English 10- We started reading To Kill a Mockingbird. It is not an easy read, so we will be taking our time and listening to some as well as reading aloud. There are a lot of points available for this novel as long as the students do the reading or follow along with the reading.
English 12- We are coming to a close with the memoir The Glass Castle. Most of my students have really enjoyed this novel. They have even read ahead for fun! Once we complete the novel we will begin writing the Senior's own memoirs. I hope we will have 20 pages to go in the final draft. This project will be from now until the end of the school year. We will work on it at different times.
Economics- We have just begun Econ. Students will need to really focus on this as it is pretty new information to them. We have spent several days working with opportunity costs. Ask your student what kind of trade off they made today. What is the opportunity cost of that choice you just made? No test coming up as of yet. We have had a vocabulary quiz, but not much in the grade book as we have spent a lot of time working with terminology. we watched a short Youtube clip on opportunity costs. I will offer 5 extra credit points to anyone that makes a short video using opportunity costs. (2-5 minutes)
Monday, February 17, 2014
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Beginning of second semester
Snowy Greetings! I wanted to update my blog, but ran out of time with the end of the semester.
10th Grade English- we are continuing to better writing skills especially 5 paragraph essays. Students will be asked to write a 5 paragraph essay for next years big tests. We are working to develop those skills. The biggest hurdle we need to overcome is paragraph length. Many students don't want to put in the extra effort to make a paragraph that is acceptable in length. It is very hard to persuade anyone when the paragraphs are only three sentences. We will continue to focus on five paragraph essays throughout the year. My tenth grade classes will begin reading To Kill a Mockingbird in the next few weeks.
13th Grade English- The Senior classes are continuing to read The Glass Castle. Upon completion of the memoir, students will be asked to write their own memoir. This will brush up on writing skills and also give meaning to their work. This will be an ongoing project and finish just before graduation. I am hoping to have 20-30 pages of memoir finished by then.
Economics- We have just finished up Civics. We began by taking a pre-test to see if anyone is able to test out of econ. That was not case this semester. We began our first unit yesterday. I explained that knowing the vocabulary will be very important to student success. I have printed out vocabulary sheets that we will stop and fill in as new terms come up. If any parents would like an email to notify them of upcoming test, please let me know.
Have a good Winterfest week!
10th Grade English- we are continuing to better writing skills especially 5 paragraph essays. Students will be asked to write a 5 paragraph essay for next years big tests. We are working to develop those skills. The biggest hurdle we need to overcome is paragraph length. Many students don't want to put in the extra effort to make a paragraph that is acceptable in length. It is very hard to persuade anyone when the paragraphs are only three sentences. We will continue to focus on five paragraph essays throughout the year. My tenth grade classes will begin reading To Kill a Mockingbird in the next few weeks.
13th Grade English- The Senior classes are continuing to read The Glass Castle. Upon completion of the memoir, students will be asked to write their own memoir. This will brush up on writing skills and also give meaning to their work. This will be an ongoing project and finish just before graduation. I am hoping to have 20-30 pages of memoir finished by then.
Economics- We have just finished up Civics. We began by taking a pre-test to see if anyone is able to test out of econ. That was not case this semester. We began our first unit yesterday. I explained that knowing the vocabulary will be very important to student success. I have printed out vocabulary sheets that we will stop and fill in as new terms come up. If any parents would like an email to notify them of upcoming test, please let me know.
Have a good Winterfest week!
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