First Day of English 10HP 0sseo Senior High

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Welcome to OSH

I am so excited you are here! In my English 10 HP class, students arrive from four junior highs (Osseo, Maple Grove, Northview, and a pocket from Brooklyn Jr.), private and charter schools, transfers from other districts, home schools, and from both honors and regular classes. Wherever you were last year, you are welcome and you belong. You will do great work this year!Plan on reading an independent novel off the list of 101 Books (250 pages minimum) by the end of the trimester.
I look forward to getting to know all of you.Welcome Orioles. Buy your orange and black wardrobe now! School spirit is fantastic!

Final Test on Pride and Prejudice - 90 points

1. Final test today

2. Major Works sheet due Wednesday

3. Pick up a copy of the Objective AP test - read the passage for tomorrow.

4. Claim, Evidence, Warrant Outline on the AP Essay Test

Last week of School!

1. Last week of school!
2. Lab 313 today for Letter to next year’s students
3. Return books when finished
4. Final Test Tuesday on Pride and Prejudice – 90 points Study
5. On Wednesday practice AP Objective Test
6. Thursday – class for 33 minutes
Dismissal at 11:15
7. Theme packet due Monday
8. Major Works packet due Wednesday

Quiz and last Powerpoint

1. Quiz 43-61
2. Powerpoint 55-61
3. Theme packet due Monday - worked in groups today
4. Letter to next year's students due typed on Monday
5. Pride and Prejudice Final Test on Tuesday
6. Major Works packet due on Wednesday
7. yellow passes were collected for extra credit

Finish novel and prepare for last quiz

· Finish reading Pride and Prejudice
· Two worksheets due
· Hours 3,4 finish movie
· Last Quiz on Friday
· Last Powerpoint on Friday

Powerpoints plus worksheets

1. Elizabeth Takes a Closer Look at Her Family due in basket today
2. Powerpoint 49-54
3. New Hopes: Dashed Hopes due tomorrow
4. Read Chap 57-58
5. Congratulation for published Calliope writers

Finish reading the novel

1. Read Chap 55-56
2. Quiz 43-61 on Friday
3. Powerpoint 49-54 on Wednesday
4. Powerpoint 55-61 on Friday
5. Finish reading the book by Friday
6. Letter to next year’s students due typed next week
7. Elizabeth Takes a Closer Look at her Family due tomorrow
8. One Hour Readvisory tomorrow

Powerpoint 43-48 plus worksheet

1. Powerpoint 43-48
2. Read Chapters 53-54
3. Worksheet on Lydia due today

Read and worksheet

1. Read Chapters 50-52
2. Worksheet due
3. next worksheet on Lydia
4. Powerpoint 43-48 on Friday

Powerpoint 37-42 plus worksheets due

1. Powerpoint 37-42
2. Correct quiz
3. Read chap 47-49
4. Collins’ proposals worksheet due today
5. Another Look worksheet due tomorrow

Quiz 24-42

1. Quiz Chap 24-42
2. Worksheet due on Examining Terms
3. New worksheet today on Collins’ proposals
4. Read Chap 44-46

Powerpoints and study for quiz

1. Powerpoint 31-36 today
2. Read Chapters 41-43
3. Quiz 24-42 on Tuesday
4. Powerpoint 37-42 Wednesday
5. Powerpoint 43-48 Friday

Read Pride and Prejudice

1. 10 days to finish novel before final test.
2. 14 days left of school.
3. Read Chap 38-40
4. Quiz Chap 24-42 on Monday
5. Powerpoint 31-36 on Monday
6. Powerpoint 37-42 on Wednesday
7. Powerpoint 43-48 on Friday
8. 40 minute class period today

Powerpoint Presentations

1. Powerpoint presentations:
Hour 3: 13-18 and 25-30
Hour 4: 25-30
Hour 5: 13-18 and 25-30
Hour 6: 25-30
2. Read 35-37
3. Hand out study guides for comprehension (not due for points)
4. Videos can be checked out (sign up on calendar)
5. correct quiz
6. Extra credit: tonight after school (help organize my three ring binders)

Powerpoint Presentations

1. Powerpoint presentations:
Hour 3: 13-18 and 25-30
Hour 4: 25-30
Hour 5: 13-18 and 25-30
Hour 6: 25-30
2. Read 35-37
3. Hand out study guides for comprehension (not due for points)
4. Videos can be checked out (sign up on calendar)
5. correct quiz
6. Extra credit: tonight after school (help organize my three ring binders)

Quiz 1-23

1. Quiz on Chapters 1-23 first
2. Answer essay thoroughly with a paragraph on Collins, a paragraph in Charlotte, and a paragraph on Bingley with specific examples
3. Finish Powerpoints after the quiz:
Hour 3: 13-18 and 19-24
Hour 5: 13-18
4. Read Chapters 32-34
5. Powerpoint 37-42 on Thursday

Powerpoint Presentations and Quiz

1. Powerpoint presentations

Hour 3: 1-6; 7-12; 13-18; 19-24
Hour 4: 13-18; 19-24
Hour 5: 1-6; 13-18; 19-24
Hour 6: 13-18; 19-24

2. Quiz 1-23 if enough time

Powerpoint Presentations

1. Powerpoint presentations 1-6 and 7-12
2. Read Chapt 26-28
3. Quiz on Tuesday Chapters 1-23

Read Pride and Prejudice

Friday, May 09, 2008 - changes to last post

1. Finish syntax packet
2. Work with chapter report groups
3. Powerpoint 1-6 and 7-12 Monday (except Hour 3)
4. Powerpoint 13-18 and 19-24 Tuesday
5. Quiz on Tuesday for Chapters 1-23
6. Read Chapters 23-25 over the week-end

Syntax

On Thursday and Friday in class, syntax is taught. Syntax is one of the five AP skills. The others are tone, diction, detail, and imagery. Two packets are provided. Then, students must include syntax analysis in the powerpoint presentation for the six chapters assigned.

Pride and Prejudice: Read chapter 23-25

Quiz on Tuesday for Chapters 1-12

Powerpoint Presentations on Monday: Chapters 1-6

Powerpoint Presentations on Tuesday: Chapters 13-18 and Chapters 19-24

Chapter Reports/ Read Chapter 11-12

1. Debrief Field Trip – each member of the class present feedback of what you liked/disliked
2. Review in Star Tribune – hand around
3. Sign up for Chapter Reports
4. Model Chapter Reports – show previous powerpoints
5. Read Chap 11-12
6. Background Quiz on Wednesday based on handout today.
7. Powerpoints 1-6, 7-12 due on Monday
8. Quiz – 1-12 on Tuesday
9. Powerpoints 13-18 and 19-24 due on Wednesday

Background on Pride and Prejudice

1. Read “Winter in Minnesota” and identify pride and prejudice in the statements
2. Highlight the article “Pride and Prejudice and the English Class System”
3. Highlight FYI packet on the background of Pride and Prejudice
(pick a partner and read a paragraph as the other partner summarizes)
4. Field Trip tomorrow (Leave 1st hour at 8:15 a.m., then go to your locker, then the bus. Buses leave at 8:30. Sit with your platoon. Get three tickets on the bus. Follow theatre etiquette.
5. Read Chapter 7-8

Becoming Jane

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

1. RIF books in library
2. Watch “Becoming Jane”
3. packet on “The Picture of Success” due Wednesday
4. Read Chap 5-6
5. Complete Character Sheet as you read

Introduction to Jane Austen

1. Background information on Jane Austen – highlight 6 articles
2. Watch “Becoming Jane”
3. Complete “The Picture of Success”
By Wednesday
4. Read Chap 3-4
5. Field Trip to Guthrie on Thursday (8:15-2:15) 3 hour performance and intermission (10:30-1:45)

Final Test on A Midsummer Night's Dream - 100 pts.

1. Pick up a Pride and Prejudice book and fill out the card
2. Pick up a reading calendar for the rest of the year.
3. Start reading Pride and Prejudice.

Review for Test

1. Review for Final – Highlight articles
· Character List
· Quotations (famous and by characters)
· Plot (Read the summaries)
2. Review game
· Work in partners
· Cut up strips and turn over
· First one done correctly after I say start are coupon winners
3. Final Test on A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 100 points on Friday

Journals and worksheets due

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare!

1. Parent Conferences tonight in my room
2. Sign up for platoons for field trip
3. Journals Due today
4. Act III, IV, V worksheets due today
5. Correct allusion quiz
6. finish video Hours 3,4,6

Thursday: Review for test; handouts
Friday: Test on A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 100 points
Study character quiz and summaries of each act plus famous quotations

Quiz on Allusions and AP Question

1. Quiz on Allusions (put in folder)
2. AP Question – write for 30 minutes
· Answer all parts of the questions
· Start with a solid claim
· Give examples + prove your claim after each example (individual warrant)
· Final warrant (prove how all the examples prove the claim
3. Spanish Field Trip Students: Watch movie after school before the test on Friday
4. Finish worksheets on Acts III, IV, V

Journals and Video

1. Sign up for platoons
2. Journal:
· Several characters look back at prior infatuations with disbelief. What do you think Shakespeare is saying about love and infatuation?
· Explain why the “play within the play” is funny.
· Why do you think Shakespeare chose to set the play in the world of fairies?
· Why do you think it is necessary for Oberon to make a fool of Titania and why do you think Puck chooses Bottom as his victim?
3. collect extra credit on The Crucible

Act IV Video and AP Question

1. Hand back grades and papers
2. Discuss AP question for next Tuesday
3. Discuss A Midsummer Night’s Dream and watch video

Quiz and Allusions

1. Quiz on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Number your own paper 1-30.
2. Journal on same paper as quiz: How might the magical herb described by Oberon act as a metaphor for the way infatuation operates in real life?
3. Definition of infatuation: A foolish, unreasoning, or extravagant passion of attraction
4. Finish allusions
5. Allusion TEST next Tuesday with an AP essay question.
6. Continue A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Read ACT IV Summary and answer questions.

Acting, Hours 4,5,6

1. Extra Credit: The Crucible
2. Finish allusions on Thursday
3. Quiz on Thursday on comprehension/plot of play so far (look up name of flower of the love potion)
4. Finish one line acting parts
5. Acting parts – practice and perform – graded on voice and movement – Wow points for special performances
6. Record answers to each act

Acting

1. Extra Credit: The Crucible
2. Finish allusions
3. Finish one line acting parts
4. Acting parts – practice and perform
5. Record answers to each act

Journal, Act III, Acting

1. Journal today and put in bin:
· How does Bottom become an ass? What is the reason for this strange event?
· What does Oberon realize when he sees Demetrius following Hermia?
· What causes Helena to become angry with Hermia? In you opinion, why does Helena refuse to believe her friend and her would-be lovers?
2. Read summary of Act III and answer worksheet.
3. Extra Credit on The Crucible: get program signed by a cast member and write a one page review of what you liked/disliked about script, characters, costumes, setting, lighting, etc.
4. Reading Test on Tuesday and Wednesday

5. Acting for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Act II, Scene 1 and 2

1. Allusions:
· Elves (24)
· Ninus’ tomb (25)
2. Read summary of Act II and complete worksheet-put in bin
3. watch video
4. sub tomorrow – Mrs. Grivna
· finish taking reading tests.
· correct for immediate feedback

Act II, Scene 1 and 2

1. Act II, Scene 1 and 2
2. Highlight Act I Summary
3. Allusions
4. Journal
· Why are Oberon and Titania fighting?
· How does Oberon intend to blackmail Titania into giving him what he wants?

A Midsummer Night's Dream Act I, Scene 1

1. Journal: How would you feel if someone you liked suddenly stopped liking you?
2. Start Act I, Scene 1
3. Allusion reports as we go along. Take notes. These will be on the test.
4. Journal at the end of Act I:
· As a father, do you think that Egeus has the right to tell his daughter Hermia who to marry?
· What are the similarities/differences between Egeus and Capulet as fathers?

Journal,Notes, and allusions

Journal on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Respond to the following questions:
1. You can fall in love at first sight.
2. If you disobey your parents, you should be punished with isolation or death.
3. You should pursue the person you love no matter what.
4. When you are in love, you do crazy things.
5. Being in love is like being in a dream.
6. Love is blind. What does this mean and do you agree with it?

1. Journal on love
2. Notes on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
3. Assign allusions

MCA Reading Test Prep

April 2, 2008

1. Calendar for reading/MCA Preparation
2. Finish survey
3. Start A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Handouts – strategy of A andB

April Fool's

1. Read Pyramus and Thisbe p. 105-107 (Write a description explaining this myth)
2. Read Theseus and Hippola
(Write a paragraph explaining how he captured the Queen of the Amazon, who he eventually married)
3. Retake grammar tests if below 16/20 or 8/10.
4. Journal #1
Why do young people in love sometimes experience conflict with their parents?

March 31, 2008

Welcome Back!!!
I hope you are all rested!

1. Hand back papers to put in three ring binder with tone handouts
2. Return Secret Life of Bees Book
3. Shakespeare IntroductionNotes on Elizabethan theatre

Reminder: Extra credit is watching Jane Austen movies on Channel 2. Last night was Sense and Sensibility, the week before was Emma. These movies are repeated on Channel 17, can be recorded and watched at a later time.

Chapter Reports on The Secret Life of Bees

All chapter reports are completed this week.
Enjoy your spring break!
When you return, we will read and study A Midsummer Night's Dream for the field trip to the Guthrie on May 1st.
In May, we will read Pride and Prejudice.

Chapter Reports

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

1. Field Trip Money/Permission Slip
2. Syllabus in basket.
3. Hand out rubric for chapter reports
4. Work day with your partner in lab 313
Chapters 1-5 Tuesday
Chapter 6-9 Wednesday
Chapter 10-14 Thursday
No more than 10 minutes

Explained Feminist Literary Theory

1. Pick up five handouts
2. Review p. 266 in grammar book for test
3. Apostrophe Test
4. Feminist Literary Theory
5. Field Trip Money to me
6. Syllabus in bin
Monday: workday
Tuesday: Chap 1-5 (10 minutes)
Wednesday: Chap 6-9
Thursday: Chap 10-14

The Secret Life of Bees Chapter Reports

Chap1-5 – Tuesday
Chap 6-9 – Wednesday
Chap 10-14 – Thursday
(10 minutes each)

FIELD TRIP MONEY DUE ON FRIDAY!

Field Trip Money due Friday

Thursday, March 13, 2008

1. Field Trip Money Due Friday
2. Signed syllabus in basket
3. Subject/Verb Agreement Test if absent
4. Pick chapter groups (Hours 5,6)
5. White privilege article
6. Start apostrophe’s

Subject/Verb Agreement Test

1. Take the 20 points test. You must pass with 80% (16 and up) or retake the test.
2. Complete the exercises in the grammar book pp. 157-169.
3. Field trip money is due this Friday. ($32.50 and parent signature)
4. Syllabus is due signed by Friday.

Subject-Verb Agreement

1. Grammar book pp. 157-169
2. Syllabus – get it signed
3. Grades handed out

Final for Trimester 2

Independent Reading Novel - brochure and presentation - 25 points

Subject/Verb Agreement

1. Powerpoint on Subject Verb Agreement
2. Exercise on Subject Verb Agreement – grammar book pp. 156-169
3. 80% mastery on test
4. Smartboard exercises

The Secret Life of Bees

Read The Secret Life of Bees by March 17th.
The first day of trimester 3, there will be a sign up for group presentations on allusions, white privilege, racism, feminist literary theory.
Today, finish the brochure for the independent reading final.

Brochure for Independent Reading Novel

1. collect Field Trip money by March 14th
2. brochure for independent novel
3. Read The Secret Life of Bees by March 17th
· Allusions (Civil Rights, Vietnam War)
· Quote at the beginning of each chapter
· Examples of racism
· Examples of white privilege and women
4. AV Computer Lab today
5. Last week for this class
6. Return books and grammar tapes
7. Extra credit: wash desks and take down bulletin boards after school (Monday or Tuesday)
8. Go straight to AV Lab tomorrow

Speech to Inform

Speeches were delivered all week.

Tuesday: 1-8

Wednesday: 9-15

Thursday: 16-23

Friday: 24-30

Field Trip to the Guthrie

All English 10 students will be going to the Guthrie on May 1st to see A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Field Trip Money is being collected with the signed permission slip. Check (made payable to Osseo Senior High) or cash for $32.50 is due by March 14th.

Scholarship money is available through High Achievers and Kopp Scholarship. Please talk to your counselor to obtain these funds.

Smartboard

On Thursday, we all learned how to use the smartboard, which I will be using in March for grammar. On the smartboard, we annotated and analyzed the poem "Traveling through the Dark." The worksheet of questions is due Friday.

On Friday, students worked in the lab on the speech outline, which is due at the end of the hour.
Speech topics need to be approved by Ms. Sasse.

Speech to Inform Information

1. Draw # for speeches
2. 8 ways to start and end a speech
3. Powerpoint on Speech to Inform
4. Movie Clips from The Office and Dead Poet’s Society
5. Write a thesis (include the three main parts of the speech)
6. Tomorrow: Poetry analysis with the Smartboard

Speech to Inform

1. Collect typed paper on tone in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
2. Trial today
3. Directions on “Speech to Inform”

Happy Valentine's Day

1. Write a Valentine's poem
2. Turn in paragraph on the tone of hobbits
3. Turn in paragraph on the tone of Ultima
4. Write a paragraph on the tone in "Sinner's in the Hands of an Angry God"- due typed on Tuesday

Introduction to AP Skill: Tone

1. Turn in What’s That You Say and Irony worksheet in basket
2. Pick up three ring binder
3. Put Tone and hobbit packets in it.
4. Notes:
Tone: Attitude toward topic and audience

Paper Due - zero points tomorrow

1. Write a letter to Sheila Asasto.
· Thank her for being a guest speaker
· Tell her what you learned from her or what you found interesting
· Ask her any questions that have not been answered.
2. While you are writing the letter, I will collect the following:
· Claim, evidence, warrant paper (typed)
· 10 journals (dream or the Crucible) (not typed)
3. Analysis worksheets on The Crucible
Think due today.
Irony and Diction is homework.

Guest Speaker

Updated 12/28/07 Sheila McNellis Asato, M.A., is the founder ofMonkey Bridge Arts, a center dedicated to thegrowth, transformation and healing of individualsand the community through the arts, dreaming andcreative development. Sheila is an artist and Japan specialist. Dreams arean integral part of her creative practice and callingas an instructor in the arts. Her work focuses on thehealing and spiritual aspects of cultivating an active relationship with imagery through dreams and art.

Sheila Asata spoke about dreams.

Claim, Evidence, Warrant paper on a theme in the Crucible is due Tuesday

10 journals are due Tuesday.

Skits

1. Crucible in one minute skits
2. Correct Crucible Test
3. Review Claim, Evidence, Warrant

Test on The Crucible

Test on The Crucible - 100 points

Finish movie/plan skit

1. Finish movie on The Crucible
2. Study for the test tomorrow - 100 points
3. Plan the skit to present on Friday (see rubric)
4. Speaker on Monday on dreams
5. Journals/Dreams due on Tuesday

The Crucible movie

1. Hand back papers (no more late work) (grammar tests were 6 weeks ago and now packed up)
2. Watch video
3. Study for Test on Thursday

Character Poster Due

1. Character poster due today
2. Correct quizzes
3. Hand out journal entries
· 10 dream journals or 10 Crucible journals or a combination of both are due Tuesday, February 12th
· February 11th is the guest speaker on dreams
4. Video on Act III and IV on The Crucibl
Preview of the week:
· 100 point test on Thursday
· Claim, evidence, warrant on themes
· CEW paragraph due on Thursday, typed
· Crucible in one minute skits on Friday

Quiz Act IV

1. Watch 3 short clips
2. youtube: The Crucible in one minute
3. Quiz Act IV
4. Discussion sheet due
5. Cause/effect sheet due
6. 100 point test next Thursday
7. Friday: Crucible in one minute skitsCharacter poster due Monday

Act IV

1. Read Act IV
2. Character Posters due on Monday
3. Read and highlight FYI on Act IV
4. Collect 10 letters – names on board

Quiz Act III

1. Signed letters, please
2. Quiz Act III
· Read summary of Act III
· Review vocabulary words
3. Puritan families meet to complete and turn in the basket today:
· Conflict sheet Act III
· Discussion questions

Finish Act III

1. collect signed letters
2. finish Act III
3. Did anybody remember their dreams last night?
4. Study vocabulary words tonight for quiz tomorrow
5. Act III conflict sheet due tomorrow

Act III

1. Read Act III - the courtroom scene
2. Dream Journal
3. Parent Letter
4. Highlight Act II and Act III Background Information
5. Watch for conflicts
6. Cards for Jane Austen movies

Week-end Work

Sit back in a chair and read your independent reading nove.

Watch a Jane Austen movie and write a one page report on what you learned about the class system, dating, entertainment, houses, clothing, etc. in England in the 1800's from the pictures and the plot of the novel.

Performances in the Auditorium

One Act Play on Thursday.
Ed Bok Lee on Friday. (see www.edboklee.com)

Act II Quiz

1. Collect Act I homework in basket
2.Quiz Act II with vocabulary
3.Act II worksheet on Making Inferences
4. Meet in Puritan families and complete four questions after quiz
5. Thursday – One Act Play in auditorium (4th-eat “A” lunch)
6. Friday – Ed Bok Lee in auditorium
(4th eat “A” lunch)

Act II

1. Read Act II (the witch accusations) on Tuesday and Wednesday (quiz Wed. with vocabulary words
2. One Act play in auditorium on Thursday. Go straight to the auditorium.
3. Ed Bok Lee, guest speaker, in auditorium on Friday. Go straight to the auditorium.

Act I Discussion and Visual

1. Sit in families today
2. Complete Act I Family Discussion using words from the vocabulary sheet- Highlight in yellow
3. Draw a visual of all the important scenes/information from Act I using the rest of the vocabulary words
4. Turn in Journal 1 in basket
5. When done, pick up character traits from Act I - Homework

Act I Quiz

1. Finish reading Act I
2. Read summary of Act I
3. Quiz on Act I
4. Vocabulary Quiz on Act I
5. Journal on Act I – Homework
6. Tomorrow: sit in families for assignment
7. Return the CD Rom for Grammar

Read Act I

1. Read Act I
2. Study vocabulary words
3. Return grammar tapes
4. Read independent novel and make a brochure for book talk the end of the trimester.
5. Determine families
6. Watch a movie clip.

Act I

1. Display name tags
2. Return grammar tapes, please
3. Rules in effect starting today.
4. Watch 3 video clips for factual information
5. Read Act I
6. Vocabulary Handout – tests on each act
· Complete study guide on Act I
· Complete character list on Act I

The Complete Jane Austen

Engish 10HP students read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice this spring.
On TV, three Jane Austen movies will be shown:

Persuasion on Sunday, Jan 13th at 8:00 p.m. repeated Friday, January 17th at 8:00 p.m.

Northanger Abbey on Sunday, January 20th at 8:00 p.m. repeated Friday, January 25th at 8:00 p.m.Mansfield Park on Sunday, January 27th at 8:00 p.m. repeated Friday, February 1st at 8:00 p.m.

Each movie can be watched for 10 extra credit points for this trimester or spring trimester.

Tape the movies and watch at a later time.

Start reading The Crucible

1. Make a name tag for your Puritan name
2. Vote on three rules to be enforced
3. Select a judge
4. Select reading parts
5. Journal #1 (in notebook)
6. Complete continuum
7. Book Report is a brochure and presented in a group of 4 on finals

Extra Credit

I need Puritan bonnets for the females and Puritan hats for the men when we read The Crucible. I want 20 female and 10 male so everyone in the room will have a hat. You can make one or many out of material or construction paper or another way I have not thought of< but your creativity will think of.

Extra Credit

After the rules are selected for each class, students can turn in a violation form in a black box against other students who break one of the rules.
I need four volunteers (one per each hour 3-6) to make a black box about the size of a shoe box and mark it Hour 3 or Hour 4 or Hour 5 or Hour 6.
The first person to volunteer in each hour will be given 10 extra credit points when they bring the black box, which is due on Monday, January 14th.

Finish Brochure

1. Computer Room for brochure, which is due on Thursday, January 9th.
2. Select a Puritan name (Biblical or virtue like Patience, Purity)
3. Select a judge to preside over the trial of offenses committed in your hour
4. Choose 3 rules to follow in class while reading The Crucible. Offender can be reported and prosecuted.

Brochure and Intro to The Crucible

On Friday the webquest was due.
1. Lab 316 to work on brochure, which is due on Thursday, January 10th.
2. We will pick the reading parts for The Crucible on Thursday and start reading the play.
3. Before we start:
· Puritan rules for this classroom enforced during the reading of the play
· Select a Puritan judge for the trial of offenses committed during class
· Select a Puritan name based on a virtue, e.g. Patience or a Biblical name
4. Make-up Fragment, Comma and Colon Tests after school.

Computer room

Computer Room today:
1. Finish web quest study guide on The Crucible - due on Friday.
2. Choose one person to work on the brochure together –

3. All 14 topics need to be taken
· Hour 3 (26) leave off Rosenbergs
· Hour 5 (24) leave off Rosenbergs and Disney
· Hour 4 (29) groups of 2

· Hour 6 (30)groups of 2

Welcome Back!

It's hard getting out of bed again and returning to school!
Today we worked in lab 313 to work on the Web Quest Study Guide on The Crucible, which is due on Friday.
Tomorrow, I will introduce the brochure assignment on background information for The Crucible. Plan on choosing one person in the room to work with on the brochure.