Homework for the Weekend - B Day - 28 September

AP Seminar

For the weekend be sure that you are using RAVEN and your question development sheet to continue generating your research topics around education. You should complete the form this weekend and find additional resources that you could use in your IRR/TMPOD.

Remember that the main goal here is to be able to get immediately started with your team. By coming together with more refined ideas and topics, you'll be able to move into the work around the TMPOD/IRR a lot more quickly than if you just stated with "Issues in Education".

Advanced Russian

Over the weekend everyone we should all be focused on refining the research question in our teams. I'm planning to give you all some time on Tuesday to meet as a team and decide on your final question moving forward. I think that you did some great work today to consolidate your ideas - be sure that you keep refining the question through your use of research.

Russian II and III students should focus on their resubmissions for the weekend as well. You can make corrections to your quiz, or you can complete the replacement assignment on pages 174-175 in Chapter Four. For the replacement you will read the article and find no less than fifteen verbs. Then, analyze the verbs in the way we did today: determine the stem, the infinitive, and the tense.

I would also spend time with the nominative, accusative, and prepositional cases as they are the main focus for now.

Russian I

Over the weekend you should all be focused on finishing your study of the alphabet, learning your phrases around saying hello and goodbye, and your cognate vocabulary. The vocabulary learning was definitely one of the weakest places of the quiz - so hopefully next week we'll show a higher level of success so that you are able to gather some of your points back.

Remember as well that progress reports will go out on Tuesday. Everything's been updated in the gradebook - so if it's missing, be sure that it gets in to me.

Also, we will start project presentations on Tuesday. Have your project finished before that point!

Homework for the Weekend - A Day Students - 27 September

With that our lovely September has come to a close, be aware that we are now in the second half of Quarter One, and it will end at the end of October.

English IV 

Today we did a lot of good work in class including our first major unit test and then drafting for our "This I Believe" essays. I think that many of you have a good idea of what you'll be doing for these essays now - remember that we're investigating a belief that is important and explaining what it means and where we got the belief from.

Over the weekend, keep thinking about your belief. Next week we'll be writing in the computer lab for these writing assignments.

AP English III

Today in class we began our discussion of The Crucible and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by discussing allegory, 1950's America, McCarthyism, and Soviet Labor Camps. Quite the mix of ideas. We also finished working through our sample argumentative prompt, so our first timed writing will be coming soon!

For the weekend, there are a few things to accomplish.

1. Assemble your draft pack in your envelope. Be sure that you have your outlines, rough draft from peer editing, and final draft with cover sheet and rubric.
2. Begin reading and annotating The Crucible. I have copies in my room that you can check out. Remember that you should have Act I read by Wednesday.
3. Read and annotate "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry G-d" for class on Monday. From it, understand how Puritans conceptualized G-d. By knowing this, you'll really understand how they viewed the whole world.

As always, if you have questions, let me know!

Homework for B Day Students - 26 September

AP Seminar

Tonight we are moving forward into our first theme based unit by developing questions around the topic of education. Take the work that we did today in class around topic development and go further. Take at least four lenses and develop questions related to these lenses.

Once you've worked out a question that you like - move forward into the development via research. Be sure to find an adequate source and use that to further refine your question/idea using the second graphic organizer. On Friday you'll be meeting as a team, so it's important to have this work done in order to meet your goals as a group on Friday.

Advanced Russian

We didn't get as far as I would have liked today - but we did get a lot of good speaking and listening done, so that worked out well for us. First, to go further from the speaking and listening today, spend time writing a paragraph in Russian that deals with your plans for the weekend. What are you planning to do this weekend? With whom? Where? Everything we did today while talking is great to set you up for this. You should write anywhere from five to ten sentences.

Next, collaborate with your team. Share a Google Document among your teammates and with me - dump all of your ideas as a team into this document. On Friday you'll meet and determine your topic.

Lastly, if you are working to correct your quiz to earn back points - do so. If you feel as though you really don't understand the One Stem Verb System, then I would complete an exercise. The exercise is on Pages 174-175. There is an article and a list of vocabulary words. Not all stems are there, and some are repeated: your job is to read the article and find your verbs. Organize them around stems - notice how they are used and conjugated in the text. Like Pokemon, gotta catch 'em all!

You'll want to turn in your resubmission work by the beginning of next week!

Russian I

Today we had our quiz on the alphabet as well as some time to work on our Russian city research projects. Next class will be the last day to work on our research before we present next week. For tonight, there are a few things that you should settle:

1. We're coming to the end of this first unit so all work is due. Make sure that you've done your handwriting packet, your name and paragraph about yourself, and any other assignments in PowerSchool. Missing assignments will be marked as a zero on Friday.
2. I'll have your quizzes graded for you next week. You'll be able to make corrections - remember that we'll have an exam on this same information, so it's important to learn all of these letters and sounds.
3. Focus on learning your new vocabulary - the greetings, introductions, and farewells. We'll be working with these words next class as we begin some speaking.

I think that's really it! Stay on your grind everyone - keep moving forward!

Homework for A Day - 25 September

Today we had a big assessment in AP English III and the preparation for one in English IV. Let's be ready for what awaits us as we march forward to next class.

AP English III

For tonight you have two texts to read from our two key authors - Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Arthur Miller - these are texts where the authors explore their reasons for writing. Read these texts carefully and consider their purpose for writing. Why do they write? What challenges are they overcoming? What do you understand about these men?

An understanding of these texts and these questions will help us to understand some of the larger context behind their works - a discussion we'll be having on Thursday.

Don't forget to prepare for the unit ahead by looking over the unit outline, purchasing or finding your texts, and sketching out your reading schedule so that you have accomplished your reading in advance of class.

English IV

Today we reviewed our grammar, vocabulary, and the story's we have read so far this unit ("Heartbeat," "I Go Along," and "Theme for English B"). Remember to look over the guided notes from today's class to help you study for the assessment on Thursday.

We also began brainstorming for your personal "This I Believe" statements. I saw some wonderful starts and cannot wait to see what you all come up with! If you are still thinking of a topic, look back to the identity wheel's we've been filling out in class as well as the graphic organizers from today to get you started. We'll be working on these throughout the next two weeks.

Good luck studying for your assessment, let us know if you have any questions.

Homework for B-Day Classes: 24 September

AP Seminar

My general policy is that if we have an assessment, the only person with homework is me - and we'll keep that policy in place for today. I would ask that you review the Unit 2 Plan and consider issues or problems related to education. We'll begin in earnest next class as we review our tasks for this unit and get to work.

Remember that all summer work needs to be submitted this week if it is still not accounted for.

Advanced Russian

Please remember that when I give you homework or ask you to make things it is not to waste your time or give you busy work; it's to help you. Hopefully tonight many of you will go through and make those verb cards. If so, show them to me for some partial credit.

Tonight you have two things to accomplish for class on Wednesday. First, as it relates to the Learning Through Languages Symposium - brainstorm topics of interest related to our different areas of the world. I'll place you in teams next class, and you'll have the goal of determining your focus as a group. Be ready to contribute. Here is the link to the sample questions and topics and more information on the competition.

The second assignment is to complete some writing for me as a bridge to speaking next class. Select a few key verbs of different stems and work with them through all tenses (past, present, and future). Show that you can conjugate and show that you can work with nominative, accusative, and prepositional cases. We'll be speaking next class - so your work with this will help you to achieve great things in terms of our work on Wednesday.

Russian I

Thanks for your great work today with writing your names and getting started with your Russian cities project. We'll keep working on these city projects through the week and present them next week. For tonight, your main goal is to prepare for your quiz next class on the alphabet. You need to know all thirty-three letters and the sounds that these letters make. We'll have listening, writing, and reading on the quiz.

If you're missing any work (viewing guide, paragraph, or handwriting packet) have that turned in next class!

Homework for A-Day Classes - Weekend Edition - 21 September

AP English III

Next week we have a busy week since we have things being turned in as well as our first unit assessment. Let's talk about Tuesday's assessment and then the work due on Thursday.

On Tuesday you'll have your assessment on the texts that we have read so far this year. The authors will be Eudora Welty's "Listening", Stephanie Ericsson's "The Ways We Lie", and Joan Didion's "On Keeping a Notebook". There will be two questions on Capote's In Cold Blood. In order to prepare for this I would recommend:

1. Reviewing your notes related to the texts.
2. Going over any terms related to rhetoric and argumentation.
3. Check over your annotations.

Remember that if you want to resubmit your annotation check, you will have to bring your book with you.

On Thursday, we'll be collecting final drafts of your nature/nurture essays. In your draft packet you'll be putting your final draft with rubric, your rough draft with feedback, and your outlines. Also, we'll collect question resubmissions on Thursday.

Lastly, we'll be starting our next unit soon. You'll want Arthur Miller's The Crucible and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. We'll be focusing on social commentary and rhetorical analysis. Be sure that you have these books by the beginning of October as we'll start reading then.

English IV

Don't forget that you also have an assessment next week as well. We've read two stories so far "Heartbeat" and "I Go Along" as well as focused on grammar and vocabulary. We'll get you ready for this on Tuesday, but be sure that you're reviewing what we've learned so far so that there are no surprises.

Homework for B-Day Students: 20 September 2018

See you all next week! Remember that there are major assessments coming for all of you next week - be ready by following the guidelines below.

AP Seminar

We will have our first Unit Examination on Monday. Remember that this will cover Freakonomics through fifty multiple choice questions and the EOC Task A. You'll have all 90 minutes to complete the assessment. Remember that you will be timed.

In order to prepare I would do the following:

• review your annotations and summer questions on Freakonomics (remember that if you added the class late/didn't turn in your summer assignment on day one then it is due on Monday)
• review our key terms for class, especially - Line of Reasoning, Claim, Evidence, Argument
• review our notes from Unit 1
• go over the sample responses from today's class and the prompt for EOC Task A

I think that many of you will do very well on this assessment. If you need help, please ask!

Advanced Russian

You all also have an assessment on Monday - it will cover the One Stem Verb System in Russian for some of the most productive stems. I've uploaded the review sheet into your classroom on Google Classroom. You should be prepared to:

• show a knowledge of how stems indicate important information about verbs
• show how to read a conjugated verb in order to determine its stem
• apply knowledge of stems to give a most likely conjugation of new verbs
• show an understanding of Structural Transcription as it applies to stems

I would highly recommend working through the rest of your verb cards if you already have not, and you should complete Exercise 8Г on your own or with a colleague in order to review all of these skills together.

Russian I

We will take our first quiz on the alphabet on Wednesday. I would like to spend more time on Monday with another activity as well as with some cultural work which will help you to finish learning your sounds and shapes. Over the weekend, take time to finish your handwriting packets. This is the most important task. The handwriting packet is worth 100 points - so it is a large amount of work to complete. Be sure that you have finished learning your sounds and shapes - like I said in class, there are tons of online resources to help you with this.

Lastly, if you see anything missing in your gradebook - be sure to have it ready for me by the end of next week. Some of you need to turn in a paragraph on the film we watched. Take care of that this weekend, and then turn it in to me

Homework for A Day - Wednesday, September 19th

English IV

Today we worked on our grammar and focused on helping verbs. We also read the first half of "Heartbeat" by David Woo. On Friday, we will finish up that short story and continue to work on vocabulary word parts. Continue to study your literary terms and how to apply them to the works we are reading each day. Later this week, we may go to the Media Center/Library to choose a personal reading book for those students who were not able to make it to school on Monday.

AP English III

Today we handed in our outlines (both original and edited copies). I hope you all found the peer-editing to be helpful, this is a skill you can use both in and out of the classroom. Mr. Miller and I are always resources to help you with your writing and your essays, but so are your peers! Following the rubric and keep connecting your evidence and explanations to your claim.

Your essay is due on Thursday, September 27th. We have a Final Assessment for our In Cold Blood Unit on Tuesday, September 25th. We'll go over the assessment this Friday, if you want to start reviewing early, I suggest going over your annotations from Didion, Ericsson, Welty, and Capote. This Friday, your 5 vocabulary cards are due. Use the graded card as a guide to fix your other cards.
Thank you all for engaging in the debates at the end of class. I loved how you all were able to make claims, give evidence, and and explain in such a short amount of time! Remember to update that back cover of your copy of In Cold Blood.

Have a great rest of your day, and we'll see you on Friday!

Homework for B Day Students - 18 September

Due to the two-hour delay today we did not get through everything in our classes. Be aware of this if you look at the slides from class in Google Classroom. Here are your reminders of what to do before our next class.

AP Seminar

At the end of class today we divided up Freakonomics in order to prepare for next class. Next class we'll start working through some parts of our final assessment - the End of Course examination from College Board. To prepare for our first task, Task A, I want you to go through your chapter of Freakonomics and look for the:

• claims that the chapter is making
• evidence being used to support the claim
• overall argument of the chapter

You will also want to consider the "line of reasoning" - we'll be discussing this more on Thursday.

Don't forget that you have your first major assessment coming on Monday. You'll be answering questions on Freakonomics and you'll be completing EOC Task A. Remember that if you are submitting the summer work late (questions and annotations) you need to have that in to me by Monday.

Russian II/III

Today we reviewed the formation of the future tense as well as the declensions for accusative and prepositional case. Next class we'll apply many of these notes to our writing and speaking activity. Tonight, you should spend your time preparing for your assessment on Monday. Take a look at Exercise 8Г at the end of Chapter Four. This exercise identifies verbs and stems. Work with these - understand what the stem is telling you and the process of conjugation. That will be your major task on Monday. Make sure that you have your cards complete.

Russian I

We finished learning the alphabet today! Hooray! Now you can complete your handwriting packet as we get ready for our first quiz on the alphabet. You need to be sure that you know all 33 letters and the sounds that they make. We'll continue to play and practice with words and sounds as we review and prepare for the quiz. I would like to collect your handwriting packets from you on Thursday, but if you need to finish over the weekend, that's fine too. If you're having trouble with the alphabet, I would suggest that you listen to the alphabet song several times or find another good video to review. So much of this is auditory, so just looking at the letters won't help too much.


As always, come and see me if you need any help or assistance! See you Thursday!

Homework for the Day of the Flood - A Day - 17 September

What a day! Phew! I'm happy that we were able to make it through to the end. Be mindful of the announcements and updates here as we prepare for Wednesday's class. Remember that Wednesday is now a FULL DAY OF SCHOOL!

English IV

Today we spent a lot of time working on vocabulary, and we started to get into reading for us. Always a fun thing to do in class. Continue to review your vocabulary skills and apply these skills as you are working and reading in the world around you. You may find that you know a lot more words than you think! All you have to do is break them up!

AP English III

With the fact that the world exploded this morning and got all over us, we didn't have the chance to do our essay drafting workshop today. No worries, this will now happen on Wednesday! Be sure that you have a hard copy of your draft, and your outline (redone and original) if you plan to resubmit for a new grade. This is the main task for Wednesday. Your other Wednesday task is to bring in your copy of In Cold Blood and review Section IV. Don't forget to take some time to update your back cover annotations too.

On Friday you have FIVE vocabulary cards due. You've already done one - apply the feedback to make it perfect if it isn't already, and then do four more. Get into the habit of having five cards due every two weeks (aka - they're due when we have class on a Friday!)

Did you miss our film?

Russian Students:

Some of you may find it helpful to rewatch portions of Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears / Москва слезам не верит - some of your viewing guides were a bit lacking in some areas and a few of you missed a day.

Here's part one:
And here's part two:

Enjoy!

Russian Students - DUOLINGO

Now is a great time to hone your Russian skills using Duolingo. Remember that by completing assignments you can earn extra credit. The first assignment is complete, but you can start working on assignment two. The instructions for joining your class are below.

First for Russian I Students. Your assignment is to complete the Alphabet section in the classroom!

And for Russian II/III Students. Your assignment is to get a certain number of XP.

Homework for B-Day - 12 September

Durham Public Schools has officially closed on Thursday and Friday. The notes and announcements here are meant to prepare you for your next class. A-Day Students - The notes and reminders in the previous post should be ready when we return. Stay safe and secure during the storm!

AP Seminar

Today we took our terms quiz on important ideas from the Course and Exam Description - we covered several of these in class via a presentation and you were able to encounter others during our work with the QUEST framework. If you felt unprepared, study and review so that when you are reassessed on this content in your later examination, you will be more ready. Then we moved on to understanding how to RAVEN something and why this is a helpful tool.

You should accomplish the following tasks before next class. First, go back to your work with sources and online resources that we did on Monday. Look at one of your sources through RAVEN. What does the RAVEN model help you to understand. You may find it helpful to go to Google Classroom and use the blank sheet. Second, read the article called "Is Google Making Us Stupid" and annotate it. Consider the ideas around perspectives, questions, and thinking as you read this.

Advanced Russian

As I said in class, we will have an assessment on verbs, stems, and conjugation shortly after we return from the storm. To help you prepare, I have the following suggestions for you.

1. Work through your verb cards and the sheet with your exemplar verb for each stem. Have a good understanding of how to work through conjugation in past/non-past and the idiosyncrasies of each stem.
2. Review Exercise 8Г on page 170. Can you do this work? Can you develop those forms from the given information?
3. Review the verbs in Chapters One through Four. Know their meaning, the stem, and the conjugations.

Russian I

We know all of the alphabet except for a few letters, so hopefully you'll be able to complete all of the handwriting packet with a few small exceptions. I gave each of you a list of cognate words today in class as we were leaving. Be sure that you spend time this weekend practicing with your reading, spelling, and writing. Hopefully you will all see that you can already read words in Russian. 

We will have an alphabet quiz very soon! Be sure that you are prepared for this assessment. Don't forget to use YouTube and DuoLingo as you are studying and reviewing!

Homework for A-Day Students: 11 September 2018

Good afternoon everyone - For now we still have class on Thursday, but it will be shortened since our school will dismiss three hours early. Be prepared with the notes below.

English IV

You all did a great job today finishing "I Go Along" and considering some of the major ideas of the story. Next class we're going to be moving on to another text and looking at another way to display information about ourselves. For tonight, continue to focus on your vocabulary studying as well as your literary terms. We will have a quiz on this information next week - after the hurricane has passed and we have gathered back together.

AP English III

We have now returned and reviewed the parts of our summer assignment - yay! Now it's time to apply feedback and learn from what we have done before. Be sure that you are applying feedback and working through the questions and comments that have been raised with your work. If you are unsure of what to do, see one of us for help and support. Your revised outlines are due in two classes and your revised questions are due in four classes. Remember that if you received full credit on a question, you do not have to revise or change it in any way.

For next class, you should focus on two things. First, read and annotate Eudora Welty's "Listening" which is available in some editions of 50 Essays and at this link. I think that this is a beautiful piece about writing as a craft and as a skill. As you read it, consider what you think are the most important parts of being a writer. How would Capote respond to Welty? Secondly, prepare your rough draft of your In Cold Blood Nature versus Nurture essays. You should have a full introduction paragraph and about two topics which have been fully developed. Apply the notes that we have reviewed over these last few classes as you are revising and writing. Remember - it's all about making your point in a convincing way to your reader! Explain, explain, explain!

Homwork B Day - 10 September 2018

AP Seminar

Today in class, we focused on our sub-topic questions. Your questions were fascinating, and I can't wait to see what information you all find on your new questions.  Thank you all for staying focused in the Media Center today. I know you all got some great information from Ms. Stacy, she is a wonderful resource for us, and the databases she showed will be useful to you the rest of the year (and beyond). Databases will have much more reliable sources for you, rather than just googling information. I'm sorry I didn't get around to everyone to ask your questions - I'll make sure to touch base with you next class.

For HOMEWORK: Watch these two speeches: "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr. and "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel. As you watch, analyze them for claim/argument and evidence. We also have a terms quiz on Wednesday - the terms will be in your glossary at end of the Course and Exam Description.

Russian II/III

We continued viewing of Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears. I hope that you are enjoying the film (I know I did). Please continue to work on your verb cards. You'll have a quiz this week on conjugations and stems. To study, I recommend looking over your vocab cards, as wells as going over your verbs fromt the textbook. Be sure to look for mutations as well as the process of joining the endings to the stem. You should be developing your cards so that you have a good study aid for our upcoming quiz on verbs and stems.
 
Russian I

Continue working on your alphabet skills for homework. The shapes and sounds of the letters thatyou have learned. Keep working on that handwriting packet Mr. Miller assigned. Keep that in mind as you are working this weekend. Be able to read and write what you see in that packet. Also keep practicing with Duolingo, it's a great way to reinforce what you are learning in the classroom.

Friday will be your first day of Russian Speaking!


Mr. Miller will be back tomorrow on Tuesday, September 11th.

Have a great day everyone, we'll see you Wednesday!

Homework the Weekend - A Day - 7 September 2018

AP English III

Today we talked about arguments in section III of  In Cold Blood. For homework this weekend you have three things to focus on. First, complete 5 vocabulary notecards. These vocabulary words come from your vocabulary bookmarks. Choose five words (from In Cold Blood, Didion, Ericsson, or the AP Multiple Choice). On the front side of the card put the word, sentence in which you found it, page number (not necessary if you chose it from AP multiple choice), other forms of the word (verb, noun, adjective, etc.), and its etymology. Google is one of your best resources for finding the prefix/root/suffix. THIS is also a helpful website. One the back of the card, you should put your own definition and synonyms (explain any difference between the definitions!). Remember – 5 cards on Tuesday, they will be checked for completion.

The second part for homework this weekend is to revise your outlines. Ms. Coco will be available Monday before and after school, as well as A lunch if you have any questions. Mr. Miller will be back on Tuesday. You can always email either/both of us as well if you have any questions.

Finally, work on your rough draft of your In Cold Blood essay. You should have ½ of the rough draft done by Thursday, Sept. 13. Come to class with a printed copy so we can have a writing workshop.

Period 4 – Thank you for your patience and cooperation during technical difficulties. I appreciate you all staying on task for that final activity.

English IV

No real homework to complete over the weekend. Do keep reviewing all of the new vocabulary (aka literary terms) that we learn on a daily basis so that we are able to keep moving forward! We will have a quiz coming up on those terms next week– so be sure to keep that in mind.

Hope you all enjoy your weekend! We’ll see on Tuesday!

Homework for the Weekend - B Day - 6 September

AP Seminar

Today we went forward into our work on questions and lenses. This work can be very difficult and really frustrating - remember that the goal is to have something to guide your search. Without some sort of a map, even a bad one, you begin your journey with no plan in mind - thus you're immediately lost.

For tonight, delve deeper into your topic (diversity, innovation, space) and develop a sub-topic of interest to you. For example, you may want to look at diversity of Native Americans, or personal space, or cancer innovations. Go in the direction that you see fit, and develop new questions. Apply 5-7 of the lenses for your work on Monday with online resources and databases. Technically, this is the homework for next class - we are flipping the two, because of my absence.

Russian II/III

We will complete our viewing of Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears next week. I hope that you enjoyed the beginning of the film today. I think that Russians are great story tellers and this film is a wonderful example of that skill. For our next class, apply what you have learned today to your verb cards - work through the non-past conjugation of your verb types. Be sure to look for mutations as well as the process of joining the endings to the stem. You should be developing your cards so that you have a good study aid for our upcoming quiz on verbs and stems. This quiz will likely fall next week on Friday.

Russian I

For the weekend you should all be focused on learning the shapes and sounds of the letters that we have learned so far. That would be the letters in Groups One through Four. As you are going through your handwriting packet, remember to complete any exercises which have the letters that we have seen so far. By the end of next week you will be turning in a complete handwriting pack with everything complete. Keep that in mind as you are working this weekend. Be able to read and write what you see in that packet.

Also, don't forget to practice with our classroom on Duolingo. That's another great way to reinforce and develop your skills.

Enjoy the weekend everyone and have a Happy (Jewish) New Year! I'll see you all on Wednesday!

Homework for A-Day - 5 September 2018

AP English III

Sorry that we didn't get to touch on the outlines that you built around Section II of In Cold Blood. Please hang on to this work as we will likely take a look at it next class or next week as we spend time working on outlining and writing skills. Today you all got some great direct instruction in writing an argument, particularly on structure, organization, and thesis/argument statement writing. Start to apply this now to your outlines. Begin the revision process.

Next week will will have a rough draft workshop - more instructions will come on this Friday and Tuesday. You should work through half of your outline and turn it into a rough draft. To me, it makes most sense to do your introduction paragraph with your argument as well as a topic or two of the body.

Next class we'll be focused on Section III of In Cold Blood. Be sure that you have updated your vocabulary bookmarks with words from Sections I, II, and III - have pages numbers and synonyms. We'll be going on to the next phase of vocabulary work on Friday, and you'll need full bookmarks to do that.

English IV

Thank you all so much for the amazing celebration! I'm going to remember this for a long, long time! We even found time to do some work! Bonus! Today we were able to review grammar rules around apostrophes and start understanding how word families work. Remember - if the words share a root, then they share a meaning.

For tonight, take a look at your vocabulary notes and your literary terms from "I Go Along". We'll be reading more of the story on Friday, and doing some work about ourselves.

Homework for B-Day - 4 September 2018

Remember, the next time that I see you I'll be a bit smarter since I'll be a bit older! Make sure that you're ready for our next class by preparing the proper tribute aka gifts aka homework assignments.

Russian I

We're almost halfway through the Russian alphabet! Hooray! As we keep working, remember that you should be working through your handwriting packet on a daily basis. Be sure that you remember to review and study every day so that you are able to memorize these shapes and sounds. Looking at the letters we have done so far, you should be able to complete the following exercises:

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 13

Feel free to do more if you would like, but those would be the minimum requirement. See you all next class!

Russian II/III

Today we spent a lot of time drawing and writing outside before getting back to our work on verbs. Tonight, you have two assignments to work on - one you'll complete and one you'll just begin.

Start by completing Exercise 8B - complete what we started in class by finishing the even questions. Remember to follow the chart format where you address the process of joining, the stem, and show how the process works. Then, move on to your verb cards.

For the verb cards you'll be assigning one verb to each card. For tonight, I want you to try to show the verb in its Standard Transcription for the infinitive and past tense endings. Show the stem + the ending, and how they combine.

Next class we'll start looking at present tense (aka non-past) to understand more about what stems are telling us.

AP Seminar

For our next AP Seminar class we'll be focusing in on the idea of perspective and approach to questions and inquiry. We started to discuss some of these ideas today at the conclusion of class. For this, you'll be taking a look at the film Blackfish and considering the perspective on the issue that the film explores.

Take a look at our previous post so that you remind yourself of what to follow as you watch the film. Take notes as you watch related to those ideas, and don't forget to read over SeaWorld's official response to the documentary. We'll have some interesting ideas to bandy about on Thursday.