Jan. 30, 2012

Students took a vocabulary 10 quiz today. Students also had a chance to view an older version of Romeo and Juliet in order to compare and contrast the two versions and comment on them for an online forum discussion.

Jan. 27, 2012

Students demonstrated understanding of adverbs in class today with a short adverb exercise online. We read the rest of Act 1:1 from Romeo and Juliet. We watched some of the modern version of the play and talked about whether or not it works for the students. We also talked about vocabulary and collected points for it. Students have a vocab quiz next class.

Flipping Classes Article

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FLIPPING-- For those curious

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Jan. 25, 2012

Students are going to be given videos to watch in class that I want them to review at home if possible. They are meant to give instruction so that I can answer questions in class and help them understand the concept. This is called FLIPPING. It will benefit most of our students! We are starting Adverbs!!! Students will be reading Romeo and Juliet in class too. Students are learning MLA style formatting for essays. And, as always, vocabulary is an ongoing topic in my class.

Jan. 23, 2012

WELCOME TO SECOND SEMESTER!

Today we talked about Shakespeare! We talked about MLA formatting for research papers. Students are to define vocabulary 10 for next class. VOCAB 10

CONCESSION CONCISE
CONDENSE CONDITIONAL
CONFERENCE CONFIRM
CONFISCATE CONFORM
CONFUSION CONGESTION
CONSCIENCE CONSCIOUS
CONSEQUENCE CONSEQUENTLY
CONSISTENT

Jan. 16, 2012

Students took a short quiz on DeathWatch today. Students also wrote up a review for the final exam. It will include an essay, vocabulary, and grammar sentences.

Jan. 12, 2012

Students wrote an essay for class today about the positives or negatives of facebook. Students need to finish Deathwatch for a short quiz and prepare for exams by looking at vocabulary and grammar from the semester. Have a great long weekend!

Jan. 10, 2012

Students did a free write today to start class. We talked about adjectives today. Students should have a review sheet for a quiz on Deathwatch Friday and Monday. Students need to finish reading the book over the next couple of days.

Jan. 6 and 9

Students did some reading of DeathWatch. I would like them to complete the book by the end of this week or the beginning of next week. There are two worksheets on adjectives that students are to complete for Tuesday and Wednesday. We did some describing of interesting pictures in class. Students should be studying vocabulary for their final exam.

Jan. 5 2012

Students read some of Deathwatch in class and finished up their list for vocabulary on the exam. We talked about adjectives and students are doing an online reading to identify them and critique them.

January 4, 2012

Students are starting to prepare for finals. They were asked to write down words that they missed on vocabulary quizzes all semester so that they can work on sentences for them. They will have to write sentences with them on their final. Students are also finishing up DeathWatch for the next couple of weeks. All quizzes and writings need to be made up before exams or they will be marked as missing in the gradebook.