Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Thanksgiving Week

To: Followers of 10th Grade Honors English

Thanksgiving Week 2010 is a full holiday week with no classes in session. Full class assignments and course description objectives will be continued and available on Sunday, November 28. Thank you for being one of the followers of the online posting of this blog.

Wishing you all the best for a Happy Thanksgiving.

James B. Carmicle
Los Angeles, California

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Sunday, November 21, 2010

November 29-December 3, 2010

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
Pages 72-83 of Vocabulary Workshop Units One-Six review are due today; if your text edition has an analogies component it can be skipped. Test date will be announced.
Catcher in the Rye Chapters Eleven-Fifteen talking points are due Friday for discussion.
Work begins today on the Secondary Periodic Assessment-Exposition unit.

Tuesday (Shortened Day)

Literary terms 51-60 are reviewed in class this week and test date is announced.

Wednesday
Multiple choice work on the Secondary Periodic Assessment-Exposition unit begins.
Holt Grammar work continues in class.
Literature selections from the multicultural textbook are introduced.

Thursday
Literary terms review is continued in class.
Literature selections from the multicultural textbook are continued.

Friday
Class discussion of Catcher in the Rye Chapters Eleven-Fifteen is scheduled for today; talking points must be submitted for scoring.
Weekend homework will be announced.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

STUDYPATH* November 15-19, 2010

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR


Monday
Unit Six Vocabulary Workshop test is scheduled for today. Unit One-Six review in textbook is due Monday after Thanksgiving week break.
Talking points for Chapters Six-Ten of Catcher in the Rye are due Friday for class discussion.
Literary terms 51-60 are reviewed in class today and tomorrow; test is scheduled for Friday.
Multiple choice practice for the persuasion unit is assigned as homework in preparation for assessment later this week.
Catcher in the Rye class discussion continues in class today.

Tuesday
Literary terms review continues in class today.
Grammar lesson on parallel clause structure is completed in class.

Wednesday
Part I of the Secondary Periodic Assessment-Persuasion is administered today.

Thursday
Part II of the Secondary Periodic Assessment-Persuasion is administered today.

Friday
Catcher in the Rye Chapters Six-Ten class discussion is held today; talking points are due.
Homework due for the Monday after Thanksgiving week break will be announced.

Saturday, November 06, 2010

STUDYPATH* November 8-12, 2010

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday

Work on the Secondary Periodic Assessment (SPA) practice test continues in class; actual assessment is scheduled for next week.
Unit Five Vocabulary Workshop answers are due today; test is scheduled for tomorrow.
Persuasive essays speeches continue in class today.
New literary terms are introduced from the anthology; grammar lesson on parallel structure in clauses is scheduled for today.

Tuesday
Literary terms are continued in class; test is scheduled for tomorrow.
Work on the SPA practice exam continues in class today.
Unit Six Vocabulary Workshop answers are due Friday; test is scheduled on Monday.
Persuasive essay speeches are continued in class for those who wish to present to entire class.

Wednesday
Practice for the SPA-Persuasion unit continues today.
Talking points for Chapters One-Five of Catcher in the Rye are due in class Friday for class discussion.

Thursday
Veterans Day is a legal holiday and classes are not in session.

Friday

Unit Six Vocabulary Workshop answers are due today.
Chapters One-Five of Catcher in the Rye talking points (five per chapter) are due today; class discussion is scheduled.
Weekend homework will be announced