Showing posts with label chapter preview. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Homework for A-Day: 16 October 2019

AP Research

Today was our workday devoted to our first posters and our first pitches. We should also be working on the introduction outline which at this point is just the descriptors of what goes in the outline and then the purpose of these items. Completing this now will help you to complete the elements of your introduction and to find them in the work you're already completing.

Remember that we will present our posters and pitches on the 24th. This is the last grade of Quarter 1. Everything should be submitted by that point so that we can move forward. If you need additional time or help, please let me know.

Russian I

Today in class we reviewed the concepts of gender, possession, and simple sentences in Russian. Next week we'll retake that quiz, and show a lot of improvement on these skills. Tonight your homework is to keep practicing by writing about your house. Create a Google Document and put a photo of a room in your house in that document. Then write five sentences about the items in the room. Who owns what?

Advanced Russian

Today in class we had our unit assessment. If you didn't finish, time will be given next class to complete the work. Our next unit will be different based on the different levels. If you are in Russian II, please review Chapter 5 (pink book) and complete the Chapter Preview. Russian III and IV will use the Carolina Blue book and refer to Chapter 8 (III) and 11 (IV).

Please have your textbooks next class as we are starting new units!

Friday, September 27, 2019

Homework for A-Day: Weekend Edition: 27 September

Happy New Year! L'Shana Tova!

AP Research

This weekend we should be focused on writing for the annotated bibliography. Remember to use the templates that you have been given in this class to guide your work with this writing. This will be helpful for you as we move forward into the paper even more.

There is also our reflection question for this week. It is Presentation and Oral Defense Question 1.3. Please respond in your Reflection Document. Also, use citations and exact references to make your writing stronger.

What were the strategies you used to conduct a review of the literature or gather information from the discipline-specific field? Why did you select those strategies? Which strategies did you consider and reject?

Be sure that any missing work is turned in by the end of the weekend. Your next due date is Tuesday - Source List Check 2 (Around 50 Entries).

Russian I

Today in class we took a quiz and then we started to work on the beginnings of Russian grammar. The case system in Russian. It's a bit complicated at first, but it gets easier the more you work with it. This weekend you should review Chapter One and complete your Chapter Preview. What will we learn in this unit? What will you be able to do with this information? Be sure that you're focused on learning the new vocabulary too!

Remember that we're finishing the first unit! If you have anything missing, it needs to be turned in next week.

Advanced Russian

We did some speaking and writing today in class as we continued to work through the trickiness of verbs and the cases connected with them. Remember everyone that learning comes with practice, the more we do, the better we become. This weekend there are a few essentials to take care of:

  1. Complete the case analysis activity. Russian III and IV should complete the whole thing. Using the English direct translation, what case is the Russian word or phrase in? How does it connect to the rest of the sentence?
  2. Have you submitted your slides on Google Classroom about your skyscraper?
  3. Are there any reassessments you need to do? Assignments missing?
We're finishing this unit soon - be ready to move on!

Monday, April 22, 2019

Homework for Monday - 22 April 2019

AP Seminar

We are well on our way to finishing our IMPODS. I am very happy with the work that I saw today, and the level of support that you all have given to each other as we have done this work. Through the week, be sure that you have placed final touches on your IWA and submitted your final. I will also remind you that after you do your AP Pre-Administration (Tuesday or Wednesday) you will then need to import your AP Number. Deep breaths kiddos - it's finished!

Advanced Russian

Today we had our unit examination for Units 7 and 9. Be aware that if you were absent you will need to schedule approximately one hour for a make-up session. Do try to get that done this week so that I can return the exams by Friday.

We are all going to move on together for the end of the year - Please review Chapter 11 (Russian III Textbook) and complete the chapter preview form. Additionally, AP Examinees should be reviewing from Schaum's Russian Grammar in order to prepare and review difficult topics. Lastly, if you see a zero score for the most recent project please check your submission on Google Classroom. If you are not able to submit, please share your work with me and email me to inform me that it is ready to be scored.

Russian I

Today in class we reviewed our former Soviet Republics before we took time to review the usage of conjunctions in Russian. We finished our day with a game of LOTO and some more practice with writing sentences using conjunctions. To finish our learning on this relatively straightforward grammar topic, complete the final set of sentences for Exercise 3.8. Remember to read the sentences, determine if they're more similar or dissimilar, and then to add the conjunction. Check to remove words that aren't needed.

Next class we'll be looking at forming adverbs from adjectives. I also need all tests complete. Wednesday is the last day to finish an incomplete test.

Friday, April 12, 2019

Homework for the Weekend - B Day - 12 April 2019

Hi All - Remember that with the holiday next week and the teacher workday we will only have ONE B-Day next week.

AP Seminar

We're focused on finishing. And that's the phrase to take with you on into this weekend. As we are working this weekend it is important that we are finalizing our IWA and then completing our slides related to our IMP. Keep in mind the alignment between these two documents as you are working. I've really enjoyed seeing so many of you helping each other out and working to support each other! Keep doing this!

Next class I would like to see a lot of you with your slides on the board. Remember that it is a good idea to look at them on the board before you are presenting. Also remember the timing requirements.

Use your rubrics and documents to help you during this time. I'm of course also available to help!

Advanced Russian

Today in class we were focused on reviewing (Russian II) or learning our last new concept (Russian III). No matter what, we were preparing for our final examination on this unit. At the end of class we had a bit of time to work on our final assignment of the year - the Russian Song assignment. I'll have a formal rubric and guidelines for you next class on this assignment.

Over the weekend, we should all be focused on completing our translation assignments. These translations are great overviews of the grammar topics in our units. Be sure that you can navigate these. If you are having trouble, focus on that topic in the translation to study and review. Remember, learning Russian comes by doing Russian. Be active in your studying.

Russian I

Today we took our examination on Units 1 and 2 - focusing on the essential elements of Russian grammar. I'll have your exams graded and returned to you soon so that you can prepare for a reassessment if needed.

Over the weekend you should complete your Chapter Preview for Unit 3. This chapter focuses on plurals in the nominative case as well as forming adverbs in Russian. It's a pretty straightforward unit and it will take us to our final days for exam review. If you are on the culture and research plan, you should be sure that you have finished your research proposal this weekend on your quarterly project. If you've already finished, be sure that you are pulling together information to complete this work.

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Homework for the Weekend - B Day - 28 February

AP Seminar

Well, that's it when it comes to the documents! We've had a very rich few days working through our document pack to determine various themes and connections. I was very impressed with the work that you were doing in your silent discussion related to themes and connections. This weekend, it's time to put all that to work.

Your first task is to read the sample IWA and apply the rubric. What is this person's question? What's the theme? How is this person using a variety of perspectives. Read, annotate, and score.

After you've done that. It's time to plan and work. What's your question? What's your theme? What are your documents? Be sure to work through your summarizing sheet (shared earlier this week) as that will give you a good framework to move forward.

Advanced Russian

Tests are in. Projects are coming in. Scores will be seen in PowerSchool this weekend. And we are moving on. Over the weekend it is important that you finish any preparation for your poetry recitation so that we can get that settled up.

You should all work this weekend on completing your Chapter Preview and begin work on your new vocabulary in the new units. Unit 7 is for Russian II (weather and plurals) and Unit 9 is for Russian III (food and instructions).

If you felt shaky in your exam today, be sure to study and prepare for a reassessment this weekend. Once I hand back your work you will have just one week to complete a reassessment. The same will be true for your projects as well.

Russian I

Today in class we went back to square one as we went back to our idea of agreement, cases, and adjectives as well as nouns. Remember that as we do this work we will have endings for nouns and endings for adjectives. These endings work together. Keep this in mind as we continue to use these and learn them. I hope that after our guided practice today you were able to make corrections to your work related to your animals.

After that we learned the endings for the three other cases - Accusative, Dative, and Instrumental - before we practiced with them to write sentences using verbs.

Over the weekend, you should have four exercises completed in Chapter 2. These are Exercise 2, 4, 7 and 8. On Monday we'll be doing a help session with these exercises. Be ready in case you are called! You should also be focused on learning your colors for our first vocabulary quiz in this unit - Friday.


Friday, February 22, 2019

Homework for the Weekend - B Day Students - 22 February

AP Seminar

Wonderful work this morning delving deep into our documents as we discussed for a solid half of class. I appreciated hearing a variety of viewpoints and ideas as we were discussing and sharing. I decided that for our first foray, and since we had limited time, I'll be giving everyone a 100% for the first Socratic Seminar. For the next we will be attempting to earn all 20 points on the rubric.

At the end of class we formed our groups for our following documents. This weekend you should read all three and complete an analysis sheet for each. The one that is your groups to teach should be thoroughly read and analyzed. On Tuesday you will have time to work as a group to write your lesson plan and prepare to teach. We'll have lessons on Thursday and our final Socratic Seminar the following Monday.

Advanced Russian

Today in class we spent a solid hour speaking and using Russian to discuss various modes of transit for Russians on a daily basis. This was great work as we practiced with various verbs, prepositions, cases, and we learned a lot about culture. Then we took some time to review exercises before we wrapped our day.

Remember that all projects should be submitted by Tuesday. The exam will fall on Thursday. If you have yet to present your poem - be sure that this is ready on Tuesday. There is a space on Google Classroom to submit your projects.

We also have final exercises to complete. Russian II students should focus on the translation exercises (not the whole paragraph, just the sentences/dialogues) at the end of Chapter 6. Russian III students have a fill in the blanks exercise as well as the translations in set B.

I'm looking forward to seeing those of you competing at the Olympiada tomorrow! See you at Duke at 10:00 AM.

Russian I

Today in class we worked through our Unit 1 Test. I'll have these graded and returned to you next week. Over the weekend make sure that you have completed everything up to this point in PowerSchool. If something is missing, it needs to be turned in ASAP.

Over the weekend you should finish memorizing your poem and complete any project work (About Me). There is the Chapter Two Preview to work through as well. Skim the Chapter and review the grammar and vocabulary points. You should start to focus on the adjectives for your vocabulary.

See the note about the Olympiada for those of you competing!

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Homework for B-Day Students: 16 October

Remember everyone that I will not be with you on Thursday since I am taking my A-Day classes to UNC Chapel Hill to see a play. Follow the instructions of the substitute and have a productive day.

AP Seminar

Today I think that all of the groups had a great breakthrough because you all started to formalize your question. This is going to be super important moving forward as it's going to help you to ground your work for your TMPOD. Tonight, continue developing your Annotated Bibliography. These are due to Google Classroom by the end of class on Thursday.

You've got the full class period on Thursday in the media center - be productive!

Advanced Russian

Tonight for homework you should do your Chapter Preview for Chapter 5 (Russian II) or Chapter 8 (Russian III). I found more textbooks with Chapter Eight in it, but there is also the scan of Chapter 8 which is uploaded to our Google Classroom page. I've also got a link to that information here. You'll have to tweak the settings since it copied upside down.

Russian I

You all will continue to work with Chapter 1 next class as you review your vocabulary and the content in the chapter more thoroughly. If you didn't feel prepared for the alphabet exam, spend your time studying over the weekend so that we are able to reassess before the end of the quarter.

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Homework for Russian Students - Winter Break Edition

With the completion of your exams today in class we can say that you have made it. Вы все дошли до конца! Here is what you need to make sure that you are doing over break to make sure that you're ready to come back and finish the quarter/semester strong.

Russian III - Over break you should read the excerpt from Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Don't spend your time looking up every single word, but focus on learning what seem to be the most important words in the sentences or paragraphs in order to understand the gist or general meaning of the sentence/paragraph. This is also a chance for you to see how much Russian you can understand and how much grammar you see that you know.

You also will need to complete your Chapter Preview of Chapter 10 - we're skipping 9 and will come back to it later. This chapter looks at verbs of motion with prefixes. You may find it helpful to review non-prefixed verbs of motion too (Chapter 6).

Russian II - You also have the Solzhenitsyn reading to complete. Your Chapter Preview will focus on Chapter 6 - verbs of motion without prefixes. Make sure that you go through the topics and do some preliminary studying so that you are ready for this unit.

You may also want to do some final studying to prepare for any reassessments you want to do to close out the quarter/semester.

Russian I - You will need to spend time looking at the second half of Chapter One where we will learn about the last three cases in Russian (genitive, dative, instrumental). This is pages thirty-three to forty-one. You may also want to review other parts of Chapter One including verb conjugation and the other cases too. You can also continue to work on your projects over Winter Break. I placed grades in PowerSchool today for your first check-in on that project and if you had work on Google Classroom - I left you comments where I could. Some of you will need to import work on Google Classroom and let me know to update your grades.

Lastly, you should continue to study and work with your vocabulary from Chapter One. We will finish this unit very soon and you will have the complete Chapter One exam quickly once the quarter ends.

You may also want to do some final studying to prepare for any reassessments you want to do to close out the quarter/semester.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Homework for A Day Students - 10 October

Russian I:

For homework tonight you should use your textbooks and review Chapter One in order to complete the Chapter Preview work. Make sure that you review the topics and consider what's going to be easy for you and what will be hard.

Here is the link for the vocabulary for Chapter One. You'll need to go to around 9:30 in order to start the Chapter One vocabulary. Before that is a good review of the alphabet.

If you have any missing work it needs to be in ASAP.

Advanced Russian

You all also have your Chapter Preview for homework tonight. Russian II should focus on Chapter Five and Russian III should focus on Chapter Eight. Here are the links to the audio files so that you can review your vocabulary and pronunciation. (Chapter Eight) (Chapter Five)

Remember that we will finish our unit exam on Thursday in the first half before lunch. After lunch, we will begin to get into our new chapters.

English IV

Make sure that you have completed your resume checklist for Mr. Bernhard so that we can move through creating our resumes in the next few classes.