Mr. Hawley - Burlington School Daily English Lessons

Wednesday - Feb 06, 2013

7th Grade:  
-DOL: RC Helicopter manual mistakes.  Funny stuff, but confusing
-Study for spelling test tomorrow.
-Turn in Journal 3 for the week (Paradigm shift)
-Read Walmart Cart descriptions to class.
-Technical Writing - Block building exercise:  I passed out 3 foam building blocks to each student.  They had to stack them vertically, and then write a description of how to stack them.  Students exchanged blocks and instructions, and tried to replicate the block structure.  It is much more challenging than it sounds.  Every aspect must be considered.  This was a practice round.  Tomorrow, the real assignment will happen with Legos and we will be using more pieces.  It's fun, but challenging to get it right.

8th Grade: 
-DOL:
-Pass in Journals
-Pass in Questions from yesterday's homework pg 508 # 1,2,4,5,6
-We started reviewing MLA citation formats in preparation of our History Day papers coming up next week.

10th Grade:
-DOL
-Read persuasive arguments for or against the Dog articles by Cesar Milan and Mark Derr.
-Persuasive essay from Mr. Hawley about what it takes to succeed in college.
-Political Ads for and against other oponents.  We will be watching several examples of these tomorrow. 
-Begin thinking seriously about a topic you want to argue for the persuasive essay.

History: 
Read Preface in "A History of US" books.  Then work in lab on Projects.  Mr. Hawley has these new books.  They are NEVER to leave the room.  All reading in them must be done in class, or in my room after school, before school, etc.