Monday:  Read textbook pages 480-485, do SGB pages 194-197.  Due Thursday.

Tuesday:  Read textbook pages 486-491, do SGB pages 198-200.  Due Thursday.

Wednesday:  No school

Thursday:  Finish Outer Planet Booklet

Friday:  None

Have an AR science book to show Mrs. Cassar next week! (unless you have already done your AR book for this quarter.)

11/09/09 Accelerated Language Arts 8

Homework:

-AR reading

-Please bring in food for our canned food drive—let’s think of people in need in our community

- WW Review Packet: Lessons 1-3

Agenda:

Correct WW p. 37, 76-78

The Giver Final Project:

Read and discuss handout

Brainstorm/free write

Outline

Rough draft

11/09/09 Humanities Core 7

Pass up: 4.2 Cornell Notes

Homework:

LA: Wordly Wise 9 B and C

Please bring food for our canned food drive—seventh graders deserve to sit in the bleachers

Read: 30-60 minutes

Take AR tests before school, at break, at lunch, and after school within 3 days of finishing the book.

S.S. 4.2 Review

Bring your ID card every day—especially TUESDAY!

Senior Baskets due December 10^th!

Books You’ll Need Tomorrow: SS, AR, WW

Agenda:

-Correct WW 9A

-Begin WW 9 B and C

-Flash cards for WW 9

-Orange Grammar: Verbs p. 40 “Developing Writing Skills” #1-10 –due today!  Underline and label your subject and your verb.  Watch out for the “to” and the “-ing”…

Notice the difference between these sentences:

I sing in the shower.

I like to sing.

What is the verb in each sentence?

Turn your OG: Verbs p. 40 DWS in to Ms. EL when you finish

-AR Time

-How to Attack a Writing Prompt (Response to Literature)

Finish notes

-Correct S.S. 4.2 Notes

English 8

• AR 30 min.
• WW 8A

Core 7

• AR 30 min.
• WW 8A

Monday, Nov. 9- Pg. 115, #1-19
Tuesday, Nov. 10-Pg. 118, #1-14
Wed, Nov, 11- HOLIDAY
Thurs. Nov. 12- Pg 122, #1-19
Fri, Nov. 13- No Homework- TEST on Section 2.5 today.

Accel Pre-Algebra:  p.155-156                                   periods:1,4,5,6

Tutoring is now only on Mondays

Pre-Algebra: p.67-68                                                  period:2

Tutoring is now only on Wednesdays

11/06/09 Accelerated Language Arts 8

IMPORTANT: DC people, this is your homework:

WW packet (handout on front table, stapled)

Project for Giver (handout on front table, unstapled)

WW p.37, 76-78 (do these two review activities in your WW book)

ALL due Tuesday, November 17

—Please see me before you leave if you have any questions—

Homework:

-AR reading

-Please bring in food for our canned food drive—let’s think of people in need in our community

- WW p.37, 76-78 (do these two review activities in your WW book)

Agenda:

The Giver Vocabulary Test and Scantron test

11/06/09 Humanities Core 7

Homework:

LA: Wordly Wise 9 A & bring blank index cards

Please bring food for our canned food drive—seventh graders deserve to sit in the bleachers

Read: 30-60 minutes

Take AR tests before school, at break, at lunch, and after school within 3 days of finishing the book.

S.S. 4.2 Cornell Notes (2-3 bullets per paragraph!)

Bring your ID card every day—especially TUESDAY!

Books You’ll Need Tomorrow: SS, AR, WW

Agenda:

-Correct WW 8E

-WW 8 Test

-AR Time

-S.S. 4.1 Quiz

-How to Attack a Writing Prompt (Response to Literature)

-Exit Slip: Quick Quiz on Writing Prompt (Response to Literature)

-Orange Grammar: Verbs p. 40, Ex. B #1-10:

• Write out the sentences and skip lines
• Label “s” for subject and underline it
• Label “v” for verb and underline it
• KEEP and read when you are done

-Read AR

- Correct S.S. 4.1 Review

-“Arabian Nights”

11/05/09 Accelerated Language Arts 8

Happy Birthday, Eli!

IMPORTANT: DC people, this is your homework:

WW packet (handout on front table, stapled)

Project for Giver (handout on front table, unstapled)

WW p.37, 76-78 (do these two review activities in your WW book)

ALL due Tuesday, November 17

—Please see me before you leave if you have any questions—

Homework:

-AR reading

-Please bring in food for our canned food drive—let’s think of people in need in our community

-The Giver:

Test Friday

Study class discussion notes

Study vocabulary words

Agenda:

-Correct WW 8D and E

-WW 8 Test

-Whole class discussion

11/05/09 Humanities Core 7

Pass up: S.S. 4.1 Review

Homework:

LA: Wordly Wise 8E—Test tomorrow!

Please bring food for our canned food drive—seventh graders deserve to sit in the bleachers

Read: 30-60 minutes

Take AR tests before school, at break, at lunch, and after school within 3 days of finishing the book.

S.S. 4.1 Quiz tomorrow—study!

Bring your ID card every day—especially TUESDAY!

Books You’ll Need Tomorrow: SS, AR, WW

Agenda:

-Correct WW 8D

-Begin WW 8E

-Orange Grammar: Verbs p. 40, Ex. B #1-10:

• Write out the sentences and skip lines
• Label “s” for subject and underline it
• Label “v” for verb and underline it
• KEEP and read when you are done

-Read AR

- Correct S.S. 4.1 Review

-“Arabian Nights”

AR reading is continuing.  The end of the quarter deadline to take a quiz is:

Friday, December 11, 2009.

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M  11/9   Read “Last Mission” in class.

T 11/10  Complete study sheets for the “Last Mission”

W   Holiday

Th 11/12   Finish study sheets and prepare for a test on the story for Friday.

F  11/13   Test on the ”Last Mission”

Friday, November 06, 2009

History Alive

Background Essay Quiz

Continue Round 2

Vocabulary work

Homework: AR reading Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

Study Skills

Binder Reminder Check

Quiet Work Time

Homework: Check with teachers about missed work

Check grades on line

Core

Roots Up word

Final day for in-class research

Add closing ideas to topics

Prepositions

List of 55 to learn

Homework: AR Reading

Complete research if needed

All subtopics should be complete and outlined

Learn the 10 A prepostions

Thursday, November 5, 2009

History Alive

Numbers Test

Round 2 continued

Key Terms

Copy the list and begin defining the words as each applies to Japan

Homework:  AR novel

Begin learning the meanings of the key terms

Study Skills

Binder Reminder check

Quiet Work Time

Progress letters collected

Homework:  Copy your homework for all classes

Core

Roots Up word

Adjective Test

Research

5 topic outlines due

Homework: AR reading

Research topics fill gaps in topics

Review Roots Up words

Intra District Transfer Form revised SPANISH

Sexual Harassment Permission

Intra Enrollment information English

Intra Enrollment information Spanish