Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Wednesday - September 07, 2011

DOL 5 -

- will you read the novel the martian chronicles or will you read the magazine article scientific mysteries over the weekend.

- I will lay down for a while and then go watch the movie saving private ryan.

Greek 3
-Eu - Good - Eulogy (the nice things said at a person's funeral.
-Caco - bad - Cacography (terrible handwriting)

2nd Per:  Finish reading 5 paragraph essays to each other.  Begin discussion of why we still read things like Shakespeare.  What do you think?  We will be reading from the text on page 967 tomorrow.

3rd Per:  Group edit 5 paragraph essays to see if they meet criteria.

4th Per:  Small groups work on memorizing the locations of the 50 states with the flashcards.  Short game of around the world with state's locations.  Discuss the presidential debates going on tonight and Obama's new $300,000,000,000 bailout he is giong to discuss tomorrow night.

5th Per:  Finished reading the 5 paragraph essay introductions to the class.  Begin considering the question "Why read Shakespeare?"  We will discuss this in class tomorrow.

6th Per:  Reading day

8th Per:

- Daily Grammar Lessons #9, 10 - working with helping verbs, contractions, and adverbs.  Website:  www.dailygrammar.com

- Begin outlining the topic or thesis of a 5 paragraph essay.  There must be a point to prove - which is your thesis.  Then you need 3 points to try and prove that you have a good argument.  We'll continue these tomorrow.

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