Spring Break is On Its Way!

One week, and we're on spring break. One week, and Term 3 is over.  It's always amazing to me at this point in the year how quickly things have gone, and how quickly they'll go. And we have so much to do! So on that note...

Last week English 9 finished The Crucible work and watched the movie.  English 10 submitted their final copies of their research papers (which I'm working on grading this weekend, but it's slow), and then they took a well-earned break and watched Freedom Writers. 

This coming week, English 9 will take the objective portion of the assessment for The Crucible and then write an essay about it. English 10 will be doing preview activities for Macbeth so that when we get back from break we'll be able to start reading the text very quickly.

Both groups will be filling out the forms for their PSAT's which will be the week we get back from break.

Here's the schedule:

English 9

• Monday, 3/25 - pre-bubble for PSAT; Crucible test
• Tuesday, 3/26 - Academic Advisory - pre-write the essay; set up the document
• Wednesday, 3/27 - write the essay
• Thursday, 3/28 - NO ADVISORY - write the essay
• Friday, 3/29 - revise and edit the essay; submit

English 10

• Monday, 3/25 - pre-bubble for PSAT; work on timeline assignment
• Tuesday, 3/26 - Academic Advisory - commas; work on timeline assignment - due by midnight
• Wednesday, 3/27 -semicolons; murder mystery game
• Thursday, 3/28 - NO ADVISORY - semicolons; Flipgrid video for Act I, Scene i
• Friday, 3/29 - finish Flipgrid video

That's the plan for the week. I hope everyone has a great week, and then a great spring break.  See you on the other side!

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Thank You, All!

Thank you to all the parents who helped to support my 10th grade students in their Wax Museum. This includes all of you 9th grade parents who brought your kids, or dropped them off.  There were a lot of people there, so I know I missed many of you, but I truly appreciate all the help we had to make that a successful event.

I took many pictures, so I'm going to post them here.  I'm so sorry for the ones I missed.  It was mostly because they'd ventured away from their post and I just didn't catch them:

This is a tough project, and the kids were amazing.  Now we're finishing off the research paper and scheduling for 11th grade, and then we can all breathe!  I told them no breathing is allowed until Monday is over.

So last week, the 10th graders finished the project and worked on editing the research papers. The 9th grade managed to finish reading The Crucible, so now they're heading for assessments.  We'll do the test this week, and the essay next week.

Here's our schedule:

English 9

• Monday, 3/18 - hand back papers; finish the Act IV packet
• Tuesday, 3/19 - Academic Advisory - commas; watch The Crucible movie
• Wednesday, 3/20 - commas; watch The Crucible movie
• Thursday, 3/21 - PSAT Advisory - commas; finish The Crucible movie; kahoot review
• Friday, 3/22 - test for The Crucible

English 10

• Monday, 3/18 - enroll in Turnitin.com and submit research papers; schedule for 11th grade
• Tuesday, 3/20 - Academic Advisory - commas; hand back papers; watch movie
• Wednesday, 3/21 - commas; watch movie
• Thursday, 3/21 - PSAT Advisory - commas; finish movie
• Friday, 3/22 - commas; begin Macbeth

So that's about it.  Happy St. Patrick's day to all you Irish and Honorary-Irish people. It's a great day for wearing green, and...oh!  Sorry Blue people, but in honor of my hometown and my alma mater:  

Go Green and Sparty On!!! Good luck to us, though, since we're in the same bracket as Duke.

Thank You, All by Laura Stubbs is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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