Assigned on Monday, November 9, 2009
Block 1/2
1. Study vocabulary words. You will take the assessment on Wednesday.
Block 3/4 and 5/6
1. Study vocabulary words. You will take the assessment on Wednesday.
2. Study for tomorrow's Shackleton quiz on chapters thirteen through epilogue.
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Assigned on Wednesday, November 4, 2009
To do: Hand in essays and put journals on back pod.
Block 1/2
1. Persuasive business letter due on Monday.
2. Study vocabulary words. You'll have a test next week.
Block 3/4 and 5/6
1. Finish reading Shipwreck.
2. Study vocabulary words. You will be tested next week
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Assigned Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Block 1/2
1. Work on persuasive business letter tonight. By tomorrow, you should have the introduction, first body paragraph, and second body paragraph done in final form.
2.Study vocabulary- test next Tuesday.
3. You will take a grammar quiz tomorrow - parsing simple sentences with linking verbs and subject complements.
4. Bring your journal to class.
Blocks 3/4 and 5/6
1. Business letter due tomorrow in final form.
2. Read "The Cave" and "The Southern Ocean" by tomorrow.
3. Study vocabulary words. Test date to be determined.
4. Bring your journal to class.
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Assigned on Monday, November 2, 2009
Block 1/2
1. Prepare for tomorrow's open-book reading quiz from page thirty-six to the end of book.
2. You will have writing homework - to be determined in class today.
3. Study vocabulary words.
4. You may have a grammar quiz on Wednesday to assess your mastery of linking verbs, etc.
Block 3/4 and 5/6
1. Read the "Open Boat..." and "The End of the Open Boat.."
2. Finish letter by Wednesday.
3. Study vocabulary words.
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Assigned on Friday, October 30, 2009
Block 1/2
1. Make revisions to and edit more closely the second body paragraph of the persuasive letter by Monday.
2. Finish reading Trail by Ice by Monday.
3. Continue to study vocabulary words. You will take the test on the Tuesday after our long weekend.
Block 3/4 and 5/6
1. Persuasive business letter due in final form to me on Wednesday. Write the final paragraph. Revise and edit this weekend.
2. Read the next two chapters of Shipwreck: "Passage" and "Dry Land."
3. Study vocabulary words 21-40.
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Assigned on Thursday, October 29, 2009
*** My long range plan is to take the persuasive letters home with me over the long weekend to grade.
*** There is a chance that we might read the poems aloud tomorrow.
Block 1/2
1. Write second body paragraph for persuasive business letter.
2. Prepare for tomorrow's open book Trial by Ice quiz on pages foreward through thirty-five.
3. Study vocabulary words and linking verb practice sheets.
Blocks 3/4 and 5/6
1. Prepare for tomorrow's Shipwreck quiz chapters seven through twelve ("Face of Deep" through "Escape from Ice").
2. Study vocabulary words.
3. Draft paragraph three of persuasive business letter and bring it to class tomorrow.
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Assigned on Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Block 1/2
1. Read pages thirty-four through forty-nine.
2. Take another look at first body paragraph of business letter. Revise/edit as needed.
3. Study vocabulary.
Blocks 3/4 and 5/6
1. Read "Into the Boats" and "Escape from the Ice."
2. Revise/edit second body paragraph.
3. Review twenty-one through forty on vocabulary list.
4. Grammar quiz tomorrow.
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Assigned on Tuesday, October 27, 2009
***Everyone should try to enter the wiki site.
Block 1/2
1. Write first body paragraph of business letter.
2. Study vocabulary words.
Blocks 3/4 and 5/6
1. Write second body paragraph of business letter.
2. Vocabulary test tomorrow - Shipwreck Unit I - be sure to study synonyms.
3. Grammar quiz Thursday.
4. Shipwreck reading quiz on Friday.
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Assigned on Monday, October 26, 2009
Blocks 1/2
1. Read Trial by Ice pages 24-33.
2. Revisit/ re-edit introductory business letter paragraph.
Blocks 3/4 and 5/6
1. Read "Mutiny" and "Patience."
2. Revisit/ re-edit first body paragraph
3. Shipwreck vocabulary test on Wednesday.
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