November 5, 2009

9th

1.  Finished movie/book Count of Monte Cristo

2.  completed question sheet

3.  took spelling quiz

4.  went over Pigman vocab words

TEST for The Pigman has been moved to Monday

11th

1.  Read story "Outcasts of Poker Flat"

2.  students entered vocab and completed questions at end

worked on make-up work

Honors section did not meet---early dismissal for conferences

November 4, 2009

9th

1.  watched movie, Count of Monte Cristo

spelling test tomorrow

11th

1.  watched movie clip for "Story of a Conscience" by Ambrose Bierce

2.  students wrote summary paragraph of movie clip

3.  Read "My Bondage, My Freedom"

4.  students entered vocab and answered questions at end of story

November 3, 2009

9th

1.  finish novel The Pigman

      --vocab

      --final chapters

      --study questions

2.  computer lab to work on presentation of "new sport"

Test Thursday on Pigman and spelling

11th

1.  read "Episode of War"...entered vocab p. 475...answered multiple choice questions

2.  watched short film version of Ambrose Bierce Civil War story

3.  time for make-up work

November 2, 2009

9th

1.  grammar--run-ons text 509-512, workbook activity for grade

2.  new writing topic---developing a new sport

3.  read chapter 11 aloud; assigned 12

4.  students received spelling sheets; quiz Thursday

11th

1.  quiz on poetry terms

2.  history background sheet for upcoming Civil War unit

3.  time to work on history project--projects due at beginning of block tomorrow

October 30, 2009

9th

1.  spelling quiz 10

2.  Grammar--fragments--did board work from text--completed workbook page for grade

3.  new vocab list for novel--these words will be on novel test (probably Thursday)

4.  Read chapter nine aloud--assigned ten (The Pigman)

11th

1.  computer lab--QUIA games for poetry review--quiz Monday

2.  worked on poetry project (due Tuesday)

Honors also took SAT word quiz

October 29, 2009

9th

1.  took quiz on first set of novel vocab

2.  took quiz on sentence combining

3.  introduced fragment unit--students completed a workbook page

4.  read chapter 7 aloud of novel, The Pigman----assigned chapter 8

spelling quiz tomorrow

11th

1.  computer lab--quia games to review poetry terms

2.  began working on poetry project

(honors has an SAT quiz tomorrow)

October 28, 2009

9th

1.  went over grammar exercise 10 from yesterday

2.  grammar page 498 together

3.  went over vocab for The Pigman novel

4.  read chapters 5/6 of The Pigman

5.  assigned study questions for above chapters

HW---study vocab for tomorrow's quiz

11th

1.  finished movie, The Lottery

2.  took quiz on movie

3.  went over poems on transparencies for bonus points

4.  went over imagist poetry pages 734-738 and completed workbook page 180

Quiz Monday on poetry vocab

October 27, 2009

I am actually out today, but here is what was left with my substitute.

9th

1.  unit test

2.  grammar exercise on sentence combining

3.  read novel chapters 3 and 4

4.  If finished, work on novel vocab and spelling lesson 10 sheet

Quiz Thursday on novel vocab...quiz Friday on spelling

11th

Both classes will watch the DVD version of the classic short story, The Lottery.  They will have a quiz tomorrow.  Honors also copied their new SAT word list--quiz Friday

October 26, 2009

9th

1.  received new spelling sheet

2.  worked on sentence combining

3.  novel vocab for The Pigman

4.  Read chapters one and two of The Pigman

11th

1.  received vocabulary list for poetry unit--began defining

2.  went over 2 poems together for rhyme, meter, meaning, and devices

3.  students worked in pairs to answer questions for four poems

Honors section had to take their test on Night...we were unable to do this as planned last Friday because of student absences.