Sunday, March 22, 2009

LA SYLLABUS - WEEK OF MARCH 23, 2009

Announcements:
  • If you did not finish and submit your final copy of the Ethnic Festival essay last week in the media center, it is due Monday, 3/23.
  • Check in your next self-selected novel by Tuesday, 3/24.
  • Report cards went home last Friday. Return signed envelopes to your current core extension teacher.
  • Retake for last week’s vocabulary quiz is Wednesday @ lunch. See me for a pass.
  • Take home last month’s book report projects by Wednesday.
  • Elective sign up sheets for the next school year were mailed home. Complete with your parents and return to your advisory teacher by Thursday.
  • Next core extension rotation begins on Wednesday.
  • Study session cancelled for this week.

Monday:
  • In-class: Assign roles for mystery (drama) The Hounds of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Begin reading.
  • Vocabulary Lesson #13 (words from play). Write a definition for each word by Tuesday.
  1. divulge
  2. distraught
  3. dissuade
  4. rational
  5. arsenic
  6. specter
  7. fidelity
  8. captivating (adj)
  9. evasive
  10. foreboding

Tuesday:
  • Collect vocabulary homework.
  • Distribute copy of the book report format.
  • Continue reading and discussing play.

Wednesday:
  • Finish reading and discussing play.
  • Return vocabulary homework and review for quiz.

Thursday:
  • Vocabulary Quiz #13
  • Writing Workshop

Friday:
  • SSR (bring your self-selected novels to class)
  • Writing Workshop sharing.

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