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9 College Preparation Click on month to move to that part of the log: September, October, November, December, Finals |
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August 13-14 |
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Thursday 13 |
School starts Link to downloadable list of materials needed H/O Class Syllabus/Bathroom
Pass (available only in class) H/O Vocabulary Project and comparative symbols Description of vocabulary project and class rules. |
Help your parents to send an e-mail to me, listing your name and class. Get your materials for class. Materials Needed for English: 1.
200 Blue 3X5 index cards (Available for purchase
from the Supply Shack on campus or Mrs. H. for $2.00 per 100 cards. If you
can find them in a store for less, go for it. Office Depot can order them in
for you in 24 hours if they don't have them.) 2.
1 composition book (the kind with hard back and NO coil binding and also
available for purchase from Mrs. H. for $2.00) 3.
3-4 pens (black or blue) 4.
red or green or purple pen for grading 5.
1 highlighter (color of your choice) 6.
binder with 5 dividers labeled: 1.
Notes 2. Current Unit 3. Grammar and
Pronunciation 4. Misc. 5. Essays
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Friday 14 |
Turn in the signature section of the syllabus for 10 points of extra credit. (If you don ‘t turn it in within 24 hours it is worth only 1 point.) Book Share |
Need to bring your composition book for Monday's journal Bring a children's book that had meaning to you as a child. If you don't have one at home, go to the public library. (It is worth 15 points to have your book and share it.) |
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August 17-21 |
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Monday 17 |
Demonstration of full page journal Journal #1 What book did you bring and why is it important? Small group book sharing (It is worth 5 points to have your book and share it.) 3X5 Card - create ID card and turn it in. |
Bring your student ID |
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Tuesday 18 |
Computer Lab H/O Clock Partners make 2 vocabulary cards based on the website
resources. |
Complete the items on the Scavenger hunt page and turn it in at the beginning of class tomorrow. Bring a novel that has had some meaning for you and we will be sharing them together. |
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Wednesday 19 |
Collect Scavenger Hunt page. Journal #2First Pronunciation practice consonants. (If missed, copy from another student.) Novel book sharing. Make a list of the books we talk about that you think sound interesting. Small group sharing of novels. |
Complete your 10 vocabulary cards and practice with them. |
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Thursday 20 |
Work on Vocabulary. Journal #3 Describe an experience you had with reading some time during your life. |
Complete your 10 vocabulary cards and practice with them. |
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Friday 21 |
Journal #4 Write a story inspired by one or more of your vocabulary words. First Vocabulary test with 10 cards. Random choice of 5 cards out of your stack. |
Anyone who didn’t finish their vocabulary test with Mrs. H. has until Thursday after school to complete it before it becomes a “0”. Complete both sides of the Vocabulary Development handout. |
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August 24-28 |
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Monday 24 |
Turn in the Vocabulary Development handout. Bag activity Small group essay in groups of 4- turn in the essay |
Bring your book to read during our Tuesday/Thursday reading time. |
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Tuesday 25 |
Read 15 minutes Essay development. Take the information from all our brainstorming and turn it into a line graph, showing where your attitudes changed. List evidence or circumstances for each period to show what caused it, contributed to it, affected it. |
List at least 5-6 different things for each shift that led to the changes. |
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Wednesday 26 |
Journal#5 pronunciation Development of the opening paragraph and thesis statement. |
Bring your book for tomorrow. Write the first draft of your 3 body paragraphs. Tomorrow is the last day to make up the vocabulary quiz. |
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Thursday 27 |
Stamped first draft Edit the paragraphs. |
Type the essay. |
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Friday 28 |
Stamped typed draft Journal #6 "What is in a name? a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Juliet Discuss names - yours, others', characters'. Do the names fit? Vocabulary 20 |
Complete the Vocabulary development - due Monday. |
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Monday 31 |
Turn in Voc. Dev. #2&3 Journal #7 Pronunciation Peer Edit the essay. |
Work on essay, vocabulary |
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Tuesday 1 |
Read 15 minutes Refine essay Issues: 1 inch border
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Edit your essay and print out a clean copy with the concluding paragraph in it. |
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Wednesday 2 |
Journal#8 Pronunciation Again, peer-edit your essay. |
Practice vocabulary cards, work on improving your essay. |
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Thursday 3 |
Read 10 minutes Min Day (Staff Development) H/O Informing Ourselves to Death - use to find vocabulary words. Create more vocabulary cards and practice vocabulary. |
Make final corrections. Submit your essay to TURNITIN. But bring a hard copy with
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Friday 4 |
Turn in your packet with the five parts (timeline first and essay last.) Vocabulary 30 Journal #9 Describe what you think is the ideal High School student. What is the person you want to be? |
. Submit a copy of your perfected final draft to TURNITIN.com See the Commonly Asked Questions link for instructions on how to submit an essay. |
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September 7-11 |
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Monday 7 |
Labour Day – No school |
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Tuesday 8 |
Read 15 minutes Correct Vocab 4&5 together. Turn in the Vocabulary Development page |
Work on your vocabulary cards. Read the handout and review that information |
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Wednesday 9 |
Journal #10 pronunciation Collecting prepositional phrases |
Write a
one page narrative based on one or more of the prepositional phrases you
copied today. |
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Thursday 10 |
Turn in your one page story Read 15 minutes Quiz on prepositional phrases Correct togetherH/O priceless prepositions.List all the prepositions you have collected in the proper bucket.
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Work on
vocabulary,
Bring your vocabulary cards!!!!! |
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Friday 11 |
Journal #11Describe yesterday's class period from the perspectve of Miss Wagoner. Vocabulary 40 - counted the cards. 1/4 point for each card. |
Work on
vocabulary, Complete the vocabulary development page for Monday. |
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September 14-18 |
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Monday 14 |
Turn in the vocabulary development page and the prepositional phrases Journal #12 Pronunciation Read some of the stories Collect all Journals - Just leave them in the class crate (since they won't fit in the in-basket) |
Work on your vocabulary cards for Friday. Complete the handout. |
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Tuesday 15 |
Read 10 minutes Minimum Day Identify the prepositions in the story "A Prepositional Storm" Back to School Night |
Back to School Night |
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Wednesday 16 |
Meet at the Library for Orientation |
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Thursday 17 |
Meet at the Library for Orientation |
Library Packet due September 25. Must be completely finished to be scored. If you leave one or two questions because you couldn't bother getting help to find the answers you will get an automatic 0. |
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Friday 18 |
End of Grading Period Collect Prepositional Storm Journal
13: "If you could guarantee you would be successful, what is the one
thing you want to be successful at in life?" Vocabulary 50 |
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September 21-25 |
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Monday 21 |
Journal 14: What are you going to do to ensure that you pass 9A?H/O Vocab Dev 8&9 Review of Prepositions. Compare the list of prepositions on the bucket page to your "Prepositional Storm Handout" Hand in again. |
complete vocab 8&9 |
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Tuesday 22 |
Read Turn in Vocab 8&9 Review prepositions,nouns,etc. Find propositions in yet another story. |
Work on vocabulary cards, read 1/2 hour, study the preposition material. |
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Wednesday 23 |
Journal #15 pronunciation, you can come into class and copy it out of the book or copy from another student. word forms - how words can shift from one part of speech to another. |
STudy for the test Work on Vocabulary cards |
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Thursday 24 |
Test on Prepositions. Read. |
Study your vocabulary cards |
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Friday 25 |
jOURNAL #16 FREEWRITE Vocabulary 60 Library Packet due (Automatic 0 score if you have not completed EVERY question.) |
Complete the vocabulary development page READ!!! |
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Monday 28 |
Fall Break |
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Tuesday 29 |
Fall Break |
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Wednesday 30 |
Journal #17: Pronunciation Verb pretest from Writing and Grammar text. Turn it in. |
Work on vocabulary cards for next week. Read Bring book tomorrow. |
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Thursday 1 |
Min Day (Staff Development) Correct the pretest together. H/O Action verbs practice 1&2 p 13-14 |
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Friday 2 |
Journal #18 pronunciation |
complete the linking verb page for Monday |
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October 5-9 |
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Monday 5 |
Journal #19 |
Finish the Linking Verbs assignment. |
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Tuesday 6 |
turn in Action or Linking
Verbs Discussion of terminology on the Persuasive Media forms. VCR issues prevented viewing of the program. |
Work on vocabulary |
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Wednesday 7 |
Fill out Irlen Survey in lieu
of the journal. SEE YOUR RESULTS PERIOD 4 SURVEY RESULTS, PERIOD 7 SURVEY RESULTS National: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91WOnEepH0A&feature=related
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station in Teen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N5qbMFtKQ4 Fill out pages two, five and seven of the Evaluation packet about each of those Continue with page four of the Evaluation packet. Survey |
Watch the presentations again on youtube and fill out the evaluation pages for 1,3,and 5. SEE YOUR RESULTS PERIOD 4 SURVEY RESULTS, PERIOD 7 SURVEY RESULTS
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Thursday 8 |
Read 15 minutes copy of parent permission slip if you are interested in being tested. |
Practice Vocabulary |
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Friday 9 |
Journal #20 "How would Irlen Sydnrome cause problems and what practical solutions have you learned about?" Vocabulary 70 |
Read the directions carefully. complete the Helping Verbs page. Start next Week's vocabulary |
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October 12-16 |
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Monday 12 |
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Journal #21 : What are the things in your life for which you ought to express gratitude? Together scored Friday's homwork on Helping Verbs and Subject Complements. |
Read Work on vocabulary cards. |
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Tuesday 13 |
Read H/O Personal Pronouns and Antecedents - page 5 and page 6 together completed first side |
complete the handout |
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Wednesday 14 |
Turn in the personal pronouns
page |
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Thursday 15 |
Read Continue with notes and vocabulary for short stories. Intro to Reflexive, Intensive, Demonstrative, Relative and Interrogative pronouns power point. |
Practice the terms using the Quizlet site. |
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Friday 16 |
End of First Quarter & Grading Period Journal #23 Freewrite - full page as always Journals 13-23 are due. Vocabulary 80 H/O Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns - page 7. page 8 H/O Domonatrative, Relative, and
Interrogative Pronouns page 9, page 10 |
Bring the textbook every day until further notice. |
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October 19-23 |
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Monday 19 |
Journal #24 Have you ever been so hurt or offended that you wanted to get revenge? What did you do? Intro to ideas and vocabulary for "Cask of Amontillado" Began reading the story together. |
reread the story starting on page 7. Need the textbook every day this week. |
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Tuesday 20 |
Read Demo of Quizlet.com Continue reading the story. |
Read the story in your text - starting on page 7. Review the story terms on Quizlet.com. |
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Wednesday 21 |
62 question test on The Cask of Amontillado, verbs, pronouns and a few prepositions - just to keep you in practice. Extra Credit puzzle - 10 points. |
Work on your vocabulary cards. |
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Thursday 22 |
Turn in Extra Credit puzzle in
the first 5 minutes of class. Begin "The Most Dangerous Game" |
Read the entire story - starting from page 17 |
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Friday 23 |
Pop quiz on "the Most Dangerous Game" Vocabulary 90 Journal #25 Groups for Period 4 Once you know your group - prepare whichever set of questions applies. Groups for Period 7Once you know your group - prepare whichever set of questions applies. |
Prepare answers to the questions from the story. Provide page numbers and quotations to support your answers. |
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October 26-30 |
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Monday 26 |
Journal #25 What is your opinion of Big Game Hunting? Power Point explanation of Socratic Seminar. - period 4 will have to look at this link and read the explanation. Work on finding support for your questions. |
Bring your textbook tomorrow. Find more quotations to support your answers in the Socratic Seminar. We will follow up on that when I am well enough to come back. |
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Tuesday 27 Lunch help with vocab.- no one came. |
Socratic Seminar - you will need your textbook to read the quotations you use. |
Work on vocabulary Bring your text |
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Wednesday 28 |
Journal #26 Are there any animals, insects, or creatures that frighten you? Why? How did you develop that fear? Begin reading The Birds. |
Work on Vocabulary cards, read, begin the story "The Birds". Bring your text |
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Thursday 29 |
Read Continue "The Birds" by Daphne DuMaurier |
Bring your text. |
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Friday 30 |
Vocabulary 100 Journal #27 What is your favorite horror movie and what was scary about it? Grammar from Grammar text in class - due at the end of class. |
Bring your text all next week. |
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Monday 2 |
Journal # 28 If you could eliminate one habit you have, what would you stop doing? finish "The Birds" and complete the Review and Assess at the end Begin "The Scarlet Ibis" and complete the Review and Assess at the end. |
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Tuesday 3 Lunch help with vocab. |
Read Continue "The Scarlet Ibis" |
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Wednesday 4 |
Turn in both the Review and Assess from "The Birds" and from "The Scarlet Ibis" Journal #29: Daily Language
Practice • Week 1 Write down each of the following sentences and
correct any spelling, punctuation, Read "The Scarlet Ibis" |
Period 4 - essay on the history of the Pledge of Allegience. - in answer to their own question. Period 7 complete the Scarlet Ibis R&A |
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Thursday 5 |
Read Survey for the Color Code. - on power point. |
consider the applicability of the survey. Does it fit you? |
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Friday 6 |
Vocabulary Test 110 Journal: Had you been among the "victims" of a drunk driver yeterday, what would you want to have said to those you left behind? H/O Color code questionaire plus descriptions of the personalities. Analyze your answers and the descriptions of the personalities. How well or how poorly does the questionaire fit your personality? |
Start your new vocabulary cards
Brainstorm a list of what experiences or reactions demonstrate where you fit or do not fit the personality. |
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November 9-13 |
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Monday 9 |
Journal: Pronunciation Text pages IN 2-IN5 elements of story telling Read "Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan pages 262-272 |
Finish reading the story. |
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Tuesday 10 Lunch help with vocab. |
Read Open book test on The Birds, the Scarlet Ibis, and Rules of the Game. Journals due |
Read, work on vocabulary. |
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Wednesday 11 |
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Thursday 12 |
Min Day (Staff Development) Read Discussion of essay. What kind of evidence can you use to show that this really is or really is not your personality. Mrs. H. gave examples: blue personality, needs to be understood, incident of husband taking her shopping for an expensive necklace, getting her to pick out what she wanted and then got her something bigger and more expensive. Reaction - she was hurt that he didn't listen to what she said rather than being impressed by the money he spent. The next year she was ecstatic over a $40.00 dictionary because it was proof that he listened and understood what she really wanted. Think about what actual
specific experiences rather than generalizations could be used to prove that
you are whatever personality you think you are.
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Practive for vocabulary tests. |
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Friday 13 |
End of Grading Period Vocabulary 120 H/O Personality Essay description Worked on organizing the essay based on the handout. |
Using your survey results, fill out the essay handout, figuring out the order of your ideas and how you will support them. Work on next week's vocabulary Type out your first draft of the essay which will be due Tuesday. |
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November 16-20 |
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Monday 16 |
Intro to To Kill a Mockingbird - slavery, civil rights... Journal: Choose an entry from the packet. Pick up To Kill a Mockingbird from the library. |
Read the first chapter1 p3 13 pages. Finish typing your essay for tomorrow. |
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Tuesday 17 Lunch help with vocab. |
Read Edit the essay, looking for obvious formatting, spelling, punctuation errors. Discussion of characters. |
Reformat, correct, improve your essay. Due on Thursday. Read chapter 2 p15-22, 7 pages |
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Wednesday 18 |
Journal from packet lists of prompts Continue discussion of the story |
Read chapter 3 p. 22-32, 10 pages |
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Thursday 19 |
Read Final draft of essay due -stapled together: outline on green handout, edited draft from Tuesday and the final draft. |
Read chapter 4-5 p. 50-57, 57-63, 18 pages Turn a digital copy of the final draft in to TURNITIN. |
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Friday 20 |
Vocabulary 130 Journal: If you could inhaabit the world of any computer or video game, which one would you choose? Why? Work on the book, reading and |
Read chapter 6-7 p. 32-41, 41-50, 13 pages |
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November 23-27 |
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Monday 23 |
Journalfrom packet list of prompts.
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Read chapter 8 p. 63-74, 13 pages |
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Tuesday 24 Lunch help with vocab. |
Read Quiz #1 |
Read chapter 9 p. 74-89, 18 pages |
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Wednesday 25 |
Journal |
Read chapter 10-12 p. 89-99, 99-112, 115-126, 34 pages |
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Thursday 26 |
Thanksgiving |
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Friday 27 |
No School |
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Monday 30 |
Extra Credit Who Am I essay due - hard copy in class AND submitted to TURNITIN by midnight tonight. Journal |
Read chapter 13-14 p. 127-134, 135-144, 17 pages |
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Tuesday 1 |
Read |
Read chapter 15-16 p. 144-155, 155-166, 13 pages |
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Wednesday 2 |
Journal |
Read chapter 17-18 p. 166-178, 178-189, 23 pages |
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Thursday 3 |
Read Quiz #2 |
Read chapter 19-20 p. 190-199, 199-206, 16 pages |
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Friday 4 |
Vocabulary 140 |
Read chapter 21-23 p. 206-211, 212-217,217-227, 21 pages |
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December 7-11 |
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Monday 7 |
Journal Quiz #3 |
Read chapter 24 p. 227-237, 10 pages |
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Tuesday 8 |
Read |
Read chapter 25-27 p. 238-241, 241-247, 247-254 , 16 pages |
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Wednesday 9 |
Journal |
Read chapter 28-31 p. 267-270, 271-276, 277-281, 26 pages |
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Thursday 10 |
Min Day (Senior Projects) Quiz #4 Turn in the Newspaper project |
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Friday 11 |
Complete that last Vocabulary and turn in all the 140 cards. |
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Monday 14 |
Final 100 Question scantron test |
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Tuesday 15 |
Finals3,5,1 |
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Wednesday 16 |
Finals4,6,8 |
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Thursday 17 |
Finals2.7 |
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School starts again January 11 |
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