And now we have all made it! My break won't start until I get through all of my grading, but that will be soon enough. Here are your reminders for what you should be doing to keep yourself busy over break.
English IV
I hope you all enjoyed the ending to Frankenstein today. Consider if what we watched can help you to better complete your essays. I'll start assessing your introduction and body paragraphs over the weekend, so check in with PowerSchool to see your scores and your document for comments.
Over break, you should all get started with your novels. If you read a bit and decide that you don't like it, you still will have time to switch when we begin. When we return we will finish our essays and then move on to our novel projects - remember that you'll have a weekly assignment with your book!
Advanced Russian
Over break you should all finish revising your rough drafts and probably get everything you have into a Google Document. That will make it easier for us to pull together our work and finish the project.
I would also like for all of you to prepare for the next part of the unit. It'll be a place for Russian III and II to be together for a bit - look at pages 271-282 which go over the plural declensions. Then, check in on exercises 6, 7, and 9 to review the usage and declensions for yourself. We'll go over this when we return!
Russian I
When we return, we'll finish working on Ночные Ласточки - Night Swallows - and complete the guides. I liked that many of you were very enthralled in the first episode. Over break, focus on studying for your quiz. I realize that I didn't hand back your work, so we'll push the quiz to Thursday instead of having it on the day that we return.
Remember that the quiz focuses on adverb formation and usages as well as sentence combining. Focus on your vocabulary and your exercises that we reviewed today in class.
Also, break provides you Russian students (I, II, III) a great chance to interact with some Russian. Maybe some reading? Maybe some TV watching? Maybe some movies? Maybe some new Russian music. As always, if you want suggestions, on Russian options, let me know. If you haven't signed up for Olympiada, take a look at the materials with your DPS login and think about joining our team!
AP Students - If you were planning on turning in a paper today after-school you noticed that I left immediately after school. One paper was given to me in the parking lot as I was getting in my car - no joke! - so now papers will be collected after Spring Break. Please have your paper for me on Monday morning when we return with its supporting documents. Your paper will be subject to a late penalty.
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Homework for Spring Break - B Day Students - 28 March 2018
Happy Break B-Day Students! I look forward to seeing you all when we return. I hope that you have a bit of fun planned for yourselves as well as time with people who are important to you. I'll get to spend a few days with my very best friend in the world, and I'm really excited for that!
English IV
As a reminder, I'll be grading your introduction and body paragraphs this weekend in your Frankenstein adaptation essay. Make sure that as you are working that you first address the feedback that I gave you with your introduction. Then, once you've done that, move on to your first body paragraph.
I gave you those example paragraphs to use as a model for yourselves, but you also have the other planning sheets that you can use to help you move forward with your essays.
AP English III
Over the break you have two significant tasks. First, finish reading "The Allegory of the Cave" from 50 Essays or at this link. As you finish the dialogue, make sure that you consider the questions below.
English IV
As a reminder, I'll be grading your introduction and body paragraphs this weekend in your Frankenstein adaptation essay. Make sure that as you are working that you first address the feedback that I gave you with your introduction. Then, once you've done that, move on to your first body paragraph.
I gave you those example paragraphs to use as a model for yourselves, but you also have the other planning sheets that you can use to help you move forward with your essays.
AP English III
Over the break you have two significant tasks. First, finish reading "The Allegory of the Cave" from 50 Essays or at this link. As you finish the dialogue, make sure that you consider the questions below.
- Where do ideas come from? What makes some ideas better than others?
- How is the creation and acquisition of knowledge connected to power?
- How has Ellison been building connections back to Plato throughout his text?
Once you've finished with that, you have Chapters 20-24 to read over the break. As I said in class, the quiz that you have can reference everything back to Chapter 10. It would be a good idea to go through and check in on your annotations through those chapters to make sure that your book is an appropriate tool to help you be successful on the quiz when we return.
Lastly, if you did not turn in your paper or vocabulary cards today then you will want to get them turned in tomorrow!
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Homework for A Day Students - 27 March 2018
It's the beginning of Quarter 4, and we are starting in earnest. Be aware that our final quarter is a quick one; we'll have fewer assignments this quarter, but that means that each one will be worth a lot more!
English IV
Today we spent time really focused on our essays, and then we went to the computer lab to focus on drafting. On your Google Drive document you should now be focused on developing a full introduction paragraph as well as a full first body paragraph. I'll check in on these at the end of the week and give you a grade on this work. I gave you a good version of the body paragraph, but an okay version of the introduction today as a model. Use these as you are working. Remember the topic of your essay. Use and explain your examples!
Advanced Russian
Next class we will be in the computer lab for half of our class focused on our vocabulary and grammar projects! Be sure that you apply the notes from our writing conference today today so that you can complete your drafts. We'll be constructing visuals and final drafts next class - so be ready for that with finished and corrected drafts.
We will also have a short vocabulary quiz next week. It will focus on nouns, adjectives, some verbs, and translations. I think that this quiz will be relatively easy for you - if you've been consistently working on your project, there should be no issues.
Russian I
Next class we'll be doing our weekly homework review. There are three exercises that you need to complete before our workshop next class. They are as follows:
English IV
Today we spent time really focused on our essays, and then we went to the computer lab to focus on drafting. On your Google Drive document you should now be focused on developing a full introduction paragraph as well as a full first body paragraph. I'll check in on these at the end of the week and give you a grade on this work. I gave you a good version of the body paragraph, but an okay version of the introduction today as a model. Use these as you are working. Remember the topic of your essay. Use and explain your examples!
Advanced Russian
Next class we will be in the computer lab for half of our class focused on our vocabulary and grammar projects! Be sure that you apply the notes from our writing conference today today so that you can complete your drafts. We'll be constructing visuals and final drafts next class - so be ready for that with finished and corrected drafts.
We will also have a short vocabulary quiz next week. It will focus on nouns, adjectives, some verbs, and translations. I think that this quiz will be relatively easy for you - if you've been consistently working on your project, there should be no issues.
Russian I
Next class we'll be doing our weekly homework review. There are three exercises that you need to complete before our workshop next class. They are as follows:
- Page 123 - Exercise 3.6 - Change the word in parenthesis into an adverb, place it in the sentence, translate the sentence.
- Page 125 - Exercise 3.8 - Combine the sentences with the proper conjunction, translate the combined sentence.
- Page 130 - Exercise 3.17 - Answer the question When/Когда using adverbs of time. Answer in complete sentences. Translate. You only have to answer seven of the fifteen.
Lastly, Russian students, look over the description of the Olympiada to the right. If you would like to compete, please let me know in class on Thursday.
Monday, March 26, 2018
Homework for B-Day Students: 26 March 2018
English IV
Today we began our quarter with our unit test on Frankenstein. I'll have these graded and returned to you when we return from Spring Break. I hope that you all felt well prepared and successful. Tonight it would be a good idea to make sure that you have started on your adaptation essay. If you haven't yet shared a document with me that includes your introduction work, make sure that you do.
Next class we'll be looking at some sample work as well as working in the computer lab to continue our essay development.
AP English III
Lots of good work today around symbols and their meanings. I enjoyed hearing a lot of connections back to the ideas of necropolitics and control through the text. Make sure that the symbols we discussed find their way to your cover annotations.
For tonight you have your research papers as your main focus. We went over in class the various documents that will go with your envelope and how to account for any documents that are missing. Additionally, we reviewed formatting. See these documents (3B) and (4B) for examples of perfect MLA formatting. Everything for your papers is due to me on Wednesday. Any paper collected after 4:15 PM on Wednesday will be considered late.
Over Break you have the reading of Invisible Man - Chapters 20 through 24. Lots of major events happen in these chapters including a lot of big events to Tod Clifton. Notice them and how they affect and finally change TIM. Expect a quiz and an annotation check when we return from break.
Finally, next class we'll be working through an essay by Plato - the Greek philosopher. We'll be reading it aloud in class, so, prepare by doing some light research about him. What did he study? What did he do? Why are we still reading and talking about him?
Today we began our quarter with our unit test on Frankenstein. I'll have these graded and returned to you when we return from Spring Break. I hope that you all felt well prepared and successful. Tonight it would be a good idea to make sure that you have started on your adaptation essay. If you haven't yet shared a document with me that includes your introduction work, make sure that you do.
Next class we'll be looking at some sample work as well as working in the computer lab to continue our essay development.
AP English III
Lots of good work today around symbols and their meanings. I enjoyed hearing a lot of connections back to the ideas of necropolitics and control through the text. Make sure that the symbols we discussed find their way to your cover annotations.
For tonight you have your research papers as your main focus. We went over in class the various documents that will go with your envelope and how to account for any documents that are missing. Additionally, we reviewed formatting. See these documents (3B) and (4B) for examples of perfect MLA formatting. Everything for your papers is due to me on Wednesday. Any paper collected after 4:15 PM on Wednesday will be considered late.
Over Break you have the reading of Invisible Man - Chapters 20 through 24. Lots of major events happen in these chapters including a lot of big events to Tod Clifton. Notice them and how they affect and finally change TIM. Expect a quiz and an annotation check when we return from break.
Finally, next class we'll be working through an essay by Plato - the Greek philosopher. We'll be reading it aloud in class, so, prepare by doing some light research about him. What did he study? What did he do? Why are we still reading and talking about him?
Friday, March 23, 2018
Homework for the Weekend - A Day - 23 March
It's the end of the quarter! Hooray! I'll have your grades finalized around noon tomorrow. Make sure that you check by then for all of your extra credit and final assignments. Here are your reminders for the weekend.
English IV
Take it easy this weekend. We had our test today on Frankenstein and I'll have those back to you next week. If you were absent today, be sure to see me next week to make this up before Spring Break.
Advanced Russian
We have vocabulary and grammar projects happening right now. This weekend you need to construct your rough drafts so that we can conference on Tuesday. For Russian II this involves three paragraphs - weather yesterday in Russia and Durham, weather today, and weather tomorrow. For Russian III this involves your ingredients list, your amounts, and your steps in Russian.
Be ready to be productive on Tuesday as we'll very quickly move to the final draft and presentation of this product.
Russian I
Over the weekend you have two exercises to complete for our homework check and review on Tuesday. You will need to complete exercise 3.6 and exercise 3.8. The first focuses on changing words into adverbs and then inserting them into sentences. The second focuses on sentence combining with the proper conjunction.
In both of the exercises, be sure that you translate the sentence that you end up with as a marker of your vocabulary knowledge as well.
English IV
Take it easy this weekend. We had our test today on Frankenstein and I'll have those back to you next week. If you were absent today, be sure to see me next week to make this up before Spring Break.
Advanced Russian
We have vocabulary and grammar projects happening right now. This weekend you need to construct your rough drafts so that we can conference on Tuesday. For Russian II this involves three paragraphs - weather yesterday in Russia and Durham, weather today, and weather tomorrow. For Russian III this involves your ingredients list, your amounts, and your steps in Russian.
Be ready to be productive on Tuesday as we'll very quickly move to the final draft and presentation of this product.
Russian I
Over the weekend you have two exercises to complete for our homework check and review on Tuesday. You will need to complete exercise 3.6 and exercise 3.8. The first focuses on changing words into adverbs and then inserting them into sentences. The second focuses on sentence combining with the proper conjunction.
In both of the exercises, be sure that you translate the sentence that you end up with as a marker of your vocabulary knowledge as well.
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Homework for the Weekend - B Day - 22 March
That's it! We made it. We've reached the end of Quarter Three. Below are the reminders for the weekend to get you ready for the first week of Quarter Four and the beginnings of Spring Break!
English IV
Your homework for the weekend is to prepare for your examination on Monday. You have your study guide which reviews the characters, sections for the test, as well as the themes for the short answer questions. Be sure that you spend time filling in your study guide since you can use that on your test on Monday.
Also, if you see anything missing that you want to turn in, this is your last chance. I'll finalize my gradebook tomorrow afternoon when I finish writing conferences.
AP English III
Over the weekend we have a few things to take care of - some elements related to Invisible Man and then some elements related to your research papers.
First, conferences are ending tomorrow. According to my count there are twenty of you that need to see me tomorrow. Come to your conference, be productive, ask good questions. Once we conference, I'll figure your averages and your grade will be complete.
Second, we have reading to do. You've got Chapters 16-19 in Invisible Man. As you go through this section, connect to our discussion today from Anzaldua. How is controlling the language a person speaks a way to kill them? As we watch TIM progress - is he being himself? Why or why not? Is he falling into the cycles again? Don't forget that your second round of vocabulary cards are due on Monday as well - this set covers Chapters 10 - 19.
Lastly, your final drafts of your papers are due on Wednesday. Be sure that you are actively revising and putting to practice our conversation from the conference. I'll be available on Monday and Tuesday for quick questions and drop-in appointments.
English IV
Your homework for the weekend is to prepare for your examination on Monday. You have your study guide which reviews the characters, sections for the test, as well as the themes for the short answer questions. Be sure that you spend time filling in your study guide since you can use that on your test on Monday.
Also, if you see anything missing that you want to turn in, this is your last chance. I'll finalize my gradebook tomorrow afternoon when I finish writing conferences.
AP English III
Over the weekend we have a few things to take care of - some elements related to Invisible Man and then some elements related to your research papers.
First, conferences are ending tomorrow. According to my count there are twenty of you that need to see me tomorrow. Come to your conference, be productive, ask good questions. Once we conference, I'll figure your averages and your grade will be complete.
Second, we have reading to do. You've got Chapters 16-19 in Invisible Man. As you go through this section, connect to our discussion today from Anzaldua. How is controlling the language a person speaks a way to kill them? As we watch TIM progress - is he being himself? Why or why not? Is he falling into the cycles again? Don't forget that your second round of vocabulary cards are due on Monday as well - this set covers Chapters 10 - 19.
Lastly, your final drafts of your papers are due on Wednesday. Be sure that you are actively revising and putting to practice our conversation from the conference. I'll be available on Monday and Tuesday for quick questions and drop-in appointments.
AP Exam Review Sessions
AP Students
DPS offers AP Exam review sessions at two sessions in April. The sessions are free, and you can attend reviews for up to four exams. There is lunch included. If you are going to attend the sessions then you must register online. See this flyer for information and registration links.
DPS offers AP Exam review sessions at two sessions in April. The sessions are free, and you can attend reviews for up to four exams. There is lunch included. If you are going to attend the sessions then you must register online. See this flyer for information and registration links.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Homework for A-Day: End of the Quarter - 21 March 2018
The snow keeps falling and yet we have no delay...hmm. There were a fair number of absences today, so make sure that you get caught up on what happened in class.
English IV
Today in class we spent time looking at our progress reports and cashing in rubles for some extra credit. Then we spent time reviewing the elements of a good body paragraph and planning for our body paragraphs. As we return to the computer lab next week we will have the goal of finishing our drafts and moving through the body paragraphs.
Next class you have your unit exam on Frankenstein. Be sure that you are spending time with your folders and your notes to complete your study guide. You can use your study guides on the test to help you do your best work. The test and the essay will be part of our Quarter 4 grades.
Advanced Russian
In class today we spent a lot of time working on our projects as well as developing our skills around using the double negative in Russian. This concept is a bit confusing since it is so different from how we navigate this same concept in English. Make sure that you continue to review our exercise today in class as well as the information in Chapter Seven around negation.
Tonight for homework we are focused on reading for Russian II (which will help with project work) as well as just finishing up the first part of the project for Russian III. Listening for Russian II is available at this link. You'll want to fast-forward to around 17:00 to start the recording of the two weather reports. Remember that by listening and practicing you'll be getting more comfortable with your speaking and with your fluency as you speak and read.
Russian III students should be able to finish their recipe card in Russian. What's the dish? What do you need? What are the steps?
Russian I
Today in class we began to work on the second concept in Chapter Three - the creation of adverbs in Russian from adjectives. Remember that, just like English, some words are already adverbs and we can't do anything to them except use them. Other adverbs are formed from adjectives - but not all adjectives can form adverbs!
Tonight to practice with the concept you'll complete Exercise 6 in Chapter Three. You'll see a word in parentheses off to the side. Take the word, make it an adverb, put it in the sentence, and then translate.
English IV
Today in class we spent time looking at our progress reports and cashing in rubles for some extra credit. Then we spent time reviewing the elements of a good body paragraph and planning for our body paragraphs. As we return to the computer lab next week we will have the goal of finishing our drafts and moving through the body paragraphs.
Next class you have your unit exam on Frankenstein. Be sure that you are spending time with your folders and your notes to complete your study guide. You can use your study guides on the test to help you do your best work. The test and the essay will be part of our Quarter 4 grades.
Advanced Russian
In class today we spent a lot of time working on our projects as well as developing our skills around using the double negative in Russian. This concept is a bit confusing since it is so different from how we navigate this same concept in English. Make sure that you continue to review our exercise today in class as well as the information in Chapter Seven around negation.
Tonight for homework we are focused on reading for Russian II (which will help with project work) as well as just finishing up the first part of the project for Russian III. Listening for Russian II is available at this link. You'll want to fast-forward to around 17:00 to start the recording of the two weather reports. Remember that by listening and practicing you'll be getting more comfortable with your speaking and with your fluency as you speak and read.
Russian III students should be able to finish their recipe card in Russian. What's the dish? What do you need? What are the steps?
Russian I
Today in class we began to work on the second concept in Chapter Three - the creation of adverbs in Russian from adjectives. Remember that, just like English, some words are already adverbs and we can't do anything to them except use them. Other adverbs are formed from adjectives - but not all adjectives can form adverbs!
Tonight to practice with the concept you'll complete Exercise 6 in Chapter Three. You'll see a word in parentheses off to the side. Take the word, make it an adverb, put it in the sentence, and then translate.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Homework for B-Day: 20 March - Almost the End of Quarter 3
Next class we'll be doing ruble cash-in for all of our classes. Be sure you have your cash!
English IV
Today we spent much of our class having a seminar around themes in Frankenstein - especially the idea of how society makes judgments on people and the danger of those judgments. We focused strongly on our study guides today - on the study guide you have a good outline of what you will see on the test. We'll have characters, plot, literary devices, and theme questions.
Go through your folders and work to fill in your study guides. Remember that you can use your study guide on the test. Your unit exam will fall on Monday and will be the first big grade of Quarter 4.
We'll also be working on our essays more in the coming days - if you haven't shared your introduction paragraph with me, be sure that you do so that I can get you a grade and feedback.
AP English III
We are continuing with our writing conferences that have been scheduled on my door. If you are not able to make your writing conference it is your responsibility to come at another time. I would recommend that you come after the scheduled conferences on Wednesday-Friday. I should have time to work you in. Remember that this is the last grade of the quarter.
For the week your main task is to get through Chapters 16-19 for Monday of next week. This is a major section of chapters that take TIM into The Brotherhood and has him start to make speeches. Pay attention to what his speeches say and how this is recreating some of the major cycles of the text. You may find it helpful to also take a quick look at the Booker T. Washington speech since there are a lot of parallels between TIM and Booker T.
Lastly, we have reading for next class. You'll be looking at Gloria Anzaldua's "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" - it's available in 50 Essays and at this link. As you read it - pay attention to the way in which she connects language to identity. Why is this an important idea for us to consider when reading Invisible Man? How does it help us to understand the conflict at the heart of TIM's quest?
English IV
Today we spent much of our class having a seminar around themes in Frankenstein - especially the idea of how society makes judgments on people and the danger of those judgments. We focused strongly on our study guides today - on the study guide you have a good outline of what you will see on the test. We'll have characters, plot, literary devices, and theme questions.
Go through your folders and work to fill in your study guides. Remember that you can use your study guide on the test. Your unit exam will fall on Monday and will be the first big grade of Quarter 4.
We'll also be working on our essays more in the coming days - if you haven't shared your introduction paragraph with me, be sure that you do so that I can get you a grade and feedback.
AP English III
We are continuing with our writing conferences that have been scheduled on my door. If you are not able to make your writing conference it is your responsibility to come at another time. I would recommend that you come after the scheduled conferences on Wednesday-Friday. I should have time to work you in. Remember that this is the last grade of the quarter.
For the week your main task is to get through Chapters 16-19 for Monday of next week. This is a major section of chapters that take TIM into The Brotherhood and has him start to make speeches. Pay attention to what his speeches say and how this is recreating some of the major cycles of the text. You may find it helpful to also take a quick look at the Booker T. Washington speech since there are a lot of parallels between TIM and Booker T.
Lastly, we have reading for next class. You'll be looking at Gloria Anzaldua's "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" - it's available in 50 Essays and at this link. As you read it - pay attention to the way in which she connects language to identity. Why is this an important idea for us to consider when reading Invisible Man? How does it help us to understand the conflict at the heart of TIM's quest?
Monday, March 19, 2018
Olympiada 2018
Russian Students - Levels 1-3
On Sunday, April 29th Duke University will be hosting the 4th Annual Carolinas Olympiada of Spoken Russian. I want to upload the instructions and preparation materials here so that you are able to start preparing. I would like to register our teams and begin practicing by this Friday. So please look over everything before this Friday. Use your DPS account to access these materials linked below.
Overall Competition/Study Guide - This document reviews the different levels of competition and what is expected for you to do. This document will guide you in how you use the following documents.
Speaking About Yourself - Устная часть - In this document you will see questions and topics for talking about yourself. These will be used in the competition.
Culture - There are many elements to the cultural knowledge competition. Here are some general guidelines.
Moscow and St. Petersburg - Know your sites and places around the cities!
See other notes on the music, literature, politics, art, film, and geography. See the informational pack on music, literature, and film preparation materials.
On Sunday, April 29th Duke University will be hosting the 4th Annual Carolinas Olympiada of Spoken Russian. I want to upload the instructions and preparation materials here so that you are able to start preparing. I would like to register our teams and begin practicing by this Friday. So please look over everything before this Friday. Use your DPS account to access these materials linked below.
Overall Competition/Study Guide - This document reviews the different levels of competition and what is expected for you to do. This document will guide you in how you use the following documents.
Speaking About Yourself - Устная часть - In this document you will see questions and topics for talking about yourself. These will be used in the competition.
Culture - There are many elements to the cultural knowledge competition. Here are some general guidelines.
Moscow and St. Petersburg - Know your sites and places around the cities!
See other notes on the music, literature, politics, art, film, and geography. See the informational pack on music, literature, and film preparation materials.
Homework for Monday - 19 March - A Day
English IV
Today we had a great conversation around themes in Frankenstein and we explored some other media to help us build connections between our novel and our contemporary society. I'm happy with the work that you all put in today to talk, listen, and build on the ideas that others had.
Next class we will spend time watching Frankenstein to start finishing up the story and we will have time to work on our essays. I'll be putting in feedback on your introduction paragraphs today and tomorrow. Don't forget that you have your test on Frankenstein on Friday!
Advanced Russian
Russian II and III students have received their vocabulary and grammar project and should actively be working on this for tonight. This is all that Russian II students need to do - find your city, develop your information, remember that you're looking at the weather in Durham and in a Russian city for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. This will help you to speak in all three tenses. Russian III students should select a recipe and write out the steps and the recipe's shopping list. Use your vocabulary!
Russian III's have an additional exercise, at the end of Chapter Nine, please complete exercise number 9.6 and 9.7 focusing on modals and aspect.
Russian I
Lots of fun today playing LOTO! I'm glad you all enjoyed yourselves and had some time reviewing your new vocabulary. For tonight, you're going to do homework to turn in. Go to the sentences on page 126 and combine them using the appropriate conjunction. Write out the combined sentence and translate it. Be sure that you are doing what we did in class and thinking about your repetition and grammar.
Today we had a great conversation around themes in Frankenstein and we explored some other media to help us build connections between our novel and our contemporary society. I'm happy with the work that you all put in today to talk, listen, and build on the ideas that others had.
Next class we will spend time watching Frankenstein to start finishing up the story and we will have time to work on our essays. I'll be putting in feedback on your introduction paragraphs today and tomorrow. Don't forget that you have your test on Frankenstein on Friday!
Advanced Russian
Russian II and III students have received their vocabulary and grammar project and should actively be working on this for tonight. This is all that Russian II students need to do - find your city, develop your information, remember that you're looking at the weather in Durham and in a Russian city for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. This will help you to speak in all three tenses. Russian III students should select a recipe and write out the steps and the recipe's shopping list. Use your vocabulary!
Russian III's have an additional exercise, at the end of Chapter Nine, please complete exercise number 9.6 and 9.7 focusing on modals and aspect.
Russian I
Lots of fun today playing LOTO! I'm glad you all enjoyed yourselves and had some time reviewing your new vocabulary. For tonight, you're going to do homework to turn in. Go to the sentences on page 126 and combine them using the appropriate conjunction. Write out the combined sentence and translate it. Be sure that you are doing what we did in class and thinking about your repetition and grammar.
Friday, March 16, 2018
Homework for the Weekend - B Day - 16 March 2018
English IV
Today in class we did two major things - we completed the drafting of our introduction paragraphs and then we discussed one of the major themes of Frankenstein through a look at an episode of The Twilight Zone called "Eye of the Beholder". The ideas of the episode, particularly around what society considers to be beautiful or ugly have clear connections to what Shelley is working through with The Creature.
We'll continue to have these conversations and do more of this important thinking on Tuesday and Thursday as we prepare for our Frankenstein exam which will occur on Monday the 26th.
AP English III
Today in class we spent our time working on literary criticism in our motif groups. The main thing that we were doing today was understanding the way in which literary criticism can be useful in understanding complex literature. Hopefully, as you worked through one critical article, you were able to see clear connections to the ideas of your motif. This should be the basis of your latest motif blog post. Some of you were able to complete this today in class - if not, be sure that you have dealt with this post before moving on to the others.
For the weekend we have the reading of Chapters 13-15 in Invisible Man. Pay attention to how TIM falls into the same traps as he has before. What's different now? What's the same? Why do we get it, but he doesn't? This will start to push us into the final section of this novel where TIM has some of his final struggles and his big breakthrough at the end. Don't forget to keep blogging and completing your vocabulary as you go.
Lastly, be making progress with your papers. We have conferences through next week. Everyone is required to attend one conference and then in the days before the paper is due you can come back for final drop-in conferences.
Today in class we did two major things - we completed the drafting of our introduction paragraphs and then we discussed one of the major themes of Frankenstein through a look at an episode of The Twilight Zone called "Eye of the Beholder". The ideas of the episode, particularly around what society considers to be beautiful or ugly have clear connections to what Shelley is working through with The Creature.
We'll continue to have these conversations and do more of this important thinking on Tuesday and Thursday as we prepare for our Frankenstein exam which will occur on Monday the 26th.
AP English III
Today in class we spent our time working on literary criticism in our motif groups. The main thing that we were doing today was understanding the way in which literary criticism can be useful in understanding complex literature. Hopefully, as you worked through one critical article, you were able to see clear connections to the ideas of your motif. This should be the basis of your latest motif blog post. Some of you were able to complete this today in class - if not, be sure that you have dealt with this post before moving on to the others.
For the weekend we have the reading of Chapters 13-15 in Invisible Man. Pay attention to how TIM falls into the same traps as he has before. What's different now? What's the same? Why do we get it, but he doesn't? This will start to push us into the final section of this novel where TIM has some of his final struggles and his big breakthrough at the end. Don't forget to keep blogging and completing your vocabulary as you go.
Lastly, be making progress with your papers. We have conferences through next week. Everyone is required to attend one conference and then in the days before the paper is due you can come back for final drop-in conferences.
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Homework for the Weekend - A Day Edition - 15 March 2018
Russian I
Today in class we finished the lesson that we started on Tuesday which was cut short by our late arrival to school. We have covered some review of the second conjugation pattern in Russian as well as the conjunctions "and", "but", and "and/but". Following that, we looked at some examples of these conjunctions in English and discussed their usage in Russian.
For the weekend focus on your vocabulary and your conjunctions by completing Exercise 3.8. As you work through the exercise you'll complete the sections A, Б, В. With each group, combine two sentences with the conjunction given to you for the set. Remember to reduce redundancy as you combine the sentences and to think about your verbs. Translate the sentences after you have combined them.
Advanced Russian
There are different assignments over the weekend for Russian II and III. All of us are focusing on using the dative case and new vocabulary around weather (Russian II) or foods (Russian III).
Russian III will focus on the use of the modal constructions (надо, нужен, можно, нельзя) and the way that Russian say should (должен). You'll be looking at exercise 9.5. Select one of the food items and then use your vocabulary and other grammar in the chapter to write yourself a list of things to do to make the selected food item. What are the things you need? What should you do? What shouldn't be done? What can't be done? You might find it helpful to look at Russian verbs around cooking which you can find here. There are some new stems when it comes to cooking verbs, so thankfully we use infinitives for all of these expressions we've learned (phew!).
Russian II will continue to focus on parts of speech and dative versus nominative case in making sentences describing the weather and feelings. You'll be writing sentences talking about how people feel during types of weather. How do you feel when it's cloudy? When the weather is rainy, how do you feel? What about when it's +37 outside? Use the grammar and vocabulary structures we learned today in class to write about yourself and others in various types of weather. Remember to use all numbers as words!
English IV
Next week we will have our test on Frankenstein and then move to finish the unit in the first week of Quarter 4. Today in class we did a lot of work around our essays - sharing the introduction paragraph to me - before going to class to discuss The Creature and his eventual change for the worse. We also brought in our discussion of nature and nurture to look at how these concepts interact with each other in this moment.
Over the weekend, be focused on preparing for your test. Study your plot events, look at the characters and know them well. Our test will be on Friday next week and will be the first grade of Quarter 4!
Also - next week on Monday we will cash in rubles for extra credit. After Monday I will no longer accept any missing work with the exception of quizzes and tests to make up from absence. Make sure that you have done what you need to do in order to be in a good place at the end of the quarter.
Today in class we finished the lesson that we started on Tuesday which was cut short by our late arrival to school. We have covered some review of the second conjugation pattern in Russian as well as the conjunctions "and", "but", and "and/but". Following that, we looked at some examples of these conjunctions in English and discussed their usage in Russian.
For the weekend focus on your vocabulary and your conjunctions by completing Exercise 3.8. As you work through the exercise you'll complete the sections A, Б, В. With each group, combine two sentences with the conjunction given to you for the set. Remember to reduce redundancy as you combine the sentences and to think about your verbs. Translate the sentences after you have combined them.
Advanced Russian
There are different assignments over the weekend for Russian II and III. All of us are focusing on using the dative case and new vocabulary around weather (Russian II) or foods (Russian III).
Russian III will focus on the use of the modal constructions (надо, нужен, можно, нельзя) and the way that Russian say should (должен). You'll be looking at exercise 9.5. Select one of the food items and then use your vocabulary and other grammar in the chapter to write yourself a list of things to do to make the selected food item. What are the things you need? What should you do? What shouldn't be done? What can't be done? You might find it helpful to look at Russian verbs around cooking which you can find here. There are some new stems when it comes to cooking verbs, so thankfully we use infinitives for all of these expressions we've learned (phew!).
Russian II will continue to focus on parts of speech and dative versus nominative case in making sentences describing the weather and feelings. You'll be writing sentences talking about how people feel during types of weather. How do you feel when it's cloudy? When the weather is rainy, how do you feel? What about when it's +37 outside? Use the grammar and vocabulary structures we learned today in class to write about yourself and others in various types of weather. Remember to use all numbers as words!
English IV
Next week we will have our test on Frankenstein and then move to finish the unit in the first week of Quarter 4. Today in class we did a lot of work around our essays - sharing the introduction paragraph to me - before going to class to discuss The Creature and his eventual change for the worse. We also brought in our discussion of nature and nurture to look at how these concepts interact with each other in this moment.
Over the weekend, be focused on preparing for your test. Study your plot events, look at the characters and know them well. Our test will be on Friday next week and will be the first grade of Quarter 4!
Also - next week on Monday we will cash in rubles for extra credit. After Monday I will no longer accept any missing work with the exception of quizzes and tests to make up from absence. Make sure that you have done what you need to do in order to be in a good place at the end of the quarter.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Homework for Wednesday - 14 March 2018
AP English III
Really great work together today to start deconstructing whiteness and white privilege in class. I'm very proud of the way that you all confronted the ideas and stayed respectful through our conversations. We'll continue to discuss elements of race and privilege as we keep working through the unit. Here are your reminders going to Friday's class.
1. Focus on your drafts. Today you submitted rough drafts and some of you have already completed your writing conference. This is a good thing. Keep writing. Keep connecting. And keep asking for help from your classmates as you need it. Final drafts are due on the 28th of March!
2. For Tuesday we have the reading of Chapters 13-15 in Invisible Man. I gave you Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise Speech" today in class. This reading is meant to fill in some background knowledge you will need to understand Chapters 13-15. Be on the lookout for references to Booker T. Washington as we go through this section of the text and remember - we already have seen one.
English IV
Next class we will begin drafting our Frankenstein adaptation essays. Today in class we worked through our introduction paragraphs as well as a full conception of either The Creature or Dr. Frankenstein. Then, we read through to see the turning point for The Creature. Now would be a good time for you to start reading over your notes and reviewing for our exam that we will have next week on Thursday.
Really great work together today to start deconstructing whiteness and white privilege in class. I'm very proud of the way that you all confronted the ideas and stayed respectful through our conversations. We'll continue to discuss elements of race and privilege as we keep working through the unit. Here are your reminders going to Friday's class.
1. Focus on your drafts. Today you submitted rough drafts and some of you have already completed your writing conference. This is a good thing. Keep writing. Keep connecting. And keep asking for help from your classmates as you need it. Final drafts are due on the 28th of March!
2. For Tuesday we have the reading of Chapters 13-15 in Invisible Man. I gave you Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise Speech" today in class. This reading is meant to fill in some background knowledge you will need to understand Chapters 13-15. Be on the lookout for references to Booker T. Washington as we go through this section of the text and remember - we already have seen one.
English IV
Next class we will begin drafting our Frankenstein adaptation essays. Today in class we worked through our introduction paragraphs as well as a full conception of either The Creature or Dr. Frankenstein. Then, we read through to see the turning point for The Creature. Now would be a good time for you to start reading over your notes and reviewing for our exam that we will have next week on Thursday.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Homework for A Day Students - 3/13/2018
English IV
Today we had a short day, so we spent it focused on our final Frankenstein projects - the adaptation and the essay. The main focus as we finish this project will be the essay in which we discuss what is the best way to depict either The Creature or Victor Frankenstein. To do this we finished our depictions and plans for the creature, and then we worked through our introduction paragraphs for our essay.
Over the next few classes we will be drafting and planning to construct this essay. The essay will be part of Quarter 4. We will also have a test on the first part of Frankenstein next week. We'll finish part one this week and review it before the exam.
Advanced Russian/Russian I
Today we started in on new units. This means that all of you should immediately begin to focus on learning new vocabulary related to the unit. Right now, stay focused on nouns and adjectives. These are a great place to start. We'll start taking a look at the verbs that we will be learning as we move through the unit.
Russian I Students - This is all you need to do for me. I have also returned your unit exams and explained how to resubmit the work. Make corrections on your test, but remember when you get your points then you will need to explain why you made the changes that you have made. Many of you have missing assignments - you need to get these things in.
Advanced Russian Students - We were able to get through our review of Dative Case usage, so please complete the Chapter Seven exercises to review what we covered. You'll want to complete exercise 7.4 and 7.5. These both have you focus on the dative case to express ages as well as feelings.
Today we had a short day, so we spent it focused on our final Frankenstein projects - the adaptation and the essay. The main focus as we finish this project will be the essay in which we discuss what is the best way to depict either The Creature or Victor Frankenstein. To do this we finished our depictions and plans for the creature, and then we worked through our introduction paragraphs for our essay.
Over the next few classes we will be drafting and planning to construct this essay. The essay will be part of Quarter 4. We will also have a test on the first part of Frankenstein next week. We'll finish part one this week and review it before the exam.
Advanced Russian/Russian I
Today we started in on new units. This means that all of you should immediately begin to focus on learning new vocabulary related to the unit. Right now, stay focused on nouns and adjectives. These are a great place to start. We'll start taking a look at the verbs that we will be learning as we move through the unit.
Russian I Students - This is all you need to do for me. I have also returned your unit exams and explained how to resubmit the work. Make corrections on your test, but remember when you get your points then you will need to explain why you made the changes that you have made. Many of you have missing assignments - you need to get these things in.
Advanced Russian Students - We were able to get through our review of Dative Case usage, so please complete the Chapter Seven exercises to review what we covered. You'll want to complete exercise 7.4 and 7.5. These both have you focus on the dative case to express ages as well as feelings.
Monday, March 12, 2018
Homework for B-Day - 12 March - A Quick Monday
We got through most everything that we needed to today. That's good. Here are your reminders to take you into Wednesday.
English IV
The surprise early release bit us in the butt more than it did the other classes today. I'm glad that we had a good conversation around nature and nurture and their impact on people. I think that we all have a pretty good understanding of what Locke and Rousseau think about these ideas.
Tonight, you may find it most important to take a look at your adaptation projects. We'll have time to work on these next class, but we'll also be starting the essay. Make sure that you've completed the previous parts of this assignments - on Google Classroom - so that you can move forward.
AP English III
There are a lot of things going on in AP English III land in terms of our reading unit and our writing unit. I'll break down your tasks below.
Reading: Our next set of chapters in Invisible Man are Chapters 13-15. This is a big chunk of reading and won't be discussed until next week - Tuesday. Take your time to accomplish this. Also, be sure that you and your group have gone and accounted for your blog posts.
We'll take a bit of a detour the next two classes by looking at the concept of necropolitics - to begin the investigation I'm asking you to read two documents for class on Wednesday. First, read Peggy McIntosh's list of structures in our society. Think about each one and mark it if you think it is an example of necropolitics at play. Then, be sure to read Brent Staples's article called "Just Walk On By" - it's in 50 Essays or available here.
Read and annotate this article. Make connections to necropolitics as well as to Invisible Man or any of the other authors we have discussed in this unit.
Writing: It looks as though many of you signed up today for writing conferences. If not, be sure that you do ASAP. On Wednesday everyone will turn in rough drafts. Your rough draft should have a full introduction, two complete topics, and a conclusion. You should also have a bibliography. When you come to your conference you should come prepared with questions for me about your paper. We will also be able to fix previous grades based on what I see with the draft. DO NOT MISS YOUR CONFERENCE.
English IV
The surprise early release bit us in the butt more than it did the other classes today. I'm glad that we had a good conversation around nature and nurture and their impact on people. I think that we all have a pretty good understanding of what Locke and Rousseau think about these ideas.
Tonight, you may find it most important to take a look at your adaptation projects. We'll have time to work on these next class, but we'll also be starting the essay. Make sure that you've completed the previous parts of this assignments - on Google Classroom - so that you can move forward.
AP English III
There are a lot of things going on in AP English III land in terms of our reading unit and our writing unit. I'll break down your tasks below.
Reading: Our next set of chapters in Invisible Man are Chapters 13-15. This is a big chunk of reading and won't be discussed until next week - Tuesday. Take your time to accomplish this. Also, be sure that you and your group have gone and accounted for your blog posts.
We'll take a bit of a detour the next two classes by looking at the concept of necropolitics - to begin the investigation I'm asking you to read two documents for class on Wednesday. First, read Peggy McIntosh's list of structures in our society. Think about each one and mark it if you think it is an example of necropolitics at play. Then, be sure to read Brent Staples's article called "Just Walk On By" - it's in 50 Essays or available here.
Read and annotate this article. Make connections to necropolitics as well as to Invisible Man or any of the other authors we have discussed in this unit.
Writing: It looks as though many of you signed up today for writing conferences. If not, be sure that you do ASAP. On Wednesday everyone will turn in rough drafts. Your rough draft should have a full introduction, two complete topics, and a conclusion. You should also have a bibliography. When you come to your conference you should come prepared with questions for me about your paper. We will also be able to fix previous grades based on what I see with the draft. DO NOT MISS YOUR CONFERENCE.
Friday, March 9, 2018
Homework for the Weekend - A Day - 9 March 2018
There are only 5 A-Days until the end of Quarter 3! Make sure you're getting things done and working to finish the quarter in a strong and solid position.
English IV
Today in class we got into some very complex pieces of philosophy by John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau - these texts helped us to discuss what it is that makes us who we are. Is it more that we are controlled by who we are or by what happens to us? Is it a question of nature or nurture?
We then discussed how The Creature is able to show this same debate. Class ended with some more reading of The Creature with the De Lacey family as well as his eventual expulsion from their house.
Over the weekend, get focused on your missing assignments or assignments that are scored low you will want to focus on that. We have very little time left to affect and change our grades for the better. The only real work to complete is our Frankenstein project. Be sure that you are engaged and moving toward completion.
Advanced Russian
Today in class we had our unit exams. I will work to get those graded and returned to you by Thursday so that you have time to reassess on any portions that you need to. Over the weekend, you will want to complete your Chapter Previews. Russian II will want to complete a Chapter Preview on Chapter 7 - This chapter focuses on forming plurals in all cases. Russian III will want to focus on Chapter 9 - This chapter focuses on supplemental vocabulary which helps to discuss needs and desires.
Be sure that if there is anything missing from our verbs of motion unit that you have settled that up this weekend. Begin to focus on your new vocabulary in your new chapters.
Russian I
We also took a unit examination today - but for us it was more of a cumulative test on the whole year - so it was much more of a Benchmark Examination than anything else. I will have these back to you next week for any reassessments that you may want to complete.
Over the weekend you have your Chapter Preview on Chapter 3. Focus on your new vocabulary here so that you are able to move forward into the chapter effectively. Additionally, MANY of you are missing project grades and these are really pulling you down. Work to get these grades submitted to me on Monday so that your grade accurately reflects your abilities in class.
English IV
Today in class we got into some very complex pieces of philosophy by John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau - these texts helped us to discuss what it is that makes us who we are. Is it more that we are controlled by who we are or by what happens to us? Is it a question of nature or nurture?
We then discussed how The Creature is able to show this same debate. Class ended with some more reading of The Creature with the De Lacey family as well as his eventual expulsion from their house.
Over the weekend, get focused on your missing assignments or assignments that are scored low you will want to focus on that. We have very little time left to affect and change our grades for the better. The only real work to complete is our Frankenstein project. Be sure that you are engaged and moving toward completion.
Advanced Russian
Today in class we had our unit exams. I will work to get those graded and returned to you by Thursday so that you have time to reassess on any portions that you need to. Over the weekend, you will want to complete your Chapter Previews. Russian II will want to complete a Chapter Preview on Chapter 7 - This chapter focuses on forming plurals in all cases. Russian III will want to focus on Chapter 9 - This chapter focuses on supplemental vocabulary which helps to discuss needs and desires.
Be sure that if there is anything missing from our verbs of motion unit that you have settled that up this weekend. Begin to focus on your new vocabulary in your new chapters.
Russian I
We also took a unit examination today - but for us it was more of a cumulative test on the whole year - so it was much more of a Benchmark Examination than anything else. I will have these back to you next week for any reassessments that you may want to complete.
Over the weekend you have your Chapter Preview on Chapter 3. Focus on your new vocabulary here so that you are able to move forward into the chapter effectively. Additionally, MANY of you are missing project grades and these are really pulling you down. Work to get these grades submitted to me on Monday so that your grade accurately reflects your abilities in class.
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Homework for the Weekend - B Day - 8 March 2018
AP English III
What a day of discovery! I think that all of you have a much better understanding of what is going on in Chapter Ten as well as what is going on in the book up to this point. Way to go on that. Over the weekend, you will want to continue reading Chapters 11 and 12. In Chapter 11 you're going to be challenged by the voice and point of view. Ride through it and make sure that you're understanding the idea of the hospital. Try to track what happens to TIM in this chapter.
In Chapter 12, he goes back out into the world after his experience in the hospital. There is a lot of language around birth and rebirth - so focus on how TIM is different than he was before.
You have all also received feedback on your synthesis timed writings as well as your outlines. Take this feedback and put it forward to your rough drafts. Rough drafts are due to me on Wednesday the 14th. When you submit your draft it is just a half of the final draft (2 to 3 pages). Be sure that you have a full introduction, two topics with sources, explanation, and transitions, a conclusion, and a works cited page. You will sign up for a writing conference and come to the conference to discuss your paper and resubmit previous work related to the paper.
As a reminder - this quarter will end on March 23rd. Be sure that you have completed all of the parts of the research paper as well as any missing assignments. The grade book has been updated to this point. Zeroes are showing missing assignments at this point.
English IV
We had a very good day today discussing The Creature and why the creature could be important as a symbol of many things. Then, we began working on the final part of our adaptation projects. In this portion of the assignment you are depicting The Creature or Dr. Frankenstein as you like and then considering how that lines up with other depictions of them. As you do this work, remember that you are focusing on explaining why you see Victor or The Creature as you do. Additionally, you want to explain why your conception of them is different than others.
What a day of discovery! I think that all of you have a much better understanding of what is going on in Chapter Ten as well as what is going on in the book up to this point. Way to go on that. Over the weekend, you will want to continue reading Chapters 11 and 12. In Chapter 11 you're going to be challenged by the voice and point of view. Ride through it and make sure that you're understanding the idea of the hospital. Try to track what happens to TIM in this chapter.
In Chapter 12, he goes back out into the world after his experience in the hospital. There is a lot of language around birth and rebirth - so focus on how TIM is different than he was before.
You have all also received feedback on your synthesis timed writings as well as your outlines. Take this feedback and put it forward to your rough drafts. Rough drafts are due to me on Wednesday the 14th. When you submit your draft it is just a half of the final draft (2 to 3 pages). Be sure that you have a full introduction, two topics with sources, explanation, and transitions, a conclusion, and a works cited page. You will sign up for a writing conference and come to the conference to discuss your paper and resubmit previous work related to the paper.
As a reminder - this quarter will end on March 23rd. Be sure that you have completed all of the parts of the research paper as well as any missing assignments. The grade book has been updated to this point. Zeroes are showing missing assignments at this point.
English IV
We had a very good day today discussing The Creature and why the creature could be important as a symbol of many things. Then, we began working on the final part of our adaptation projects. In this portion of the assignment you are depicting The Creature or Dr. Frankenstein as you like and then considering how that lines up with other depictions of them. As you do this work, remember that you are focusing on explaining why you see Victor or The Creature as you do. Additionally, you want to explain why your conception of them is different than others.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Special Announcement - AP III
AP English III Students -
Some of you have missed the recent assessment on Invisible Man or you may have missed the first synthesis timed writing. There are also some of you who may want to discuss outlines, research papers, or other assignments in preparation for our final push through drafting. I will be available tomorrow after school until approximately 5:40 PM. Please make plans to see me if you want/need to.
Some of you have missed the recent assessment on Invisible Man or you may have missed the first synthesis timed writing. There are also some of you who may want to discuss outlines, research papers, or other assignments in preparation for our final push through drafting. I will be available tomorrow after school until approximately 5:40 PM. Please make plans to see me if you want/need to.
Homework for A-Day - 7 March 2018
English IV
Now that we know a lot about Victor Frankenstein and The Creature we can move on to our final portion of this Frankenstein adaptation project - your version of Victor or The Creature.
Be sure that you have completed the two Google Classroom assignments. If not, be sure that you have completed these and turned them in online to move on to this most recent part of the assignment. In this portion, you are showing either The Creature or Victor as they are on the inside and outside. Does your idea match with other ideas of The Creature or Victor? Why or why not?
Eventually we will have a piece of art paired with writing. We'll complete the art and then complete the writing. This will be one of our final major grades for the quarter.
Advanced Russian and Russian I
All of you have unit exams coming up on Friday. These exams have been what we have been preparing for over many days. I've given you all study guides and plenty of notes and opportunities to review the material - now you need to show me what you have learned.
Russian I - Your exam will cover Unit 1 and Unit 2. You should be able to work with verbs, nouns, adjectives, subject and possessive pronouns in all cases and genders. Be sure that you are focused on learning your charts and fully understanding what these charts mean.
Russian II/III - Your exam will be focused on verbs of motion. Russian II will see verbs of motion with no prefixes except one. Russian III will see many prefixes at play. Be sure that you understand how to navigate the related grammar with Verbs of Motion (cases, prepositions, conjugations, irregular forms).
Now that we know a lot about Victor Frankenstein and The Creature we can move on to our final portion of this Frankenstein adaptation project - your version of Victor or The Creature.
Be sure that you have completed the two Google Classroom assignments. If not, be sure that you have completed these and turned them in online to move on to this most recent part of the assignment. In this portion, you are showing either The Creature or Victor as they are on the inside and outside. Does your idea match with other ideas of The Creature or Victor? Why or why not?
Eventually we will have a piece of art paired with writing. We'll complete the art and then complete the writing. This will be one of our final major grades for the quarter.
Advanced Russian and Russian I
All of you have unit exams coming up on Friday. These exams have been what we have been preparing for over many days. I've given you all study guides and plenty of notes and opportunities to review the material - now you need to show me what you have learned.
Russian I - Your exam will cover Unit 1 and Unit 2. You should be able to work with verbs, nouns, adjectives, subject and possessive pronouns in all cases and genders. Be sure that you are focused on learning your charts and fully understanding what these charts mean.
Russian II/III - Your exam will be focused on verbs of motion. Russian II will see verbs of motion with no prefixes except one. Russian III will see many prefixes at play. Be sure that you understand how to navigate the related grammar with Verbs of Motion (cases, prepositions, conjugations, irregular forms).
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Homework for B Day - 6 March 2018
English IV
Hopefully you enjoyed the watching of the story of The Creature today in class. It gets us to a good part of the book where we can really start to have some very important conversations about The Creature, its relationship with Victor, and what all of this means about parent/child relationships.
As I've been saying, please take a look at PowerSchool and see me about any assignments that are missing or that you would like to resubmit. We will review the work that we have done from today next class and move on to some of these really important conversations.
AP English III
I hope that all of you felt comfortable and prepared for the assessment today on Invisible Man. I look forward to reading your answers about these questions to see how you are understanding Ellison's book.
For tonight you have the reading of Chapter Ten, which I hope you have already started to read and consider. Most everything in the chapter has a symbolic meaning - keep that in mind as you are going through the chapter. Also, there are a lot of recurrences back to Chapter One and the Battle Royale. Consider why Ellison would put this chapter here. What is this showing to us and kinda to TIM about the reality of New York?
Be sure that you have submitted your blog address at the post below. I'll be checking blogs starting on Wednesday morning for completeness before assessing your participation in this part of the unit. Additionally, I'll be returning and discussing research outlines on Thursday - so it is imperative that everything is turned in so that you can continue your development process.
Hopefully you enjoyed the watching of the story of The Creature today in class. It gets us to a good part of the book where we can really start to have some very important conversations about The Creature, its relationship with Victor, and what all of this means about parent/child relationships.
As I've been saying, please take a look at PowerSchool and see me about any assignments that are missing or that you would like to resubmit. We will review the work that we have done from today next class and move on to some of these really important conversations.
AP English III
I hope that all of you felt comfortable and prepared for the assessment today on Invisible Man. I look forward to reading your answers about these questions to see how you are understanding Ellison's book.
For tonight you have the reading of Chapter Ten, which I hope you have already started to read and consider. Most everything in the chapter has a symbolic meaning - keep that in mind as you are going through the chapter. Also, there are a lot of recurrences back to Chapter One and the Battle Royale. Consider why Ellison would put this chapter here. What is this showing to us and kinda to TIM about the reality of New York?
Be sure that you have submitted your blog address at the post below. I'll be checking blogs starting on Wednesday morning for completeness before assessing your participation in this part of the unit. Additionally, I'll be returning and discussing research outlines on Thursday - so it is imperative that everything is turned in so that you can continue your development process.
Monday, March 5, 2018
Homework for A-Day - 5 March 2018
English IV
Today in class we watched some of the adventures of The Creature on his own in the world. He's learned and seen a lot - especially from the Delacey family. Tonight you have no homework to complete. I would recommend, however, if you have missed class or if you are behind on anything that you take a look at PowerSchool.
There are assignments available on Google Classroom that you can complete related to our final Frankenstein project. You can also get caught up on your reading. The quarter ends in three weeks! So it is important to get everything settled ASAP.
Russian Language Students (I, II, III)
All of you have exams coming on Friday. I have scheduled them on Friday so that all of you have the chance to get caught up and prepared through the week. Today in class we focused on several review exercises to help prepare you for Friday's exam. Tonight, I would recommend that you complete any of the following to help you prepare.
Today in class we watched some of the adventures of The Creature on his own in the world. He's learned and seen a lot - especially from the Delacey family. Tonight you have no homework to complete. I would recommend, however, if you have missed class or if you are behind on anything that you take a look at PowerSchool.
There are assignments available on Google Classroom that you can complete related to our final Frankenstein project. You can also get caught up on your reading. The quarter ends in three weeks! So it is important to get everything settled ASAP.
Russian Language Students (I, II, III)
All of you have exams coming on Friday. I have scheduled them on Friday so that all of you have the chance to get caught up and prepared through the week. Today in class we focused on several review exercises to help prepare you for Friday's exam. Tonight, I would recommend that you complete any of the following to help you prepare.
- Complete reassessments of previous projects for this class. When you do that, submit the project or the rubric (if the project is online) to me so that I know it's ready to be regraded.
- Complete any additional exercises to help you review concepts either from our textbook or from the UCLA Beginners Russian textbook which is available online.
- Complete the extra credit exercises - Russian I only.
- Complete your script for your quick recording - Russian II/III only.
No matter what you are doing to prepare - be sure that you are preparing daily for your unit examinations. Russian I will cover the Introduction, Chapters One and Two. Russian II will cover Chapter 6. Russian III will cover Chapter 6 and Chapter 10.
Blog Address Collection
AP English III
Students - Please post a comment below with your Motif Blog URL's as well as your class period and the names of the people in your group!
Students - Please post a comment below with your Motif Blog URL's as well as your class period and the names of the people in your group!
Friday, March 2, 2018
Homework for the Weekend - 2 March 2018 - B Day
AP English III
We have a few important things to take care of this weekend in advance of your assessment on Invisible Man on Tuesday in class. Here's what we should do in the order of importance.
We have a few important things to take care of this weekend in advance of your assessment on Invisible Man on Tuesday in class. Here's what we should do in the order of importance.
- Make sure that you have completed your vocabulary cards for Prologue through to Chapter Nine. This is ten cards total. You can complete them via online options or via actual cards. You will turn them in to me on Tuesday if you didn't turn them in today.
- Complete your motif charts and motif blogs for Prologue through Chapter Nine. Remember that for your chapter posts you are simply identifying the quotation, the context of the quotation, and then how the quotation indicates the motif.
- You will also need to complete your synthesis post for Prologue through Chapter Nine. In the synthesis post you are looking at how at least three significant examples are coming together to contribute a meaning to the motif. What is Ellison's purpose behind the motif? What does it mean? These are the questions to consider here.
If you did not submit your outline today then you can submit it via Google Drive. I'll begin grading these over the weekend so that I can return things to you on Tuesday.
We will have our assessment on Tuesday and then on Thursday we will work through Chapter Ten.
English IV
Please take note of the post I gave yesterday for the A day class. Make sure that you have everything turned in and that if there is anything significant that you are missing that you have started working on that before the quarter ends.
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Homework for the Weekend - A Day - 1 March 2018
Russian I
Very good work today in class today. I saw that a lot of you did well on our quick quiz and then everyone was able to complete their family trees. We also have finished reviewing our final set of declensions before our exam next week on Friday. Let's discuss what you should be doing this weekend to prepare.
Advanced Russian
We also have a big exam to prepare for - the Verbs of Motion examination. I gave all of you a study guide to use as you are preparing yourselves. You can also resubmit projects this weekend and prepare for any quiz resubmissions. If you are using the UCLA Beginner's Russian textbook for extra practice this weekend - you will want to direct your attention to Chapter 10 and beyond. Remember, you 'll have to bounce around to cover all of the content.
English IV
Next class we will have a chance to watch the film Frankenstein and finish with our dramatic retellings of Justine's trial. As you are working over the weekend, be sure that you're focused on any low grades that you would like to improve as we are closing out the quarter. Remember that there are only three weeks left in this quarter. Then it's off to Q4, Spring Break, and the end of this wonderful year!
Very good work today in class today. I saw that a lot of you did well on our quick quiz and then everyone was able to complete their family trees. We also have finished reviewing our final set of declensions before our exam next week on Friday. Let's discuss what you should be doing this weekend to prepare.
- Complete your rough draft of your family member paragraphs. As a reminder you are using the outline provided on your assignment sheet to write about one male and one female family member. Use your notes and vocabulary to accomplish this. Do not use translators. Practice and make mistakes - remember it's just a rough draft. This is due on Monday.
- Complete your extra credit assignment on the back of today's in class work. Use your declension charts and your vocabulary lists in order to see which cases you need.
- Complete any resubmissions of projects this weekend. Review your work on previous quizzes to redo them. I've put zeroes in for the house plan project if it hasn't been turned in.
- Use the UCLA Beginner's Russian textbook for extra help. The link is available here. You will want to bounce around the chapters to review the important content. Use your study guides for this.
I'll see you on Monday as we keep pushing toward our unit exam. The test will happen on Friday.
Advanced Russian
We also have a big exam to prepare for - the Verbs of Motion examination. I gave all of you a study guide to use as you are preparing yourselves. You can also resubmit projects this weekend and prepare for any quiz resubmissions. If you are using the UCLA Beginner's Russian textbook for extra practice this weekend - you will want to direct your attention to Chapter 10 and beyond. Remember, you 'll have to bounce around to cover all of the content.
English IV
Next class we will have a chance to watch the film Frankenstein and finish with our dramatic retellings of Justine's trial. As you are working over the weekend, be sure that you're focused on any low grades that you would like to improve as we are closing out the quarter. Remember that there are only three weeks left in this quarter. Then it's off to Q4, Spring Break, and the end of this wonderful year!
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