Mrs. Stubbs's English Blog: Last Week of Term Three

What a week it has been! So exciting, inspiring, thrilling...and exhausting!

On Tuesday night the 10th grade English students presented their Wax Museum, and wow did they make me proud! This was the culmination of a month-long project that involved writing a research paper, creating a visual aid (their boards), creating a speech, and dressing up to present their author and texts. I took as many photos as I could, so I've attached them here:

It was also spirit week for Coming Home, so we had assemblies and dress up days. English 9 began a research paper (looking at how to cite an online article), and English 10 began Macbeth by playing around with the witches' lines in Act I, scene i. Finally, the weekend arrived, and yesterday I had the chance to go down the road from my house to watch Cow Town Robotics compete all the way through the finals at a big competition at Lincoln High School. They did so well, and once again, my heart was filled with pride. I've been so privileged over the past few weeks to get to see my students and former students doing things outside of the classroom: JV Basketball, ACP Regionals, Wax Museum, Robotics, and I have also been able to see some of them dressed up for Winter Ball because of pictures posted on Facebook. You all have really great kids!

This week is busy as well. It's the last week of Term 3: anything assigned this week will go on Term 4 since I've got to get all the essays and papers graded for Term 3. It's also the week where we fill out the forms for state testing in April. On Wednesday 9th graders and 10th graders will bubble forms for the PSAT. There will be no advisories this week.

Here's the schedule:

English 9

Monday, 3/19 - silent reading day - reading log #17 is due on Thursday.
Tuesday, 3/20 - bell work - colons; finish the citation worksheet; start identifying articles to use for the research paper.
Wednesday, 3/21 - bubbling for PSAT; take notes and keep track of sources/citations.
Thursday, 3/22 - TURN IN READING LOG #17; bell work - colons; continue to take notes and keep track of sources/citations.
Friday, 3/23 - get reading log #18; finish taking notes and check them in; start building the Works Cited for the paper.

English 10

Monday, 3/19 - record Act I, Scene i from Macbeth on video; save to Google Drive; if possible attach to Google Classroom and submit.
Tuesday, 3/20 - bell work - colons; finish attaching videos to Classroom and watch; view YouTube video comparing/contrasting different versions of Act I, Scene i; get vocab. and study guides; start scene ii.
Wednesday, 3/21 - bubbling for PSAT; read scenes ii, iii, iv of Macbeth
Thursday 3/22 - TURN IN READING LOG #17; bell work - colons; watch scene v; read scenes vi, vii
Friday, 3/23 - get reading log #18; finish scene vii - Act I quiz on Monday; silent reading

That's the plan. I hope all have a good Sunday and a great week. Ciao!