Sunday, September 23, 2007

September 24-28, 2007

IN-CLASS ASSIGNMENTS AND CLASS UPDATES TRUMP PUBLISHED BLOGS


Monday
1. Test on Words 21-30 (Words High School Students Should Know)
2. Textbook Weekly Schedule: Anthology M-T; Vocabulary W; Bedford Reader Th-F
3. Level “F” Vocabulary Unit Two answers due in class today
4. Grammar “Pronouns” due in class today
5. Vantage Lab scheduled for September 26
6. Bedford Reader “The Death of the Moth” answers due Thursday
7. Cornell Notes for AP Test Two (to be scheduled): Twelve types of sentences, AP Exam Format; Writers’ Attitudes; Levels of Questioning; Woolf Tone, Syntax, and Diction; Conjunctive Adverbs and Transitional Phrases
8. Plymouth-Offer-Sinners Multiple-Choice Exam in class
9. Woolf tailored rubric provided for student rewrites; rewrites due Friday

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. AP Rhetorical Tool: Balanced, Interrupted, Periodic and Loose Sentences
2. 100 Words High School Students Should Know: Words 31-40 assigned
3. Cornell Notes (see #7 from Monday) continued in class today
4. Vocabulary Unit Two Level “F” Examination
5. AP Prose Passage Multiple Choice Practice in class
6. Bedford Reader Terms 1-10 Test on Thursday (P. 1 only)
7. Great Gatsby books assigned to students; homework assignment due Friday

Wednesday

1. Tone-“Dear Ms. Manners” homework assignment
2. Levels of Questioning and SOAPS Strategies; Cornell Notes continued
3. Level “F” Unit Three assigned in class; vocabulary books due in class
4. Richard Rodriguez “Hunger of Memory” in class timed essay tomorrow
5. Grammar assigned as homework
6. MEET IN VANTAGE LAB TODAY

Thursday
1. Richard Rodriguez “Hunger of Memory” in class timed essay; fifty-point score
2. Bedford Reader Literary Terms Test (Terms 1-10) for P. 1 only
3. Bedford Reader in-class assignment; “The Death of the Moth” (695) due today
4. Bedford Reader Terms 11-20 introduced in class today
5. Consultative Writing Assignment—Los Angeles Times editorial columnist

Friday

1. Weekend homework to be announced
2. AP Prose Passage Multiple Choice Practice (timed)
3. Bedford Reader Literary Terms 11-20 Test on Monday in class