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AVID: 9/2/2010: Tutorial 2 -- forms due at beginning of period; leadership committees also can meet (optional); Rules for tutorial: face board, everyone focused/on task; stay with your group; ask presenter Questions; Take notes; Complete Clean-up. Forms with summaries due at the end of class. [Objectives: Collaboration, Inquiry, Writing, reviewing notes and core subject area content, responsible group work]

English 9 Agenda: 9/2/2010: Minimum Day -- Read student essays, Editing Symbols handout; analyzed and scored one essay using 6+1 writing rubric (organization, words, sentences, ideas/support, mechanics, style). Specific topics analyzed today were comma use, introductory phrases and clauses, capitalization, MLA format heading and title and spacing, specific detail, quotations, thesis statement/placement, topic sentences, supportive evidence, Introductory content, static/dynamic and round/flat -- Friday quiz covers "The Most Dangerous Game" and vocabulary. [objectives: writing strategies -- analyzing the structure, word choice, sentence structure and development of ideas in an in-class essay, written and oral language -- identifying errors and correcting them, revision strategies; becoming familiar with the writing rubric used in this class]

English 10 Agenda: 9/2/2010: Minimum Day -- Read two student essays, annotated the Editing Symbols handout; analyzed and scored one essay using 6+1 writing rubric (organization, words, sentences, ideas/support, mechanics, style). The specific topics today were comma use, introductory phrases and clauses, comma splices, present tense for literature, punctuating a title, capitalization, MLA format heading and title and spacing, paragraph indenting, specific detail, quotations, thesis statement/placement, topic sentences, supportive evidence, Introductory content, static/dynamic and round/flat -- Friday quiz covers "Monkey's Paw" and vocabulary, and will have a bonus question about "The Bridegroom" and a bonus question from "How Much Land Does a Man Need" [objectives: writing strategies -- analyzing the structure, word choice, sentence structure and development of ideas in an in-class essay, written and oral language -- identifying errors and correcting them, revision strategies; becoming familiar with the writing rubric used in this class]