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Classroom Rules

 

 

Positive Consequences:  Verbal Praise

                                         Notes Home

                                         Homework Delay

                                         Popcorn Party

                                         Free Time

 

Negative Consequences:  1st Time: Warning

                                                    2nd Time:  Strike with Detention after Class

                                                    3rd Time:  After School Detention

                                                    4th Time:  Parent Contact

                                                     5th Time:  Sent to Office

 

 Bonus Question 

 

 

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:

No Homework 8/19 or 8/20

 

8/23/10 No Homework. Read "Love" in class & highlighted words having to do with death.

 

8/24/10 Quickwrite of "Paralyzed Fear" in Writer's notebook. Passed out Holt Readers & read "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" for homework.

 

8/25/10 Do Skills Review & Skills Practice on P. 27-29 in Holt Reader. Refer to p. 5 for vocabulary. Student IDs were made.

 

8/30/10  DGP: Parts of Speech. Discuss "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket". RAFT writing.  Get into groups & no hitchhiking!  One of you is the writer, one of you is the reporter, & one of you is the editor.  Create a story based on "Contents" where you find a dead body on the street.  Is it an accident, a suicide, or a crime?

 

8/31/010  DGP: Identify the subject, verbs, and phrases. Do the Transitive vs. Intransitive worksheet. Get back in groups to continue writing your story based on "Contents" story.  Be prepared to read orally on Wednesday.

 

9/1/10  DGP:  Identify the clauses & sentence type. Report to the class and turn in your story on "Contents".  Write in your Writer's Notebook on the topic: "What do you do when you get stressed?"

STAR reading comprehension test to examine your reading grade level.

 

8/26/10 Reading Chunk Tests.  Take up "Contents" homework.

8/27/10 Writing Chunk Test all period.

 

8/30/10 DGP:  Parts of Speech. Writing groups of choice.  Design a newspaper article based on the "Contents" story.  No hitchhiking allowed!

 

8/31/10 DGP:  Subj., Verb, Phrases. Write in the Writer's Notebook:  What Do You Do When You Get Stressed?

Continue working on story.  Be prepared to share.

 

9/1/10 DGP:  Clauses & Sent. Type.  STAR Reading Test in upstairs computer lab.  Share stories on "Contents".

 

9/2/10  DGP: Capitalization & Punctuation. Do a weekly relection in the newspaper where you make a T-chart on what the article says on the left & what the article doesn't say on the right.  Now write one question & one comment about your chosen article.  SUBSTITUTE TODAY. Turn in your DGP.

 

9/3/10 Received "Cowne's Crazy Marking" sheet & gave back Chunk Writing Tests from last Friday. Vocabulary Quiz on "Contents" words.

 

9/7/10 DGP: Parts of Speech. Look over vocabulary words on P. 53.  Read in class "Everyday Use" & listen to the audio tape.  Continue reading the story for homework answering the Skills Practice & Skills Review on P. 66-68.

 

9/8/10 DGP:  Subject, Verb, & Phrases. Go over the verbs.  Take up the homework. Discuss "Inference" & "Second Draft " reading.

 

9/9/10 DGP: Determine how many clauses & sentence type. Today is newspaper day!  Using your yellow & pink highlighters, highlight everything in the article in yellow that you understand and everything in the article in pink that you don't understand.  Every single word should be highlighted.  Next using a dictionary, look up & define the words that you don't understand.  Now write at least three questions that you have about the article & turn this in to me. For homework: write a sentence for each voc. word on P. 53 of the Holt Reader.

 

9/10/10 DGP: Capitalization & Punctuation of sentence #3. Vocabulary quiz over P. 53 of the Holt REader. Turn in your sentences from last night. Discuss the newspaper article in class.  Discuss & take notes over "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker. Weekend homework:  read a book!!!

 

9/13/10 DGP: Parts of Speech Sentence #4. Hand out textbooks. Check books for previous damage. Assigned

P. 20 Prefixes for Vocabulary Quiz on Friday.  Listened orally to audio of "Double Daddy" & "Diary of a Mad Blender". Students continue to read "A Child's View of Working Parents" for homework.

 

9/14/10 DGP: Label subject, verbs as transitive or intransitive, and phrases. Students receive BOOK TALKS outline & view  a video of model book talks. Students should be reading a book each nine weeks. Homework: complete Pages 28-29 in the textbook. Yearbook pictures taken today!

 

9/15/10 DGP: Identify the number of clauses & sentence type for sentence #4. Turn in homework on Pages 28-29 on Friday along with the Constructed Response on P. 29.

Page 29. Write a one page constructed response in class after class discussion on three informational texts.

 

9/16/10 DGP: Students capitalize & punctuate sentence #4 correctly. Newspaper DAY!

Contribute to "One for Books" program by putting dimes in the envelope.

Page 30 Analogies:  Practice 1 and Practice 2.

Newspaper Day! Find an article of your choice.  Write three unfamiliar words from the article and use inference to predict what they mean. Write this down. Now look up the unfamiliar words in the dictionary and write the definition. Monitor your thinking.  Were your powers of inference correct?

 

9/17/10 Students view models of Book Talks. Writer's Notebook. Students put quarters in the One for Books program. Quiz over prefixes page 20 in your textbook. Constructed Response & pages 28-29 due.

Parent surveys due Monday!  Have a good weekend!

 

9/20/10  DGP #5 Parts of Speech.  Do characterization sheet on Maggie, Dee, and Mama from "Everyday Use". Look at the sections of "The Pedestrian" & do second draft reading by rating the sections based on your confusion. Write 3 "I don't understand" sentences. Parent surveys due tomorrow!

 

9/21/10 DGP #5:  locate subject, verbs, & phrases.  Discuss & take notes in your binder on "The Pedestrian". Hand out progress reports: Due in two days for Bonus Points!  Read P. 56-60 on Autobiographical Narratives.

Last week for the "One for Books Program".  Book Fair Friday!!!

 

9/22/10 DGP #5:  How many clauses?  What sentence type?  Read Two Kinds by Amy Tan on P. 99 of your text.  Write Autobiographical Narrative rough draft due tomorrow!!! Review vocabulary for Friday Quiz.

 

9/23/10 DGP #5: Capitalization & Punctuation.  Finish the audio of "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan. Have Mrs. Cowne stamp your rough draft.  Scavenger hunt in newspaper for titles of different sections.  Write the titles & hand this in.  Study vocabulary for Friday's quiz on P. 46.

 

9/24/10  BOOK FAIR!!!! D E A R Day:  Drop EVerything and Read!  Book Talks today.  Read in class after voc. quiz.

 

9/27/10 DGP #6: Parts of Speech.  Suffixes P. 153 Study for Quiz Friday. Autobiographical Narrative handout. Rough Draft due Wed.

 

9/28/10 DGP #6: Subject, Verbs, Phrases. Give handouts on a Writer's Checklist and Transitions. Autobiographical Narrative due tomorrow.

 

9/29/10 DGP #6: Clauses & Sentence Type. Read P. 200 about the author Frank McCourt. Orally read in class p. 201-203.  Do a worksheet on verb phrases.  Characterization worksheet.

 

9/30/10 DGP #6: Cap. & Punctuation. Newspaper Day!  Students find the following info: Choose a national story or a business article. Find a trouble spot(an area you don't understand) & generate Questions about it.  List the readind strategies you use to make sense of this article.

 

10/01/10  Quiz on Suffixes P. 153 of textbook. Book Talks in class.  Get with a partner & answer the even questions on p. 109 of Amy Tan's story "Two Kinds" then discuss it in class.  Take notes in your binder in the note taking section.  Over the weekend:  read, Read, READ!!!!

 

10/04/10 DGP #7: Parts of Speech. Your quiz on Friday is on Suffixes on P. 101 of the Holt Reader.

Talked about pronouns & the reason why they're necessary.  Gave the handout "More Than Anyone Wants to Know About Pronouns".  Homework: pronoun agreement worksheet.  We read in class & listened to the audio of "Typhoid Fever" by Frank McCourt on P. 193 of the textbook.

 

10/05/10 DGP: Subjects, Verbs, & Phrases. Book Talks!  Take notes on "Typhoid Fever" by Frank McCourt. Discuss the importance of "voice" in writing. Homework:  P. 205 under Grammar Link do the "Practice" & rewrite paragraph #1.  Tomorrow:  Brink your Holt Reader!!!!

 

10/06/10 DGP: Clauses & Sentence Type. Book Talks!!! Discuss independent clauses & run-ons & sentence fragments.  Do the assigned worksheets.  For tonight:  read "By the Waters of Babylon" on p. 140. It's in both the book & Holt REader.

 

10/7/10 DGP:  Capitalization & Punctuation.  Brainstormed what the "Great Burning" is in the story "By the Waters of Babylon".  For tomorrow: complete P. 99-100 and study the suffixes for the quiz on Friday.  Do a 2nd Draft of reading of "By the Waters of Babylon". 

 

10/8/10 Suffix Quiz.   BOOK TALKS!   Discuss & take notes on "By the Waters of Babylon". Read "Lamb to the Slaughter".

 

10/11/10 Guest Speaker Deborah Chapman talks to us in the SHS auditorium about the TLI Open Response Writing Test. ( Chunk Test)

10/12/10 Book Talks.  DGP Test.

 

10/13/10 Book Talks.  Discuss "Lamb to the Slaughter" & take notes.  In Writer's Notebook, write about the topic of "Parent Expectations".  Read "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing on P. 400 of book or P. 174 of the Holt Reader.

 

10/14/10 Periods 1-4 are the PLAN TEST for sophomores.  We discussed "Through the Tunnel" in 6th & 7th periods and did more Book Talks. Newspaper Day:  read about the Chilean Miners & their recovery.

 

10/15/10 Short Story Test all period.  Read after the Short Story Test. 

 

10/18/10 Chunk Test all period.  (Remember the acroynm FATTS!)

 

10/19/10 Bell Work:  Book Talks.  You need to be reading a new book for this nine weeks.  Book Talks will be done differently. Pass Back Short Story Tests from Friday.  Work on run-on sentences.  Worksheet for homework.

 

10/20/10 Bell Work: Book Talks. Students read about fragments on P. 64-67 in the green book. Do P. 350 #7-10 in class & turn in.

 

10/21/10 Parent/Teacher Conferences.  No school.

 

10/25/10 Bell Work:  DGP: Parts of Speech Sentence #8. Study Dangling Modifiers in the book. P. 626-627. Do Ex. 6 orally on P. 627.   Do P. 432 Context Clues Practice 1 (1-6).  Read P. 429-430 the Black Death.

Study vocabulary on p. 418.

 

10/26/10 DGP: Subject, Verbs, Phrases Sentence #8. Discuss the Black Death & begin "Masque of the Red Death" on P. 419-427.

 

10/27/10 DGP: Label the clauses & sentence type. Pronounce the vocabulary words on P. 418 & study for the quiz on Friday.  Use post it notes to "clear up the confusion" on what you don't understand.  Do the worksheet on dangling modifiers in class & take home the worksheet for Chapter 9 "Using Modifiers Correctly".

 

10/28/10 DGP: Capitalization & Punctuation.  Discuss & take notes on 'Masque of the Red Death".  Assigned P. 431 "The Great Escape".  Students write a narrative in your Writer's Notebook.  Study voc. for quiz tomorrow on

"Masque of the Red Death".

 

10/29/10:  Vocab. Quiz on "Masque of the Red DEath".  Substitute gave a worksheet on Dangling Modifiers that we did in class. Complete an additional worksheet on Dangling Modifiers for homework.  Watch the video of

"Masque of the Red Death".

 

11/1/10 DGP Sent. #9 "On your own" select  & label the Parts of Speech.  Take notes on a drama power point in class. Read over & put "Mythological Background" notes in your binder.

 

11/2/10 DGP Sent. #9: Subject, Verbs (vi or vt) and Phrases.  On P. 481 of the green or brown lit. books we completed 32 questions on historical background of the  drama.  Homework: Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers (p. 41) worksheet.

 

11/3/10 DGP Sent. #9: Find the number of clauses & sentence type.  Go over the pronunciation of the characters in the play ANTIGONE by Sophocles. Begin reading the play in class.  Handed out the Study Guide for students to complete as we read the play.

 

11/4/10 DGP Sent. #9:  Capitalization & Punctuation.  Continue reading the play ANTIGONE orally in class.  Complete the Study Guide questions.