Tuesday, April 27, 2010

This Week: April 26-30

Monday, April 26:
English 7: Poem in Your Pocket Project Research—students have chosen a poem for this project. Students will research their poets in class. Anyone who is absent for research will need to make this up at home or in the library during Directed Studies!
Pre-AP: Tom Sawyer—hand out test grades and Tom Sawyer Notebooks. Begin new vocabulary.

Tuesday, April 27:
English 7: Work on Poem in your Pocket Paper
Pre-AP: Read Tom Sawyer, Chapters 17-19 in class (No Homework)

Wednesday, April 28:
English 7: Complete Poem in Your Pocket Project
Pre-AP: Tom Sawyer—add vocabulary; read Chapters 20-21

Thursday, April 29:
English 7: Poem in Your Pocket Day! Projects DUE!
(Pre-AP will celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day when we are finished with Tom Sawyer.)
Pre-AP: Tom Sawyer Reading Quiz

Friday, April 30:
Social Studies Field Trip for part of Team 4.
Poetry Vocabulary Game
Pre-AP: Tom Sawyer Art Activity

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

This Week: April 19-22

Monday, April 19:
Pre-AP: Tom Sawyer- add to vocabulary and literary terms, read Chapters 12-13; Homework- Read Chapter 14
English 7: TP-CASTT Poetry Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

Tuesday, April 20:
Pre-AP: Tom Sawyer Reading Quiz (Chapters 7-13); Vocabulary Word ART
English 7: TP-CASTT Poetry Analysis of “Ozymandias” in Groups

Wednesday, April 21:
Pre-AP: Share word ART; Add to Lit Terms and Vocabulary—Read Chapter 15 in Class; Homework—Review Vocabulary and Literary Terms
English 7: Finish Group TPCASTT; read poems and find examples of poetry vocabulary in poems (alliteration; assonance, consonance)

Thursday, April 22:
Pre-AP: Review for Tom Sawyer Literary Terms and Vocabulary Test
English 7: Examples of Poetry types and Poetry vocabulary

Friday, April 22:
Pre-AP: Tom Sawyer Literary Terms and Vocabulary Test; Notebooks will be taken up
English 7: Begin Poem in your Pocket Project; choose poems

Thursday, April 1, 2010

This Week: March 29-April 1

Monday, March 29:
Open Notes Test on Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences
Get plenty of rest and eat a healthy breakfast!

Tuesday and Wednesday, March 30-31:
SAT Testing

Thursday, April 1:
Descriptive Writing
No Homework

Friday, April 2:
Descriptive Writing Practice
Pre-AP will begin reading Tom Sawyer next week! I will provide the books.