Week of 25-29 January 2010

Monday:

We worked on 1-3 of week 10 DOL.
We went over our vocabulary worksheet from the weekend in preparation for tomorrow's vocabulary quiz.

We completed our prep assignment for writing our 2 poems on the individual and the collective from Anthem.

Homework tonight is to study for the unit 8D vocabulary quiz.

Tuesday:
We went to the computer lab today and typed up our two paragraphs about the individual and the collective.  The paragraphs were turned in and we began our work on our graphic organizer for our paragraph on what is lost when we allow others to think for us.  Our graphic should be completed for homeowrk.

Wednesday:
We worked on writing on paragraphs based on our graphic.  We printed and the paragraphs and turned them in. 

Thursday:
If our graphic was complete, we could use a laptop computer to begin typing our paragraphs.  If we did not have the graphic finished, we had to finish it and then begin typing at home.

Friday:
We turned in our draft paragaphs and began a portfolio reflection.  We were asked to go through our assessment portfolios and evaluate our progress during the first semester; this progress involved reading, writing, and setting goals for success in the second semester.

Tuesday, January 19 Through Friday, January 22

Winterfest Week!!!
Tuesday:
Our first task was the DOL quiz.

After taking the quiz, we listened and recorded unit 8E definitions.

We dicussed our weekend reading and made some additions to our t-chart.

Homework is to read chatper 9-10 of Anthem and to begin working on learning unit 8E vocabulary.

Wednesday:
We recorded our synonyms/antonyms for unit 8E.
We went over the DOL quiz from yesterday marking errors that might have been overlooked.
We discussed chapters 9-10 (the class did a A/B person sharing of a recorded quote on the t-chart).
We looked at these chapters to see how Equality is beginning to questions what he has been told and good and evil, the collective and the individual.

HW: Vocabulary, Choosing the Right Word, Handout

Thursday, January 21st

We finished reading Anthem Today - Let's celebrate individual freedom!!

We turned in our vocabulary homework and completed pages 94-95 from the vocabulary workbook.

HW: Tonight we are working on finishing up our quote sheet with and demonstrating that we understand Rand's message.

Friday, January 15

We completed our DOL exercises for week 9.  The quiz on this section is on Tuesday.  Everyone should be studying.

We discussed chatper 2 of Anthem, and read additional chatpers.  Remember to keep you collective versus the individual chart up-to-date.

Homework for this night is to read through chatper 8.

Thursday, January 14th

Worked on DOL, 7-8.  (Remember that we have the quiz on Tuesday.)

We continued our discussion of Anthem and how Rand focuses on what is lost when a society focuses on the collective rather than the individual.

The homework and chart are for chapter 2.

Wednesday, 13 January

We completed items 4-6 on the DOL, Week 9, exercise.

We discussed our reading of Anthem.  The homeworking and T-chart should include page 46.

Tuesday, 11 January

We began the day with our unit 7 Vocabulary Quiz.

We finished our paragraph on "Harrison Bergeron," so everyone should have a complete model paragraph to use the first time they have to write this semester.

Avery was absent - Be sure to get the rest of the paragraph.

Homework is to review the DOL grammar skills for this week.  The DOL quiz is Tuesday, 18 January.

We will begin reading Anthem tomorrow. 

Monday, January 11th, 2009

Today we began working on DOL, Week 9.  Our DOL quiz on these grammar concepts will be on Tuesday, January 19th.

We completed sentences 1-3 on the DOL sheet.

We also worked on our collective paragraph using Friday's topic sentence.  We were able to pick out our evidence to support our topic sentence and we completed part of the paragraph.  We will finish this up tomorrow.

Study for your vocabulary quiz tonight.  Remember to use the vocabulary site for practice quizzes.