Homework for Monday - 5 Februrary - A Day

Just another Manic Monday as they say...

Russian I

Today I saw many of you do great work to fully learn your cases and endings as they related to adjectives, nouns, and possessive pronouns. Remember that every night you should spend time with this content so that you can navigate these changes with words as you use them. This is why we have our project around our houses. Be sure that as you plan your floor plan that you have picked four different rooms (at least) and have two pieces of furniture in each. You need to describe all of these rooms and items.

You should spend time tonight with the reading at the beginning of Chapter Two. It's a good way to practice and prepare with your quiz. As you read, be able to answer the following questions:

1. Who is the narrator? Where does he live? With whom?
2. What does the narrator do on a daily basis?
3. What type of things does the narrator have?
4. Is the narrator similar to you or different? How?

Don't forget that you will have a quiz on Friday related to cases - nominative, genitive, and prepositional. You'll need to know how to work with adjectives, nouns, and possessive pronouns.

Advanced Russian

We will continue to work on our projects daily in class before turning them in next week. As a reminder, you should be working with our key verbs of motion and the useful vocabulary around transit that we developed in class or from our textbooks. Do not use translators for this work at all. It is very easy to make mistakes with translators and then learn the wrong thing. Don't do this! Also, using a translator is considered to be cheating - don't do this either!

For tonight continue to work on exercises to practice your skills with verbs of motion. Focus on Exercise 12 in Chapter 6. Work through the five sentences and accomplish a-e with each sentence. If you are in Russian III, activate your prefixed verbs of motion as you do steps c, d, and e.

We will review this work next class as well as other exercises before continuing to work on our projects.

English IV

You all did a great job today looking at examples of the Gothic in our episode of The Simpsons. All of this work on Gothic and Romantic literature is going to be very helpful for us as we begin our study of Frankenstein at the end of this week (most likely). Next class will be our last full time to work on our projects before we move on to presenting them to our classmates. Be sure that you and your group are working hard to meet your goal.