Wednesday (Don't worry, we existed the past few days, we just forgot to update the blog. Whoopsiedoodle!)

• 1st/4th hour: Reviewed Amy Tan reading; video.
• 3rd hour: Grammar Review; Grammar Test tomorrow. Study!

Thursdays

• Amy Tan Close Reader questions in 1st/Finished reading Amy Tan in 4th
• In 3rd, edited papers

Twoozdae!

• 1st/4th Hour: Grammar Test
• 3rd Hour: Indirect/Direct Object Notes/Vocab Exercise 3

Two weeks until break!

• 1st and 4th hour:

- Vocab A/B
- Grammar in Packets: Exercises 23/24/28/30/32
Homework: Finish that ^

more of the same... but fun!

1st and 4th:

• last 3 vocab 
• object complement
• subject complements -- PN & PA
• p. 36 & 38
• ex. 1 on each, all

necessary but not fun?

1st, 4th:

• 3 vocab words
• notes on DOs -- work in books
• notes on IOs -- work in books
• hw:  pgs: 32 & 34; ex 1 all in each

3rd:

• Speeches continue
• Catch up to 12 vocab words

SAT-- looming in the dark abyss

1st, 4th

• 'review and check hw
• next 3 vocab words
• SAT 12-22 Drill 1 practice
• HW:  18.1 SECTION REVIEW in packet:  ex 5-6, all

3rd

• speeches
• SAT 12-22 Drill 1 practice

looks like Gramma'Hamma is back! (unless you're 3rd hr)

1st and 4th:

• check hw
• review next 3 vocab words
• notes on subject and predicate, fragments and run ons
• hw:  ex. 1, all p 26; ex. 1-2 odds, p. 28

3rd: 

• watch presentations
• check homework

3 weeks to Christmas Break!

• Vocab 3 words Unit Four
• Complete Subjects and Predicates

Homework: Exercise One Odds/Exercise Two: 1, 4, 8, 10 in the homework packet

Thanksgiving is so close

• Work day for Papers (due tomorrow at 2:35 pm)!

Guess what day it is!

• Speech requirements found on the bottom of the schedule on Piglet!

Tuesday

• LMC East for work

It's Friday!

• Work on Topic Sentences/Body Paragraphs 1

Homework: Body Paragraph One printed out for Monday for editing!

Storm of the Century!

• Library for Research and work on Annie Bibby

Homework: Annotated Bib due tomorrow at end of day!

Happy Armistice Day!

• Skeleton Outline
• Work time to work on sources

Homework: Annotated Bibliography due at the end of the day Friday!!

Omg it's almost 11/11

• LMC E for work on Research Paper

What should I be doing?
1. Directed Research: Reading with purpose: BP1? BP2? BP3?
2. Annotated Bibliography Work:
- MLA Citation
- Summary Paragraph (3 sentences)
- Evaluation Paragraph (3 sentences)
3. All 5 Resources

New Monday New Week

• 3rd hour finished Vocab
• Annotated Bibliography notes/reading/working on Annotated Bib.

Rollin' with it now!

• Vocab Review
• Go over Annotated Bibliographies!

Homework: Read article Designer Babies that was handed out and annotate it.
Finish Vocabulary -Test tomorrow!

Commit!

• Vocab B & (D 1st  & 4th hr only)
• Review SIRS  and discerning research
• Go to LMC to commit

Research it!

• Vocab -- lesson 3 review words, finish #A
• Review Research directions
• Choose 2 options to research for tomorrow

Testing on Mondays

• FRANKENTEST 2015

FullMoonFriday

• Timed writing -- lit analysis style -- chapters 17-end focus
• study for test on Monday
• study vocab words

TEST MONDAY for Frankie -- whole book, no open notes

It's raining. again. Thanks Thursday.

• Quiz over 23/24
• John Green Frankenstein video on Youtube: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyyrwoCec1k

• Jeopardy Review

YAY IT'S RASMUSSEN'S BIRTHDAY!

• Due to it being GVSU day and that we have 15 of 33 students in 1st hour, today will be spent working on Vocab and finishing the novel. Test is next Monday!

Sure Tuesday is a thing too

• READING DAY AND I GUESS WE STARTED VOCAB

Case of the Mondays!

• Quiz over Chapters 20-21
• Letters to Victor and the creature

Homework: Chapter 22

Rasmussen's Friday (sorry guys)

• Writing Workshop to form papers, look for quotes, and type
• Catch up on reading

Homework: Finish Analysis Paragraph Two and Chapter 17 in Frankenstein

Wednesday (and it's almost 70 out!)

• Go over homework sheet of elements in Gothic and Romanticism in Frankenstein
• Review Analysis Paragraph #1
• Analysis Paragraph #2

Homework: Work on Analysis Paragraph (Due Friday at the end of the day, typed!!)

Got the class going up (again) on a Tuesday

• Quiz over Chapter 15
• Elements in Frankenstein (Ch. 11-15) presentations/Circle discussion

Homework: Ch. 16/Find 'Mystery and Suspense' and write 3 sentences of analysis for the quote you identify.

Post Homecoming Blues (on a Monday)

• Quiz over Chapters 11-14
• Summarize the hovel that creature lives in.
• Elements on Gothic and Romanticism found in Chapters 11-14. Presentations tomorrow.

Homework: Chapter 15

Chilly Tuesday

• Finish Conjunction notes (Conjunctive Adverbs)
• Did Exercise 1 and 2 on p. 18 in class
• SHR Interjections
• Discuss Analysis Paragraph

Homework: Analysis Paragraph due at the end of the day on Thursday, October 15th

Back to Monday

• Quiz over Ch. 9/10
• Conjunctions Notes (and Youtube for SHR)
• Begin Analysis Paragraph -handout glued on pg. 13/14 of Frankenbooklets

Homework:
As it is Homecoming Week, reading will be spread out through next week.
Read Ch. 11-14 by next Monday, October 19th
Analysis Paragraph due Thursday
Ch. 17 Grammar Test on Thursday

IT'S FINALLY FRIDAY YAY

• Vocab Test
• Reading Time

Homework: Chapter Ten in Frankenstein

Thursday (almost as good as Friday!)

• Quiz over Chapter Eight
• Open discussion on Frankenstein Themes (responsibility)
• Go over Prepositions Homework

Homework: Chapter Nine/Vocab Test tomorrow!

Sunny Wednesday!

• Vocab Exercise (Use 10 different vocab words in a cohesive story)
• Notes on Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases (Exercise Two in workbook)
• Frankenstein Ch. 6+7 summaries (Fill in the blanks)

Homework: Prep Phrases p. 16 Exercises 1+2
                    Ch. 8 in Frankenstein -QUIZ TOMORROW!

Gloomy Tuesday

• Adverb Notes/Exercise One on page 13 in class
• Discuss Frankenstein Chapter 5 (act out as well!)
• Vocab Exercises B+D

Homework: Exercise One on p. 14 for Adverbs
                    Frankenstein Chapter 8 by Thursday
                    4th hour: Vocab Exercises

Mon-yuck-day

• Vocabulary Exercise A
• Watched Chapter Five "It's Alive" movie clips
• Frankenbooklet Differences between book/1931 film/1994 film

Homework: Read Ch. 6+7 summary/4th hour: Exercise A in Vocabulary

Friday

• Frankenstein comic quiz ch 1-4, may do in pairs  hw if not finished
• last 3 vocab words

Thursdays: Yesterday's tomorrow

• Vocabulary (Three Words):

1. Opulent
2. Patrician
3. Phlegmatic

• Finish Adjectives (Exercise One p. 12)
• Discuss Frankenstein Chapter Three

Homework: Frankenstein Chapter Four/Finish Adjective exercise/Verbs Ex. 16, 17, 18

Guess what day it is!

Today, due to issues with the assembly, we didn't cover a ton.

• Vocabulary (Three Words):

1. Interpose
2. Maraud
3. Modicum

• Adjective Notes (not in 4th hour)
• Frankenstein Chapter Three discussion

Homework: Chapter Four for Frankenstein due Friday/Exercise One p. 12

Tuesdays are better.

• Quiz over Chapter Two
• Notes on Frankenstein
• Reading Tips
• Frankenstein Guiding Questions
• Vocab (Three Words):

1. Comport
2. Disconcert
3. Fauna

Homework: Chapter Three

Monday. Still.

• Quiz over Chapter One/Short discussion
• Finish Verb Phrase Notes/Exercise One in workbooks
• Vocabulary (Three Words):

1. Accoutrements
2. Aggrieved
3. Choleric

Homework: Read Chapter Two; probably maybe have a quiz tomorrow!

Fri-quiz-day

• Vocab 1 test
• Letter 4 quote theme quiz
• intro chapter 1
• hw:  chapter 1 read and understand

3rd hr changes:
no quiz on letter 4.  Everything else the same

Traversing the North Pole

• Vocab Review -Test tomorrow!
• Transitive/Intransitive Verbs
• Discussed Frankenstein

Homework: Letters 3+4; please give a one sentence summary and match a theme up; written in your Frankenbooklets.

We are ^ on this side of the hump finally!

• Verbs: Action/Linking
• Vocab Exercises B/C/D
• Started Frankenstein

Homework: Read Letters 1 and 2 from Frankenstein

Got the class goin' up..on a Tuesday

Timed Writing all day!

Bonus Jonas Homework: Read author's introduction/7-10 bullet points on p. 4

Less Mondays, please.

• Vocab. Exercise #1
• Check Frankenbooks
• Introduction on Mary Shelley/Frankenstein (Notes)

Friiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiday!

Last 3 words of Lesson 1, learned incrementally this week:

• reiterate
• subterfuge
• vacillate

Finish Frankenbooklet

P4:  Mary Shelley notes:  5 facts

hw if didn't finish; CAN find info on interwebbbbbbbb

It's Thursday, my dudes.

• Three Vocabulary Words:

1. Mortify
2. Periphery
3. Raconteur

• Frankenbooklets

Homework: None!

Hump Day!

• Three Vocabulary Words:

1. Imperturbable
2. Increment
3. Levity

• Corrected Homework
• Started SAT Prep

No homework :D

It's Tuesday. yay.

• Finished pronouns
• Vocab:

1. Expedient
2. Exude
3. Gesticulate

• Homework: Exercises 2, 7, and 8!

We got a case of the Mondays

• Pronouns notes through 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person.
• Vocabulary words, definitions, and word clues for:

1. Apocryphal
2. Arcane
3. Convene

Homework: Pronouns: Exercise 1, odd numbers

TGIF

collect Noun hw
puzzle pieces
PreTest for Fall 2015

At the Trident

Nouns
Social Contract Puzzles
Homework: Exercise One from the handout, odd numbers
(1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15)

Two is Better Than One!

* Collected syllabus
* Got Frankenstein from the depository
   (reading starts next week)
* Handed out grammar booklets
* "Whatcha got there?!"
Homework: None!

Songs of Innocence

Day 1!
Syllabus review
Nicknames -- choose, create tents

HW: Get syllabus signed

vocab and caesar

vocab 7 test
Caesar Act III funeral speeches -- Fill out p 8 in booklet as homework

Vocab, Caesar and such

Vocab E -- Test Friday!
Quiz Act II JC
Get quotes for Act III

JC Act II

Vocab B week 7
Act II, quotes, chrono review, comic, watch 12 min.

hw: study vocab words for Friday test

Julius Caesar Act I Sc 1-2

review with Comic
watch 2 versions ~ 14 min of each; which better?

Julius Caesar!

1st and 2nd: acting -- tone activity
get ACT I quotes

4th:
get ACT I quotes
read cartoon Act I, scene 1-2
Watch 2 versions

no homework!

Red Red Rose!

turn in hw for grammar
Vocab #D, test Friday
Robert Burns == recap facts
re-read "Red Red Rose" -- ex credit opp to memorize by Friday and present in front of class
Read and begin analyzing "To a Mouse"

Epigram slam

practice vocab -- 6 more words

appositives: note, practice
p 44 ex 1, ex 2 odds

extra credit if you respond to this post!

resume review

review resume info -- plan week
everything due Friday by 11:59 PM
resume; letter of application; email; voicemail

change seats!

1-2:
judged bad resumes
reviewed resume requirements

4th:
Evil articles -- read one together; one as homework; personal journal response

Collect paragraphs/ ACT prep LAST TIME!

collect papers

Brain gymnastics -- writing prompt 10 min. list and intro
reading test -- review question stems and try first chunk -- prose fiction

Thursday and Friday

Work on LotF paragraphs - 2 - DUE MONDAY beginning of class

actstudent.org -- practice! No victims!

2 hr delay -- fast class

correct ACT English test

pick 10 to correct -- finish tomorrow.

discuss end of novel tomo; begin writing

In my absence Thursday

ACT practice English test
HW: read end of the novel for Monday

lots of different stuffs...

Either:
finish paragraph that was ACTUALLY HOMEWORK
Correct ACT test
Read ch 11
all of the above

Monday -Tuesday

Mon:
Quiz ch 9; discuss, read 10 for Tues.

Tues:
Write lit analysis paragraph 2: one theme, 2 quotes, from ch 8-10, due Wed.
Read 11 for Thursday

Timed Writing 2

Timed writing 2 -- ACT practice

Reading time -- finish chapter 9 by Monday

ch 8 darkness

Take quiz ch 8
Discuss the darkness
ACT example papers
Read 9 for Monday
Timed writing tomo

Tuesday and Wednesday

Tues:
Chapter 7 extension -- paragraph due Wed.
1-2 hrs, bubbles

Wed.
ACT writing notes, first writing returned

Friday!

Choice of acting or finding quotes for chapter 5-6
Present.
Read ch 7 for the weekend

reading day!

Read 5-6 for tomorrow.

quiz 4

quiz 4
2 quotes for themes (6 total) for 2-4
read 5-6

Shovel that snow!

wrap up disaster!
finish 2-3 quiz
read 4 take 4 quiz no notes or finish tomo

All things thru 4 wrapped up by tomo.

Does anyone EVER read this ??? Nope... crickets. Respond for extra credit point, or five.

after the snodaze

Quiz 2-3 if ready -- if not, read it now.
Adjust schedule -- chapter 4 for Tuesday now.

Lord of the Flies prep

Prepare Lord Flies booklets
Read chapter 1 for Wed. quiz!

2nd semester! day 1-3

Tuesday:
review DO/IO, learn Objective Complements, PN, PA

Wed:
Review ch 18 for test tomo
hw: review sheet

Thurs:
Test on 18 grmmmar and ACT English practice
no hw