Homework for B-Day Classes - 5 November

I'm back everyone! Yay! Vacation was exactly what I needed to recharge going into Quarter 2. Here are your reminders about what to do moving into our class on Wednesday. First, remember to encourage people you know to vote! Democracy only works when we all participate. Other than that we have the following - 

AP Seminar

Tonight you have an additional article which will give you another approach to the idea of protest; perhaps a different one than we've considered so far. Read and annotate the article "Why Violence Works" which is linked from the Unit Plan as well as here. As you read, consider the claims, evidences, and arguments presented. You might also want to consider its credibility. From here, consider how this article contributes to the larger conversation we're having around protest.

After this, take a look through your stimulus pack. You might want to start to consider the documents because you'll end up starting your QUEST by using one of these documents as an anchor. What issue is presented? What problem? Question?

Advanced Russian

Today in class we didn't get as far as I wanted, so there's a bit of a modification to the planned homework. Tonight you should all focus on finishing your abstract for your research paper. Hopefully you divided the parts of the abstract out and then have begun to write. Remember to have full ownership of your language as you write. When it is ready to be reviewed by me, let me know. I'll be checking them on Friday if you don't tell me to before that.

From here, look at your exercises for review of the concepts today. For Russian II, you'll want to take a look at Exercise 5.7. Look at the clues in the sentence and think about if it's a situation that needs perfective or imperfective as well as the tense. You might also want to take a look at the types of verbal action as you look at this.

For Russian III, you've got Exercise 8.7. This will have you consider prepositions related to time expressions. You should use your notes that you took today as well as your textbook to help you work through this information.

Russian I

Today in class we had a bit of a struggle related to behavior. We can consider this class the warning for everyone. If we continue to have problems then I will be to solve them, and you may not like my solution. Further, remember what I said in regards to studying and preparing. You need to be working regularly on this class in order to improve. If you're not, then there's a problem and it needs to be fixed. If you don't know how to study, then seek out assistance. It's important to make everything start to click now before things get out of your control.

For tonight, I want you to focus on Exercise 1.5 and 1.4. You should be actively using your vocabulary list and your notes in order to do this work. You may not be able to fill in all of the blanks, but I expect a good effort. I think that 1.5 is the more important of the two and the one that you should be able to complete the most of.