11/11/09

Homework:

Students need to complete their logsheet for 100 Book Challenge and have 20 steps filled out correctly and signed.

11/06/09

Students are working together to create a product and persuasive advertisement.  Students will perform their commercials on Monday, November 9, 2009.

Homework for the weekend:

• Students need to obtain props for their commercial and finalize their script.

• Students must read for 100 Book Challenge. 20 steps (1 step=15 minutes) are due by Thursday, November 12, 2009.

Riddle of the Week

What word can you read from left to right, right to left or upside down and it still makes sense? (Hint: Use all capital letters).

Mae Aculpa

My apologies for not posting recently. Here a few updates.

Report cards are now available for pickup from your daughter’s homeroom teacher. They will be available from now until next Friday.

Homework for this weekend is for students to complete their required steps for 100 Book Challenge. Reminder, 1 step is 15 minutes. By next Thursday, October 29, 2009, students should have completed 20 steps and have signatures from a parent or guardian for all steps read at home. Yesterday, students were given a folder and a log sheet for 100 Book Challenge and are expected to keep up with these items. If, however, a student should lose the 100 Book Challenge log sheet, she will be required to create her own.

Beginning Monday, October 26, 2009, students will be introduced to the persuasive unit. I look forward to working with the students, teaching them how to debate and present logical, supported arguments.

As always, if you ever have any questions or concerns, please contact me via this blog or my email: nbird@atlanta.k12.ga.us.

Have a great weekend!

Ready for Anne Frank?

Click on the link below to view study questions for the Anne Frank test.

Anne Frank Guided Questions

Homework for 9/28/09 & 9/29/09

Monday (9/28/09):

Complete page 253 in your workbook.

Read pages 859-861 in your literature book, and write a summary on what you read.

Tuesday (9/29/09):

Complete page 262 in your workbook.

Read pages 868-870 in your literature book, and write a summary on what you read.

Anne Frank Guided Questions

This week we will be reading and viewing texts on Anne Frank and the Holocaust.  The link below is for the guided questions students will be completing as they work through both texts and prepare for an assessment over both the play and movie on Monday, October 5, 2009. Additional questions will be posted later on this week.

Anne Frank Guided Questions

Riddle of the Week 9/28/09

I know a word with letters of three,

add two more,

and fewer I’ll be.

What is the word?

Homework for the weekend of 9/25/09

Students must use each of their six vocabulary words in a sentence. Students must also complete 2 steps for 100 Book Challenge.

The vocabulary words for the next two weeks are:

bewildered    conspicuous    fatalist    insufferable    resent    tension

The words and their respective definitions can be found on p. 852 in the literature book.

Suggestion: Students should become familiar with these words over the next two weeks. The words will be read in context this week and students should review the definitions using either their index cards or vocabulary sheet. In addition, students should also attempt to use the words at some point during the day– either when speaking or in writing. Using the vocabulary words in context both in and outside of class will assist students in adding the vocabulary into their repertoire.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Today in class we watched President Obama’s speech on education and had some wonderful discussions. Students who missed the speech may click on the link below to see what they missed and can also click on the link labeled, discussion questions, and obtain the questions we discussed in class.

The discussion questions will be collected tomorrow for a classwork grade.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/video/President-Obamas-Message-for-Americas-Students/

Discussion Questions