Daily+Summaries

On this page you will be creating daily summaries of class activities. I've started us off. You continue from here! Summarize the day's activities for your classmates with this thinking in mind: "make sure someone not present would understand what we covered and did in today's class." toc

January 21, 2009 (this is heading 2)
(this is NORMAL text) Today Mr. Snyder went over classroom expectations and explained the course. He handout books, then we got out laptops, navigated to the class wiki, and filled out an information survey. The survey asked us about our technology skills and asked us to record any damage to our books. Mr. S.

January 22, 2009
We started Daily Grammar Activities today, with Mr. Snyder taking us through the process. Copy the sentence down twice. On the first copy of the sentence, mark the parts of speech. On the second copy of the sentence, mark the sentence parts. We will deal with a third copy of the sentence tomorrow where we will punctuate it and decide what KIND of sentence it is. We then watched Obama's inaugural address, looking for a "one-liner" that is going to stand the text of time. We have to be able to explain WHY we think that is the case. Mr. S.

January 23, 2009
Mrs. Thorpe joined class for course selection. This took the entire block. Mr. S.

January 29, 2009
Today we began class by writing a new sentence in our journals. We copied down the same sentence two times. Then, we labeled the parts of speech and the sentence parts. After we completed that, we got out the quiz questions that we created. These included ten sentences, each one using a different word that is commonly misused or misspelled. We traded papers with a friend and answered each others questions. Once we were finished, we traded back and made corrections. Finally, we were assigned a story to read out of the literature book, and were given a worksheet to complete. This worksheet will be due as homework. -Nikki H

January 30th, 2009
Today in class we started out by writing in our Journal. Instead of doing the regular journal entry we did something a little different and we answered a passage that was writen in the New York Times. Then shortly after we punctuated our sentence from yesterday. Next we reviewed a story and work sheet which was our homework due for today. The story we read was about Native Americans. We had a cause and effect work sheet due which we got to review with a friend. Then Mr. Snyder gave us our homework which will be due Monday and we ended the class with many kids leaving to go down for a fall sports assembly.-Sarah M:)

February 2, 2009
Class started out by doing our daily journal, which took about 15 min. We then took our grammar quiz on commonly miss used words, we were able to use our notes. Once every one finised we went over the story we read for home work and took a short two question quiz. Lastly we listened to the begining of "The Man to Send Rain Clouds." We have a worksheet that needs to be filled out for homework. -Danielle B

February 3, 2009
Today, we started with the usual sentence correction in our journals. Then, we moved on to create posters on "What it means to be a Native American." Using all of the evidence from the three stories we read, we were to write an essay on this topic. This was the homework due for tomorrow. -Ben G

February 5th, 2009
Today, our class went over the excerpt,"From Plymouth Plantation". We discussed this during class and went over how to contrast Fact from Opinion. While doing this, the fire alarm went off and we had to sit outside for the rest of the block. That night we were assigned to read the next story and make make a 5 senses chart about this story. - Dylan Z

February 6th, 2009
Today, our class discussed the previous story, "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano". During this we discussed how and why the main character, Olaudah Equiano, used his five senses in the story. We also discussed who he wrote this story for and why. For homework over the weekend, we had to read the next story in our literature book called "My Sojourn in the Lands of My Ancestors". For this story we had to fill in another example of a Cause and Effect chart. - Patrick S

February 10-11-12, 2009
For these three days, we wrote scripts on what it was like for early americans, recorded our scripts, and shared them with the class. Sincerely, John Post

February 13, 2009
On friday, we went down to the library to do a group project. We got in groups of seven or eight and answered three questions about "The Crucible" using googledocs. We also learned how to use citation maker which is a new program on the school computers. We were in the library the whole block. :] Anna

February 18, 2009
On wednesday, we did the daily sentence. After we got our homework checked and drew pictures on paper that Mr. Snyder put up around the room with the vocab words on it. After we did a polling activity with the clickers. This was the first time we used them. We had no homework tonight.

February 19, 2009
On Thursday, we started off with the daily grammer sentence. Then we started talking about __The Crucible__ some more and started reading it. We got to page 175. So far, we have learned what Salem is like. During our reading, we found out that Betty (whom is living with Reverend Parris) is seriously ill and that Abigail is trying to hide what happened the night before from the adults. Also what really happened was that Betty, Abigail, Mary Warren, Mercy, and Tituba tried to conjure up Ruth's sisters out of the grave. We haven't gotten much farther than this. Our homework for tonight was to do get on wiki and put a few words of phrases describing Salem, The Crucible Story Map- Act 1, and also the Salem-Graphic Organizer in the packet we got on Wednesday. -Brooke B

February 23, 2009 Today in class we began by writing the usual grammar sentences. Afterwards, we discussed which characters in The Crucible believe in or don't believe in witch craft. We Concluded that all the characters believed in which craft except Rebecca, John Proctor and maybe Giles and Rev, Parris. Finally, we began reading. Whatever we didn't finish reading was assigned homework. Since we are done reading Act 1 we can finish the first part of our packet.

February 24, 2009
Tuesday's class started off with completing our daily grammar sentence for the day. We then proceeded to take a short 3-question quiz on act 1 of "The Crucible", Following the quiz we received instructions for our new "SalemSpace" project, in which we are to choose the character from the story that we find most interesting and then to create a look-alike MySpace page for him or her using Keynote. After we had gone over the instructions we acquired laptops and began work on our SalemSpace project. In addition to the SalemSpace project, we also received instructions for a character analysis paper in which we are to choose a character from the story we have well analyzed and then to write a thesis and detailed paragraph about this character's traits. We will have to analyze 2 different characters for 2 separate papers, the first of which is to be due very shortly.

Feburary 25, 2009 Today we started out with a new daily grammer sentence. After we finished the sentence we listened to Act II of __The Crucible__. Act II started in the living room of the Procter's house with Elizabeth waiting for John to get home. Once he got home they got into an argument involving the trials and Abigail. Soon after Mary Warren came back from Salem when she was instructed to stay home. John got in an argument with Mary about her going to Salem for the trials. After that argument Mary Warren gave Elizabeth the doll she knit during the trials and revealed that Elizabeth was mentioned in court. Soon after that Cheever came to take Elizabeth away because Abigail had been stabbed, and she said she felt Elizabeth's spirit when it happened. Cheever found a needle in the doll Mary Warren gave Elizabeth at the same spot Abigail had been stabbed and used that evidence to take Elizabeth away. Before Elizabeth leaves John tells her he will bring her home soon. We managed to get through the entire act so we could finish the Act II part of our packet except for the Literary Analysis SkillBuilder page, which Mr. Snyder said we would do together. There was extra time at the end of class that was used to either work on homework, work on the character paragraphs due friday, of work on the "Salem Space." - Jenn D.