What a busy week! This week we: Did our “Outsiders Portforlio Checklist” Began a new word list for our vocabulary words Completed a literary crossword puzzle Learned about prepositions and prepositional phrases, completing exercises 58&59, pp.473-474 took a vocabulary test (SAT 6) Classes were cut short on Tuesday and Wednesday due to Benchmark testing
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ENGLISH 1- Week of 11/2-11/6 second update
Posted in English 1 on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
English 1- Week of 11/02-11/06
Posted in English 1 on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Please make sure your child is ready for their vocabulary test on Friday! Tuesday/Wednesday- Benchmark. Although the ninth grade did not have testing, they were required to be in one room doing independent work while the other grades tested. They were able to do extra credit with some “tuff talks”, and on Wednesday they were [...]
English 1-Week of Oct. 19-23
Posted in English 1 on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week we finished The Outsiders. All discussion questions should have been turned in. If your child has been absent, please make sure they have turned in their make-up work so they can receive credit for it. On Friday we discussed adverbs. Students learned about the positive, comparative, and superlative forms for adverbs. They also learned [...]
English 1- Week of 10/12-10/16
Posted in English 1 on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week in English we: learned a new vocabulary word list did warm-ups based on these new words Read The Outsiders, Chapter 9 Tuff Talk #9 – families and what we appreciate about them. These are for their Outsiders portfolio. Role playing (Activity #1), Outsiders characters. Chapter 7-9 questions, The Outsiders Writer’s Choice Book: Adjectives. [...]
English 1 – Week of 10/5-10/8
Posted in English 1 on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week we continued reading The Outsiders. The students created a Biography Poem based on the Ponyboy character. We also reviewed the meaning of auxiliary verbs. Ask your student what’s another name for an auxiliary verb, and what does it always accompany? On Wednesday we did “Tuff Talk #4″, based on an event they remember from their childhood. [...]
Monday, October 5th – ENGLISH 1
Posted in English 1 on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today in English we read Chapter 6 of The Outsiders and reviewed auxilary verbs. We also did “Tuff Talk #4″ for their Outsiders folder. Talk to your kids about what they wrote. I enjoyed meeting all the students, and asked them to write as their warm up anything they wanted me to know about them. We also made [...]
