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| | English 10 | | | | | Tuesday, September 9, 2008 3:48 PM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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We talked about our next two vocabulary words on the list - numbers 11 and 12. Students wrote down definitions and sample sentences in their writer's notebooks.
Following this, students took the quiz on the 18 literary and rhetorical terms from their 9th grade year that we took notes on as a class.
I announced that their first vocabulary quiz (words 1-10) will be Wednesday/Thursday, and that their homework each night this week is to read and bring their chosen book to class.
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| English 9 |
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| Monday, September 8, 2008 12:00 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| Today we accomplished two things. Students received a blank handout entitled "My Personal Spelling List" that they trimmed and pasted into their English notebooks. Each student then began recording some of the words he/she always struggl |
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| English 9 |
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| Thursday, September 4, 2008 12:00 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| Today and tomorrow, students watched the film Akeelah and the Bee. Students kept track of two things during the film - the struggles Akeelah faced, and how she faced those struggles. Students kept a running list of each. Following the movie - stud |
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| English 9 |
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| Wednesday, September 3, 2008 12:00 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| Our class went to the library for a period of library orientation. Ms. Faith, our librarian, gave students useful information about the library, and then sent them on a scavenger hunt to discover lots of other things they need to know about what's av |
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| English 10 |
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| Wednesday, September 3, 2008 12:00 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| Students brought with them to class today the book they each chose to read for September. Based upon their book choices, they set up "book groups" and decided upon how many pages they'd read as a group by each of our three book group dates |
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| English 10 |
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| Tuesday, September 2, 2008 7:30 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| This morning we looked back over the literary and rhetorical terms we defined together last week, and added a few new terms to our notes (connotation, denotation, etc.). We also looked at our new vocabulary list, and defined the first terms. We came |
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| English 9 |
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| Tuesday, September 2, 2008 12:00 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| This afternoon we reviewed how our initial experiences with the Fast ForWord software went. I reminded students of the purpose of the program, as well as how the program develops reading abilities. Students then participated in their second day usi |
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| English 9 |
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| Friday, August 29, 2008 1:48 PM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| Today in English we successfully logged into our computer software, Fast ForWord. Students took the introductory reading test, and then tested themselves on the phonemic awareness, memory, and directions "games." |
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| English 10 |
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| Friday, August 29, 2008 10:40 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| Students listened to me do "booktalks" on the 5 books they have to choose from for a first quarter book: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Narrative |
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| Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:59 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| Today students searched through Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities for words to use in our vocabulary list this semester. They chose words that they had limited familiarity with and that were in contemporary use, screening out for antiquated word |
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| Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:00 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| Today students searched through Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities for words to use in our vocabulary list this semester. They chose words that they had limited familiarity with and that were in contemporary use, screening out for antiquated word |
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| English 10 |
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| Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:17 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| We took notes on several literary and rhetorical terms, using them to more clearly articulate student opinions on last year's required reading of A Tale of Two Cities. The notes were on the following terms: dialogue, description, diction, syntax, ci |
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| English 10 |
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| Monday, August 25, 2008 9:28 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| This morning we reviewed the procedures for fire drills and lockdowns in this classroom, and went over the expectations for using the MLA heading. We also discussed avoiding using descriptive words like "retarded" and "gay" as pe |
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| English 9 |
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| Monday, August 25, 2008 12:00 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| This afternoon students finished taking their SRI lexile reading test. We then began learning background information about how the brain can benefit from one of our computer software programs, Fast ForWord. We studied and took notes on the brain - |
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| English 9 |
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| Friday, August 22, 2008 1:46 PM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| This afternoon students began taking a lexile test. This tests their reading level by determining their proficiency with vocabulary and complex sentence structures. Then Ms. Kennedy, our counselor, and Ms. Fleischman, our principal, visited our cla |
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| English 10 |
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| Friday, August 22, 2008 10:25 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| This morning we again reviewed class procedures. I also passed out the packet of information for the SWS Retreat. Signed forms and the fee is due by Thursday, 8/28. Students may not sign up for cabins until they submit the form and fee. In the spi |
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| English 9 |
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| Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:17 PM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| Students who only had this class once yesterday took notes on the two theories of intelligence: entity theory and incremental theory. Our class will follow the incremental philosophy/theory which states that the harder you work the smarter you get. |
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| English 10 |
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| Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:28 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| This morning we read the quote of the day, a line by e.e. cummings: "The hardest battle is to be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else." We reviewed the class procedures we le |
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| English 9 |
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| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 1:19 PM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| Today was our first day of school! We introduced ourselves and read the quote of the day, a Chinese proverb: "Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed." Students have the opportunity to "start over" |
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| English 10 |
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| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:36 AM -0800 | By: Julie Barry |
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| Our first day! This morning we calculated that we only spend about 3% of our day in English class. Because that is such a small amount of time, I expect students to be on task throughout the entire class every day. I informed students of our proce |
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