Mrs. Stubbs's English Blog: Welcome to October

Can you believe we've already been in school for a month? We're already at midterm time! Crazy! We're finishing off the first units and ready to head for unit two in both groups. We've established routines for class time, for independent reading, for collecting papers, for labeling Type 3 essays. Sometimes it feels like we're just crawling along, but when you look back, we've accomplished a lot; it's just not always obvious.

Last week English 9 began a grammar unit. We've started working on prepositional phrases, subjects, and verbs. We also worked on reading through more of "St. Lucy's." My goal for this week is to finish it and start the assessment which is an essay. In English 10, along with working on a grammar review, we finished our three "poems" (one was a song) and we analyzed all three for a common central idea in a multi-paragraph essay which was due on Friday. This coming week we'll read a personal narrative from Friday Night Lights.

So here's the plan for the week:

Monday, 10/2 - English 9 - preposition packet #1; 1st Hour and 3rd Hour will work on Stage 3/4, while 2nd Hour needs to finish Stage 3. English 10 - grammar review; preview for Friday Night Lights with a song and Venn Diagram looking at coach/parent responsibilities and a game to review narrative elements.
Tuesday, 10/3 - Academic Advisory - English 9 - preposition packet #1; 1st and 3rd Hours - quiz for Stages 3/4 and then finish the story, 2nd Hour will read Stage 4. English 10 - grammar review; read pp. 73-76 in FNL, vocab cards/study guide/model preface tool.
Wednesday, 10/4 - English 9 - preposition packet #1; 1st and 3rd Hours will do type 1's and start the outline for the final assessment essay, 2nd Hour will take the Stage 3/4 quiz and finish the story. English 10 - grammar review; read pp. 77-79 in FNL, study guide/vocab. cards/Direct-Indirect tool.
Thursday, 10/5 - PSAT Advisory - ALL - TURN IN READING LOG #4. English 9 - preposition packet #1; 1st and 3rd Hours - finish outlining the final assessment essay, while 2nd Hour will begin the outline. English 10 - read pp. 79-84 in FNL, study guide/vocab. cards.
Friday, 10/6 - All - library, get new reading log, silent reading.

Deadlines that will come up the following week (October 9-13):

English 9 - We'll write the essay in class - this is the final assessment for "St. Lucy's".
English 10 - We'll finish FNL and turn in all the materials. The test will be on Google Forms.