Mrs. Stubbs's English Blog: 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!