Vocabulary Review
November 20, 2009 |
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1. Drawing from a word bank placed on the board, students will review sp./vocab. words via BINGO.
2. Students are reminded that Chapts. 18-23 Catcher In The Rye comprehension questions are due Tuesday, November 24th. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: November 19, 2009 |
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"Where you end up isn't the most important thing. It's the road you take to get there. The road is what you'll look back on and call your life."
Tim Wiley |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 19, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will work on the Catcher In The Rye comprehension questions. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: November 18, 2009 |
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"If life gives us rocks, it's our choice whether to build a bridge or a wall."
Unknown |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 18, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will read silently and work on the comprehension exercise for Catcher In The Rye. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: November 17, 2009 |
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| "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 17, 2009 |
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| 1.Students will submit the comprehension exercise on Chapts. 12-17 of Catcher In The Rye and begin; the exercise for Chapts. 18-23 will be collected next Tuesday, November 24th. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: November 16, 2009 |
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"The great value of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
James Truslow Adams |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: November 16, 2009 |
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1.Students will define the following sp./vocabulary words and use them in a creative paragraph that has world peace as its theme. The assignment will be collected tomorrow, November 17th.
Sp./Vocab. List #10
1.accelerate
2.alien
3.alleviate
4.amplify
5.benign
6.competent
7.contemplate
8.dilemma
9.domestic
10.expedient
11.explicit
12.implicit
13.fidelity
14.integrity
15.illusion
16.allusion |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 13, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit the typed answers for Chapts. 8-11 of Catcher In The Rye.
2. Students will read silently and work on Chapters 12-17 comprehension questions which will be collected next Wednesday, November 18th. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 12, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will work on Catcher In The Rye comprehension questions- Chapts. 8-11. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 11, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will work on Catcher In The Rye comprehension questions-Chapters 8-11. The handwritten rough draft and typed answers will be collected on Friday, November 13th. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: November 9, 2009 |
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1. Students will define sp./vocab. list #9 and use each word in original sentences, or 10 in a creative paragraph with "Thanksgiving" as its theme. The assignment will be collected on Wednesday, November 11th.
List #9
1.adapt
2.adopt
3.authentic
4.complacent
5.disperse
6.aromatic
7.enhance
8.exaggerate
9.copious
10.frugal
11.inadvertent
12.ludicrous
13.monotonous
14.moral
15.morale |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 6, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will continue to work on Chapts.4-6 comprehension questions. The typed answers and handwritten rough draft will be collected on Monday. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 5, 2009 |
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1. Students will discuss Chapts. 1-3 and begin reading and taking notes on Chapts. 4-6.
2. Students will work on the comprehension questions which will be collected on Monday. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: November 4, 2009 |
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Sp./Vocabulary #8
1.eminent
2.imminent
3.mediocre
4.hypcrite
5.depravity
6.chronological
7.recognize
8.melancholy
9.beneficial
10.amateur
11.homonym
12.synonym
13.antonym
14.condone
25.contemplate
Students will define the words and write in original sentences. The sentences will be collected on Wednesday. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 2, 2009 |
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| Students will submit the typed comprehension answers for Chapts. 1-3 of Catcher In The Rye |
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Spelling/Vocabulary
November 2, 2009 |
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1. Students will complete the nonfiction CAPT exercise.
2. Students will correct and discuss the exercise in class. |
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Catcher In The Rye (homework)
Due Date: October 30, 2009 |
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1. Students will discuss the Depression in Teens exercise as a class.
2. Students will sign for books, read Chapters 1-3 and complete the comprehension questions by next Wednesday. |
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Catcher In The Rye (homework)
Due Date: October 29, 2009 |
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Anticipatory Set:
1.Students will pair up to complete the exercise. The class will discuss answers.
2.Students will complete the exercise on Depression in Teens for tomorrow's class discussion.
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 28, 2009 |
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| "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Edison |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 28, 2009 |
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1. Students will correct the grammar exercise in class.
2. Students will take notes on Complex and Compound/Complex Sentences.
3. Students will complete an exercise for homework. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 27, 2009 |
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| "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." Henry Ford |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing
October 27, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit their original sentences.
2. Students will complete an exercise on Compound Sentences and correcting sentence run-ons. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 26, 2009 |
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| "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." Grandma Moses |
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Spelling/Vocabulary #7 (homework)
Due Date: October 26, 2009 |
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1.harbinger
2.obnoxious
3.internal
4.external
5.illuson
6.allusion
7.versatile
8.affect
9.effect
10.vengeance
11.implicit
12.explicit
13.candid
14.subtle
15.strive
Students are to define and use in original sentences. The sentences will be collected tomorrow. |
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Literature and writing (homework)
Due Date: October 23, 2009 |
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| 1.Using the Day Book, students will read "The Story of Midas" and complete the brief writing activity on page 24. 2.Students are to write from the perspective of one of the central characters from Before Women Had Wings. The handwritten rough draft and the typed copy will be collected on Monday, October 26th. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 22, 2009 |
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"Arguing with a fool proves there are two."
Doris M. Smith |
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Grammar and Mechanics (homework)
Due Date: October 22, 2009 |
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Using their comprehension exercises on Before Women Had Wings, students will work on revisions in class.
All revised, retyped answers must be submitted by Friday, October 23rd. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 21, 2009 |
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| "Hear the meaning within the word." Wm. Shakespeare |
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Grammar and Mechanics (homework)
Due Date: October 21, 2009 |
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1.Using their comprehension exercises on Before Women Had Wings, students will work on revisions in class.
2.Students will submit their spelling/vocabulary creative paragraphs. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 20, 2009 |
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"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain |
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Grammar and Mechanics
October 20, 2009 |
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1. Students will review writing complete sentences by correcting sentence fragments and sentence run-ons.
2. Students will also review punctuating Compound Sentences. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 19, 2009 |
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenges and controversy."
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: October 19, 2009 |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #6
1.probably
2.pseudonym
3.repetition
4.beneficial
5.eighth
6.embarrass
7.extraordinary
8.foreign
9.necessary
10.straight/strait
11.suspicious
12.thorough
13.through/threw
14.tragedy
15.weird
1.Students must define.
2.Keeping in the spirit of the month, students will write a creative paragraph using 15 of the above spelling/vocabulary words.
(Note: Think Halloween.)The creative paragraph will be collected Wednesday, October 21st. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 16, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will continue to work in Computer Room A221 on comprehension #4 questions. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 15, 2009 |
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| Students will work in Computer Room A221 on comprehension #4 questions. |
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Quote Journal
October 15, 2009 |
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"Be the change that you want to be in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi |
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Grammar and Mechanics (homework)
Due Date: October 14, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit their sp./vocab. original sentences.
2. Students will correct errors in spelling, punctuation and mechanics in the Nobel exercise. We will correct the exercise in class.
2. If there is time, students may work on their Before Women Had Wings Comprehension #4 questions. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 14, 2009 |
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"Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors."
Confucius |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #5 (homework)
Due Date: October 13, 2009 |
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1. Students are define and use the following spelling/vocabulary words in original sentences. The sentences will be collected tomorrow.
LIST #5
1. anonymous
2. apostrophe
3. catastrophe
4. curious
5. desert //dessert
6. definite
7. loneliness
8. mediocre
9. possession
10.sophomore
11.principle//principal
12.proceed
13.colonel//kernel
14.misspell
15.coutesy |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 13, 2009 |
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| "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." Anne Frank |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 9, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will continue working on comprehension questions #4 of Before Women Had Wings. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 8, 2009 |
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| "Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today." James Dean |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 8, 2009 |
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1.Students will begin working on comprehension questions #4(pgs. 198-268) of Before Women Had Wings. The class will work in Computer Room A221 next Thursday and Friday, October 15th and 16th. The answers are due on or before Monday, October 19th.
2. Students should research domestic violence and child abuse before answering question #1. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 7, 2009 |
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| "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." Bishop Desmond Tutu |
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Grammar and Mechanics (homework)
Due Date: October 7, 2009 |
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1. Students will take notes on and complete an exercise on the use of the apostrophe.
2. Students will review punctuating Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences. The written exercise will be collected tomorrow, Thursday, October 8th.
3. Students will submit their sp./vocab. creative paragraphs. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 6, 2009 |
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| "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become." Buddha |
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Grammar and Mechanics
October 6, 2009 |
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1. Using the white board and written exercise, students will review correcting run-on sentences and sentence fragments.
2. Using the white board and their corrected literature comprehension exercise, students will review punctuating Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 5, 2009 |
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"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #4 (homework)
Due Date: October 5, 2009 |
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Students are to define and use no fewer than 10 of the spelling/vocabulary words in a creative paragraph that has sports as a theme.
The paragraph will be collected on Wednesday, October 7th.
Spelling/Vocabulary List #4
1.transcend
2.descend
3.ascend
4.accept
5.except
6.conscious
7.conscience
8.invincible
9.invisible
10.annihilate
11.changeable
12.competitive
13.because
14.cause
15.argument
16.appearance
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LIterature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 2, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will continue to work on the Before Women Had Wings comprehension questions. They are reminded that a handwritten rough draft will be collected with their attached typed copy. Due Monday, October 5,2009. |
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Literature and Writing
October 1, 2009 |
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| 1.Students will work on the comprehension questions for pgs. 98-152 of Before Women Had Wings. We will work in the computer room. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 30, 2009 |
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| "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln |
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Grammar and Mechanics of writing
September 30, 2009 |
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1. Students will review exercises on distinguishing between complete and incomplete sentences.
2. Students will take notes on Compound Sentences. Students will complete an exercise on identifying and punctuating Simple and Compound Sentences.
3. Students are reminded that the typed answers to pgs.98-152 of Before Women Had Wings will be collected on Monday, October 5, 2009. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: September 29, 2009 |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #3
1.Students must define and write the following words in original sentences.
1. abbreviate
2.accidentally
3.accommodate
4.adolescence
5.advertisement
6.aggravate
7.aisle, isle, I'll
8.all right
9.anecdote
10.antidote
11.brusque
12.potent
13.salvage
14.imminent
15.eminent
2.The students will submit the typed original sentences tomorrow, September 30, 2009. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 29, 2009 |
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| "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." David Henry Thoreau |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 25, 2009 |
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1. Students will take turns reading aloud Pgs. 98-152.
The answers to the comprehension questions will be collected next Friday. |
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Literature
September 24, 2009 |
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| 1. The class will discuss and take notes on Before Woman Had Wings--pgs. 61-98. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 23, 2009 |
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"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."
Anonymous |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing
September 23, 2009 |
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1.The class will correct the exercise on correctly punctuating Simple and Compound Sentences.
2.The class will review using adjectives and adverbs. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 22, 2009 |
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| "The best way out is always through." Robert Frost |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing (homework)
Due Date: September 22, 2009 |
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1. Students will identify and correct sentence fragments.
2. Students will punctuate Simple and Compound Sentences and complete an exercise for homework. |
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Summer Reading Part #2
September 21, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will complete the Summer Reading writing exercise. |
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Literature
September 18, 2009 |
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1. Students will turn in their Quote Journals and their Sp./Vocab. creative story.
2. Students will turn in the Before Women Had Wings comprehension exercise.
3. Summer Reading writing assignment. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 17, 2009 |
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Quote #9
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
Chinese Proverb |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 17, 2009 |
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1.The class will read, discuss and take notes on pgs. 68-98 of Before Women Had Wings.
2.Students will continue to work on the comprehension questions; the answers will be collected at the end of tomorrow's class. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 16, 2009 |
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Quote #8
"Everyone must row with the oars he has." English Proverb |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing
September 16, 2009 |
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1. The class will correct the homework exercise.
2. Students will work on identifying and punctuating Simple and Compound Sentences. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 15, 2009 |
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Quote #7
"A book is like a garden carried in a pocket."
Chinese Proverb |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing (homework)
Due Date: September 15, 2009 |
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1. Students will complete a review exercise on Pronoun Case and Verb Tenses.
2. Students will work on identifying and using adjectives and adverbs.
3. For homework, students will complete an exercise that reviews nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. This exercise will be corrected in class tomorrow.
4. Students are also reminded that they must be on P.98 of Before Women Had Wings by Thursday, September 17th. |
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Quote Journal
September 14, 2009 |
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Quote #6
"As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us."
Chinua Achebe |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #2 (homework)
Due Date: September 14, 2009 |
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1. Directions: Students are to define the following words and use no fewer than ten from the current list and five from last week's list in a creative story that has determination and perseverance as its theme.
The story will be collected on Friday, September 18th.
Sp./Vocab. List #2
1. laudable
2. implicit
3. explicit
4. conscientious
5. conscience
6. conscious
7. strive
8. definite
9. who's/whose
10.it's/its
11.protagonist
12.antagonist
13.pursue
14.then
15.than
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 11, 2009 |
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1. The class will read
and discuss selected portions of Before Women Had Wings (pgs. 31-98) aloud.
2. Students will type the answers to the Before Women Had Wings comprehension questions (pgs. 31-98. The assignment must be turned in on Thursday, September 17th. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 10, 2009 |
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"If a task is once begun
Never leave it til it's done.
Be the labor great or small,
Do it well or not at all."
Anonymous |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 9, 2009 |
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| "No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." William Blake |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing (homework)
Due Date: September 9, 2009 |
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1. The class will correct the noun and pronoun homework exercise.
2. Students will take notes on pronoun case and verb tenses.
3. Students will review their notes for homework.
4. Students are reminded that pages 31-98 of Before Women Had Wings must be read by Friday, September 11th. |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing (homework)
Due Date: September 8, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit the typed answers to the Before Women Had Wings comprehension questions.
2. Students are reminded that pgs. 31-98 must be read by Friday, September 11th.
3.Students will take notes and complete exercises on identifying and using nouns and pronouns.
4. Students will complete an exercise for homework.
5. Students are reminded that Monday is spelling/vocabulary day, so we will begin list #2 next Monday, September 14th. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 8, 2009 |
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| "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome." Samuel Johnson |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 4, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit their spelling/vocabulary original sentences.
2. Students will submit their Quote Journals.
3. As a class, we will begin reading Pgs. 31-98 aloud.
4. Pages 31-98 must be read by Friday, September 11th. Note that next Thursday will be a class silent reading day. |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 3, 2009 |
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1.As a class, we will discuss pages 1-31 of Before Women Had Wings.
2. Students will receive Before Women Had Wings Comprehension Exercise #1. The typed answers will be collected on Wednesday, September 9th. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 3, 2009 |
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| Quote#4--"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Joe Addison |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing
September 2, 2009 |
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1. As a class, we will finish correcting the diagnostic test of writing skills.
2. Class Lesson: Parts of Speech--identifying nouns and verbs.
3.REMINDER: Pages 1-31 of Before Women Had Wings will be discussed tomorrow. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 2, 2009 |
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| Quote #3--"To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue." proverb |
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Writing
September 1, 2009 |
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1.Students will take the diagnostic test of writing skills.
2. As a class , we will begin correcting the test to determine our starting point. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 1, 2009 |
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| Quote #2--"There is a great distance between said and done." Puerto Rican Proverb |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: August 31, 2009 |
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| Quote #1--"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." Indira Ghandi |
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Spelling/ Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: August 31, 2009 |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #1
1.wary
2.weary
3.censure
4.censor
5.council
6.counsel
7.jargon
8.feign
9.cite/sight/site
10.verge
11.there/their/they're
12.elude
13.allude
14.eerie
15.aerie
Directions: 1. Students are to define and study the sp./vocab. words for next week's sp./vocab. quiz.
2. Students are to use each of the words in original sentences that connect to the book Before Women Had Wings. More than one sp./vocab. word can be used in a sentence. The typed sentences will be collected on Friday, September 4th. |
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Review Punctuation/Usage
May 29, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit sp./vocab. creative paragraph.
2. Students will complete Mug Shot paragraphs:#83"Low-Tech Farming In a High-Tech Society" and #87"Insects Rule."
Students will submit the paragraphs at the end of the period. |
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Review Punctuation/Usage
May 28, 2009 |
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| 1.Students will complete Mug Shot sentences and paragraphs: #41 &45 and #43"Rock 'nRoll Is Here To Stay." |
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Review Sentence Types/Punctuation (homework)
Due Date: May 27, 2009 |
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1.Students will complete the exercise on Compound and Complex Sentences.
2.Students will review notes on Compound and Complex Sentences. |
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Sp./Vocab. List #7 (homework)
Due Date: May 26, 2009 |
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(funeral words)
1.bereavement
2.condolence
3.dirge
4.epitaph
5.interment
6.eulogy
7.pensive
8.cremate
9.mausoleum
10.requiem
11.obituary
12.exhume
13.sarcophagus
14.acquit
15.coffin
1.Students are to define the sp./vocab.words, use in original sentences and submit the sentences tomorrow.
2.Students are write 10 of the words in a creative paragraph using a funeral as its theme. The paragraph will be submitted on Friday, May 29, 2009. |
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Review
May 22, 2009 |
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1. Collect Sp./Vocab. creative paragraph.
2. Review areas that need further instruction. (board work) |
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Correcting Errors in Usage and Punctuation (homework)
Due Date: May 21, 2009 |
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1.Students will complete Mug Shot paragraphs:"What Makes A Mirage?"(78) and "Hard-Working Bones."(99)
2. Homework: Students will complete Mug Shot sentences:
Pgs. 60, 64 and 68.
3. Remind students to complete their Sp./Vocab. creative paragraph to be turned in tomorrow. |
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Correcting Errors in Usage and Punctuation
May 20, 2009 |
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| Students will complete Mug Shot paragraphs: "Let's Make Up,"(35) and "Staying Balanced Over The Falls,"(47). |
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Culture Day
May 19, 2009 |
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| Students will listen to Powerpoint presentations from students from Mr. Thomas' class. We will meet in C107. |
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Sp./Vocab. List #5 (homework)
Due Date: May 18, 2009 |
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1.inference
2.moral
3.morale
4.subterfuge
5.dilemma
6.exhume
7.collaborate
8.condone
9.contemplate
10.mediate
11.meditate
12.evacuate
13.vindicate
14.mobile
15.immobile
1.Define all words and use them in original sentences. Due tomorrow.
2.Use 10 of the words in a creative sentence using a theme of your choice. |
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Sp./Vocabulary Review
May 8, 2009 |
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| Students will play Sp/Vocab. Bingo to review spelling/vocabulary words. |
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Review Compound Sent. Parts
May 7, 2009 |
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| Students will complete review exercises. |
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Review Punctuation and Usage (homework)
Due Date: May 6, 2009 |
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1.Using Usage File and Daily Language Workouts books, students will complete review exercises.
2. Students will study all spelling/vocabulary lists for Sp/Vocab. Bingo (Friday's lesson) |
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Review Compound and Complex Sentences
May 5, 2009 |
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| Students will complete review in class exercises. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #4 (homework)
Due Date: May 4, 2009 |
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Students will define and use the following sp./vocab. words in original sentencs.
1.meager
2.melancholy
3.subterranean
4.thrive
5.apprehension
6.misconception
7.adequate
8.ally
9.discipline
10.celestial
11.courtesy
12.biography
13.autobiography
14.internal
15. external
Students will use no fewer than 10 words in a creative paragraph with the future as its theme. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary #3 (homework)
Due Date: May 1, 2009 |
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Students will define and use the following sp./vocab. words in original sentences.
1. admonish
2. abhor
3. euphemism
4. council/counsel
5. pandemic
6. panacea
7. coarse/course
8. credible
9. great/grate
10.imminent/eminent
11.their/they're/there
12.benevolent
13.beneficial
14.through/threw
15. thought
2. Students are to use no fewer than ten of the words in a creative paragraph with world hunger as its theme. The paragraph will be collected on Monday, May 4, 2009. |
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Review Agreement
April 30, 2009 |
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| 1. Using Usage File, students will complete oral and written exercises on subject and verb agreement and pronoun and antecedent agreement. |
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Review Agreement
April 29, 2009 |
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1.Using Usage File, students will complete oral and written exercises on subject and verb agreement.
2. Students will submit book reports. |
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Book Report (homework)
Due Date: April 28, 2009 |
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Book Report (homework)
Due Date: April 27, 2009 |
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Book Report (homework)
Due Date: April 24, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit their creative spelling/vocabulary paragraphs.
1. Students will work on their book reports in class |
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Book Report (homework)
Due Date: April 23, 2009 |
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1. Fifteen minutes will be allotted to review homework assignment.
2. Students will have the rest of the period to work on their book reports. |
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Subject and Verb Agreement (homework)
Due Date: April 22, 2009 |
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1.Students will review oral and written exercises of subject and verb agreement.
(Pgs.49-64 of Usage File)
2. Students will complete Exercise#3 on Pgs. 64 and 65 for homework. |
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Verbs (homework)
Due Date: April 21, 2009 |
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1.Students will complete oral and written verb review exercises. (Pgs. 32-40 of Usage File)
2. Students will complete #9 P.41 for homework. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary M.P.4--List #2 (homework)
Due Date: April 20, 2009 |
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1. Students will define and use the following words in original sentences. The sentences will be collected tomorrow.
2. Students will use no fewer than 10 of the words in a creative paragraph using climate change as its theme. This paragraph will be collected on Friday, April 24, 2009.
1.genocide
2.superficial
3.extinct
4.momentous
5.continuity
6.restrict
7.prediction
8.predetermine
9.irreparable
10.manipulate
11.rejuvenate
12.replenish
13.unanimous
14.global
15.terminate
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Book Report (homework)
Due Date: April 20, 2009 |
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Review of Punctuation
April 8, 2009 |
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1. Students will complete board and classroom exercises on punctuating different types of sentences.
2. Students are to bring their books tomorrow. |
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The Book Report (homework)
Due Date: April 7, 2009 |
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Students are to choose and read one of the following:
1. Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
2. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
3. A Separate Peace, John Knowles
4. Bless The Beasts & Children, Glendon Swarthout
5. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Students will bring the book in on Friday for silent reading.
Students will submit the book report on Tuesday, April 28, 2009. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary #1 M.P.#4-Homophones (homework)
Due Date: April 6, 2009 |
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1.aloud/allowed
2.board/bored
3.break/brake
4.capital/capitol
5.compliment/complement
6.colonel/kernel
7.dyeing/dying
8.forth/fourth
9.grate/great
10.holy/wholly
11.peace/piece
12.profit/prophet
13.rain/rein/reign
14.right/rite/write
15.through/threw
Students are to use each word correctly in an original sentence. The assignment will be collected tomorrow. |
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Review
April 3, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit the creative sp./vocab. story.
2. Students will work on revising work to improve grades and/or making up missed work. |
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Review
April 2, 2009 |
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| Students will be given class time to revise writing assignments for an averaged, improved grade and to make up missed work. |
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The Short Story (homework)
Due Date: April 1, 2009 |
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| Students will complete "The Gift of the Magi" writing assignment that includes no fewer than 10 spelling/vocabulary words. |
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The Short Story (homework)
Due Date: March 31, 2009 |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: March 30, 2009 |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #8
1. dubious
2. hypocritical
3. admonish
4. alleviate
5. comply
6. subterranean
7. celestial
8. wander
9. wonder
10 hazard
11.because
12.ludicrous
13.frugal
14.grovel
15.gravel
16.gavel
1. Students are to define and use each word in an original sentence; the assignment will be collected tomorrow.
2. Students will use 10 of the spelling/vocabulary words in a creative story with "governent" as its theme. This will collected on Friday, April 3, 2009. |
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The Short Story (homework)
Due Date: March 27, 2009 |
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1. Students will read "The Gift of the Magi" by O.Henry.
2. Students will complete the comprehension questions and short writing assignment will be collected on Monday, March 30, 2009.
Writing Assignment: Students will answer: Is the surprise ending of O. Henry's story a trick, or is it a logical ending? State your opinion, using evidence from the story to support your position. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: March 27, 2009 |
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| Students will submit their creative sp./vocab. paragraphs. |
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Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
March 26, 2009 |
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1. Students will review punctuation of Compound and Complex Sentences.
2. Students will complete an exercise on correcting sentences that contain comma splices and fused sentences. |
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The Apostrophe
March 25, 2009 |
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1.Students will review the apostrophe and complete a classroom exercise.
2. Students will submit the short story response paragraph. |
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The Short Story (homework)
Due Date: March 24, 2009 |
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1. Students will read "Who's There?" by Arthur C. Clarke and complete the comprehension and vocabulary exercises by the end of the period.
2. Students will complete the short writing assignment: In a paragraph, explain what must have happened inside the narrator's spacesuit. Be sure to account for all movements and sounds. Also, make sure to vary sentence beginnings and sentence types. Write to impress. This will be collected tomorrow. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary #7 (homework)
Due Date: March 23, 2009 |
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1.souvenir
2.superintendent
3.thorough
4.tragedy
5.unanimous
6.unnecessary
7.vacuum
8.villain
9.weird
10.whether/weather
11.definite
12. defiant
13.controversy
14.conscience
15. conscious
1.Students are to use each word in an original sentence and submit tomorrow.
2.Students are to use 10 words in a creative paragraph with genocide as its theme.
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Vocabulary Bingo
March 20, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit their creative sp./vocab. paragraphs.
2. Students will review sp./vocab. via Spelling/Vocabulary Bingo. |
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Daily Quotation (homework)
Due Date: March 19, 2009 |
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| "Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones." Seneca |
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Common Usage Problems (homework)
Due Date: March 19, 2009 |
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Students will take notes and complete exercises on the following:
all ready/already
all right
a lot/allot
among/between
fewer/less |
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Daily Quote (homework)
Due Date: March 18, 2009 |
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| "The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it." Michelangelo |
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Common Usage Problems (homework)
Due Date: March 18, 2009 |
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Students will take notes and complete exercises on the following:
accept/except
adapt/adopt
advice/advise
affect/effect
there/they're/their |
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Daily Quote (homework)
Due Date: March 17, 2009 |
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| "Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." Alexander Graham Bell |
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The Apostrophe
March 17, 2009 |
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| Students will complete board and class exercises on the use of the apostrophe. |
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Daily Quote (homework)
Due Date: March 16, 2009 |
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"Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want."
Jim Rohn |
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Spelling/Vocabulary #6 (homework)
Due Date: March 16, 2009 |
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1.occasion
2.omit
3.opinion
4.outrageous
5.parallel
6.particular
7.pastime
8.permanent
9.persuasive
10.physician
11.pneumonia
12.possess
13.straight/strait
14.surprise
15.temporary
Directions: 1.Define and use each word in an original sentence. Submit tomorrow. 2. Use 10 of the words in a creative paragraph that has Hamden High School as its setting. Submit Friday, March 20, 2009. |
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CAPT
March 13, 2009 |
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March 12, 2009 |
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CAPT
March 11, 2009 |
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CAPT
March 10, 2009 |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: March 9, 2009 |
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Selling/Vocablulary
March 6, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit their sp./vocab. creative paragraph.
2. The class will play Sp./Vocab. Bingo as a way to review the spelling/vocabulary words. |
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CAPT
March 5, 2009 |
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CAPT
March 4, 2009 |
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CAPT
March 3, 2009 |
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Spelling/Vocabulary Lst #5
March 2, 2009 |
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1.recognize
2.recommend
3.rehearse
4.repetition
5.schedule
6.scissors
7.similar
8.restaurant
9.sophomore
10.awkward
11.beneficial
12.business
13. career
14.changeable
15.clothes/close
1.Students are to define and write each word in an orignal sentence.
2. Students are to use 10 of the sp/vocab. words in a creative paragraph that has our economy as its theme. This paragraph will be collected on Friday, March 6, 2009.
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CAPT Review
February 27, 2009 |
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1. Collect creative spelling/vocabulary paragraph.
2. Collect quote journal.
3. Question #4-What makes something a good piece of literature?
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CAPT Review
February 26, 2009 |
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Students will work on Question #4-What makes something a good piece of literature?
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Quote Journal #15 (homework)
Due Date: February 26, 2009 |
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#15
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
Muhammad Ali |
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Book Report
February 25, 2009 |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 25, 2009 |
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#14
"In the End we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Book Report (homework)
Due Date: February 24, 2009 |
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1. Collect spelling/vocabulary sentences.
2. Silent Reading--students will work on their book reports which are due Friday, February 27th. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 24, 2009 |
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#13
"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #4 (homework)
Due Date: February 23, 2009 |
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1. lawyer
2. mathematics
3. miniature
4. mischievous
5. misspell
6. possession
7. precede
8.preparation
9.principal/principle
10. privilege
11. probably
12. procedure
13. pseudonym
14. psychology
15. really
1. Students are to use each word correctly in an original sentence. Due tomorrow. 2. Students are to use 10 of the words in a creative paragraph about a celebrity. Due Friday, February 27, 2009. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 23, 2009 |
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#12
We must become the change we want to see."
Mahatma Gandhi |
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Homework/Book Report
February 13, 2009 |
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1. Submit the spelling/vocabulary creative paragraph.
2. Submit the Daily Quote Journal.
3. Silent reading. The book report is due on or before Friday, February 27, 2009. |
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Book Report (homework)
Due Date: February 13, 2009 |
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Book choices:
Fahrenheit 451-R. Bradbury
Kindred-O.E. Butler
A Separate Peace-J. Knowles
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
Lord of the Flies-Wm. Golding
The Secret LIfe of Bees-Sue Monk Kidd |
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Daily Quote Journal
February 12, 2009 |
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| "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." Grandma Moses |
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Book Report (homework)
Due Date: February 12, 2009 |
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| Silent reading. The book report due date is on or before Friday, February 27, 2009 |
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Daily Quote Journal
February 11, 2009 |
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"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?"
Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
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CAPT Review
February 11, 2009 |
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Using the story "The Blanket," the students will complete II Developing an Interpretation. The response will include the answers to the following questions:
1. What clues and/or evidence did you use from the story to make inferences, to draw conclusions and/or to predict events?
2. Upon what in the story did you focus most intently as you read--what word, phrase, image or idea?
3. What is the most difficult word in the story?
4. What is there in the story that you have the most trouble understanding? |
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 10, 2009 |
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| "If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking." Buddhist Proverb |
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CAPT Review
February 10, 2009 |
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We will read "The Blanket" by Floyd Dell and complete I. Initial Understanding.
Our focus will include anwering the following questions: 1.Who are the main characters?
2. What are the events of the story?
3.What is your first reaction or rsponse to the story?
4.How does the title relate to the characters?
5. What memory does the story call to mind--of people, events, sights, sounds, smells and/or attitudes? |
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 9, 2009 |
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| "Things are only impossible until they are not." Jean-Luc Picard |
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Spelling/Vocabulary #3 (homework)
Due Date: February 9, 2009 |
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1. delinquent
2. desert/dessert
3. distinguish
4. hygiene
5. incorrigible
6. infinite
7. initial
8. interfere
9. knowledge
10.labyrinth
11.license
12.lieutenant
13.loneliness
14.mediocre
15.millionaire
Directions: 1.Define and use all 15 words in original sentences. I will collect the sentences
tomorrow, Tues. 2/10/2009.
2. Use no fewer than 10 of the sp./vocab. words in a creative paragraph that includes superheroes. I will collect the paragraph on Fri. 2/13/2009. |
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Book Report/Homework (homework)
Due Date: February 6, 2009 |
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1. Silent reading.
2. Students must submit their Daily Journals and their creative paragraphs. |
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 5, 2009 |
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| "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Book Report --due Fri.2/13/2009 (homework)
Due Date: February 5, 2009 |
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| Silent reading. |
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 4, 2009 |
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| "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." Thomas Jefferson |
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Midterm Exam Review
February 4, 2009 |
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Review III. Critical Stance.
We will discuss the following as a class and place all answers on the board. Students will then use the information to rewrite their answers to III.
Step outside the text: Examine the "fit" between the text and your prior knowledge/experience with the central theme. What issues are raised for you? Are you able to resolve them in your own mind? What does the text say about people in general? |
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 3, 2009 |
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| "You are what you think about all day long." Robert Schuller |
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Midterm Exam Review
February 3, 2009 |
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Review I and II--Initial Understanding and Developing an Interpretation.
Students will rewrite their answers after discussing the following questions:
I.--1.Who are the main characters?
Summarize the events of the story.
2.What is your first reaction or response to the text?
3.What memory does the text call to mind--of people, places, events, sights, sounds, smells, and/or attitudes?
II.--1.What clues and/or evidence did you use from the text to make inferences, draw conclusions, predict events?
2.Upon what in the text did you focus most intently as you read--what word, phrase, image, or idea?
3.What is the most difficult word in the text?
4.What is there in the text that you have the most trouble understanding? |
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 2, 2009 |
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| "When you are desperate for success, the forces of nature will conspire with you to succeed." Anonymous |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: February 2, 2009 |
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1.Submit all 15 words in original sentences tomorrow.
2.Use no fewer than 10 of the spelling words in a creative paragraph that focuses on values.
1.athletic
2.audience
3.conscience
4.conscientious
5.controversial
6.convenience
7.correspondence
8.counterfeit
9.courageous
10.courtesy
11.criticism
12.criticize
13.curiosity
14.curious
15.defiance |
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Midterm Review
January 29, 2009 |
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| Continue review of midterm exam. |
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Spelling/ Writing
January 29, 2009 |
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1. Collect typed creative spelling/vocabulary paragraphs.
2. Collect daily journals.
3. Students will begin silent reading for the book report that is due on Friday, February 13, 2009. |
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Daily Quote# 3
January 29, 2009 |
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| "The most proverbial weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." Ferdinand Foch |
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Midterm Exam Review
January 28, 2009 |
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| Emphasize Rubric nos.5 &6 for Response to Literature. |
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Daily Quote #2
January 28, 2009 |
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| "Good is not good where better is expected." Thomas Fuller |
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Daily Quote #1 M.P.#3
January 27, 2009 |
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"Begin with the end in mind." Stephen Carey
The directions for the daily quote are as they have been: Explain the significance of the quote. What does it remind you of people you have known or experienced? Explain. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #1 M.P.#3 (homework)
Due Date: January 27, 2009 |
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1. accidentally
2.accommodate
3.adolescence
4.aggravate
5.aisle/I'll/isle
6. all right
7.anniversary
8.anonymous
9.anxiety
10.apostrophe
11.apparent
12.appearance
13.appropriate
14.argument
15.association
Directions: 1. Define and keep definitions in your notebook.
2. Write the words in original sentences that will be collected tomorrow, Wednesday, January 28, 2009.
3. Use no fewer than ten of the sp./vocab. words in a creative paragraph that describes a significant experience or an achievement that has a special meaning to you. |
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Macbeth--Act III
December 19, 2008 |
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| Students are to continue to work on notes, so they will do well with the comprehension questions. |
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Homework to be collected
December 19, 2008 |
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1. Sp./Vocab. original sentences
2. Quote Journal |
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Quote Journal
December 18, 2008 |
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| "The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." Florence Shinn |
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Quote Journal
December 17, 2008 |
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"Be kind for every9one you meet it fighting a battle."
Plato |
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Quote Journal
December 16, 2008 |
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| You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." Abraham Lincoln |
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Sp/Vocabulary List #4 (homework)
Due Date: December 15, 2008 |
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1.transcend
2.descend
3.ascend
4.accept
5.except
6.conscious
7.conscience
8.invincible
9.annihilate
10.changeable
11.competitive
12.imminent
13.eminent
14.because
15.cause |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: December 15, 2008 |
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| "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Mahatma Gandhi |
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