Saturday, November 14, 2009

STUDYPATH* November 16-20, 2009

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Vocabulary Workshop Unit Five test is scheduled for Tuesday in class. Unit Six answers are due on Thursday and the next unit test will be scheduled.

An on-demand writing assignment is scheduled for Thursday. The prompt will be distributed the day before so students may read the prompt and the passages ahead of the in-class essay due at the end of the period Thursday.

Both AP classes are scheduled to complete either diction or detail assignments, which will be due at the end of the week.

A reading and writing assignment from Language of Composition has been made and is due on Tuesday. The selection is "A Modest Proposal," an essay by Jonathan Swift.

The third period AP class has a letter to the editor also due on Tuesday as students respond to a Los Angeles Times editorial.

A grammar assignment is scheduled for Wednesday when textbooks are due in class.

Bring Bedford Reader to class on Monday and Tuesday when the next reading selections will be assigned. Literary terms from this textbook will also be reviewed and the next test scheduled.

The Great Gatsby
novels have been distributed and writing assignments of five talking points per chapters for Chapters One-Three are due Friday, when the class will participate in a class discussion.