Week of September 28

All Language Classes
Daily Oral Language test tomorrow, Tuesday, on sentences 7-10 of Week 1 which should be in the DOL notebook.
All students will have spelling test on Thursday. Classwork/ homework is worth 50% of the test grade. Go back to blog entry 9/21 for list of the words.
Students have 10 days from today to have all 15 AR points.
Get AR Reading Report and STAR Test results signed by parent.

Periods 1, 3 6, and 7
Students are given a full class period to work with vocab/spelling words as follows:
1. Write in cursive.
2. Write each of the 15 words from last week 2 times.
3. Copy the one word definition off of the board during class.
4. Write a sentence demonstrating that you know what each word means that is a minimum of 6 words in length.
5. Do 1-5 Part C in the workbook that we are using in class.
Students may finish this for homework if they do not complete it in class.
Each of these categories is worth 10 points or 50% of the spelling test grade. On Thursday, you should have the work finished. You will have 10 of the 15 words each of which is worth 5 points on the spelling test. The test itself is worth 50 points plus classwork/homework which is 50 points totals the 100 points test grade.

AP Language
1. Write in cursive.
2. Use each word in a sentence of at least 6 words in length demonstrating that you know the definition of each of the 15 words.
3. Start each sentence with a prepositional phrase.
4. Read the selection on pages 30 & 31 of the workbook before answering questions 1-5.

Congratulations

Many students already have the 15 required AR points which are due on October 8th. Congratulations go to the following students who have gone above what was asked of them.

Matt Parker(82 points), Katie Robinson (56.2 points), Drew Armstong (44 points), Josh Heichelbeck(42.8 points), Emily Lowery (31.9 points), Aubrey Luallen (30 points), Zaria Roberson (30 points), Taylor Brooks (24.7 points), Jacob Riddle (22.0 points)

Week of September 21st

Students will be working in groups for the next 2 week to learn the meaning and spelling of the 15 words on the vocabulary list. The goal is for the student to incorporate the words into their oral and written vocabularies. Students are doing book work and playing vocabulary games with the words this week. Spelling/vocabulary test will be on Thursday of next week.
Periods 1, 3, 6, an 7

1. application - use
2. appreciate - think well of
3. attention - notice
4. career - work
5. common - familiar
6. courteous - polite
7. deceive -trick
8. devour - eaten
9. direct - straight
10.disguise - conceal
11.honorable - noble
12.landscape - scenery
13.serious -not joking
14.troubled - worried
15.victims of - killed by

Period 8 - PreAP

1. belittle
2. blase' This is not actually an apostrophe but the mark over the e that causes it to be pronounced as a long a.
3. concoct
4. decade
5. diverse
6. enunciate
7. hurtle
8. improvise
9. jostle
10.libel
11.mammoth
12.paradox
13.provincial
14.realm
15.undermine

Grade reports will come home again this Friday. Sign these and return on Monday. Remember all 15 AR points should be in the computer by October 8th.

Week of September 14

Students will complete the "Why Read" essay. Please have an adult proofread the rough draft on Thursday afternoon before it is rewritten in blue or black ink in cursive to be turned in on Friday. Paper may be typed, but this is not a requirement.
Deadline for the first 5 AR points to be in the computer is this Thursday!

Week of September 8

Students are bringing their progress reports for all subjects home on Friday, 9/4.
Students will take their first Daily Oral Language Test on Wednesday, 9/10, on sentences 1-6.
These sentences should be in their DOL notebooks. I will give one of the 6 sentences. Students will be required to correct it just as it is in the notebook including the grammar rules for each mistake. Students will be allowed to use their grammar rules during the test.
Students will write an essay, "Why Read?", during their group work.
Look on page 681 of the the language textbook "Making the Plan". The paper should begin with a definition of reading in the Introductoy Paragraph section. Use at least 2 of the bullets from the introductory section other than the quote. Choose at least 3 reasons that you feel reading is important. Develop a 5 sentence paragraph for each of these reasons using the Body Paragraphs section on page 681. I will give students a list of quotes from the internet that they may use in the Concluding Paragraph section. Student will use all 3 of those bullets to write the final paragraph. Please proofread it on Thusday night, September 17, before the rewrite is written that afternoon in blue or black ink in cursive and is turned in on Friday, September 18.