introduction
3. OMM Paper: Finding quotes

HOMEWORK: OMM Planning packet - Finding quotes

Friday, October 23, 2009

OMM Persuasive Writing

AGENDA:
1. Warm-Up: Writing Folders
2. OMM Persuasive Writing Assignment

HOMEWORK: Enjoy the homecoming weekend! Think about what position to take for your paper.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

THE ENDING - Of Mice and Men

We miss you, Mr. Chuck.  Thank you.




AGENDA:
1. Warm-Up: Is harming another person ever justified or acceptable - even if it might result in their death?
2. Chapter 6 Questions

HOMEWORK: Bring Vocabulary books tomorrow

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

THE ENDING - Of Mice and Men

AGENDA:
1. Naming the Unnnamed Project Turn-In
2. Chapter 6 Reading
3. Chapter 6 questions

HOMEWORK: Finish study questions for chapter 6

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Vocab Unit 3 Quiz

AGENDA:
1. Vocab Unit 3 Quiz
2. Naming the Unnamed Project Work in computer lab

HOMEWORK:  Finish Naming the Unnamed project

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Naming the Unnamed

AGENDA:
1. Warm-Up: "What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compatred to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Chapter 5 Review
3. Naming the Unnamed: Curley's Wife's Epitaph


HOMEWORK: PSATs tomorrow, Vocabulary Quiz on Thursday 

Monday, October 12, 2009

OMM Chapter 5

AGENDA:
1. WARM-UP: Parallelism & PSAT Preparation
2. Chapter 5 Reading

HOMEWORK: Finish reading chapter 5 and complete study guide questions

Friday, October 9, 2009

Final Draft Writing

AGENDA:
1. Warm-Up: PSAT Practice
2. Final Draft Writing

HOMEWORK: Vocabulary Quiz for Unit 3 next Thursday, Final Draft of Dream Deferred due Monday

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Vocab Unit 3

AGENDA:
1. HW Check & Parallelism Review
2. Vocab. Unit 3 Review
3. Completing the Sentence Exercise, p, 38

Vocab. Unit 3

HOMEWORK:  Vocab. Quiz next Thursday, Finish writing drafts of Dream Deferred paper tomorrow in class

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Parallelism

AGENDA:
1. Journal Turn-In
2. Subject-Verb Agreement Review
3. Parallelism Intro.

HOMEWORK: Exercise 15 on parallelism sheet, #1-4; Bring vocab. books

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Dream Deferred Writing

AGENDA:
1. Thesis & Intro. Paragraphs
2. Introduction Paragraph Writing

HOMEWORK:
American Dream Deferred Draft Due

Monday, October 5, 2009

American Dream Deferred Part II

AGENDA:
1. Warm-Up
2. "Dream Deferred" Analysis
3. Art Analysis & Writing

American Dream Deferred Journal on Minor Characters
HOMEWORK:
American Dream Deferred Journal Entry due Wednesday

Friday, October 2, 2009

American Dream DEFERRED

AGENDA:
1. Warm-Up: Differing Definitions
2. Chapter 4 Analysis

HOMEWORK: Enjoy the weekend!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Unit 2 Vocab Quiz

AGENDA:
1. Vocab. Unit 2 Quiz/Journal Turn-In
2. Chapter 4 Reading

HOMEWORK: Finish reading Chapter 4 for tomorrow's class