End of Semester 1

Here we are at the end of Semester One - halfway through the year and time for exams. Time sure moves quickly! If anyone has a student switching teachers for the next semester, thanks for coming along on this ride. I enjoy all my students and hope I get the chance to see you again someday. For most of you, you're stuck with me for one more semester!

Most of last week was all about finishing papers and projects. I've begun grading them all and will get those grades onto HAC sometime in the next few days.  This coming week is about exams for Semester 1 and scheduling for next year - English 10 is scheduling on Tuesday, 1/21; 1st Hour English 9 will schedule on Friday, 1/24; 2nd and 6th Hour English 9 will schedule on Monday, 1/27.

Here's the schedule for this week:

English 9

• Monday, 1/20 - MLK Day - NO SCHOOL!
• Tuesday, 1/21 - Academic Advisory - bell work; review for exam
• Wednesday, 1/22 - bell work; create a Kahoot for Romeo and Juliet
• Thursday, 1/23 - 1st Hour: Exam; 2nd and 6th - review for exam
• Friday, 1/24 - 1st Hour: 1st Chapter Friday; 2nd and 6th: Exam

English 10

• Monday, 1/20 - MLK Day - NO SCHOOL!
• Tuesday, 1/21 - Academic Advisory - 3rd Hour: presentations; 4th Hour: bell work and review for exam
• Wednesday, 1/22 - All: review for exam
• Thursday, 1/23 - 3rd Hour: Exam; 4th Hour: review for exam
• Friday, 1/24 - 3rd Hour: finish presentations; 4th Hour: Exam

That is the schedule for the week. I hope everyone has a nice long weekend. Ciao! 

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Project/Paper Week

Another week closer to the end; another week of finalizing things off. We're at the point in the term where they are doing their final papers and projects for the final unit of the semester, which means that I supply work time in class, but most likely they need to work outside of the classroom as well (homework). That always makes them peppy! English 9 is in the process of creating a paper for story elements; English 10 is creating a group presentation on Human Rights.  I have a video of my 4th hour working on their projects: they were so focused and doing such a great job I wanted to share, but as of right now I haven't been able to figure out how to share across accounts onto Blogger, so I can't get it here for you to see. If that changes, I'll edit this and put it in.

This coming week we will finalize the papers and projects, and then we'll submit and present them. Here is the schedule for the week:

English 9

• Monday, 1/13 - bell work; set up paper in Docs; write the body of the paper
• Tuesday, 1/14 - Academic Advisory - bell work; write the intro and conclusion of the paper
• Wednesday, 1/15 - bell work; finish writing the paper; edit and revise
• Thursday, 1/16 - PSAT Advisory - bell work; read alouds and final edits for the paper - DUE BY MIDNIGHT; hand out exam study guide
• Friday, 1/17 - bell work; review parts of speech

English 10 

• Monday, 1/13 - bell work; 3rd Hour - finish HeLa and start quiz; 4th Hour - work day
• Tuesday, 1/14 - Academic Advisory - bell work; 3rd Hour - finish quiz and start project; 4th Hour - final work day for practicing and editing
• Wednesday, 1/15 - bell work; 3rd Hour - work day; 4TH HOUR - PRESENTATIONS
• Thursday, 1/16 - PSAT Advisory - bell work; 3rd Hour - work day; 4th Hour - finish presentations and hand out exam study guide
• Friday, 1/17 - bell work; 3rd Hour - final work day for practicing and editing, hand out exam study guide; 4th Hour - watch Hidden Figures

That's the schedule as I see it now. I hope everyone has a great week! Ciao! 

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Welcome Back!

Welcome back, and Happy 2020! It's always nice to start new, and I'm hoping the goals they all created the Friday before break are still all over the walls and not on the floor. Since it's really not the start of something new, and we're actually coming into the home stretch for the semester (three weeks to go), I'm hoping the goal setting and activities we're doing to finish things off will help them to re-set their focus. Before break all anyone could think about was vacation, so I hope the break helped everyone re-charge and get ready to be back at the grind.

To finish things off, all of my groups are heading into summative assessments:

• English 9 has a final essay for the short story unit
• English 10 has a research based project/presentation
• Both groups will have a final semester exam

My goal this week is to get them into the papers/presentations.  Here's the schedule:

English 9

• Monday, 1/6 - hand back papers; feedback activity for essays; make goal for the next three weeks
• Tuesday, 1/7 - Academic Advisory - bell work; work back through "The Cask of Amontillado"
• Wednesday, 1/8 - bell work; finish "Cask;" Quiz for "Cask;" start outlining the essay
• Thursday, 1/9 - PSAT Advisory - bell work; continue outlining the paper and find quotes/evidence
• Friday, 1/10 - bell work - turn in; work on essay

English 10

• Monday, 1/6 - hand back papers; feedback activity for essays; make goal for the next three weeks
• Tuesday, 1/7 - Academic Advisory - bell work; 3rd Hour - read HeLa; 4th Hour - MLA container activity, start research project/presentation
• Wednesday, 1/8 - bell work; 3rd Hour - finish HeLa; 4th Hour - work on project/presentation
• Thursday, 1/9 - PSAT Advisory - bell work; 3rd Hour - quiz for HeLa, MLA container activity; 4th Hour - work on project/presentation
• Friday, 1/10 - bell work; all - work on project/presentation

May you all have a great week, and an even better January! Ciao! 

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