Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Assignment Menu Wednesday, September 13, 2006

In-class assignment menus supersede web logs.

1. Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations” completed on Tuesday; textbooks needed for Wednesday, September 13 for group discussion and selection examination
2. "Why Johnny Can't Pass His Fitness Test" essay is due this Friday, 9/15; attach prewriting to essay; essay is double-spaced; run spell-grammar check before printing; standard 12 pt. font; title and paper standards formatting is required
3. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Two will begin on Thursday and Friday of this week; vocabulary textbooks are needed in class both days; Unit Two due Monday, September 18; test is Tuesday, September 19
4. Grammar: Parts of Speech-Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs in class and homework; reteaching nouns/pronouns due Wednesday, September 13
5. HONORS: Student summer assignment dialectical journals are being scored and will be returned to students. Late journals’ scores will be lowered.
6. Incomplete course work surveys assigned as homework; due Friday 9/15
7. HONORS: Course syllabus distributed and reviewed; begin differentiated assignments, including "Changing the Ending" of Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations"; prewriting and essay to be completed in Vantage Writing Lab next week
8. Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury and The Catcher in the Rye Salinger to be assigned
Textbook Days: Elements of Lit M-T-W; Level E Vocabulary Th-F