Friday, January 29, 2010

1/28 and 1/29

Prayer
Attendance
Vocab
Worksheets
Reading Comprehension Practice
Grammar Review

Homework:

Vocab Worksheets due next class

Vocab Quiz next class

Write or type all rules from Chapter 21 Elements of Language...you will need them for the test. Failing to bring these rules will inevitably result in failing the exam because the test is open notes, but that "open note" distinction is limited to the Chapter 21 rules ONLY!

Chapter 21 exam next class

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

1/26 and 1/27

Prayer
Attendance
"The Labors and Death of Heracles"
Vocab Quiz #17
New Vocab
Grammar Review
Essay Debrief

Homework:

Chapter 21 Chapter Review Pages 689-691, #1-45

Monday, January 25, 2010

Essay

Remember, your essay must be typed, double-spaced, in Times or Times New Roman. You must alter your document to have 1 inch margins, and please have your last name and page number in the top right hand corner as per MLA format.

Your introduction, which should end in the thesis statement, should be 4 to 6 sentences long.

Your body paragraphs, of which you should have at LEAST 3, should all be 4 to 6 sentences long.

Your conclusion, which should begin with a revised thesis, should be 4 to 6 sentences long.

As such, your essay will be at LEAST one page. Submissions that are shorter than a page stand little chance of earning a good grade.

Keep in mind, the topics of each paragraph are already given to you in the thesis statement, and therefore, all you must do is fill in the blanks.

Acadeca Volunteers

To all parents:

The Academic Decathlon requires speech and interview judges for Saturday, January 30. If you are willing and available to participate from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., please email me at aswaney@crespi.org. If you can confirm by 2:40 p.m. today, January 25, I will supply JoAnn Schnelldorfer, the regional coordinator, with your contact information.

Training is provided, so all that is required of you is a willingess to participate in the experience.

Thank you!

Absentee grades

You may have noticed a .5 for a grade recently if you missed school. Any work missed due to an absence will be marked with a .5 to give you incentive to make that work up. Once you make up the homework or quiz, you will be given FULL credit as long as the work is made up in a TIMELY manner.

Friday, January 22, 2010

1-22/1-25

Prayer
Attendance
New Vocab
Worksheets
Grammar Review
Essay Introduction
Poetry Essay discussion/notes

Homework:

Periods 1 and 3 may use this THESIS to write their essay according to the structure we discussed in class:

''The poems "Uphill" and "What inn
is This" are similar because they
present questions about the
afterlife, but the two poems differ
greatly in tone and in the
pictures of the afterlife they
present.

Worksheets due next class

Vocab Quiz #17 next class

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

1/20 and 1/21

Homework:
Comparing Two Poems
One way to understand a poem better is by comparing it with a poem that is similar in subject, theme, or meaning. You have read “Uphill” by Christina Rosetti. Compare that poem with this poem by Emily Dickinson:
What Inn is This
What inn is thisWhere for the night
Peculiar traveler comes?
Who is the landlord?
Where the maids?

Behold, what curious rooms!
No ruddy fires on the hearth,
No brimming tankards flow.
Necromancer, landlord,
Who are these below?

Read and reread these poems carefully, using the procedures you have learned. Look up any unfamiliar words. Paraphrase any lines or sentences that seem difficult or obscure. When you feel you understand both poems, compare them in an essay. In your essay, include answers to the following questions:
1. What is similar about the subjects of the poems?
2. What is similar or dissimilar about the moods or tones created by the two poems?
3. Who are the speakers in the poems? How do the speakers and their situations resemble or differ from one another?
4. What other similarities or differences can you find in the ideas and methods used in the two poems?

Visit blog to check answers to exercises 1,2, and 3

Exercises 4 and 5 in Chapter 21 Elements of Language

Chapter 21 Chart Worksheets (distributed in class)

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

1/13 and 1/14

Agenda:

Re-Take the Fall Final
Vocab
Prayer

Homework:

In Elements of Language, Chapter 21 Diagnostic Preview; Pages 666 to 667, #1-25

Monday, January 11, 2010

1/11 and 1/12

Welcome back to school! As we start the spring semester of 2010, we did a writing assignment to recount our vacation. This exercise was designed to help us remember proper grammar and get our hands back in shape for all of the writing we'll be doing this semester.

In class, we reviewed some of last semester's final exam. Because this semester will be building off of everything that we did last semester, it will be good practice to remember everything that we did.

Homework:

Study because we will be retaking last semester's final as your first grade of the new semester.