Culver's English 11, Honors English 9, and Creative Writing

Work on a simple outline for your in class essay number two tomorrow!  🙂 You received the topic list today, so mull it over! 🙂

Remember to have all of this COMPLETED to turn in tomorrow!

1. Writer’s Choice bookwork, pages 738-740, Exercises 7-9

2. Foldable, Chapter Summaries 12-27

3. Active Reading, Four Testimonies, Ch. 12-21

4. Open Mind Worksheet–Don’t forget to color!

5. Foldable, Chapter summaries, 28-31

6. Active Reading Ch. 22-31 (One with the spokes/clusters)

7.  ABC TKAM Worksheet

If you leave one out, you make 86

If you leave two out, you make 71

If you leave three out, you make 57/F.

I won’t even pretend you’ll leave more than that out.  DO YOUR BEST!  COMPLETE THIS FOLDER!

TEST TOMORROW ON CHAPTERS 12-31.

No homework over the weekend unless your folder is not caught up or you have to go back and read any part of To Kill a Mockingbird.  Don’t forget about the extra credit option—parents, your student has a copy of this—that you could be working on.

Monday: We’ll finish the video of TKAM

Tuesday: Review for test/get folders ready

Wednesday: Test on chapters 12-31 TKAM and folders due

Thursday and Friday: In class essay number 2

Have a great weekend!

The Week Ahead:

Monday, October 29:      WEAR ORANGE TO STAND UP TO BULLYING!  First period class with highest percentage of orange shirt wearers could win a free doughnut and juice breakfast!

 Turn in DRPs 9/10 if you were absent on Friday. Start DRP Week 11.  Summarize chapters 25, 26, and 27 together on foldable.  Read chapter 28 and 29.

Tuesday, October 30:  Summarize chapters 28 and 29, read chapters 30 and 31 since they are so short!  We will finish the book!! If we don’t finish 31 in class, we will finish tomorrow in class.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 HAPPY HALLOWEEN! If we did not finish the novel yesterday, we will before we start the movie.  Finish summary sheet of the novel.  Begin movie. Here are some reviews of the 1963 classic!  While we watch, we will keep up with the differences between the movie and the novel.

Thursday/Friday: Finish the video.  If time permits, we will review your in class essay and we will discuss common errors I found and how to fix them.  Essay number 2 is coming up next week (Thursday and Friday).

Test on 12-31 is next WEDNESDAY and FOLDERS due then too.

Comma worksheet 10 pts due tomorrow

Week 9/10 Daily Reading Practice  25 pts  due this Friday

Next test will be on chapters 12-31 of To Kill a Mockingbird on Wednesday, November 7. Folders will also be taken up for 100 pts on this date.

Friday: We finished DRPs for Week 9, then we took a multiple choice quiz on chapters 12-17. We started chapter 18 in class. Homework is to finish reading chapter 18.

A look ahead for next week:

Monday: Mr. Howard, the ninth grade counselor, will be coming to speak to you about GPA, courses, etc.  You will also have a comma worksheet to complete and you will have to read chapter 19. Chapter 19 is when Tom Robinson gets to testify and try to save his life from the accusations of Mayella and Bob Ewell.

Tuesday: We will review the comma worksheet as well as the parallel structure WS you did last week.  We will add to the summary sheet/foldable up to chapter 19.  We will read and listen to chapters 20-21.  Chapter 20 is when Scout and Dill meet Dolphus Raymond, and Atticus sums up for the defense.  Chapter 21 is when the jury returns a verdict.

Wednesday:  We will review and summarize what happened in the last couple of chapters, we will do an “IN THEIR HEAD” activity (Worksheet) to put in the folder, and we will read chapter 22, a chapter which explains what happens immediately following the verdict.

Thursday: We will review what we have read so far and Mrs. McLendon will teach chapter 23-24. Homework will be to finish these chapters.

Friday: We will finish up DRP week 10, and turn in weeks 9 and 10.  We’ll read chapters 25/26 in class (hopefully) and you will be responsible for reading chapter 27 or any of the others that you are behind on.  THINGS ARE GETTING GOOD IN THE NOVEL.

GO AHEAD AND BE LOOKING FOR 2 WORDS OF THE WEEK. IF YOU NEED A GRAPHIC ORGANIZER TO DO THESE, SEE THE POST I MADE EARLIER THIS WEEK OR SEE ME.

If you were not at school on Friday, we did the following worksheet. A copy of this sheet is in the #3 folder up on the board, so don’t forget to get one!

Today Mrs. McLendon reviewed chapters 13-15 and you added summaries to your “foldable” sheet in your folder.  Add color or illustrations to your summaries if you are a visual learner.  (Number 2 in your folder.)  Remember that your first item in your new folder is the Writer’s Choice assignment on commas, pages 738-740, exercises 7-9.

After summaries, Mrs. McLendon had you read chapter 16 in class/listen to Sissy Spacek read chapter 16 to you (you probably like this if you are an auditory learner). 

Tonight, make sure you read chapter 17, as well as any of chapter 16 not read.

Have a great day!  The painting I’m sharing on this entry is called “Paris Street; Rainy Day” Here is information about it. I love this painting.

Happy Wednesday! Hope you enjoyed your surprise in class essay. I’m enjoying reading them!  Homework is to read chapter 15 and 16, but you already know that, because you wrote it down in your agenda. Right? Right? 🙂