AP Seminar
Today we spent our day working through EOC B which leaves us EOC A for Friday. I hope that all of you are feeling prepared for our work on Tuesday with the EOC. Remember that you need to be at the exam location early. Park at Jordan and walk over. See you Friday for our last day of exam preparation!
Advanced Russian
Remember that the AP Exam for Russian is tomorrow. Be on time. We will start the test at 9:00 AM in the Media Center.
For homework tonight, please read over the sentences I gave you which use который - Which case is being activated? How does the adjective work as a pivot point? Consider how you can use this to navigate more complex sentences.
We will also have a quiz next week on short versus long-form adjectives and vocabulary. Study and prepare for Tuesday's quiz!
Russian I
Today in class we had our quiz on adjectives and conjunctions as well as finished the second episode of Night Swallows. The only homework tonight is to do some preliminary research related to the Russian holidays and to rank your top three holidays for your project. You'll work on your own, and then as a group decide what you want to present to the class. Remember that this is our final culture project for the year.
Showing posts with label adverbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adverbs. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Friday, April 26, 2019
Weekend Work - B Day - 26 April 2019
We are almost done with April, which means that the last few classes of the year are upon us. Be sure that you're making clear progress toward our final goals for all of our classes.
AP Seminar
It was all about the exam today! EOC A and EOC B. I hope that you appreciated my strategies and tips for success. Today I unveiled to you one of my favorite things - the dirty outline. If you like it, great, if not, find something else.
This weekend I want you to do your planning for EOC B. Come in to class with your "planning" - Have what you would need to write your assignment. Also, time yourself, remember you only have 90 total minutes.
Next class we'll look at sample items, the scoring rubrics, and sample student responses with commentary so that we know what we're expected to produce.
Advanced Russian
THE AP EXAMINATION FOR RUSSIAN IS ON MAY 1 IN THE MEDIA CENTER. WE WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 9:00 AM. BE EARLY.
Today in class we had time to review short form versus long form adjectives as well as interesting cases of vocabulary meaning related to these words. We also had some time to work on our final projects, and I outlined the requirements for these final projects.
Over the weekend I would spend time with two things. First, I would be sure to review my vocabulary and my skills related to forming and using short-form adjectives. This is where your exercises are really helpful. Be sure that exercises 11.4, 11.5, and 11.6 are complete for next class. Additionally, I would check in on my final project. Have you found your Russian I skills?
Some of you are missing work in the gradebook. The end is coming. Get your things turned in or resubmitted.
Lastly, we'll work on который next week. Read over this brief discussion in your textbook. This link is also a helpful resource.
Russian I
Today we reviewed the process for forming adverbs from adjectives and from nouns before we practiced with dominoes to make our matches. Next class I'll want to see that you can do all of this work. You will have a quiz focused on forming adverbs, vocabulary knowledge, and the use of conjunctions in Russian.
Study our recent class notes and activities. Be prepared for this assessment. Remember that we really have just one more topic left for the whole year.
AP Seminar
It was all about the exam today! EOC A and EOC B. I hope that you appreciated my strategies and tips for success. Today I unveiled to you one of my favorite things - the dirty outline. If you like it, great, if not, find something else.
This weekend I want you to do your planning for EOC B. Come in to class with your "planning" - Have what you would need to write your assignment. Also, time yourself, remember you only have 90 total minutes.
Next class we'll look at sample items, the scoring rubrics, and sample student responses with commentary so that we know what we're expected to produce.
Advanced Russian
THE AP EXAMINATION FOR RUSSIAN IS ON MAY 1 IN THE MEDIA CENTER. WE WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 9:00 AM. BE EARLY.
Today in class we had time to review short form versus long form adjectives as well as interesting cases of vocabulary meaning related to these words. We also had some time to work on our final projects, and I outlined the requirements for these final projects.
Over the weekend I would spend time with two things. First, I would be sure to review my vocabulary and my skills related to forming and using short-form adjectives. This is where your exercises are really helpful. Be sure that exercises 11.4, 11.5, and 11.6 are complete for next class. Additionally, I would check in on my final project. Have you found your Russian I skills?
Some of you are missing work in the gradebook. The end is coming. Get your things turned in or resubmitted.
Lastly, we'll work on который next week. Read over this brief discussion in your textbook. This link is also a helpful resource.
Russian I
Today we reviewed the process for forming adverbs from adjectives and from nouns before we practiced with dominoes to make our matches. Next class I'll want to see that you can do all of this work. You will have a quiz focused on forming adverbs, vocabulary knowledge, and the use of conjunctions in Russian.
Study our recent class notes and activities. Be prepared for this assessment. Remember that we really have just one more topic left for the whole year.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Homework for B-Day Students: 24 April
AP Seminar
We have just the final few IMPOD presentations left on Thursday morning which means that on Friday we'll be going to our exam preparation. For that, we'll really work out of the AP Seminar Course and Exam Description. The most important pages in this document are the Glossary of Terms and the Sample EOC A and EOC B. I would recommend studying the terms tonight and finding those most helpful and related to the EOC A and B. We'll have a lot of fun the next few days as we are preparing.
Outside of this your work is on Digital Portfolio. Be sure that everything is uploaded and submitted following the instructions. Also be sure to import your AP Number once you get that from Ms. Oertel.
Advanced Russian
Here we go into Chapter 11. It's a fun chapter with some strange grammar goals all related to adjectives and verbs in some strange fashion. Today we started our work with this chapter by focusing on how Russians use and create words for various nationalities as well as the short-form adjective. Tonight's homework is meant to help with this new concept. Complete the translation exercise related to short-form adjectives. Use your vocabulary list to learn new words. Remember that the adjective has to agree with the noun. Have this work complete so that we can review it on Friday before having our song workshop.
Russian I
We had such a productive day today learning new things! Sorry to those of you who didn't win LOTO today, but remember that we did get some good review of vocabulary done, so everyone wins. Our main goal for today was to understand the way that adverbs are formed and used in Russian. Today we looked at a lot of the basics, next class we'll look at some more complicated bits.
For tonight, you should complete our classwork. Write two additional sentence pairs using an adjective and an adverb. Remember the different procedures for using and writing with these different parts of speech. Also be aware of our quiz next week on adverbs, conjunctions, and vocabulary.
We have just the final few IMPOD presentations left on Thursday morning which means that on Friday we'll be going to our exam preparation. For that, we'll really work out of the AP Seminar Course and Exam Description. The most important pages in this document are the Glossary of Terms and the Sample EOC A and EOC B. I would recommend studying the terms tonight and finding those most helpful and related to the EOC A and B. We'll have a lot of fun the next few days as we are preparing.
Outside of this your work is on Digital Portfolio. Be sure that everything is uploaded and submitted following the instructions. Also be sure to import your AP Number once you get that from Ms. Oertel.
Advanced Russian
Here we go into Chapter 11. It's a fun chapter with some strange grammar goals all related to adjectives and verbs in some strange fashion. Today we started our work with this chapter by focusing on how Russians use and create words for various nationalities as well as the short-form adjective. Tonight's homework is meant to help with this new concept. Complete the translation exercise related to short-form adjectives. Use your vocabulary list to learn new words. Remember that the adjective has to agree with the noun. Have this work complete so that we can review it on Friday before having our song workshop.
Russian I
We had such a productive day today learning new things! Sorry to those of you who didn't win LOTO today, but remember that we did get some good review of vocabulary done, so everyone wins. Our main goal for today was to understand the way that adverbs are formed and used in Russian. Today we looked at a lot of the basics, next class we'll look at some more complicated bits.
For tonight, you should complete our classwork. Write two additional sentence pairs using an adjective and an adverb. Remember the different procedures for using and writing with these different parts of speech. Also be aware of our quiz next week on adverbs, conjunctions, and vocabulary.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Homework for the Weekend - B Day - 4 April
One week done, only six more to go!
AP Seminar
Over the weekend there are two things to accomplish. Some of you were able to accomplish one of them today, so I guess that just leaves one thing for you. Be sure that you have navigated to Google Classroom and found the form for Workshop 1.2. This form will guide you through the second workshop on the first submission. This focused on Rows 3 and 5 of the rubric, but it will also be good to think about citations as well.
You must go to Digital Portfolio and submit your draft this weekend. Run an originality report based on your work so far. I will check behind you on Monday. The class we'll have on Monday will focus on workshopping the full draft - be prepared for this work!
Advanced Russian
At this point we have projects due or soon to be due. Russian III students should have recipe cards submitted online and be ready to play or present a spoken part on Monday. Russian II students will have their final workshop on Monday related to the weather reports. Be sure that you have a slide for each of the days and that you discuss temperature, conditions, and suggested attire.
Additionally, we have exercises based on the new content - 9.9 for Russian III / 7.8 for Russian II. Be sure that you are learning your declensions, remembering your key rules, and getting prepared for our overall examination (either the final or the AP).
Russian I
Over the weekend you should all be focused on studying and preparing for your Unit 2 examination. The exam is going to fall on Friday of next week. We'll have full classes on Monday and especially Wednesday reviewing for the exam and getting ready in the way that we can.
This weekend you should all work through exercise 2.20 - translations. These are helpful to review vocabulary as well as grammar in the lesson. You should be able to identify where to use all six cases and then put the words in the proper form. Remember to use your vocabulary lists and notes from Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 as you complete this work.
I would also suggest reading through and understanding the чтение at the beginning of Chapter 2. What is this text about? Where does it use our grammar? You'll see a similar text on the exam next week.
AP Seminar
Over the weekend there are two things to accomplish. Some of you were able to accomplish one of them today, so I guess that just leaves one thing for you. Be sure that you have navigated to Google Classroom and found the form for Workshop 1.2. This form will guide you through the second workshop on the first submission. This focused on Rows 3 and 5 of the rubric, but it will also be good to think about citations as well.
You must go to Digital Portfolio and submit your draft this weekend. Run an originality report based on your work so far. I will check behind you on Monday. The class we'll have on Monday will focus on workshopping the full draft - be prepared for this work!
Advanced Russian
At this point we have projects due or soon to be due. Russian III students should have recipe cards submitted online and be ready to play or present a spoken part on Monday. Russian II students will have their final workshop on Monday related to the weather reports. Be sure that you have a slide for each of the days and that you discuss temperature, conditions, and suggested attire.
Additionally, we have exercises based on the new content - 9.9 for Russian III / 7.8 for Russian II. Be sure that you are learning your declensions, remembering your key rules, and getting prepared for our overall examination (either the final or the AP).
Russian I
Over the weekend you should all be focused on studying and preparing for your Unit 2 examination. The exam is going to fall on Friday of next week. We'll have full classes on Monday and especially Wednesday reviewing for the exam and getting ready in the way that we can.
This weekend you should all work through exercise 2.20 - translations. These are helpful to review vocabulary as well as grammar in the lesson. You should be able to identify where to use all six cases and then put the words in the proper form. Remember to use your vocabulary lists and notes from Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 as you complete this work.
I would also suggest reading through and understanding the чтение at the beginning of Chapter 2. What is this text about? Where does it use our grammar? You'll see a similar text on the exam next week.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Homework for B-Day Classes (and reminders for AP) - 2 April 2019
AP Seminar
As one of my favorite singers says, "Well I guess that push has come to this, so I guess this must be shove..." That's where we are in AP Seminar. We should regularly be checking things off and moving forward. I hope that today's workshop was helpful in that regard.
Revise and write and craft your IWA. Be sure that you are also designing your slides. Practice your Oral Defense questions with each other. Keep moving forward and ask for the help that you may need. If you were absent today, be sure that you find a partner to complete a First Submission workshop form - available on Google Classroom.
Advanced Russian
I'll be creating the space on Google Classroom for your projects on Thursday morning. Remember that Russian III is due this week and Russian II is due next week. Follow the guidelines for your project (recipe/weather) and ask for the help you may need. Remember that we are actively working on using our language to review the skills.
Today in class we began on new information - adverbs of quantity and count versus non-count nouns for Russian II - imperatives for first and third person for Russian III. There are exercises to review these concepts. Please complete exercises in Chapter 7 and 9 as needed focused on these concepts. The list of exercises is in the slides on Google Classroom.
Russian I
Today I gave you the study guide for your Unit 2 Exam which will fall next Friday. This exam will focus on the essential skills of cases (all six - nouns and adjectives) as well as verb conjugation. It will be very similar to the Unit 1 exam with more (seeing as you didn't know about adjectives before). Be sure to use your study guide and prioritize where you need to.
Additionally, we will begin on one of our last culture projects on Thursday - the former Soviet Union. Be sure that you have selected your top FIVE former republics (Russia is not an option). Do some preliminary research. We'll be choosing and starting on Thursday after we finish Office Romance.
AP English III
Be ready for your quiz on The Grapes of Wrath and be sure that if you have your chapter presentation tomorrow that you have shared your materials with me before class begins. We will have presentations and then the quiz.
As one of my favorite singers says, "Well I guess that push has come to this, so I guess this must be shove..." That's where we are in AP Seminar. We should regularly be checking things off and moving forward. I hope that today's workshop was helpful in that regard.
Revise and write and craft your IWA. Be sure that you are also designing your slides. Practice your Oral Defense questions with each other. Keep moving forward and ask for the help that you may need. If you were absent today, be sure that you find a partner to complete a First Submission workshop form - available on Google Classroom.
Advanced Russian
I'll be creating the space on Google Classroom for your projects on Thursday morning. Remember that Russian III is due this week and Russian II is due next week. Follow the guidelines for your project (recipe/weather) and ask for the help you may need. Remember that we are actively working on using our language to review the skills.
Today in class we began on new information - adverbs of quantity and count versus non-count nouns for Russian II - imperatives for first and third person for Russian III. There are exercises to review these concepts. Please complete exercises in Chapter 7 and 9 as needed focused on these concepts. The list of exercises is in the slides on Google Classroom.
Russian I
Today I gave you the study guide for your Unit 2 Exam which will fall next Friday. This exam will focus on the essential skills of cases (all six - nouns and adjectives) as well as verb conjugation. It will be very similar to the Unit 1 exam with more (seeing as you didn't know about adjectives before). Be sure to use your study guide and prioritize where you need to.
Additionally, we will begin on one of our last culture projects on Thursday - the former Soviet Union. Be sure that you have selected your top FIVE former republics (Russia is not an option). Do some preliminary research. We'll be choosing and starting on Thursday after we finish Office Romance.
AP English III
Be ready for your quiz on The Grapes of Wrath and be sure that if you have your chapter presentation tomorrow that you have shared your materials with me before class begins. We will have presentations and then the quiz.
Monday, April 30, 2018
Homework for A-Day Students: 30 April 2018
English IV
Today was the beginning of our third week of our independent novel projects. Remember that since we are coming so close to the end of our year together, I have cut the fourth project from the list. For this reason, project three will count double.
Please check PowerSchool as it relates to any missing work. By this point you should have everything in for week one; most of you got started submitting work for week two today. By Friday, you should hopefully have most all of week two complete as well as some of week three.
For the week three project we are submitting a close reading of important passages from the book. Remember that you need to copy the passage (less than a page) and perform a close reading where you find: literary devices, main ideas/themes, information on characters, and vocabulary. Then, you'll write a summary of the passage as well as a description of the author's style based on the passages. All of this type of work and thinking will prepare you well for the NCFE since we have many questions related to author's style.
Continue reading and thinking! I'll see you all on Wednesday.
Advanced Russian
We are moving on to exercises as we begin to finish our last units of the year. Russian II - Focus on the exercises 7.8Б, 7.9, and 7.10. Your goal is to review the use of genitive case, the use of count versus non-count nouns, and new vocabulary that triggers the genitive case. This information will be on your reassessment on Friday - so practice and prepare. Russian III - Focus on the imperative mood in Russian through exercise 9.9. Remember the process that we worked through today as we formed imperatives.
Be sure as well that you spend time reviewing your quizzes and the notes that we took around double negation. This was a big weak point for many of you that I hope became clearer today. You'll reassess on this topic on Friday! Be ready!!!!
Russian I
Today I gave you all the study guide for your unit examination. Be prepared by studying and reviewing your work and your quizzes. Remember too that you can resubmit your quiz by Friday to earn back points on anything that you missed. For next class you should focus on completing your reading homework from last week as well as learning your irregular plurals. The information on plurals is key to the test next week! Review and be ready!!
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Homework for A-Day Students - Weekend Edition - 26 April 2018
Russian I
I hope that all of you felt prepared for your quiz. I'll be grading them over the weekend and getting them back to you next week. Now we have to move on to learning our irregular plurals before we end Unit Three.
For this weekend you're doing a bit of reading and vocabulary analysis in order to brush up on your skills. Read the car advertisements from Russia's CraigsList - motolok.ru and answer the questions at the top of the page in English. Use evidence from the advertisements. At the bottom of the page there are questions on vocabulary use in the advertisements. Answer these questions in English or in Russian based on what the question asks for.
Advanced Russian
Today we also had a quiz; some of you did not finish in the allotted time, so it is important that you return tomorrow to finish your quiz. For the weekend, I would like for you to spend time with the new grammar concepts that we have to finish our units.
Russian III is focused on imperative formation from verbs - to practice, use exercises 9.9 and 9.12 to review the concept. Russian II is looking at the use of adverbs of quantity and the genitive case - for practice you have exercises 7.8Б and 7.9.
I expect that on Monday I will be able to check and see that you've made an effort to complete half of the exercises. This will help us to review the new concepts.
English IV
We did not have class today because of the senior meeting. This means that when you come to class on Monday I will need to see work for Week Two of our Independent Novel Project. Be sure that you have a reading log from the weekend, a vocabulary card, and your character chart complete. We'll take some time on Monday to review the different literary devices at play too!
I hope that all of you felt prepared for your quiz. I'll be grading them over the weekend and getting them back to you next week. Now we have to move on to learning our irregular plurals before we end Unit Three.
For this weekend you're doing a bit of reading and vocabulary analysis in order to brush up on your skills. Read the car advertisements from Russia's CraigsList - motolok.ru and answer the questions at the top of the page in English. Use evidence from the advertisements. At the bottom of the page there are questions on vocabulary use in the advertisements. Answer these questions in English or in Russian based on what the question asks for.
Advanced Russian
Today we also had a quiz; some of you did not finish in the allotted time, so it is important that you return tomorrow to finish your quiz. For the weekend, I would like for you to spend time with the new grammar concepts that we have to finish our units.
Russian III is focused on imperative formation from verbs - to practice, use exercises 9.9 and 9.12 to review the concept. Russian II is looking at the use of adverbs of quantity and the genitive case - for practice you have exercises 7.8Б and 7.9.
I expect that on Monday I will be able to check and see that you've made an effort to complete half of the exercises. This will help us to review the new concepts.
English IV
We did not have class today because of the senior meeting. This means that when you come to class on Monday I will need to see work for Week Two of our Independent Novel Project. Be sure that you have a reading log from the weekend, a vocabulary card, and your character chart complete. We'll take some time on Monday to review the different literary devices at play too!
We are quickly approaching the end of the year! You will only have NINE classes left when we return next week! Make it count!
Monday, April 16, 2018
Homework for A-Day: 16 April 2018
English IV
Today in class we spent most of our time finishing our essay assignments and completing work for the first novel check-in. There were many of you who did not complete the novel work, so that should be your priority for tonight. Remember that you need to show me one vocabulary card for your reading this week, a reading log of your reading for the week, project one - which is really your choice. I suggest that you complete the author study to begin.
Secondly, if you did not turn in your essay today, make sure that it is complete and a hard copy handed in by next class. I will begin grading these soon with the goal of getting them back to you so that you can resubmit them to me. Don't miss this opportunity to work on building your grade.
Next class we will spend time with our novels and have a college counselor coming to visit with some options to consider for next year.
Advanced Russian
Presentations of your projects are happening next class. Be prepared. Remember that you have an option that you can submit your presentation via recording (just have your recording ready to be played for me) or you can do it live. No matter which you do, be sure that your project work is complete for this checkpoint.
Additionally, you have some exercises to take you through the new concepts we began to learn today. Russian II is focused on words related to quantities. Work through exercises 7.9 and 7.10 - remember the rule about using genitive plural versus genitive singular. Russian III is focused on commands/imperatives. Work through exercise 9.12 for time to review the process of forming commands. Be sure that you use your textbooks as you work for reference!
Russian I
Now that we've had the chance to review the regular plural system, the main thing left for us is to take a look at the irregulars. We'll get started on that next week. For tonight, I want you focused on finishing your learning of the regular plural system. So, complete exercises four, all the way through. In this you will want to check the gender, then make the change to plural.
We'll review this next class for completion and do more with our packets to review! If you are interested in making corrections to your quiz, those are due by Friday of this week.
Today in class we spent most of our time finishing our essay assignments and completing work for the first novel check-in. There were many of you who did not complete the novel work, so that should be your priority for tonight. Remember that you need to show me one vocabulary card for your reading this week, a reading log of your reading for the week, project one - which is really your choice. I suggest that you complete the author study to begin.
Secondly, if you did not turn in your essay today, make sure that it is complete and a hard copy handed in by next class. I will begin grading these soon with the goal of getting them back to you so that you can resubmit them to me. Don't miss this opportunity to work on building your grade.
Next class we will spend time with our novels and have a college counselor coming to visit with some options to consider for next year.
Advanced Russian
Presentations of your projects are happening next class. Be prepared. Remember that you have an option that you can submit your presentation via recording (just have your recording ready to be played for me) or you can do it live. No matter which you do, be sure that your project work is complete for this checkpoint.
Additionally, you have some exercises to take you through the new concepts we began to learn today. Russian II is focused on words related to quantities. Work through exercises 7.9 and 7.10 - remember the rule about using genitive plural versus genitive singular. Russian III is focused on commands/imperatives. Work through exercise 9.12 for time to review the process of forming commands. Be sure that you use your textbooks as you work for reference!
Russian I
Now that we've had the chance to review the regular plural system, the main thing left for us is to take a look at the irregulars. We'll get started on that next week. For tonight, I want you focused on finishing your learning of the regular plural system. So, complete exercises four, all the way through. In this you will want to check the gender, then make the change to plural.
We'll review this next class for completion and do more with our packets to review! If you are interested in making corrections to your quiz, those are due by Friday of this week.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Homework for A Day - 10 April 2018
English IV
I was happy that a lot of you got started in earnest on your novel projects today and then, when we were in the lab, you were staying focused on your writing and drafting. MANY of you were absent today. So many that I think that there was a field trip that I forgot about. Anyway, if you were absent you missed the beginning of our novel project as well as a good day for working on our essays. As a reminder, your essay on Frankenstein is due to me at the end of class on Thursday. Be ready for that! If you need to keep working tonight, do so!
Advanced Russian
Tonight you should focus yourselves on your projects, as well as your review of cases and plural declensions. For your projects, start putting together your writing. Next class we'll go to the lab for editing and to create visuals. For your grammar homework, I want you working on Exercise 1 in Chapter Seven. In this exercise determine WHICH case needs to be used. Then, use that case in both the singular AND the plural. If the case used is Genitive Plural, skip the plural formation. We'll focus on Genitive Plural in full next class.
Russian I
Next class we will have our quiz on forming and using adjectives in Russian. Use your dominoes as well as your notes sheets to prepare and practice your task. Additionally, we finished watching the first episode of our show today. Complete your paragraph tonight, or Thursday after your quiz, and get it in to me for your culture grade!
I was happy that a lot of you got started in earnest on your novel projects today and then, when we were in the lab, you were staying focused on your writing and drafting. MANY of you were absent today. So many that I think that there was a field trip that I forgot about. Anyway, if you were absent you missed the beginning of our novel project as well as a good day for working on our essays. As a reminder, your essay on Frankenstein is due to me at the end of class on Thursday. Be ready for that! If you need to keep working tonight, do so!
Advanced Russian
Tonight you should focus yourselves on your projects, as well as your review of cases and plural declensions. For your projects, start putting together your writing. Next class we'll go to the lab for editing and to create visuals. For your grammar homework, I want you working on Exercise 1 in Chapter Seven. In this exercise determine WHICH case needs to be used. Then, use that case in both the singular AND the plural. If the case used is Genitive Plural, skip the plural formation. We'll focus on Genitive Plural in full next class.
Russian I
Next class we will have our quiz on forming and using adjectives in Russian. Use your dominoes as well as your notes sheets to prepare and practice your task. Additionally, we finished watching the first episode of our show today. Complete your paragraph tonight, or Thursday after your quiz, and get it in to me for your culture grade!
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Homework for the Weekend - A Day - 2 November
Russian I
Over the weekend you should focus on studying your verb conjugations that we did in class today. On Monday we'll have more time to practice with those. The goal of studying this weekend would be for the verbs and nouns in Chapter One as well as the cognates from earlier. Your quiz on Wednesday will focus on vocabulary. Make sure you know words, their meaning, and how to work with those.
Advanced Russian
II - Over this weekend you should revise your sentences about aspect to include more complexity as well as some of the triggers for aspect (aka the adverbs). By using more of the vocabulary you'll be learning more of the vocabulary, and that is always a plus. You may also want to start creating your comics to go along with your work. You can draw them by hand, or you can use an online program (Bitstrips) to make your comics. Make sure that the language and the comic clearly connect.
III - Over the weekend continue to review and practice with your language related to time. To help you do this you will need to complete exercises 8.7 and 8.8 which review prepositions and other expressions related to time. As always, this gets complicated. One of the only ways to really understand it is to use it.
II/III - Don't forget that next week you'll have one of our new, regular vocabulary quizzes. Russian II should focus on pairs for commonly known verbs as well as adverbs related to aspect. Russian III should focus on language related to talking about time (numbers, questions, expressions).
Over the weekend you should focus on studying your verb conjugations that we did in class today. On Monday we'll have more time to practice with those. The goal of studying this weekend would be for the verbs and nouns in Chapter One as well as the cognates from earlier. Your quiz on Wednesday will focus on vocabulary. Make sure you know words, their meaning, and how to work with those.
Advanced Russian
II - Over this weekend you should revise your sentences about aspect to include more complexity as well as some of the triggers for aspect (aka the adverbs). By using more of the vocabulary you'll be learning more of the vocabulary, and that is always a plus. You may also want to start creating your comics to go along with your work. You can draw them by hand, or you can use an online program (Bitstrips) to make your comics. Make sure that the language and the comic clearly connect.
III - Over the weekend continue to review and practice with your language related to time. To help you do this you will need to complete exercises 8.7 and 8.8 which review prepositions and other expressions related to time. As always, this gets complicated. One of the only ways to really understand it is to use it.
II/III - Don't forget that next week you'll have one of our new, regular vocabulary quizzes. Russian II should focus on pairs for commonly known verbs as well as adverbs related to aspect. Russian III should focus on language related to talking about time (numbers, questions, expressions).
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Homework for A-Day - 31 October 2017
English IV
Now that you know what will be on your exam next week, it is important that you start to study your notes and get yourselves together for the exam on The Canterbury Tales. Begin by focusing in on characters. Know who the characters are. Know where they appeared (which story/part of The Canterbury Tales). And, finally, know how they act and what their attitude is like.
Advanced Russian
II - You should be able to complete a rough draft of your Russian aspect sentences given the work we did in class. Begin to develop complexity in your sentences by adding in some of the prepositions we have looked at today. You should also spend time studying the new vocabulary related to adverbs in Chapter Five that clue in to aspect. Incorporate these where needed to help add complexity and expand your vocabulary.
III - Focus on studying and learning your numbers in their ordinal form as well as your adjective declensions. You will want to read over the section in Chapter Eight that deals with telling time in Russian (it goes over several pages) as you will be applying your knowledge around numbers to this content. Also, continue your research and drafting - now that we know the requirements, you can begin to finish some of the refining around your outline and thesis.
Russian I
Continue studying your Chapter One vocabulary - continue to focus on nouns, but also go forward into the verbs as well. Read through the information on pages 44-48 in Chapter One around verb conjugation - next class we'll start to learn our conjugation models.
Now that you know what will be on your exam next week, it is important that you start to study your notes and get yourselves together for the exam on The Canterbury Tales. Begin by focusing in on characters. Know who the characters are. Know where they appeared (which story/part of The Canterbury Tales). And, finally, know how they act and what their attitude is like.
Advanced Russian
II - You should be able to complete a rough draft of your Russian aspect sentences given the work we did in class. Begin to develop complexity in your sentences by adding in some of the prepositions we have looked at today. You should also spend time studying the new vocabulary related to adverbs in Chapter Five that clue in to aspect. Incorporate these where needed to help add complexity and expand your vocabulary.
III - Focus on studying and learning your numbers in their ordinal form as well as your adjective declensions. You will want to read over the section in Chapter Eight that deals with telling time in Russian (it goes over several pages) as you will be applying your knowledge around numbers to this content. Also, continue your research and drafting - now that we know the requirements, you can begin to finish some of the refining around your outline and thesis.
Russian I
Continue studying your Chapter One vocabulary - continue to focus on nouns, but also go forward into the verbs as well. Read through the information on pages 44-48 in Chapter One around verb conjugation - next class we'll start to learn our conjugation models.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Homework for the Weekend - A Day - 27 April
Advanced Russian
For those of you who left for the senior meeting - please pay close attention to the paper I gave you before you left. That states your homework for the weekend. For Russian IV we are working on vocabulary and our synopsis of the story. Russian III is finishing the work on participles and verbal adverbs from the mystery texts. Russian II students are completing the translation exercise (number nine) focused on adverbs of quantity.
Remember that you will have your final quizzes next Friday and then our final unit examinations.
Russian I
Over the weekend you should use the example paragraphs that we reviewed today in class to complete at least three family member paragraphs as rough drafts. Hopefully most of them will be very grammatically correct since we were able to develop them today in class. On Monday we will be in the computer lab to type and upload our work into Google Classroom.
Please do not use translators to do this work for whole sentences. I understand looking up a word or two, but do not use a translator. The translator will show itself because you will be using words or language that I have not yet taught you. Do your own work. Part of the struggle is the process of learning.
You also have your study guides for your Unit Three exam which will happen on Friday the 5th.
English II
I have now handed back all of your work this quarter as well as progress reports. If there is anything that you need to redo or resubmit then you should prepare for that this weekend and be ready to do your reassessment next week.
For those of you who left for the senior meeting - please pay close attention to the paper I gave you before you left. That states your homework for the weekend. For Russian IV we are working on vocabulary and our synopsis of the story. Russian III is finishing the work on participles and verbal adverbs from the mystery texts. Russian II students are completing the translation exercise (number nine) focused on adverbs of quantity.
Remember that you will have your final quizzes next Friday and then our final unit examinations.
Russian I
Over the weekend you should use the example paragraphs that we reviewed today in class to complete at least three family member paragraphs as rough drafts. Hopefully most of them will be very grammatically correct since we were able to develop them today in class. On Monday we will be in the computer lab to type and upload our work into Google Classroom.
Please do not use translators to do this work for whole sentences. I understand looking up a word or two, but do not use a translator. The translator will show itself because you will be using words or language that I have not yet taught you. Do your own work. Part of the struggle is the process of learning.
You also have your study guides for your Unit Three exam which will happen on Friday the 5th.
English II
I have now handed back all of your work this quarter as well as progress reports. If there is anything that you need to redo or resubmit then you should prepare for that this weekend and be ready to do your reassessment next week.
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Homework for A-Day Students: 21 March 2016
Advanced Russian:
Russian II: Tonight I want you to do some reading in your textbooks for the next grammar point we're going to study - the double negative. In your textbook, read pages 282-285. Be able to answer the following questions:
Russian II: Tonight I want you to do some reading in your textbooks for the next grammar point we're going to study - the double negative. In your textbook, read pages 282-285. Be able to answer the following questions:
- When do you use a double negative in Russian? When a single negative?
- How is genitive case used with negation?
- How are the words nobody and nothing declined in all cases.
Once you've done the reading, try the translation assignment. We'll review that on Thursday.
Russian III: To finish your study of long and short-form adjectives, complete exercise five. Fill in the blanks with a long or short form. Be able to translate the sentence.
Russian IV: Complete the reading of "Night Two" in White Nights. Once you've finished, answer the following question in a mixture of Russian and English: What do we as readers better understand about the narrator and Nastenka at the end of the second night? Give five facts about each character (in English) and the textual support for that fact (in Russian).
Russian I:
Tonight for homework you have two exercises on using adverbs. In the first exercise you are rewriting the question or sentence and adding in the adverb in a logical space (the word is given to you in the exercise in the adjective form). In the second, you are studying your vocabulary to fill in the blanks. Be able to translate the sentences that you fill in the blanks with.
English II:
Today we took our test on Oedipus the King and began our final research projects on Greek Culture. It is very important that you check PowerSchool and complete any missing work.
If there is anything that you would like to turn in or resubmit it needs to be done by Thursday!
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Homework for All Classes - Weekend Edition 21 and 22 April
Since I won't be here tomorrow I figure that I should go ahead and post the weekend update for everyone. If you have questions, please email me over the weekend and I will try to address your question.
AP English III
For the weekend you should stay focused on your reading of The Crucible. Continue on and complete Act III - please read all the way to the end of the act. Use your reading guide to pay attention to the key elements of this act as well as the importance of the new characters.
As you read, consider your role as a member of the audience in this act. Consider your knowledge in comparison to that of the revered judges who sit and weigh judgement. Additionally, we have one of the main turning points of this play. There will be much to discuss on Monday.
English II
Over the weekend I hope that all of you will spend time revising and editing your essays to complete your final drafts. You have rough drafts, writing planning sheets, and rubrics as well as a great version of your third body paragraph. Make sure that all of your body paragraphs are as good as your third. Edit your introduction and conclusion so that your main idea is clear and you have accounted for all of the stories we have studied for this essay. B day essays are due on Wednesday and A day essays are due on Thursday. I'll be available after school on Monday and Tuesday for last-minute help.
Also, please make sure that you finish your second viewing guide for Hotel Rwanda. I'll be collecting those to be checked on Monday/Tuesday.
Russian I
You all have your quiz on adverb formation and use on Tuesday. Be sure that you can do the following:
AP English III
For the weekend you should stay focused on your reading of The Crucible. Continue on and complete Act III - please read all the way to the end of the act. Use your reading guide to pay attention to the key elements of this act as well as the importance of the new characters.
As you read, consider your role as a member of the audience in this act. Consider your knowledge in comparison to that of the revered judges who sit and weigh judgement. Additionally, we have one of the main turning points of this play. There will be much to discuss on Monday.
English II
Over the weekend I hope that all of you will spend time revising and editing your essays to complete your final drafts. You have rough drafts, writing planning sheets, and rubrics as well as a great version of your third body paragraph. Make sure that all of your body paragraphs are as good as your third. Edit your introduction and conclusion so that your main idea is clear and you have accounted for all of the stories we have studied for this essay. B day essays are due on Wednesday and A day essays are due on Thursday. I'll be available after school on Monday and Tuesday for last-minute help.
Also, please make sure that you finish your second viewing guide for Hotel Rwanda. I'll be collecting those to be checked on Monday/Tuesday.
Russian I
You all have your quiz on adverb formation and use on Tuesday. Be sure that you can do the following:
- recognize an adjective versus an adverb
- be able to recognize a cultural adjective versus a quality adjective
- know how to turn a cultural adjective and quality adjective into adverbs
- know which nouns can be turned into adverbs and which case to use
- know which words are already adverbs and don't need to be changed
You should use your worksheet on exercises 20 and 25, your notes, and your textbooks to help you study and prepare.
Also, you will have your presentations on Thursday for your country projects. Make sure that you are working on these as you need to in order to meet Thursday's deadline.
Russian II/III
We will be having our quizzes on Thursday. Tuesday will be geared toward review. Hopefully those of you in Russian III found the exercises online useful and helpful. I wanted to let the Level II students know that I didn't forget them. Here are some great exercises using plural declensions and especially the genitive plural. There is a lot of good stuff there - just use the title of the link to get you started. If you need particular things just on the genitive plural there's this, this, this, and this.
Russian Students - Make sure that you finish your viewing guide for Девчата based on what you watched in class so that we can quickly finish the film and I can collect this work.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Homework for A Day Students - 20 April 2016
Russian III and II
We're going to hold our quiz until Thursday so that we can have extra time to review on Tuesday. In advance, make sure that you are spending time with the grammar and vocabulary in this section of your lessons.
For Russian III Students I have these exercises using который. Exercise 1 and Exercise 2.
I hope that you all enjoy the film on Friday.
Russian I
You all will have your adverb quiz on Tuesday. Remember that the main goal that you will have on this quiz is being able to determine how to turn an adjective into an adverb (both cultural adjectives and adjectives related to qualities) and to determine if a word is already an adverb - this is mostly done by studying the worksheet that we reviewed today in class.
We will have our presentations on our Soviet Republics on Thursday. Be prepared for that. Don't forget your cultural artifacts if you want to earn that extra credit.
English II
Now that we have finished our work on drafting the third body paragraph then you should now be able to finish the edits that you have for the rest of your essay. Use the final rubric to help you make your final edits. Your final essays will be due on Thursday of next week. Make sure that you have a final draft as well as your preliminary work.
We're going to hold our quiz until Thursday so that we can have extra time to review on Tuesday. In advance, make sure that you are spending time with the grammar and vocabulary in this section of your lessons.
For Russian III Students I have these exercises using который. Exercise 1 and Exercise 2.
I hope that you all enjoy the film on Friday.
Russian I
You all will have your adverb quiz on Tuesday. Remember that the main goal that you will have on this quiz is being able to determine how to turn an adjective into an adverb (both cultural adjectives and adjectives related to qualities) and to determine if a word is already an adverb - this is mostly done by studying the worksheet that we reviewed today in class.
We will have our presentations on our Soviet Republics on Thursday. Be prepared for that. Don't forget your cultural artifacts if you want to earn that extra credit.
English II
Now that we have finished our work on drafting the third body paragraph then you should now be able to finish the edits that you have for the rest of your essay. Use the final rubric to help you make your final edits. Your final essays will be due on Thursday of next week. Make sure that you have a final draft as well as your preliminary work.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Homework for A Day Classes - 18 April 2016
Russian III
Remember that you will have a quiz on Tuesday that will focus on который as well as the work that we have done to review declensions. Make sure that you are studying and reviewing vocabulary in order to prepare for this quiz.
For tonight's homework you have two exercises to complete. For exercise 11.9 you will be combining two sentences using который. Make sure that you write out the sentence combination and the translation of the sentence. For exercise 11.10 you will be translating from English to Russian using который. Make sure that you write the Russian translation as well as the analysis of который - what is the antecedent? the gender? the number? the case?
Russian II
You will have a quiz on Tuesday that focuses on plural declensions and the usage of the genitive case. To help you with this you have exercises to help you with this. Complete exercise 7.8A and 7.8B. For exercise 7.8A you will be filling in the blanks and translating the sentence. For 7.8B you will be filling in the blanks, declining the word in parenthesis to the proper form and translating. Make sure that you do this work on notebook paper so that I can check it.
Russian I
You should be working on your presentations about the former republics of the Soviet Union. We will be presenting these countries next week on Thursday. Additionally, you all have a quiz next Tuesday on forming and using adjectives. Tonight for homework you have two exercises to complete related to adjectives of time and adjectives of measure/degree. Please fill in the blanks with the required words - they are either in the word bank associated with the exercise or in your textbook. Be able to read the sentence aloud with confidence. We will review these next class.
English II
Your main homework tonight is to finish the second viewing guide for Hotel Rwanda to deal with the after-viewing questions. Also, make sure that you are ready to complete the work on our essays next class. We will quickly be finishing them and moving on to our final project of the year.
Remember that you will have a quiz on Tuesday that will focus on который as well as the work that we have done to review declensions. Make sure that you are studying and reviewing vocabulary in order to prepare for this quiz.
For tonight's homework you have two exercises to complete. For exercise 11.9 you will be combining two sentences using который. Make sure that you write out the sentence combination and the translation of the sentence. For exercise 11.10 you will be translating from English to Russian using который. Make sure that you write the Russian translation as well as the analysis of который - what is the antecedent? the gender? the number? the case?
Russian II
You will have a quiz on Tuesday that focuses on plural declensions and the usage of the genitive case. To help you with this you have exercises to help you with this. Complete exercise 7.8A and 7.8B. For exercise 7.8A you will be filling in the blanks and translating the sentence. For 7.8B you will be filling in the blanks, declining the word in parenthesis to the proper form and translating. Make sure that you do this work on notebook paper so that I can check it.
Russian I
You should be working on your presentations about the former republics of the Soviet Union. We will be presenting these countries next week on Thursday. Additionally, you all have a quiz next Tuesday on forming and using adjectives. Tonight for homework you have two exercises to complete related to adjectives of time and adjectives of measure/degree. Please fill in the blanks with the required words - they are either in the word bank associated with the exercise or in your textbook. Be able to read the sentence aloud with confidence. We will review these next class.
English II
Your main homework tonight is to finish the second viewing guide for Hotel Rwanda to deal with the after-viewing questions. Also, make sure that you are ready to complete the work on our essays next class. We will quickly be finishing them and moving on to our final project of the year.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Homework for A Day Students - 14 April 2016
Russian I
For homework this weekend I want you all to do some writing and some review of the old vocabulary from unit two. Please go into your textbooks and select five adjectives from unit three and five adjectives from unit two. Then, transform the adjectives into adverbs if they logically can make that change.
After you've made this change - I want you to write a sentence using the word as an adjective and another sentence using the word as an adverb. Explain the difference in meaning between these two sentences. In total, you will write twenty sentences because you are writing one sentence for each word form.
Pay attention to meanings and what you are describing as you use these types of words.
Russian II
This weekend you have some work to do focused on the genitive plural. Complete the exercise putting the words into the nominative singular (given), nominative plural, genitive singular and genitive plural. You're going to want to use your textbooks here since there are some irregularities to account for.
Russian III
This weekend you are continuing to work on который but instead of simply translating and analyzing you are filling in the blank with the appropriate form. Remember as you are filling in the blank you have to really consider the needed case for the situation. Remember to consider what is happening after the comma in order to determine the case. You need to consider the referent from before the comma in order to figure out the gender and the number.
You will not be able to just fill in the blank - you should write out the sentences.
English II
There's no actual homework for you all to do tonight but it would be a good idea to make sure that you have done:
For homework this weekend I want you all to do some writing and some review of the old vocabulary from unit two. Please go into your textbooks and select five adjectives from unit three and five adjectives from unit two. Then, transform the adjectives into adverbs if they logically can make that change.
After you've made this change - I want you to write a sentence using the word as an adjective and another sentence using the word as an adverb. Explain the difference in meaning between these two sentences. In total, you will write twenty sentences because you are writing one sentence for each word form.
Pay attention to meanings and what you are describing as you use these types of words.
Russian II
This weekend you have some work to do focused on the genitive plural. Complete the exercise putting the words into the nominative singular (given), nominative plural, genitive singular and genitive plural. You're going to want to use your textbooks here since there are some irregularities to account for.
Russian III
This weekend you are continuing to work on который but instead of simply translating and analyzing you are filling in the blank with the appropriate form. Remember as you are filling in the blank you have to really consider the needed case for the situation. Remember to consider what is happening after the comma in order to determine the case. You need to consider the referent from before the comma in order to figure out the gender and the number.
You will not be able to just fill in the blank - you should write out the sentences.
English II
There's no actual homework for you all to do tonight but it would be a good idea to make sure that you have done:
- preliminary research for your project - start finding answers to your questions
- make sure that your viewing guide for Hotel Rwanda is complete through question four
- if you didn't finish your StudyIsland assessment - make sure that it gets finished
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