HOMEWORK:
Tuesday, June 2nd: First period: Do the "Extra Practice" section for lesson 32 in the GUM book (transitive and intransitive verbs). Fifth period: STUDY for the FINAL EXAM !!! Here's another study guide.
Study Guide for Martian Chronicles.doc
Monday: June 1st: First period: Complete the Story Map for any ONE of the major chronicles in Martian Chronicles. You should do your best work!
Thursday, May 28th: First and Fifth periods: Decide on one of the essay questions for the final. Work on an outline and look at possible new vocabulary words to use before you start writing.
Fourth period: Your outline is due at the beginning of class. We will be writing it tomorrow in class.
Wednesday, May 20th: First period and Fifth periods: study for the Wordly Wise Lesson 15 test.
Monday, May 18th: First period: nothing
Fourth and Fifth period: have your 30sec. - 2 minute speech outline ready
Monday, May 4th: First period: read "The Long Years". Be ready for a DYR over it.
Fourth period: finish the book!
Fifth period: finish "And There Will Come Soft Rains".
All classes: There will be a Martian Chronicles final application exam, which will take place in parts.
Wednesday, April 29th: First period read to pg. 144. Fourth and fifth: read to 155 in M.C.
Tuesday, April 28th: First period will be taking the NWEA test on the computer for reading. Not sure when 8A or 8C will take it. So, best to be ready for class. Here's what was the plan:
8B: Read through Naming of Names and Usher II. 8A and 8C, you should finish reading The Off Season.
We will begin lesson 14 in Wordly Wise tomorrow too.
Monday, April 27th:
Wondering where you should be in Martian Chronicles? First period needs to read Naming of Names and Usher II by tomorrow.
Fourth and Fifth periods: you need to read The Old Ones and The Martian by Tuesday !
Everyone: Finish the #13 Fill-in sheet and be ready to take the Lesson 13 test on Tuesday!
Thursday, April 23rd: Vocapplication #13 unless your group passed the pre-test and won the group competition. Fourth and Fifth periods: finish your letter to the editor thanking the school and your presentors for the incredible Earth Day activities that you got to enjoy.
Wednesday, April 22nd: Happy Earth Day !
Tuesday April 21st: First period class, read to pg. 102 which includes, "Way Up In the Middle of The Air". Fourth and Fifth periods read to pg. 118: "Usher II".
Monday, April 20th: We are taking a gradual reentry to school. No homework tonight. Results of the group Vocapplication for 13 will be out tomorrow. Winners are excused from the homework for tomorrow night. Come ready for business tomorrow. Bring your MC books, Wordly Wise, GUM, and history books.
Monday, March 30th: Make sure you are caught up in Martian Chronicles to page 89. Fourth period: write an organized accordion paragraph with at least 2 facts that compares themes in Martian Chronices to Blade Runner. OR discuss the symbolism in B.R.
Wednesday, March 11th:
Today we began the Csap tests! Your homework for this, is to think about ways to improve your rough draft for the final draft you'll write in the test booklet tomorrow. Look through your Wordly Wise book for juicy words that may fit your story. Think about an author trick or two that you could add to make your story more interesting.
Do your best work on these tests! But don't worry, we've practiced these concepts all year in class.
Go to bed and SLEEP well. It's important to come with a fresh brain.
Tuesday, March 3rd:
Read to page 48 in Martian Chronicles. "Taxpayer" and "The Third Expedition".
Vocabulary Test over lesson 11 words: Thursday, March 5th.
No School Wednesday: Conferences.
Wednesday, Feb. 25th: 1st 4th and 5th periods: Do Vocapplication #11.
Fourth only: Read "Red Scare" article from (an old) UpFront. Then comment on this question below. You first need to read a classmate's entry, comment on his/her entry, and add your own new opinion.
Arthur Miller was very close to those who were blacklisted from Hollywood. He was briefly married to Marilyn Monroe, which put him more in the spotlight. "Miller was himself blacklisted by Hollywood when he refused to testify in front of the HUAC. However, this did not stop his plays being performed on stage."(Spartacus 2009) His writing The Crucible, was in large part, a reaction to the Hollywood Blacklists, and the "witch hunts" of MacCarthyism in general. Remember, it was first performed in 1953. He felt he had to remind people of the harm that can come from minding other people's business.
Here's your question. What issue, that is a crisis in the world right now, would you try to shock people into the inanity of their actions (or lack of action)? For a challenge, you could reach into history and find a similar mistake (because as a species, we seem to repeat our mistakes), and make your argument based on this past event. (Yes, this would require some research). Persuade the reader that the issue is in dire need of attention. Write at least an organized paragraph with two reasons. Post your entry below.
Language Arts trimester final exam on THURSDAY, Feb. 19th
See your review guide for help.
2nd trimester final study guide.doc
The Crucible
This is a link to all things Crucible. Here you'll find the review questions for each section of each act. The tests at the end of Acts 1, 2, and 3, will come directly from these reviews. Be sure you can answer them! We will discuss these in class, but I won't require written responses.
Monday, February 9th: Period 1: finish the narrative including the questions for lesson 9, E.
Period 4: Do the Lesson 9 fill-in worksheet, then go to the Crucible page and answer the discussion question by adding your comments to THAT page.
Period 5: Do the Lesson 9 fill-in worksheet.
Everyone: Lesson 9 Vocabulary test is this Wednesday.
Wednesday, January 28th: Period 1 - finish the outline that we started for Act 3. You may use this on the DYR tomorrow.
Tuesday, January 27th: periods 4 and 5, finish reading Act 3 of The Crucible. Expect a DYR tomorrow.
Thursday, Jan. 22nd: Read to page 107 in The Crucible. Check out the review questions on the Crucible page.
Wednesday, Jan 21st: Vocapplication #8 is due tomorrow. Apply the words to the inauguration. Sample sentence: President Obama's inauguration speech was audible in every village, every hamlet in America AND in other parts of the world as well.
Friday, Jan. 16th: NO homework over the weekend. Yippee!! Enjoy your three day weekend, and do something that includes a new friend to celebrate the legacy of tolerance and acceptance left by the great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Thursday, Jan.15th: We will continue with the oral summaries. Period 5 will take the lesson 7 vocab. test. When we finish, then if time allows, we will watch Act II from the film.
Wednesday, Jan. 14: Be ready to give an oral summary of Act II using your outline. Also for periods 1 and 4, we will have the Lesson 7 Vocabulary Test!
Tuesday, January 13th:
No homework. We'll either start or finish your Act II outline, and begin oral summaries. First period, be ready to take the DYR.
Monday, January 12:
1st period: be ready for a DYR on Act II. Tomorrow we will begin writing the outline.
4th period: start your outline of Act II; we'll begin doing oral summaries tomorrow. Be ready for an infer/ predict/ analyze quiz.
5th period: finish reading Act II. Be ready for a DYR. We'll begin your outlines tomorrow.
Wednesday, January 7th,
GUM extra practice (in the back) do pg. 226. GUM test Friday over Unit 2 (lessons 11- 20)
- Study: kinds of sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory
- simple, complex, compound
- dependent clause, independent clause
- adjective clause, participle clause
- infinitive clause, gerund clause
- errors: fragment, run-on, ramble-on, comma splice
Summary of Act I of the Crucible is due tomorrow (Thursday)
Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 2nd and 3rd: First period: look up those vocabulary words and provide a definition on the worksheet I gave you.
Every period: do the Wordly Wise review sheet,study for WW lesson 5 test on Thursday.
Fourth and Fifth: finish reading the introduction on pgs. 3 - 8. Paraphrase each paragraph. Be ready for a DYR; I'll let you use your notes.
Monday, Nov. 17th: Blog about two of the three questions below. Also comment on a classmate's response. "I agree with Susan about the evil, but I also think that..." another component of this blog is to use new vocabulary from lesson 5. Try: audacious or audacity, depict and rebuke.
1. What would Golding and Bradbury agree on? Where does the evil come from in both / each story?
2. How does Bradbury use symbolism to give depth to the witch? Discuss the symbolism of the tatto artist's sensory limitations and extrasensory enhancement. How does the fact that certain of her senses aer prposely denied her, relate to her ability to predict the future?
What's the creepiest thing about her (to you)? I think the dust having not been disturbed for weeks / months / years and imagining her not moving, but alive, waiting....creeps me out.
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Comments (6)
rhampton said
at 8:41 pm on Feb 25, 2009
There are many situations that are in desperate need of attention, and I think that one of these issues would definitely be global warming. This is an issue that effects the whole world not just the U.S. and it is something that could destroy our Earth. One reason this is so desperate is because it will take everyone on this Earth's help to fix the problem. As well the effects could put us all at risk. It hurts our fresh water sources, it could flood many major cities around the world, it could cause plants and crops to fail and leave the whole world famished and languishing. The only way to stop this is by everyone getting involved and trying to prevent and ultimately reverse orur damages.
jbalkind said
at 8:56 pm on Feb 25, 2009
I agree with Rachel, with the fact that global warming is a major crisis. One crisis that is also big is all the drugs being made in Mexico. All these drugs are being illegally migrated over to the U.S. This is rasing the amount of drugs in the U.S. This is aslo rasing the crime rate. More and more people in the U.S. are becoming criminals becasue there is more and more drugs and the drugs aren' t always cheap. Many people can make lots of mony of drugs. This can also corup cops. The cops are supposed to catch the drug sellers. But instead they are also seeing the money they can make in selling drugs and become partners with the drug lords. This allows more and more drugs to be sold and less cops to catch the criminals. Drugs can also kill many people. This is raising the death rate, not by much but it still is. Some of these drugs are still coming from Mexico and we need to stop it. We can either make security on the border better, or we can try to put more trustworthy cops that won't succumb to selling drugs.
saplin said
at 9:44 pm on Feb 25, 2009
I completely agree with Rachel and Jared. Global warming is a very severe issue that can soon be iriversible. Global warming is and idea most catagorize as a desperate situation because it affects not just one country, such as civil war or illegal immigration, but all of Earth. Global warming could cause things such as increase the global sealevel by a more than negligable amount. Also, global warming could reduce rainfall everywhere around the world which could reduce the sliver of fresh water that we already have. So we can either plument into turmoil or or make a dramatic change.
jhild said
at 11:03 pm on Feb 25, 2009
Slator and Rachel are both correct about the turmoil that global warming is bringing to this planet. Another issue is education; women all over the world aren’t getting the education they need. Take Afghanistan for example, it is one of the poorest countries of the world and so 80% of the women there are illiterate. From 1996-2001 the Taliban was in control and they wouldn’t allow women to go to school. These innocent ladies, who are only trying to receive the education they deserve, are being injured. I am almost certain that if the women of the world were able to receive a decent education they would most likely be able to help this planet cope with all of the problems. Education is important and women need to receive more knowledge.
kzeller said
at 11:57 am on Feb 26, 2009
I also agree with Rachel nd Jared. Golabal Warming is n issue that must be dealt with , otherwise many island countries and costal areas will suffer. The melting of the ice caps is very severe and has to have the effort of the population of the earth not just some people. Another issue that is a big crisis is the war in Iraq. There has been so many Americans as well as Iranians that have suffered since this war has started. I hop that Obama will bring back the troops soon!
ghirsch said
at 1:22 pm on May 31, 2009
Mrs. Rutledge,
im a little confused on this paragraph that is due tomorrow i will due my best to get it done tonight.. but i was wondering if i could get help tomorrow.?
thanks
Griffin
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