SYLLABUS - WEEK OF NOVEMBER 12, 2007

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Community Service Projects through advisory:

1. Pennies for Pearl Harbor

2 Box Tops for Education (will go towards front lawn of school)

3. Used Coat Drive

• · LA study session has been moved from Friday morning to Tuesday 3:40 – 4:15 P.M. in order to review for the grammar test.
• · Study the following grammar book pages, in addition to your “class notes” (diagrams from class practice): Pgs. 276-278. Other helpful pages: 10, 12, and 21.
• · Remember to go to my website (see above) and vote for one or more of the student-generated titles that you think would be better than the original My Brother Sam is Dead. Polls close in two days.
• · Last day of the trimester: November 20^th.

• · New book report assignment was assigned last week. Students should check in a novel by Monday, 11/12. Genre: student choice. Book report is due the week of 12/10.

Monday:

• · Journal
• · If you were absent on Friday, you will make up vocabulary test in class today.
• · 1st and 2^nd period only: Discuss “Immigrant Kids.”
• · Extended 6^th and 7^th period only: Review for Wednesday’s grammar test and begin reading excerpt from “Exploring the Titanic.”

Tuesday:

• · LA Trivia
• · Return last Friday’s vocabulary test.
• · 6^th and 7^th period (in class): Finish reading and discussing “Exploring the Titanic.”
• · Extended 1^st and 2^nd period: Review for Wednesday’s grammar test.

Wednesday:

• · Journal
• · Grammar Test
• · Begin reading and discussing Rudyard Kipling’s “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” in class.

Thursday:

• LA Trivia
• · Finish reading and discussing “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” in class.
• · Return final novel assignment grades.
• Extended 6^th and 7^th period: Brainstorm controversial topics at the local, national, and global level (these will be used as topics for next assignment).
  

Friday:

• · Distribute “Word Power” Bingo List. These words will be used in our bingo game next week and will be the last opportunity for earning extra credit.
• · Workshop: Come prepared to read your self-selected novel, study word power bingo list, extra journal writing and sharing, or check out great student writing (final novel assignments) on display.
• Extended 1^st and 2^nd period: Brainstorm controversial topics at the local, national, and global level (these will be used as topics for next assignment).