Wed Feb 27

2D1
-peer edited paragraph
-info given regarding instructions and expectations for handing in assignments
-what are homophones?

Homework
-work on speeches
-read Mockingbird
-work on paragraph
-define your homophone

Tomorrow
-what is personal impression?

3C1
-took up questions on "Paid Up Member"
-what are flashback and foreshadowing?

Homework
-make sure all "Paid Up Member" questions are complete

Tomorrow
-what is symbolism?
"One of These Days"

Monday Feb 25

Here is your 2 week schedule, before the March Break, for both 2D1 and 3C1

2D1

Tuesday
-video on oral presentation skills (followed by a listening test)
-correct graphic text

Wednesday
-peer edit compare/contrast paragraph
-instructions for handing in formal assignments
-what are homophones?

Thursday
-what is personal impression

Friday
-rhetroical devices
-speech analysis

Monday
-speeches

Tuesday
-speeches

Wednesday
-TKAM quiz - chapters 1-11
-review for non fiction test

Thursday
-non fiction test

Friday
-reading period for TKAM

3C1

Monday
-what is irony?
-"Paid Up Member"

Tuesday
-what are flashback and foreshadowing?
-finish and correct "Paid Up Member"

Wednesday
-what is symbolism?
-"One of These Days"

Thursday
-peer edit Memo assignment-correct "one of These Days"
-what is suspense?
-"Barney"

Friday
-correct "Barney"
-what is "point of view"
-review for test

Monday
-test

Tuesday
-media assignment (in class)

Wednesday
-media assignment (in class)

Thursday
-introduce verbal/visual essay assignment

Friday
-work period on verbal/visual

Friday February 22

2D1
-assigned compare/contrast paragraph
-rough copy due Wednesday Feb 27 for peer editing, good copy due Tuesday March 5 or Wednesday March 6

This Weekend
-brainstorm and begin rough draft for compare/contrast paragraph
-continue to research for you oral presentation

Monday
-research in library (final in class time)

Tuesday
-presentation reminders and rhetorical devices/speeches

Wednesday
-what is personal impression?

Thursday and Friday
-oral presentations

Monday
-chapters 1-11 Mockingbird content quiz

3C1
-correct business writing handout
-introduction to writing assignment #1 - the memo

This Weekend
-work on the memo

Monday
-irony and "Paid Up Member"

Thurs Feb 21

2D1
-had the period to complete their website evaluation sheet and begin preliminary research on their presentation topic

Homework
-website evaluation worksheet is due on Monday
-continue reading To Kill A Mockingbird
-finish up graphic text homework (handout)

Friday
-introduction to comparison/contrast paragraph (rough copy will be due next Wednesday)

Monday
-final research day for presentation or work on paragraph

3C1
-wrote quiz on first 3 short stories and first 6 elements
-introduction to business writing (handout)

Tomorrow
-writing assignment #1 - the memo

Monday
-element of fiction #7 - irony
-the short story "Paid Up Member"

Tuesday Feb 19

Back from Family Day!

2D1
-went over presentation reminders, dates, rubrics and timelines (handout)
-review of What is Graphic Text? (handout)
-began graphic text assignment (Map of a Museum)
**presentation order is listed on the right side of the blog

Homework
-finish graphic text assignment (for Friday)

Wednesday and Thursday
-library work periods for research presentation assignment


3C1
-element of fiction - theme and nemesis (overhead note)
-review and reread and took up "Monsters are due on Maple Street"

Homework
-review for Thursday's quiz - first 3 stories and first 5 elements

Wednesday and Thursday
-introduction to Business Writing

Valentine's Day

2D1
-identified the various parts of a newspaper through a fact finding mission - mission completed (I hope)
-identfied main parts of a news article (overhead note)

Homework
-read Mockingbird

Tomorrow
-closer look at the news article through another fact finding mission and a group work assignment

Next week
-introduction to the oral presentation and comparison/contrast paragraph (both formal assignments)

3C1
-element of fiction - setting (overhead note)
-introduction and begin reading "The Mosters are Due on Maple Street" (page 47)

Tomorrow
-elements of fiction - theme and nemesis
-finish "Monsters"

Next week
-quiz on first 3 stories and elements of fiction
-writing assignment #1  

Tuesday Feb 12

2D1

-notes on chapter 1 and 2 of To Kill A Mockingbird
-began reading chapter 3

For homework

-finish reading chapter 3
-PS if you are bored tonight, as we were discussing in class, scroll down the blog and click on the Monroeville AL picture to learn a little bit more about Harper Lee's hometown upon which she based the fictional town of Maycomb AL on   

Wednesday

-review of chapter 3
-introduction to the newspaper/report

**Content quiz number 1 on To Kill A Mockingbird will be on Monday March 4 (thus, you must have read at least to the end of chapter 11, though I would suggest you plan to be a little farther by that point)

3C1

-watched DB Cooper Unsolved Mystery as a follow up to the short story

Tomorrow

-questions on "DB Cooper"