Mrs. Stubbs's English Blog: Wax Museum Week!

Well 10th grade community - here it is: Wax Museum Week! On Wednesday we'll be in the cafeteria at the high school from 6:30-8:30 with our boards, all dressed up, giving our speeches. Please come and enjoy - it's open to anybody, including 9th grade students and parents if they'd like to get an idea of what's coming at them for the next year. My students kind of freaked me out at first since they didn't seem to get it, but by the end of the week last week they were getting in the spirit of things, using their time well (mostly), and I began to feel like this might actually happen.

In addition to it being Wax Museum Week, it's also Coming Home Week - yay! The schedule for spirit week participation looks like this:

Monday - Occupation Day - dress like your future occupation, or an occupation of your choice
Tuesday - Fake an Injury Day
Wednesday - Age Day - Seniors (senior citizens), Juniors (Moms and Dads); Sophomores (Teens); Freshmen (Kindergartners)
Thursday - Vine Day
Friday - Blue and Gold Day

We will have assembly schedule on Monday in order to have a dodge ball game at the end of the day; the rest of the week is pretty much a normal schedule, and the dance is Friday night (I'm chaperoning, so pray for me).

Here's our schedule for this week:

English 9

Monday, 3/11 - Assembly Schedule - finish Act III packet; Act III quiz
Tuesday, 3/12 - Academic Advisory - type 1 commas; start Act IV
Wednesday, 3/13 - type 1 commas; continue Act IV
Thursday, 3/14 - PSAT Advisory - type 1 commas (turn in); finish reading Act IV
Friday, 3/15 - work on Act IV packet

English 10

Monday, 3/11 - Assembly Schedule - finish and submit rough drafts; start speech presentations
Tuesday, 3/12 - Academic Advisory - speech presentations
Wednesday, 3/13 - Wax Museum Night (6:30-8:30) - work on boards and solidifying costumes and speeches for this evening
Thursday, 3/14 - PSAT Advisory - finish speech presentations; begin revising research papers
Friday, 3/15 - Revision Stations; Peer Editing of papers - RESEARCH PAPER FINAL COPY IS DUE MONDAY! (1st Hour has an assembly, so I'll figure out how to get them what they need and make sure they're not being denied information to help them do the paper correctly.)

That's the plan, and I think we'll be able to accomplish it all.

Finally - 10th grade parents - on Monday, 3/18 we'll be scheduling for 11th grade, so the signatures and paperwork need to be finished and brought in by that date. I'll start putting it on their radar again this week.

Have a great week, everyone!