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English I students
are learning new vocab words, understanding our language by studying idioms, and reading books they chose in their own Lexile
range. With their independent reading, they must finish 400 pages each quarter, find 5 new words and record them, take
plot notes, and create a mini book poster to present after finishing each book. We are adding a new dimension
to class by learning independent and dependent clauses as well as sentence formulas for compound, complex, and compound-complex
sentence structures. Students are reviewing their parts of speech as we go.
Students will add the dimension of
choral reading to their English I repetoire this week and next. The experience will culminate with writing
and performing a choral reading with a group of classmates. In December, students will write a narrative essay.
American Literature students are in the midst of the Mark Twain/Huckleberry
Finn unit. Both classes are reading and discussing chapters 32 to the end of the novel this
week. Study guides are given to students to help them read Huck Finn and then used for discussion during
class. Students may encounter a pop quiz or be asked to do a journal response over a theme from the novel on any day
that assigned reading is due. Students are also viewing and taking notes over a documentary which is devided into five
segments: the novel Huck Finn, the author Mark Twain, life in antebellum south, the perspective of four critics of
Huck Finn (professors), and a censorship case over Huck Finn in Tempe, Arizona.
HCC
Comp. I students are working on finalizing the Summary/Response essay for Wednesday.
At that point, students will be put into groups for peer reviewing.
Media
Students will start preparing for their ad campaign which raises funds for the yearbook. The yearbook cover has been
submitted to the plant.
Composition students are finalizing their
annotated bibliographies by Wednesday. All work must be turned in Tuesday at the latest to be graded before it goes
into the binder for the binder grade.
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