Friday, September 18, 2009

STUDYPATH* September 21-25, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR


Monday
1. Check teacher pages for homework assignments
2. "The Cold Equations" Homework One due today
3. Cornell Notes on Bloom's Taxonomy and Vocabulary Workshop Skills continue
4. Textbook Days: Anthology (Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday); Vocabulary Workshop (Thursday); Novel (Friday)

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Differentiated Assignment: Changing the Ending of "The Cold Equations" due date announced
2. Periodic Assessment: Persuasion (multiple choice practice)
3. Literary terms assigned; see teacher pages for specifics
4. Rhetorical Devices and Argument preparation for Persuasion Periodic Assessment

Wednesday

1. "The Bet" Anton Chekhov short story in class
2. Secondary Periodic Assessment-Reader/Writer Notebooks
3. Vocabulary Workshop Unit One due tomorrow; test Friday
4. Secondary Periodic Assessment-Persuasion (multiple choice practice)

Thursday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit One due today; test tomorrow
2. Literary terms test tomorrow
3. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Two assigned; due Thursday of next week
4. "The Bet" short story in class
5. Meet in library tomorrow (Periods One and Five)

Friday

1. Literary terms test
2. Vocabulary Workshop Unit One Test
3. Meet in library for STAR reading level testing