Thursday, September 30, 2010

Day 15 (10.1.10 A Day)

Objective: Student will be able to:
explicate Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities:
• Warm-up: Check your professional email.
• Warm-up: When you have checked your email, please check your grades.


• Reminder: Remediation for Scansion is due today.

• Sentence Model 3 Practice

• Allusion Presentations
• Read: Hamlet

Homework:


1. DUE on Tuesday (10.5.10 B Day): Allusions
2. DUE on Tuesday (10.5.10 B Day): Sentence Model 3 Notes

Work collected in class:
1. Allusions
2. Scansion remediation.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Day 14 (9.30.10 B Day)

Objective: Student will be able to:
explicate Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities:
• Warm-up: Check your professional email.
• Warm-up: When you have checked your email, please check your grades.


• Reminder: Lesson 2 Vocabulary for words 6-10 should be complete
• Class grades Vocabulary Lesson 2: "Matching" worksheet
• Class completes Vocabulary Lesson 2: “Sentence completion” exercises (with R. Simpkins)

Note for Students: (Please read before completing the exercise)

“Remember: You must fill in the blank with a simple, non-vocabulary term; and you must also use process of elimination, crossing off the letters you do not choose.”

• Remediation: Scansion (Mr. Simpkins will pass out the summative assignment for those who would like to remediate.)
• Remediation: Sentence Models 1 & 2 (Mr. Simpkins will pass out papers to the class. Students who receive a 70% or lower may make corrections and turn the work back in.)

 Note for Students: (Please read before completing the exercise)

“You may fill in any of the red “circles” you find on your paper or completely re-write the sentences on the same paper.”

• Allusion Presentations (Postponed until T. Holmes returns with computer for projector hook-up)
• Read: Hamlet

Homework:


1. DUE on Tuesday (10.5.10 B Day): Allusions
2. DUE on Tuesday (10.5.10 B Day): Sentence Model 3 Notes

Work collected in class:
1. Allusions
2. Vocabulary "Matching" & "Sentence Completion"
3. TO BLACKBOARD: Vocabulary Lesson 2 Words 6 - 10

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Day 14 (9.29.2010) A Day

Objective: Student will be able to:
explicate Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities:
• Warm-up: Check your professional email.
• Warm-up: When you have checked your email, please check your grades.


• Reminder: Lesson 2 Vocabulary for words 6-10 should be complete
• Class grades Vocabulary Lesson 2: "Matching" worksheet
• Class completes Vocabulary Lesson 2: “Sentence completion” exercises (with R. Simpkins)

Note for Students: (Please read before completing the exercise)

“Remember: You must fill in the blank with a simple, non-vocabulary term; and you must also use process of elimination, crossing off the letters you do not choose.”

• Remediation: Scansion (Mr. Simpkins will pass out the summative assignment for those who would like to remediate.)
• Remediation: Sentence Models 1 & 2 (Mr. Simpkins will pass out papers to the class. Students who receive a 70% or lower may make corrections and turn the work back in.)

 Note for Students: (Please read before completing the exercise)

“You may fill in any of the red “circles” you find on your paper or completely re-write the sentences on the same paper.”

• Allusion Presentations (Postponed until T. Holmes returns with computer for projector hook-up)
• Read: Hamlet

Homework:


1. DUE on Monday (10.4.10 A Day): Allusions
2. DUE on Monday (10.4.10 A Day): Sentence Model 3 Notes

Work collected in class:
1. Allusions
2. Vocabulary "Matching" & "Sentence Completion"
3. TO BLACKBOARD: Vocabulary Lesson 2 Words 6 - 10

Monday, September 27, 2010

Day 13 (9.28.2010) B Day


Objective: Student will be able to:
explicate Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities:


  • Warm-up: Check your professional email.
  • Warm-up:When you have checked your email, please check your grades.
  • Reminder: Lesson 2 Vocabulary for words 6-10 should be completed by Thursday.
  • Poetry summatives returned
  • Allusion Presentations
  • T . Holmes explains the context box of the 4-square
  • Hamlet
Homework:

  1. DUE on Thursday (9.30.2010 B Day): Allusions
  2. DUE on Thursday (9.30.10 B Day): Vocabulary Lesson 2 Words 6-10
  3. Due on Thursday (9.30.10 B Day): Vocabulary Lesson 2 "Matching"

Work collected in class:

  1. Allusions
  2. First part of four-square paragraph -- Evidence and Commentary (email to tholmes@irvingisd.net)