Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Foster Unit

We are finally on our way with Foster!

Copies of the following documents may be found in the Handouts section of the blog:

  • Unit Reading Schedule
  • Instructions for Personal and Class Notes
  • Study Guide Contribution Schedule

Students have been emailed invitations to the following Google Docs:

  • Study Guides for the first three chapters we are covering
  • Quest chapter assignment
  • Group assignments

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Unit 2 Vocab Homework and Quiz

The Completing the Sentence, Antonyms, and Synonyms exercises for Unit 2 of the Vocabulary Workshop are due on:

Block C: Tuesday, Sept. 28
Blocks B and G: Wednesday, Sept. 29
Block F: Thursday, Sept. 30

The Vocabulary Quiz for Unit 2 will occur on:

Blocks B, C and G: Thursday, Sept. 30
Block F: Friday, Oct. 1

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Writing Workshop

Students: You must review your essay and highlight 3 sentences that you are willing to share and work on during an in-class writing workshop. The sentences should be ones that you have questions about, or that you are unsure of how to correct or refine. You must also bring in a red pen (listed as one of the required course materials).

Blocks G, B and C: Wednesday, Sept, 22.

Block F: Friday, Sept. 24.

Check Your Grades!

The Gradebook for all blocks is up and running, and may be accessed by clicking the link at the top of the right-hand column of the blog. Grades are organized first by class block and then by student ID number.

Students are responsible for keeping track of both their confidential ID number and their grades. Student ID numbers have been distributed along with feedback on the summer reading essays.

A few notes:

1)  Incomplete work will be marked with a zero. Work missing due to extenuating circumstances will be marked with a blank cell. Blank cells are automatically counted as zeros until filled. This will be reflected in the Total Points column of the Gradebook. Please speak with me privately before or after class - or via email - if you have any questions.

2) All students must check the Parent Email column in the Gradebook. If you have a zero for this assignment, then I do not have your email address. Without your email address, I cannot give you access to the Google Doc that we will be using to complete the first assignment for the Foster unit, for which you will then not be able to receive credit. If you have a zero in the Parent Email column of the Gradebook, you must immediately email me from a Google Doc enabled address to avoid further penalties. My email address can be found in the header of the Course Syllabus (which you should have in hard copy, but is also available in the Handouts section of the blog).

Monday, September 20, 2010

TED Film Response

In class, we watched author Chimamanda Adichie speak on "The Danger of the Single Story". You may view - or rewatch - the film by clicking on the title to this post.

Your response to the film - which should be between two paragraphs and two pages in length - will be checked on:

Blocks B, C and G: Tuesday, Sept. 21
Block F: Wednesday, Sept. 22