Friday, August 29- Day 14

1. SSR
2. STEM
3. Vaso de la muerte
4. Update our charts

Homework- have a great weekend!!

Thursday, August 28-Day 13

1. SSR
2. SDL
3. CHARTS- sorry I have put this off
4. Most Dangerous Game

Homework- Complete Most Dangerous Game

Wednesday, August 27- Day 12

1. SSR
2. STEM
3. Bill Cosby Quiz
4. Go over charts/update

Homework- Read The Most Dangerous Game

Tuesday, August 26- Day 11

1. SSR
2. SDL
3. Continue Most Dangerous Game
      Most Dangerous Game Questions


Homework- Read Most Dangerous Game

Monday, August 25- Day 10

1. SSR
2. Quote of the week
3. Continue Most Dangerous Game


Homework- Most Dangerous Game

Friday, August 22- Day 9

1. SSR
2. STEM
3. Vaso- this will be fun
4. Writing Examples
5. Continue Most Dangerous Game

Thursday, August 21- Day 8

1. SSR
2. SDL
3. Continue with The Most Dangerous Game

Exposition
Characterization
Conflict

Homework- Continue reading

Wednesday, August 20- Day 7

1. SSR
2. Stem Response- we will need to create these sheets
3. Practice sentences with a partner and go over them


We need to know these sentences!!!

Tuesday, August 19- Day 6

1. SSR
2. Quote of the week- keep this
3. Goodreads and how we will do book projects
4. Sentence Structures
5. Practice from little grammar books page 103


Homework- write two types of each sentence

Monday, August 18 - Day 5

1. Time to write.  You have the entire period to compose your essay about who you are.  It must be three paragraphs and contain the items we discussed in class.  Here they are again if you forgot them

Friday, August 15- Day 4

Meet in the Media Center.  We will be having orientation there today.

Thursday, August 14- Day 3

1. Get into groups of three and go over the elaboration you created.  Your group members should listen to your ideas and provide you feedback on how to make your ideas more vivid.  Your group members should be asking you a lot of questions to make your work more detailed!

2. How will you be graded?  Let's create that right now.  What are 5 things you must do in your essay?

3. Prewriting- use the remainder of class to organize your essay.

Homework:

1. Finish your prewriting....you need to be ready to write when you walk into class tomorrow.
2. Get an SSR book

Wednesday, August 13- Day 2

Great job yesterday.  You did a nice job adjusting to everything that happened.  For about the first week, you will need to get use to the Chromebooks.  Sometimes they just do not work.  In time, you will be seamless with the.

Sorry, but I forgot to give you some very valuable info yesterday.  Here it is:

• Seats-I got them figured out
• Tasks-how they work in your Google Calendar
• my email- jrossetti@student.leyden212.org

1. Who is Mr. Rossetti???
2. Your writing assignment
3. What is good writing?

• clear paragraph construction
• support and elaboration
• wrap it up

4. Elaborate upon your 5 topics from your homework.  This is where you add in specific details.

Homework:

1. Finish elaborating upon the 5 topics you created yesterday

2. Get an SSR book

Tuesday, August 12- Day 1

1. Attendance
2. Seats...maybe.  It depends how organized I am.
3.Blogger- save this link.  This is how you will receive info in my class
4. Getting to know your classmates.....- make a copy of this DOC and place it in your English Folder
5. What are the expectations for this class- get into groups now that you know each other


Homework-

1. You are going to be writing a short essay about yourself.  Please list 5 things you would like for me to know about you.  These can be very general.  We will get specific details later.

2. Get an SSR book for Monday...Hopefully, we will be going to the media center later this week to check out some books.

Monday, August 11- Institute Day

Institute Day- NO SCHOOL