English II
You have your exam on Monday which will cover the first half of Persepolis - chapters "The Veil" to "The Trip". As you study and review make sure to focus on the characters we've studied, the plot of the text what are the major events) and finally the new vocabulary which we reviewed today in class. Be ready and know your skills - the exam shouldn't surprise you at all.
You should also keep moving forward on your personal narrative projects - a lot of you got some great work done today; keep going!
AP English III
First you have your next reading goal for Monday's class. You're going to be reading the next section of the novel which focuses on the Duke and the Dauphin. Continue to watch these men and pay attention to the constant structure of the novel. Secondly, you need to solidify a paper topic and have that ready for Ms.Ginocchio for next week as well - she'll collect it on Thursday from you.
Lastly, review the rest of the rhetorical analysis prompt that we began with today - there will be your first of these timed writings coming soon. It won't be this prompt (obviously) but it will be a rhetorical analysis.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Homework for A Day Students - 4 November 2015
English II
Your main work for tonight is to study for your examination on Friday. It's going to cover the first ten chapters (half) of Persepolis. You should focus on our main characters from the first part of the text and the main plot events. Additionally, we have the vocabulary that we reviewed. I was happy that so many of you knew so many of the words! Good work!
Russian II/III
You should be working on your journals tonight. Remember in the journals we have our main phrase for the week and then I want you to work on including your new grammar concepts that you've been learning this week. For IIs - that means time expressions. For IIIs - that means modal expressions. Remember to use these grammar pieces to learn them better.
Additionally, you should have your exercises done. Be prepared if I were to check them.
Russian I
Tonight you should take another look at your family member writing and you should revise and develop. Add two pieces of information - tell me what the person's name is and what they like to do at home. You should for the last sentence tell me "In the house, my mom reads" as an example. Here is an example of your four sentences:
Your main work for tonight is to study for your examination on Friday. It's going to cover the first ten chapters (half) of Persepolis. You should focus on our main characters from the first part of the text and the main plot events. Additionally, we have the vocabulary that we reviewed. I was happy that so many of you knew so many of the words! Good work!
Russian II/III
You should be working on your journals tonight. Remember in the journals we have our main phrase for the week and then I want you to work on including your new grammar concepts that you've been learning this week. For IIs - that means time expressions. For IIIs - that means modal expressions. Remember to use these grammar pieces to learn them better.
Additionally, you should have your exercises done. Be prepared if I were to check them.
Russian I
Tonight you should take another look at your family member writing and you should revise and develop. Add two pieces of information - tell me what the person's name is and what they like to do at home. You should for the last sentence tell me "In the house, my mom reads" as an example. Here is an example of your four sentences:
Это моя мама. Ее зовут Патриция. Она живет на Аляске. В доме, она читает.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students
AP English III-
Your assignment for Thursday is to read the handout "Writing About Fiction." This should clarify a lot of the questions many of you had about this type of paper. Bring questions with you if you have them, and keep this text handy as you are working through your paper in the next quarter. Be thinking about your paper topic, and be sure to gather evidence and examples as you read.
For Monday, read Chapters 20-29 of Huck Finn. Don't save this all for Sunday.
If you did not read for today or struggled with the quiz, review Chapters 17-19 before Thursday.
English II
- Test Monday: Study the first half of Persepolis, your reading and viewing guides, your notes about our introductory material on Iran and the Middle East (the video and Koran readings). Study vocabulary--I highly, highly recommend flashcards. Make them tonight and study a little bit every day. You remember better if you study in smaller chunks more frequently.
- Be working on your projects.
- Have your parents sign the permission slip for Ms. Ginocchio's program at Duke.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Homework for A Day Students - 2 November 2015
English II
As a reminder you have two major things to be working on. First we have your test on Friday that will cover the first half of Persepolis from "The Veil" all the way to "The Trip." Make sure that you have read thoroughly, that you have studied your vocabulary and any notes from the text. The quiz will also focus on the information about Iran and Muslim culture we learned before starting the text, so make sure you're familiar with that information too.
Your other major task is to work on your personal narrative projects. For next class you should know your event from your life that you'll be turning into a graphic novel and the main parts of that event. Try to break it down to what happened first, second, third, etc.
Russian I
For homework tonight you're going to be writing about yourself and five family members. On a separate sheet of paper you want to write a sentence introducing the person and stating their relationship to you (ex: This is my dad.). Then you want to use our new verb "to live" and the prepositional case to tell me where this person lives. Remember to use the proper ending with the location so that you are showing the prepositional case. You should have twelve sentences total.
Russian II
For homework tonight you should review the information on accusative case time expressions on page 205 to 209. Once you've done this, you should be able to complete exercises fourteen and fifteen talking about time expressions and using them to answer questions.
Russian III
Tonight you should focus on your modals and complete exercises four, seven, and eight at the end of chapter nine. Remember to stay focused on aspect as you look at these exercises.
ALL RUSSIAN STUDENTS: Remember we'll have our guests here on Wednesday. Bring in your food/beverage item before school, check in with your first period teacher, and then report here!
As a reminder you have two major things to be working on. First we have your test on Friday that will cover the first half of Persepolis from "The Veil" all the way to "The Trip." Make sure that you have read thoroughly, that you have studied your vocabulary and any notes from the text. The quiz will also focus on the information about Iran and Muslim culture we learned before starting the text, so make sure you're familiar with that information too.
Your other major task is to work on your personal narrative projects. For next class you should know your event from your life that you'll be turning into a graphic novel and the main parts of that event. Try to break it down to what happened first, second, third, etc.
Russian I
For homework tonight you're going to be writing about yourself and five family members. On a separate sheet of paper you want to write a sentence introducing the person and stating their relationship to you (ex: This is my dad.). Then you want to use our new verb "to live" and the prepositional case to tell me where this person lives. Remember to use the proper ending with the location so that you are showing the prepositional case. You should have twelve sentences total.
Russian II
For homework tonight you should review the information on accusative case time expressions on page 205 to 209. Once you've done this, you should be able to complete exercises fourteen and fifteen talking about time expressions and using them to answer questions.
Russian III
Tonight you should focus on your modals and complete exercises four, seven, and eight at the end of chapter nine. Remember to stay focused on aspect as you look at these exercises.
ALL RUSSIAN STUDENTS: Remember we'll have our guests here on Wednesday. Bring in your food/beverage item before school, check in with your first period teacher, and then report here!
Friday, October 30, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students: 30 October 2015
AP English III
For homework over the weekend you have to complete the next set of chapters - sixteen through nineteen - in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Related to this, check in with your annotations - especially front and back covers. After this set of reading you will be more than halfway through the text, so your covers should reflect this. Make sure that characters are paired with important page numbers and that the back covers reflect significant topics/motifs, settings, and symbols.
Related to your reading, you should also be further developing your paper topics. After this weekend you should have a better idea as to what you are trying to prove or say about this topic or idea in the text. Remember that this paper is argumentative (you're proving something about the text) and also analytical (you're analyzing the text to prove that you are right). We'll work through more of this development in class next week.
Lastly, on Tuesday you'll have your next vocabulary cards due. Use the site http://www.etymonline.com to help you with your word origin section of the card. Remember to find the specific root of the word and that root's meaning. Additionally, don't forget the synonyms and explanation of how the synonym is different from the original word.
Any paper resubmissions are due by the 18th of November.
English II:
Your homework for the weekend is the same as the A-day students below. You have your next two chapters of Persepolis to read - be sure to take notes as you read because you will have a quiz on these chapters next class. Also, work on your projects, you should be able to pick the specific moment in your life and then try to develop that moment. What happened first, second, third, et cetera.
Lastly, if you didn't have your compare/contrast paragraph ready for today's class it needs to be turned in next class for credit.
3B and 4B Students - BRING BACK YOUR PERMISSION SLIPS! MS. GINOCCHIO NEEDS THEM!
For homework over the weekend you have to complete the next set of chapters - sixteen through nineteen - in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Related to this, check in with your annotations - especially front and back covers. After this set of reading you will be more than halfway through the text, so your covers should reflect this. Make sure that characters are paired with important page numbers and that the back covers reflect significant topics/motifs, settings, and symbols.
Related to your reading, you should also be further developing your paper topics. After this weekend you should have a better idea as to what you are trying to prove or say about this topic or idea in the text. Remember that this paper is argumentative (you're proving something about the text) and also analytical (you're analyzing the text to prove that you are right). We'll work through more of this development in class next week.
Lastly, on Tuesday you'll have your next vocabulary cards due. Use the site http://www.etymonline.com to help you with your word origin section of the card. Remember to find the specific root of the word and that root's meaning. Additionally, don't forget the synonyms and explanation of how the synonym is different from the original word.
Any paper resubmissions are due by the 18th of November.
English II:
Your homework for the weekend is the same as the A-day students below. You have your next two chapters of Persepolis to read - be sure to take notes as you read because you will have a quiz on these chapters next class. Also, work on your projects, you should be able to pick the specific moment in your life and then try to develop that moment. What happened first, second, third, et cetera.
Lastly, if you didn't have your compare/contrast paragraph ready for today's class it needs to be turned in next class for credit.
3B and 4B Students - BRING BACK YOUR PERMISSION SLIPS! MS. GINOCCHIO NEEDS THEM!
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Homework for A-Day Students - 29 October 2015
English II
There are a few things to accomplish as we move into next class - let's go over them in order of importance.
There are a few things to accomplish as we move into next class - let's go over them in order of importance.
- Read the next two chapters of Persepolis - "The Sheep" and "The Trip". As you read, take notes on characters, plot, and new vocabulary. You'll have a quiz on these chapters on Monday.
- Complete the paragraph which compares/contrasts your childhood to Marji's if you did not already turn that in today. The only other day we will accept this assignment is Monday.
- Select your moment in your life for your personal narrative project. We'll spend some time working on projects on Monday, most likely.
Russian I
Continue studying your new vocabulary and grammar especially the older concepts such as verb conjugation and possessive pronouns. These will continue to be important as we move forward. For tonight's homework, you're going to complete exercise three on page fifty. You have ten questions which will require you to use the PREPOSITIONAL CASE in your answers. Review the way in which we change words to put them in the prepositional case and answer the ten questions. Remember to write out full answers.
Russian II
Tonight you are focusing on numbers. On page 221, you will complete exercise sixteen. In this exercise you need to write out the answers to the questions that you are asked. Remember that each answer will start with the word B (At). Please write your numbers out in words so that you are able to learn this vocabulary.
Russian III
Tonight you are reading in the textbook and taking notes on the modal expressions we briefly reviewed today in class. Read over pages 366-369 and develop your knowledge on the use of modals, especially as they relate to tense and aspect. We'll review this on Monday in some detail. To help you with your knowledge of the five modals I am asking you to write one sentence with each modal. Please as you write use the new vocabulary in the chapter to help you to learn and reinforce these new words.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students: 28 October 2015
AP English III
For next class you don't have any reading to complete, but I would make sure that you have thoroughly read and annotated the text up to and including Chapter Fifteen. For homework, make sure that you have brainstormed five good topics for your future essay on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Keep in mind that these don't need to be thoroughly developed, in fact you'll go through the process of better developing them later. Focus on main ideas/topics/motifs and other back cover information to get you started.
Also you have vocabulary cards due on Tuesday next week. You'll need to do five new cards for five new words. Don't forget to find the word origin and its meaning as well as the differences in meaning between the synonyms. These were the places where many of you lost points before.
English II
Next class we will collect your compare/contrast paragraphs on your life versus Marji's life. Remember that your writing should be on a separate piece of paper, and it should be about eight to ten sentences long with four clear examples (two from you, two from Marji) and explanation of how these examples make you similar and different.
For next class you don't have any reading to complete, but I would make sure that you have thoroughly read and annotated the text up to and including Chapter Fifteen. For homework, make sure that you have brainstormed five good topics for your future essay on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Keep in mind that these don't need to be thoroughly developed, in fact you'll go through the process of better developing them later. Focus on main ideas/topics/motifs and other back cover information to get you started.
Also you have vocabulary cards due on Tuesday next week. You'll need to do five new cards for five new words. Don't forget to find the word origin and its meaning as well as the differences in meaning between the synonyms. These were the places where many of you lost points before.
English II
Next class we will collect your compare/contrast paragraphs on your life versus Marji's life. Remember that your writing should be on a separate piece of paper, and it should be about eight to ten sentences long with four clear examples (two from you, two from Marji) and explanation of how these examples make you similar and different.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Homework for A Day Students - 27 October 2015
Welcome to quarter two everyone; here's what you need to do for tonight to prepare.
English II
You have some writing to complete tonight about you and Marjane Satrapi. Answer the question which will compare and contrast your life to Marjane's life. Remember that in this type of writing you have to add in extra examples from both your life and from Marjane's. After the examples you will want to make sure to explain the examples and why they're important - what they mean. This will be your first major homework check of the quarter; ensure that it's complete.
Russian II/III
For homework tonight I would like for you to complete your viewing guide on the first part of our film, Office Romance. On the first side of the worksheet most of the questions will be answered in English, but you should pick one to answer in complete sentences in Russian. On the back, you should answer question thirteen and one additional question in Russian in complete sentences.
Level II students - Make sure that you are studying your new vocabulary especially numbers, verbs, and nouns.
Level III students - Review the previous grammar topics (dative case, verbs and stress) as we will need these in the next unit.
Russian I
You have a quiz next class on everything we have learned so far in unit one. The quiz will focus on verb conjugation, but you should also be sure that you know your possessive pronouns, nouns and gender rules. Remember that foreign language is cumulative, so you can't forget what you already learned.
English II
You have some writing to complete tonight about you and Marjane Satrapi. Answer the question which will compare and contrast your life to Marjane's life. Remember that in this type of writing you have to add in extra examples from both your life and from Marjane's. After the examples you will want to make sure to explain the examples and why they're important - what they mean. This will be your first major homework check of the quarter; ensure that it's complete.
Russian II/III
For homework tonight I would like for you to complete your viewing guide on the first part of our film, Office Romance. On the first side of the worksheet most of the questions will be answered in English, but you should pick one to answer in complete sentences in Russian. On the back, you should answer question thirteen and one additional question in Russian in complete sentences.
Level II students - Make sure that you are studying your new vocabulary especially numbers, verbs, and nouns.
Level III students - Review the previous grammar topics (dative case, verbs and stress) as we will need these in the next unit.
Russian I
You have a quiz next class on everything we have learned so far in unit one. The quiz will focus on verb conjugation, but you should also be sure that you know your possessive pronouns, nouns and gender rules. Remember that foreign language is cumulative, so you can't forget what you already learned.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
All Students' Homework - 22 and 23 October - The End!
We have made it to the end of the first quarter! Congratulations! Here's where we need to be for next class. I'm doing B-Day reminders too since I won't be in tomorrow
Russian II/III
Take a look at your work with our latest film "Служебный Роман" and work through your vocabulary and questions. Make sure that all of the questions that we have seen so far in the film (the front side of the sheet) are answered. In addition, work on question thirteen and compose an answer in Russian which expresses your opinion of the film so far. One question from the front should also be answered thoroughly in Russian using complete sentences.
Russian I
You will not have your quiz on Tuesday, it will fall on Thursday. We'll keep practicing and doing review on Tuesday. To prepare for this review, complete the dialogue activity that we saw in our exercises on verbs. Use the first dialogues as examples, and then complete the next dialogues using your knowledge of verb conjugation and Russian to complete the missing lines.
Now that we know about answering questions in the negative, please complete the final exercise writing out your questions as well as your negative and positive answer. I will check homework again on Tuesday.
English II
Your homework for the weekend is on your second worksheet from today's class. Select two of the images from those selected and analyze the image, picking out the important details as we did in our previous class. Look at all of the details and codes that the author is putting into the image. Then, be sure to answer the question about the image's importance in the story.
After these, please complete the final question on the back in a one paragraph response. Remember to follow your good paragraph structure with a clear topic sentence, examples, and explanation of those examples! This work will be your first grade of the second quarter.
AP English III
Reading! You have your next goals on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn coming due on Wednesday, the next day we will see you. Be prepared with thorough annotations and remember to work on your vocabulary bookmarks as well!
Russian II/III
Take a look at your work with our latest film "Служебный Роман" and work through your vocabulary and questions. Make sure that all of the questions that we have seen so far in the film (the front side of the sheet) are answered. In addition, work on question thirteen and compose an answer in Russian which expresses your opinion of the film so far. One question from the front should also be answered thoroughly in Russian using complete sentences.
Russian I
You will not have your quiz on Tuesday, it will fall on Thursday. We'll keep practicing and doing review on Tuesday. To prepare for this review, complete the dialogue activity that we saw in our exercises on verbs. Use the first dialogues as examples, and then complete the next dialogues using your knowledge of verb conjugation and Russian to complete the missing lines.
Now that we know about answering questions in the negative, please complete the final exercise writing out your questions as well as your negative and positive answer. I will check homework again on Tuesday.
English II
Your homework for the weekend is on your second worksheet from today's class. Select two of the images from those selected and analyze the image, picking out the important details as we did in our previous class. Look at all of the details and codes that the author is putting into the image. Then, be sure to answer the question about the image's importance in the story.
After these, please complete the final question on the back in a one paragraph response. Remember to follow your good paragraph structure with a clear topic sentence, examples, and explanation of those examples! This work will be your first grade of the second quarter.
AP English III
Reading! You have your next goals on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn coming due on Wednesday, the next day we will see you. Be prepared with thorough annotations and remember to work on your vocabulary bookmarks as well!
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students: 21 October 2015
English II
There is not any homework for you all to complete tonight; however, some of you are missing assignments that need to be made up tomorrow so that they can count for this quarter. If you are still missing anything at the end of the day tomorrow and have not made a plan to make it up then I will be forced to submit missing grades for these assignments which will really hurt your quarter grade.
Remember that when you miss class it is your responsibility to get your missing work; if you don't then you can only blame yourself when things like this occur.
AP English III
Your next class will be a self-contained substitute day which will need no preparation. For Wednesday, however, you have your next chunk of reading in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Remember to read and annotate the text heavily - look for particularly important passages and approach them the same way that we did today in class (that's some of the most fun in reading literature).
For Wednesday's class you will have two questions due: one interpretive and one literal. Be sure to refer to your question type assignment as you consider the writing of these questions.
There is not any homework for you all to complete tonight; however, some of you are missing assignments that need to be made up tomorrow so that they can count for this quarter. If you are still missing anything at the end of the day tomorrow and have not made a plan to make it up then I will be forced to submit missing grades for these assignments which will really hurt your quarter grade.
Remember that when you miss class it is your responsibility to get your missing work; if you don't then you can only blame yourself when things like this occur.
AP English III
Your next class will be a self-contained substitute day which will need no preparation. For Wednesday, however, you have your next chunk of reading in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Remember to read and annotate the text heavily - look for particularly important passages and approach them the same way that we did today in class (that's some of the most fun in reading literature).
For Wednesday's class you will have two questions due: one interpretive and one literal. Be sure to refer to your question type assignment as you consider the writing of these questions.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Homework for A-Day Students: 20 October 2015
English II
There is no official homework tonight with the exception of make-up work. If you are still missing your project or quiz on our Russian literature unit you only have Wednesday and Thursday to complete those assignments. The projects can just be turned in to me, but the quiz will need to be taken with me during a time outside of class. Please work to get this done so that your grade is the best that it can be this quarter.
Russian II/III
You have your exam on the one-stem verb system next class. Today we reviewed the main stems that you will need to know and the various tricks to these stems. Look at sample verbs, do activities for extra practice, and if you need help - please ask for it. The quiz will follow the same format as the quiz with new verbs that you likely don't know so that I can see what your skills are.
Russian I
You have some work to do tonight with your verb conjugations of first and second types. From the photocopy you want to complete exercise seven and eight (these focus on first conjugation) and exercise seventeen (focusing on second conjugation). Remember as you do these exercises to follow the conjugation pattern given in the handout as well as the instructions of the exercise. Additionally, please write out all Russian in these exercises - it will help you to do better than just filling in the blank.
Russian Students - Don't forget about our guests. If you would like to bring in food for our guests please let me know!
There is no official homework tonight with the exception of make-up work. If you are still missing your project or quiz on our Russian literature unit you only have Wednesday and Thursday to complete those assignments. The projects can just be turned in to me, but the quiz will need to be taken with me during a time outside of class. Please work to get this done so that your grade is the best that it can be this quarter.
Russian II/III
You have your exam on the one-stem verb system next class. Today we reviewed the main stems that you will need to know and the various tricks to these stems. Look at sample verbs, do activities for extra practice, and if you need help - please ask for it. The quiz will follow the same format as the quiz with new verbs that you likely don't know so that I can see what your skills are.
Russian I
You have some work to do tonight with your verb conjugations of first and second types. From the photocopy you want to complete exercise seven and eight (these focus on first conjugation) and exercise seventeen (focusing on second conjugation). Remember as you do these exercises to follow the conjugation pattern given in the handout as well as the instructions of the exercise. Additionally, please write out all Russian in these exercises - it will help you to do better than just filling in the blank.
Russian Students - Don't forget about our guests. If you would like to bring in food for our guests please let me know!
Monday, October 19, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students: 19 October 2015
AP English III
Today Ms. Ginocchio gave you your reading schedules which will take you through the rest of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, your next deadline to meet is Wednesday of next week. Be sure that you are pacing yourself appropriately and working to meet your next deadline. It was clear that some of you hadn't read, now you are behind.
Remember as you read that you are expected to regularly annotate the text - you may use post-it notes, your notebook, or notes in the margins. In addition, you should be keeping up with both your front and back cover as you work through the text and as we are discussing ideas in class.
Lastly, continue to look for new vocabulary - you'll have a set of vocabulary cards coming soon after the new quarter starts. Ms. Ginocchio and I are working hard to get your papers and tests graded before the end of the quarter - these assignments will be put on this quarter.
English II
For tonight you have the next two chapters of Persepolis to read. As you read, continue to think about the main characters - the Satrapi family - mark what you think is important as you read and also look for vocabulary that is new or unfamiliar to you. We'll be discussing these moments in the text next class and looking at some of the significant elements of this genre as well.
Don't forget that if you are missing a project or your quiz that you have only until Thursday to make those assignments up.
Today Ms. Ginocchio gave you your reading schedules which will take you through the rest of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, your next deadline to meet is Wednesday of next week. Be sure that you are pacing yourself appropriately and working to meet your next deadline. It was clear that some of you hadn't read, now you are behind.
Remember as you read that you are expected to regularly annotate the text - you may use post-it notes, your notebook, or notes in the margins. In addition, you should be keeping up with both your front and back cover as you work through the text and as we are discussing ideas in class.
Lastly, continue to look for new vocabulary - you'll have a set of vocabulary cards coming soon after the new quarter starts. Ms. Ginocchio and I are working hard to get your papers and tests graded before the end of the quarter - these assignments will be put on this quarter.
English II
For tonight you have the next two chapters of Persepolis to read. As you read, continue to think about the main characters - the Satrapi family - mark what you think is important as you read and also look for vocabulary that is new or unfamiliar to you. We'll be discussing these moments in the text next class and looking at some of the significant elements of this genre as well.
Don't forget that if you are missing a project or your quiz that you have only until Thursday to make those assignments up.
Friday, October 16, 2015
Homework for the Weekend - A Day Students - 16 October
It's been a long week, but we made it to the end yet again. Here is your homework for the weekend.
Russian II/III
You have your new phrase this week for your journals which is:
Russian II/III
You have your new phrase this week for your journals which is:
вольный как птица
Remember that as you use this phrase the adjective will change to refer to the thing/person/group which is free as a bird - so make sure to think about your adjective rules and declensions if those are triggered. I will be looking for journals from everyone in class on Tuesday, both your first and second entry for the quarter - be sure that those are settled.
In addition, you'll have your verb exam on Thursday. Study and prepare - I've been seeing clear growth as we've been working in class. Make sure that you are settling your misconceptions to get things learned, for real this time!
Russian I
This weekend I want you to talk about the things and people you have in your house. You should make a list of anywhere from ten to fifteen things and create complete sentences which work to express your possession (or someone else's possession) over the item. Review your gender rules as well as your possessive pronouns; there will be an exam soon!
Don't forget too that we have a song to learn - here's the video to the song.
Practice your reading and your speaking with the song. Make yourself an expert.
English II
This weekend you have two chapters of Persepolis to read "The Bicycle" and "The Water Cell" - as you read continue to take note of new vocabulary and add to your notes about the main characters. What do we continue to learn about the Satrapi family? The handouts are yours, so feel free to make notes in the packet. Remember that your homework is to read, so you know what may happen when you have reading homework...hint...hint...
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Thursday, October 15- AP English III
AP students--
Your homework for Monday is to:
Your homework for Monday is to:
- Read Huck Finn Chapters 1-6.
- Come up with one question of any type (see your assignment sheet or information below). Write this question down. You can put it in your notes or have a dedicated sheet for your questions for all readings. Also identify which type of question you have written.
- 3B students only--please have a parent sign the Duke M.A.T. program permission slip and return it to Ms. Ginocchio on Monday. Thank you much!
Types of Questions
- Literal/direct questions: These are factual questions, and you can find the answers to them in the text. There probably will be a “right answer.”
- Example: What are the characteristics of District 12?
- How is the book The Hunger Games narrated? (First person, present tense.)
- Interpretive questions: Questions that require inference or finding patterns in the text. The answer will be a conclusion backed up by the text, but there may not be one “right answer.”
Example: How does Katniss change in this chapter?
Is the cat a symbol?
What does she represent?
Why did Suzanne Collins
choose to make her hero from District 12?
- Applied questions: Go beyond the text or connect the fictional events/world of the text with your real life and experience.
Example: Is it
ever okay to disobey the law?
What are the
similarities between the world of The Hunger Games and our contemporary world?
What kinds of violent
entertainment exist in our world? Why do people watch these sorts of things?
Homework for B-Day Students: 10/15/2015
English II
For homework over the weekend you have your four suras from The Koran to read and analyze. Remember that each sura teaches a lesson to the reader about how to live an upright life. At the end of each one, write the rule for life as you understand it from the sura. From each one, try to find two vocabulary words to add to your bookmarks. If you can't define it, don't worry. Just ask us in class.
Enjoy your study of The Koran!
For homework over the weekend you have your four suras from The Koran to read and analyze. Remember that each sura teaches a lesson to the reader about how to live an upright life. At the end of each one, write the rule for life as you understand it from the sura. From each one, try to find two vocabulary words to add to your bookmarks. If you can't define it, don't worry. Just ask us in class.
Enjoy your study of The Koran!
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Homework for A Day Students - 14 October 2015
English II
Tonight for homework you have five excerpts from The Koran to read and consider. Remember that The Koran is the equivalent to The Bible or Torah - treat this text with some respect. Read the excerpts that you have and at the end of each one try to get to the rule for life that this excerpt teaches. You should be able to get four rules from the four surahs. In addition, try to get eight vocabulary words from your reading - two from each surah is a good goal.
Russian I
For tonight you have to do some more work in your vocabulary lists for chapter one. Tonight focus on the verbs. Look at the verbs you have in chapter one and organize them by conjugation type using the rules that we learned today in class. You should write out your words as it will help you to learn them better than just putting a number next to the word.
Russian II/III
Tonight for homework I want you to do some work in your exercises for Chapter Four. Complete exercise G - make sure that you do the forms in both Russian and in standard transcription. You can organize your work however you would like, but remember to focus on studying and learning your stems. Hopefully today's warm up was helpful in going over some of these concepts.
Tonight for homework you have five excerpts from The Koran to read and consider. Remember that The Koran is the equivalent to The Bible or Torah - treat this text with some respect. Read the excerpts that you have and at the end of each one try to get to the rule for life that this excerpt teaches. You should be able to get four rules from the four surahs. In addition, try to get eight vocabulary words from your reading - two from each surah is a good goal.
Russian I
For tonight you have to do some more work in your vocabulary lists for chapter one. Tonight focus on the verbs. Look at the verbs you have in chapter one and organize them by conjugation type using the rules that we learned today in class. You should write out your words as it will help you to learn them better than just putting a number next to the word.
Russian II/III
Tonight for homework I want you to do some work in your exercises for Chapter Four. Complete exercise G - make sure that you do the forms in both Russian and in standard transcription. You can organize your work however you would like, but remember to focus on studying and learning your stems. Hopefully today's warm up was helpful in going over some of these concepts.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students: 13 October 2015
Sorry for the delay in posting this everyone; here are your reminders for our next class.
English II
Many of you were absent today, and I'll be checking on these absences tomorrow. Everyone in class was able to complete the viewing guide for our film on Iran and its culture today, so there is no homework for you all to complete. If you were absent, see me tomorrow to get the viewing guide. I'll go ahead and post the video here so that you can watch it for yourselves or to watch it again for any of you who want to.
As you watch the video, focus on culture in Iran, important parts of the capital Tehran, and pay attention to any ideas about Iran which this video may challenge.
AP English III
Next class all of you have your test on Transcendentalism and Philosophy, so your key goal is to prepare yourselves for that. Remember the ways that Ms. Ginocchio discussed today as to HOW to prepare for this type of examination. You'll be asked specifically about our four key philosophical texts (King, DuBois, Emerson, Thoreau) as well as some overarching themes or ideas between all of them. Review your notes and annotations as well as the text. Include a look at your early notes on rhetoric as those are essential to this assessment as well.
You also have your first reading goal for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You need to be to the end of Chapter Six by Monday's class. It's better to be ahead then a behind (get it...) so make sure to meet your goals and surpass them. Continue using your vocabulary bookmarks with this text, you'll have cards due again soon!
English II
Many of you were absent today, and I'll be checking on these absences tomorrow. Everyone in class was able to complete the viewing guide for our film on Iran and its culture today, so there is no homework for you all to complete. If you were absent, see me tomorrow to get the viewing guide. I'll go ahead and post the video here so that you can watch it for yourselves or to watch it again for any of you who want to.
As you watch the video, focus on culture in Iran, important parts of the capital Tehran, and pay attention to any ideas about Iran which this video may challenge.
AP English III
Next class all of you have your test on Transcendentalism and Philosophy, so your key goal is to prepare yourselves for that. Remember the ways that Ms. Ginocchio discussed today as to HOW to prepare for this type of examination. You'll be asked specifically about our four key philosophical texts (King, DuBois, Emerson, Thoreau) as well as some overarching themes or ideas between all of them. Review your notes and annotations as well as the text. Include a look at your early notes on rhetoric as those are essential to this assessment as well.
You also have your first reading goal for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You need to be to the end of Chapter Six by Monday's class. It's better to be ahead then a behind (get it...) so make sure to meet your goals and surpass them. Continue using your vocabulary bookmarks with this text, you'll have cards due again soon!
Monday, October 12, 2015
Homework for A-Day Students: 12 October 2015
Happy Monday Everyone - Here's what you need to take care of for tonight.
Russian II/III
Spend some time looking over your quiz on Russian verbs and the One-Stem Verb System. Many of you are making small mistakes in stem identification which then lead to major issues when it comes to the conjugation of the verbs - this led to bigger mistakes in your quizzes. Make sure to study and review and to prepare yourself for a retest if you want to do that.
For your actual homework tonight, spend some time working with your vocabulary from our film. You have several verbs in the new vocabulary as well as nouns and adjectives. Work to create sentences which make predictions about the film and what will happen. Make sure to review your stems with the verbs as that is our key grammar goal for this unit. As a baseline, try to write about ten sentences.
Also, don't forget that we have a new song to learn:
Russian I
Two cities are left to present and we'll get to those on Wednesday. For tonight's homework, spend time working on your vocabulary in Chapter One, especially the nouns. Take time to look at the nouns and to identify/organize them by their gender. Further, try to pair the nouns with possessive pronouns which match the gender of the word. All of this studying will help to prepare you and refresh you for your retest opportunity.
Remember all Russian retests must be done by the end of this week!
English II
If you did not finish your viewing guide on Rick Steve's Iran then make sure that you finish up that work and show it to me next class for credit. Everyone currently has a grade based on what I saw. Also, several of you are still missing your project grades for our Russian literature unit and your quizzes on our Russian literature unit. Those assignments need to be made up this week as we will be finishing the grading period next week!
Russian II/III
Spend some time looking over your quiz on Russian verbs and the One-Stem Verb System. Many of you are making small mistakes in stem identification which then lead to major issues when it comes to the conjugation of the verbs - this led to bigger mistakes in your quizzes. Make sure to study and review and to prepare yourself for a retest if you want to do that.
For your actual homework tonight, spend some time working with your vocabulary from our film. You have several verbs in the new vocabulary as well as nouns and adjectives. Work to create sentences which make predictions about the film and what will happen. Make sure to review your stems with the verbs as that is our key grammar goal for this unit. As a baseline, try to write about ten sentences.
Also, don't forget that we have a new song to learn:
Russian I
Two cities are left to present and we'll get to those on Wednesday. For tonight's homework, spend time working on your vocabulary in Chapter One, especially the nouns. Take time to look at the nouns and to identify/organize them by their gender. Further, try to pair the nouns with possessive pronouns which match the gender of the word. All of this studying will help to prepare you and refresh you for your retest opportunity.
Remember all Russian retests must be done by the end of this week!
English II
If you did not finish your viewing guide on Rick Steve's Iran then make sure that you finish up that work and show it to me next class for credit. Everyone currently has a grade based on what I saw. Also, several of you are still missing your project grades for our Russian literature unit and your quizzes on our Russian literature unit. Those assignments need to be made up this week as we will be finishing the grading period next week!
Friday, October 9, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students - Weekend Edition - 10/9/2015
AP English III
Next week we have two big things on the horizon - your argumentative essay and your quiz/test on our philosophical pieces. We'll deal with the paper first and then the quiz/test (quest).
For your essay you will be required to submit your outline, rough draft with commentary from peer editing, and your final draft with rubric. We will complete a cover sheet for the essay in class before submitting and I will give you an envelope in which to submit everything.
For your bibliographies, I invite you to use the Purdue OWL for MLA Citation Style. On this page you will find everything you need to complete your bibliography and formatting. For your bibliographies, you should use this page for book references (Kozol, Steinbeck, etc.) and this page for online resources. If you need help I will make myself available on Monday to discuss only bibliographies and formatting questions, not to deal with the content of your essay.
For your quest on Thursday focus on the four pieces that we have studied in our philosophy unit: Emerson's "The Over-Soul", Thoreau's "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For", King's "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail" and lastly DuBois's Chapter One from The Souls of Black Folk. Look forward to a review on Tuesday - to prepare for the review, look over the texts and consider what we discussed with each text. Try to plan possible questions that we may ask you on this assessment.
English II
You have no official homework this weekend, but if you missed the chance to turn in your project on time make sure that it gets in to me by Monday. In addition, if you are missing the Russian Literature Quiz, make that up by Wednesday afternoon as we are moving on to our next unit and the gradebook needs to be finalized.
Next week we have two big things on the horizon - your argumentative essay and your quiz/test on our philosophical pieces. We'll deal with the paper first and then the quiz/test (quest).
For your essay you will be required to submit your outline, rough draft with commentary from peer editing, and your final draft with rubric. We will complete a cover sheet for the essay in class before submitting and I will give you an envelope in which to submit everything.
For your bibliographies, I invite you to use the Purdue OWL for MLA Citation Style. On this page you will find everything you need to complete your bibliography and formatting. For your bibliographies, you should use this page for book references (Kozol, Steinbeck, etc.) and this page for online resources. If you need help I will make myself available on Monday to discuss only bibliographies and formatting questions, not to deal with the content of your essay.
For your quest on Thursday focus on the four pieces that we have studied in our philosophy unit: Emerson's "The Over-Soul", Thoreau's "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For", King's "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail" and lastly DuBois's Chapter One from The Souls of Black Folk. Look forward to a review on Tuesday - to prepare for the review, look over the texts and consider what we discussed with each text. Try to plan possible questions that we may ask you on this assessment.
English II
You have no official homework this weekend, but if you missed the chance to turn in your project on time make sure that it gets in to me by Monday. In addition, if you are missing the Russian Literature Quiz, make that up by Wednesday afternoon as we are moving on to our next unit and the gradebook needs to be finalized.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Homework for A-Day Students - Weekend Edition - 10/8/2015
Students - Here are your reminders for the weekend. Make sure that you complete these tasks below to get you ready for next week.
Russian II and III
This weekend focus on some specific verb pairs within chapter four to develop your lexicon in Russian. Study the pairs located on page 141-142 and 157-165. As you complete the exercises on pages 164-165 complete only the ODD sentences (1, 3, 5, etc.) Make sure to write out the sentences. Think about which verb is needed and in which form - use the clues in the sentences.
Russian I
For the weekend you should spend time making sure that your project is complete and shared with me in advance of Tuesday's class. Please send it/share it to me at mrmillerjhs [at] gmail [dot] com. In addition, make sure that you continue to study and review your notes and work this weekend. By this point in the class you should be confident and comfortable with all of the Russian letters and the sounds they make - if not, things will only continue to be difficult.
ALL RUSSIAN LANGUAGE STUDENTS: Start preparing for the OLYMPIADA! Study your packets! Begin to prepare!
English II
You have no homework to complete this weekend since we had a major project due in class. If you have any missing assignments from our Russian literature unit (project, quiz, etc.) - make sure that it is completed no later than Wednesday the 14th to receive credit. We'll be starting our next unit soon, and we need to account for all missing work before we move on.
Russian II and III
This weekend focus on some specific verb pairs within chapter four to develop your lexicon in Russian. Study the pairs located on page 141-142 and 157-165. As you complete the exercises on pages 164-165 complete only the ODD sentences (1, 3, 5, etc.) Make sure to write out the sentences. Think about which verb is needed and in which form - use the clues in the sentences.
Russian I
For the weekend you should spend time making sure that your project is complete and shared with me in advance of Tuesday's class. Please send it/share it to me at mrmillerjhs [at] gmail [dot] com. In addition, make sure that you continue to study and review your notes and work this weekend. By this point in the class you should be confident and comfortable with all of the Russian letters and the sounds they make - if not, things will only continue to be difficult.
ALL RUSSIAN LANGUAGE STUDENTS: Start preparing for the OLYMPIADA! Study your packets! Begin to prepare!
English II
You have no homework to complete this weekend since we had a major project due in class. If you have any missing assignments from our Russian literature unit (project, quiz, etc.) - make sure that it is completed no later than Wednesday the 14th to receive credit. We'll be starting our next unit soon, and we need to account for all missing work before we move on.
Homework for B-Day Students: 10/7/2015
Apologies B-Day Students for not getting this posted yesterday. Here is what you have coming up for Friday:
English II
Your projects are due on Friday. I'm so proud that a few of you were able to finish up during the workshop in class and get your worked turned in. We will present our projects and then wrap up our unit on Russian literature for Friday.
AP English III
For Friday you will have your timed writing and it will be an argument. Make sure that you know your bootcamp notes as well as your DADS notes and your rules for good writing. All of these will help you as you complete your timed writing on Friday. In addition, remember that your final drafts are due on Tuesday of next week. We'll go over all of the elements that you'll need to submit on Friday as well as how. Lastly, if you haven't already purchased your copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn do so soon as we will likely be starting the text toward the end of next week.
English II
Your projects are due on Friday. I'm so proud that a few of you were able to finish up during the workshop in class and get your worked turned in. We will present our projects and then wrap up our unit on Russian literature for Friday.
AP English III
For Friday you will have your timed writing and it will be an argument. Make sure that you know your bootcamp notes as well as your DADS notes and your rules for good writing. All of these will help you as you complete your timed writing on Friday. In addition, remember that your final drafts are due on Tuesday of next week. We'll go over all of the elements that you'll need to submit on Friday as well as how. Lastly, if you haven't already purchased your copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn do so soon as we will likely be starting the text toward the end of next week.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Homework for A-Day Students: 6 October 2015
Russian II/III
I forgot to collect your journals today so I will definitely collect them on Thursday. Make sure that you have your writing ready for me to check. On Thursday you'll have your quiz on the one-stem verb system. Make sure that you have reviewed your notes as well as the information in the textbook. On this quiz you will need to:
I forgot to collect your journals today so I will definitely collect them on Thursday. Make sure that you have your writing ready for me to check. On Thursday you'll have your quiz on the one-stem verb system. Make sure that you have reviewed your notes as well as the information in the textbook. On this quiz you will need to:
- identify the stem of a given verb based on its conjugation
- apply stems and endings
- write in structural transcription and in Russian
- account for consonant mutations
Please make sure to check out the exercises in the back of the chapter as they can be helpful for you in preparing.
Russian I
You also have a quiz next class on your vocabulary and grammar so far in the unit. Based on the dialogues in class I can tell that some of you are still struggling a bit too much with the alphabet. Practice and prepare and ask for help when needed. It's clear that some aren't spending enough time at home getting ready. Remember that you'll need your vocabulary as well as your notes on possessive pronouns and gender. Study and be prepared!
English II
Next class your projects are due. Some of you were even able to finish them today in class. Make sure that your project shows your best work and that it is either typed or written in blue or black ink. Follow the instructions on your rubric sheet for your individual project.
Monday, October 5, 2015
Homework for B-Day students: October 5
AP English III:
- For Wednesday, read the "Forethought" and "Chapter 1" of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois. I have copies now for those who did not get theirs in class. You can also access the entire text for free here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm
- Obtain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by the weekend.
- Final drafts of essays are due Tuesday, October 13. Writing conference slots are still available, and we will post a schedule for Thursday and Friday meetings soon.
- There will be an AP-style Timed Writing on Friday. We will be writing argumentative essays, so review your "Rules for Good Writing" notes about DADS and arguments.
English II:
- Be working on your projects. We will have library time next class to work on these.
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Russian Students Only
I want to have a Russian club and Olympiada meeting on Thursday afternoon. Russian snacks will be provided!
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Homework for the Weekend - A Day Students - 10/3/2015
Sorry for not getting this up before now; I didn't realized that I'd forgotten. Here are your reminders:
Students of Russian/Дорогие мои студенты русского языка!
I wanted to post a few things for you to use as you are writing your journals (Russian II/III) and working on your grammar homework and preparing for your first major quiz (Russian I). First for II/III -
Students of Russian/Дорогие мои студенты русского языка!
I wanted to post a few things for you to use as you are writing your journals (Russian II/III) and working on your grammar homework and preparing for your first major quiz (Russian I). First for II/III -
- Your homework this weekend is one double-spaced page in your journal using the phrase "Ни пуха, ни пера! К черту!". Remember as you write to apply your knowledge of stems and the one-stem system. I want you to edit and revise. Read and consider - use your knowledge and your notes.
- If you need a dictionary there's this wonderful online resource from Duke - A grammatical dictionary of the Russian language.
- If you would like a reference guide for grammar you can use this - also from Duke and actually from one of the authors of our textbook.
Russian I Students - You should continue working through the exercises on gender as well as studying your vocabulary words in chapter one. In addition to the nouns you should know the possessive pronouns (моя, твое, его, их, наша, ваш) and the question words that we have learned in connection to the intonation patterns. All of these things will be part of your vocabulary quiz on Thursday. Don't forget too that you will have your project presentations on Thursday - is anyone bringing Russian food?
For all of you - here's our video about Кострома which we started in Russian II/III for the warm up - feel free to watch it to the end. Remember our guests will be visiting in about a month!
English II:
If you didn't turn in your viewing guide from the Bulgakov film today then you will need to finish that for homework to turn in on Tuesday. In addition, we'll be working on our projects on Tuesday before the due date and presentation on Thursday. Feel free to work on your projects this weekend in preparation for our library workshop on Tuesday. If you do research online, try to save the website addresses so that Ms. Ginocchio and I can show you how to complete your bibliography.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Video about Refugee Crisis from AP III
For the sake of the several students who were absent on Thursday, here's a link to the video we watched:
https://youtu.be/ubGhzVdnhQw
https://youtu.be/ubGhzVdnhQw
As you watch, consider 1) strategies that the filmmakers use to communicate a message to you and 2) similarities and differences between the video and Grapes of Wrath, both in terms of content/themes and strategies used by the Guardian journalists and John Steinbeck.
For context, this video was produced by The Guardian, a large British newspaper. John Steinbeck was a journalist too; he published articles in a San Francisco newspaper about the Dust Bowl and migrant crisis before writing The Grapes of Wrath. Think about methods of storytelling and what different modes can accomplish.
Have a great weekend!
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Homework for the Weekend - B Day Students - 10/1/2015
English II
You had a major quiz today so you don't have any official homework for tonight. You should focus on your projects so that you are ready for the workshop we'll have in the library on Monday. Try to do some work to select the project you want to do for your final test grade. We'll have time to work as a class on Monday and Wednesday next week to put these projects together.
AP English III
Your homework this weekend is to read an annotate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail" - it's available in 50 Essays as well as at this link. As you read, pay attention to the ideas of Transcendentalism that we have been talking about in class. In addition, pay attention to King's ideas of morality versus immorality and the concept of justice versus injustice. Where do King's morals come from in this text? This piece is rich in rhetoric and meaning and we'll have a lot to discuss with it.
Looking to the horizon, you'll have your first timed writing on Friday - it will be an argumentative piece. Study your notes as you are preparing. Your final drafts will be collected on the 13th of October - for these make sure that you have all of the supporting documents that have come together to make your final draft (outlines, rough drafts) so that I can see the whole development process. Lastly, get your copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - make sure that it is complete and unabridged.
You had a major quiz today so you don't have any official homework for tonight. You should focus on your projects so that you are ready for the workshop we'll have in the library on Monday. Try to do some work to select the project you want to do for your final test grade. We'll have time to work as a class on Monday and Wednesday next week to put these projects together.
AP English III
Your homework this weekend is to read an annotate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail" - it's available in 50 Essays as well as at this link. As you read, pay attention to the ideas of Transcendentalism that we have been talking about in class. In addition, pay attention to King's ideas of morality versus immorality and the concept of justice versus injustice. Where do King's morals come from in this text? This piece is rich in rhetoric and meaning and we'll have a lot to discuss with it.
Looking to the horizon, you'll have your first timed writing on Friday - it will be an argumentative piece. Study your notes as you are preparing. Your final drafts will be collected on the 13th of October - for these make sure that you have all of the supporting documents that have come together to make your final draft (outlines, rough drafts) so that I can see the whole development process. Lastly, get your copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - make sure that it is complete and unabridged.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Homework for A-Day Students: 30 September 2015
English II
Today since we had our quiz on Russian literature we have no official homework to complete. However, I have given you your final project for our Russian literature unit, and it would be a good idea to start working on your project tonight. Next class we'll spend some time in the library working on these projects - make sure that the time in the library is useful by starting tonight. Remember you have to select one of the four projects to complete. Consider what you think will give you your strongest work. Your projects are due on October 8th.
Russian I
Tonight for homework I want you to complete the reinforcement exercises from my Russian grammar textbook. You're completing exercises 51, 52, 53, and 54. For most of these you need to review your notes on gender and possessive pronouns. Remember to select the appropriate pronoun based on the gender of the item. We'll continue working on this and phonetics for Friday's class.
Make sure that with the homework that you write out all of your answers and sentences. Don't just fill in the blank or write the word - writing the whole sentence will help you with your handwriting and your grammar knowledge.
Russian II/III
Tonight you'll continue working on questions and answers as you work through exercise one in chapter four. There are fifteen questions there. I want you to select ten and then complete the example where you give answers to the questions. Make sure that you follow the model. Use this as a chance to check in with verbs and to practice your knowledge of the one-stem verb system in Russian. This is also a good chance for you to review your intonation patterns as we'll be doing some speaking related to questions and answers next class.
Today since we had our quiz on Russian literature we have no official homework to complete. However, I have given you your final project for our Russian literature unit, and it would be a good idea to start working on your project tonight. Next class we'll spend some time in the library working on these projects - make sure that the time in the library is useful by starting tonight. Remember you have to select one of the four projects to complete. Consider what you think will give you your strongest work. Your projects are due on October 8th.
Russian I
Tonight for homework I want you to complete the reinforcement exercises from my Russian grammar textbook. You're completing exercises 51, 52, 53, and 54. For most of these you need to review your notes on gender and possessive pronouns. Remember to select the appropriate pronoun based on the gender of the item. We'll continue working on this and phonetics for Friday's class.
Make sure that with the homework that you write out all of your answers and sentences. Don't just fill in the blank or write the word - writing the whole sentence will help you with your handwriting and your grammar knowledge.
Russian II/III
Tonight you'll continue working on questions and answers as you work through exercise one in chapter four. There are fifteen questions there. I want you to select ten and then complete the example where you give answers to the questions. Make sure that you follow the model. Use this as a chance to check in with verbs and to practice your knowledge of the one-stem verb system in Russian. This is also a good chance for you to review your intonation patterns as we'll be doing some speaking related to questions and answers next class.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students: 29 September 2015
AP English III
For tonight you have two major things to accomplish and bring with you to class on Thursday. First you have your rough drafts of your argumentative essay. The rough drafts should be approximately half of your final draft. The final draft is five to six pages, so this should be two to three pages. For the rough draft workshop make sure that you have your introduction, conclusion, and one whole topic written out in paragraphs. As we have spent several days discussing, one topic does not equal one paragraph. Consider your transitions between different elements of your topic and make a point to me.
Secondly for Thursday you have your vocabulary cards. Remember that these come from your vocabulary bookmark. Use the resources in the previous post to complete this assignment. If you can't find a part of the card, then say so - don't leave anything blank on your cards.
Lastly, make sure that you have reviewed the final two chapters of Grapes of Wrath to finish our discussion that we started today. You'll need to purchase/find a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the next few classes, so go ahead and get one sooner rather than later.
English II
For homework tonight you should be preparing for your quiz on Gogol's "The Overcoat" and the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. The topics you need to study are in the previous post. Make sure that you are highly prepared - remember that I pushed this back so that you could get yourself more ready.
For tonight you have two major things to accomplish and bring with you to class on Thursday. First you have your rough drafts of your argumentative essay. The rough drafts should be approximately half of your final draft. The final draft is five to six pages, so this should be two to three pages. For the rough draft workshop make sure that you have your introduction, conclusion, and one whole topic written out in paragraphs. As we have spent several days discussing, one topic does not equal one paragraph. Consider your transitions between different elements of your topic and make a point to me.
Secondly for Thursday you have your vocabulary cards. Remember that these come from your vocabulary bookmark. Use the resources in the previous post to complete this assignment. If you can't find a part of the card, then say so - don't leave anything blank on your cards.
Lastly, make sure that you have reviewed the final two chapters of Grapes of Wrath to finish our discussion that we started today. You'll need to purchase/find a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the next few classes, so go ahead and get one sooner rather than later.
English II
For homework tonight you should be preparing for your quiz on Gogol's "The Overcoat" and the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. The topics you need to study are in the previous post. Make sure that you are highly prepared - remember that I pushed this back so that you could get yourself more ready.
Monday, September 28, 2015
Homework for A-Day Students: 28 September 2015
English II
Your homework for tonight is to finish the preparation for your major quiz on "The Overcoat" and the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. The poetry is available on your handouts and the whole text of "The Overcoat" is at this link. Make sure that you've read over the story and the poetry as you prepare. For the quiz you will have questions on:
Your homework for tonight is to finish the preparation for your major quiz on "The Overcoat" and the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. The poetry is available on your handouts and the whole text of "The Overcoat" is at this link. Make sure that you've read over the story and the poetry as you prepare. For the quiz you will have questions on:
- characters, symbols, conflicts, literary devices in "The Overcoat"
- themes and literary devices for Akhmatova's poetry
The test will also look at your knowledge of vocabulary from these pieces, so make sure that you have defined all of the words on your bookmark. The final part of the test will be a short answer question, make sure you remember the key parts of your effective paragraphs!
Lastly, don't forget your opportunity to earn back extra points - revise your writing based on our workshop today and turn that in no later than Friday to earn a new grade.
Russian I
For homework tonight you should be working on your vocabulary studying of chapter one. Begin by focusing on the nouns. You should work on the spelling, the reading, and the gender knowledge of the nouns in your chapter one vocabulary list. You'll have a vocabulary quiz next Thursday - so it is important to start to prepare now!
Russian II/III
For tonight I want you to select five of the verbs from which you made your verb cards and I want you to work on writing questions and answers using these verbs. For example:
О чем разговаривают Таня и Виктор?
Они разговаривают о классе.You need to create five question/answer pairs. Make sure that as you do this you work with the conjugation of the verbs as well as the case governance that occurs with these verbs as well.
Friday, September 25, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students - 25 September 2015 - Weekend Edition
AP English III
This weekend you have two things to complete and a few things to take care of which will move you on into Thursday. First, let's deal with Tuesday. On Tuesday you'll be turning in your journals (both the Transcendental daily reflections and your warm-ups) as well as your personal reflection on the week. For the personal reflection consider the week as a whole - What did you learn about yourself through this experiment? What have you learned about others? Have you transcended? Why or why not? The idea in this reflection is to focus on one key idea and explain thoroughly - show us that you can focus your writing.
For Thursday, you will have your rough draft workshop on your argumentative essays as well as your first vocabulary cards due. Use http://www.merriamwebster.com or http://www.dictionary.com or http://www.etymonline.com to look up definitions, word parts, and meanings. Remember to account for all of the information needed on the cards.
Remember that for the rough drafts you need to have fifty percent of your final draft - focus on presenting your introduction with argument, two body paragraphs and your conclusion. This is a good frame that will allow us to deal with the essay as a whole. After our draft workshop in class, Ms. Ginocchio and I will be available for individual conferences.
English II
Even though some of you were not in class today we will still have our overall quiz on Gogol's "The Overcoat" on Tuesday. Use the link in the previous post to access the full text and to begin preparing yourself using the tips below to study. If you've taken good notes and read the whole story you will be in good shape for this quiz.
This weekend you have two things to complete and a few things to take care of which will move you on into Thursday. First, let's deal with Tuesday. On Tuesday you'll be turning in your journals (both the Transcendental daily reflections and your warm-ups) as well as your personal reflection on the week. For the personal reflection consider the week as a whole - What did you learn about yourself through this experiment? What have you learned about others? Have you transcended? Why or why not? The idea in this reflection is to focus on one key idea and explain thoroughly - show us that you can focus your writing.
For Thursday, you will have your rough draft workshop on your argumentative essays as well as your first vocabulary cards due. Use http://www.merriamwebster.com or http://www.dictionary.com or http://www.etymonline.com to look up definitions, word parts, and meanings. Remember to account for all of the information needed on the cards.
Remember that for the rough drafts you need to have fifty percent of your final draft - focus on presenting your introduction with argument, two body paragraphs and your conclusion. This is a good frame that will allow us to deal with the essay as a whole. After our draft workshop in class, Ms. Ginocchio and I will be available for individual conferences.
English II
Even though some of you were not in class today we will still have our overall quiz on Gogol's "The Overcoat" on Tuesday. Use the link in the previous post to access the full text and to begin preparing yourself using the tips below to study. If you've taken good notes and read the whole story you will be in good shape for this quiz.
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Homework for A-Day Students - Weekend Edition - 24 September 2015
Russian II/III
This weekend you are making verb cards from chapters one through three. For your verb cards I am looking for a few things - here's your list:
This weekend you are making verb cards from chapters one through three. For your verb cards I am looking for a few things - here's your list:
- the verb in its infinitive form with the translation into English
- the stem of the verb
- the structural transcription of the verb
- the present and past tense conjugation (use structural transcription if you need to)
- case governance of the verb
- Russian III ONLY - Aspectual pair of the verb.
You should focus on commonly used verbs - don't look at vague verbs, try to look at ones you actually use.
Russian I
You have your list of words to analyze for gender this weekend. Remember to practice your handwriting, your reading, and to identify the gender, the hardness or softness of the ending, and the pronoun (he/she/it) you would use to discuss the item.
English II
On Monday you'll be having a big quiz on "The Overcoat" - sections one through five. Here is a link to the online version of the text if you want to look at the whole thing. Here's how you should prepare for your quiz this weekend:
- Reread the whole story from beginning to end - we read it over several classes. This will help you to keep everything in order.
- Review your notes - pay attention to notes on the characters, the situation/plot, the conflict, and the main symbol.
- Prepare any questions about things you don't understand.
- Know any and all vocabulary from the story.
This will be a large quiz on Monday and will greatly affect your grades. Make sure that you are prepared.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Russian Nursery Rhymes
Russian I Students:
Here's the video I mentioned today in class about the rooster poem. Try to practice your reading and follow along!
The character of the goat (коза) uses the beginning to sing the rooster's (петушок) praises and then lure him with a potato (картошка). Try to see how much of the cartoon you understand. You'll hear the rhyme a few times in it.
Russian II and III - Have some fun with this. Listen for the case endings and verb endings - they're clearly in there!
Writing Help for AP English III
This information is mostly useful for the AP English III students, but it could be helpful to English II also.
As I have told many of you, I’m happy to look at revised outlines and rough drafts as you work on your argumentative essays. The best way to do this is to send me your work electronically (via email or Google Doc) or give me a hard copy to mark-up. Then, I can give back the draft with comments, or we can meet to discuss it. I can give you the best feedback if I have time to read your work carefully. It is also very helpful if you have specific questions or alert me to specific challenges you are facing, e.g. having trouble with the conclusion or transitions, you’re not sure you have adequate explanation of evidence, etc… This will help me help you.
My email address is jg239 [at] duke [dot] edu. I generally won’t answer any work- or school-related emails after 7 pm. Also, because I am a graduate student and have assignments of my own to complete, do not send me your work the night before it’s due and expect me to drop everything to get you same-day feedback. On rare occasions I may be able to do this, but don’t plan on it!
Helpful writing resources for you:
UNC Writing Center: This website has loads of helpful handouts that can help you with many aspects of the writing process, from grammar issues, to specific parts of a writing assignment, to writing for specific academic fields. http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/
Purdue OWL: Website run and updated by Purdue University. This is a great reference for styles, such as the MLA style we use in our course, and it also has resources similar to the UNC writing center above. I cannot recommend this site enough; I still refer to it every time I have to write a paper for graduate school. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Grammar Girl: Simple, clear explanations of common grammar and usage quandaries. Don't depress your teachers; if you don't know the right way to punctuate something or the right word to use, look it up! If you're still not sure, ask us! http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl
My email address is jg239 [at] duke [dot] edu. I generally won’t answer any work- or school-related emails after 7 pm. Also, because I am a graduate student and have assignments of my own to complete, do not send me your work the night before it’s due and expect me to drop everything to get you same-day feedback. On rare occasions I may be able to do this, but don’t plan on it!
Helpful writing resources for you:
UNC Writing Center: This website has loads of helpful handouts that can help you with many aspects of the writing process, from grammar issues, to specific parts of a writing assignment, to writing for specific academic fields. http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/
Purdue OWL: Website run and updated by Purdue University. This is a great reference for styles, such as the MLA style we use in our course, and it also has resources similar to the UNC writing center above. I cannot recommend this site enough; I still refer to it every time I have to write a paper for graduate school. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Grammar Girl: Simple, clear explanations of common grammar and usage quandaries. Don't depress your teachers; if you don't know the right way to punctuate something or the right word to use, look it up! If you're still not sure, ask us! http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl
Homework for All Classes - A and B Day - 22 and 23 September
I'll be out tomorrow in observance of Yom Kippur, so I wanted to go ahead and make this post now to everyone.
Russian II and III
On Thursday you will have a vocabulary quiz on your nouns in Chapter Four. I will ask you to put these nouns into several cases and they may be paired with possessive pronouns in some areas. This is a reminder to continue to study and review your case endings - the results of the test showed me that this is still needed.
Russian I
You should begin to review and study the vocabulary words in Chapter One of our textbook. Begin your work on the nouns because that's where we'll start on Thursday. In addition, you have some new readings that you can use to help you study and review the alphabet. If you are still feeling behind on the alphabet or anything from the first test, please make time to see me and build in extra practice - you'll need to get this down pat!
English II
Tonight you'll be reading the fourth part of "The Overcoat" - it's when things really start to go downhill for Akaky. As you read, pay attention to your new vocabulary and do your definitions - we will likely check vocabulary in the next few days. Also, think about and take note of the following ideas as you read:
Russian II and III
On Thursday you will have a vocabulary quiz on your nouns in Chapter Four. I will ask you to put these nouns into several cases and they may be paired with possessive pronouns in some areas. This is a reminder to continue to study and review your case endings - the results of the test showed me that this is still needed.
Russian I
You should begin to review and study the vocabulary words in Chapter One of our textbook. Begin your work on the nouns because that's where we'll start on Thursday. In addition, you have some new readings that you can use to help you study and review the alphabet. If you are still feeling behind on the alphabet or anything from the first test, please make time to see me and build in extra practice - you'll need to get this down pat!
English II
Tonight you'll be reading the fourth part of "The Overcoat" - it's when things really start to go downhill for Akaky. As you read, pay attention to your new vocabulary and do your definitions - we will likely check vocabulary in the next few days. Also, think about and take note of the following ideas as you read:
- How do the police/government officials treat Akaky? Why?
- What generally happens to Akaky in this section?
- Is there any irony in this section? Where?
We'll review things on Thursday/Friday and start wrapping up this story and our unit on Russian literature.
AP English III
You should now have your journals to keep working on your Transcendentalist for a Week reflections. Feel free to staple the previous entries into your journal instead of simply recopying them. For tonight, you should spend time working on your vocabulary cards - remember that you need to do cards for five words. Follow the instructions on the cards and ask if you have questions. I also recommend using www.dictionary.com for this assignment as well as the website in your assignment sheet.
Additionally tonight you should begin drafting and working on your rough drafts. The drafts will be workshopped in class on October 1 (the same day that your cards are due). You need to have fifty percent of your final draft to get credit - my recommendation is that you do (at least) your introduction, two body paragraphs, and your conclusion. After our workshop, Ms. Ginocchio and I will be available for conferences.
Have Thoreau and Emerson as well as Steinbeck in class on Friday - we'll be pulling a lot of ideas together.
Monday, September 21, 2015
Homework for Monday - B Day Students - 9/21/2015
English II
Tonight you'll be writing your Personal Reflection #2 - this will be on the story "The Overcoat". Here is your prompt, make sure that you answer the question clearly using a solid paragraph. You may want to write more than one paragraph.
Have you ever had an object that you wanted the way that Akaky wants his overcoat? What was the object? What did it symbolize for you? What happened to you once you got the object? Did you change like Akaky is changing in the story?
AP English III
Today we started to crack the surface on Emerson and "The Over Soul". The next few classes are going to be key in helping you really make sense of what he is saying and what he means. For tonight, start your project on being a Transcendentalist for a week. Remember the idea is to transcend your everyday experience, so think about something you can give up to accomplish this goal. Have fun with this assignment and discover something about yourself. Remember that you will write one page a day about your experience for five days and then complete a final reflection on the week, due on the 29th of September.
For tonight as well, read Thoreau's "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" - while you work on Wednesday there will be a reading guide which will help you to get through the main ideas of this piece. Continue to draw connections to Emerson - it'll make things a lot clearer. Here's the link to Thoreau's piece if you don't have 50 Essays.
Tonight you'll be writing your Personal Reflection #2 - this will be on the story "The Overcoat". Here is your prompt, make sure that you answer the question clearly using a solid paragraph. You may want to write more than one paragraph.
Have you ever had an object that you wanted the way that Akaky wants his overcoat? What was the object? What did it symbolize for you? What happened to you once you got the object? Did you change like Akaky is changing in the story?
AP English III
Today we started to crack the surface on Emerson and "The Over Soul". The next few classes are going to be key in helping you really make sense of what he is saying and what he means. For tonight, start your project on being a Transcendentalist for a week. Remember the idea is to transcend your everyday experience, so think about something you can give up to accomplish this goal. Have fun with this assignment and discover something about yourself. Remember that you will write one page a day about your experience for five days and then complete a final reflection on the week, due on the 29th of September.
For tonight as well, read Thoreau's "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" - while you work on Wednesday there will be a reading guide which will help you to get through the main ideas of this piece. Continue to draw connections to Emerson - it'll make things a lot clearer. Here's the link to Thoreau's piece if you don't have 50 Essays.
Friday, September 18, 2015
Homework for the Weekend - A Day Edition - 18 September
Russian II/III
Today you survived your first exam. Congratulations. If there were areas of the exam which were difficult for you then I would suggest studying over the weekend to review while it's still fresh in your minds. Over the weekend begin to study the nouns in chapter four. We will have a spelling test on Thursday covering these nouns.
Russian I
From the reading performance I think that many of you were not totally prepared for today's test. I will grade your tests this weekend and prepare you for corrections on Tuesday during the first half of class. Be prepared to move forward. Make sure that you are ready for Tuesday and that you can correct anything that you missed today.
English II
This weekend you'll be writing your Personal Reflection #2 - this will be on the story "The Overcoat". Here is your prompt, make sure that you answer the question clearly using a solid paragraph. You may want to write more than one paragraph.
Have you ever had an object that you wanted the way that Akaky wants his overcoat? What was the object? What did it symbolize for you? What happened to you once you got the object? Did you change like Akaky is changing in the story?
Today you survived your first exam. Congratulations. If there were areas of the exam which were difficult for you then I would suggest studying over the weekend to review while it's still fresh in your minds. Over the weekend begin to study the nouns in chapter four. We will have a spelling test on Thursday covering these nouns.
Russian I
From the reading performance I think that many of you were not totally prepared for today's test. I will grade your tests this weekend and prepare you for corrections on Tuesday during the first half of class. Be prepared to move forward. Make sure that you are ready for Tuesday and that you can correct anything that you missed today.
English II
This weekend you'll be writing your Personal Reflection #2 - this will be on the story "The Overcoat". Here is your prompt, make sure that you answer the question clearly using a solid paragraph. You may want to write more than one paragraph.
Have you ever had an object that you wanted the way that Akaky wants his overcoat? What was the object? What did it symbolize for you? What happened to you once you got the object? Did you change like Akaky is changing in the story?
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students, Weekend Edition, 17 September 2015
English II:
Tonight you need to read section two of Gogol's "The Overcoat". As you read, make sure to complete the following tasks:
Tonight you need to read section two of Gogol's "The Overcoat". As you read, make sure to complete the following tasks:
- Collect five new vocabulary words. Collect more if you want, but five is the minimum.
- Take notes on the symbol of Akaky's coat. Why do you think it is important? What does it symbolize?
- Take notes on how Akaky changes as a person - go back to what we've discussed in section one and compare how he is now in section two. What causes these changes?
Don't forget we will have a quiz on Monday to start class on section two. If you take good notes you'll do well on the quiz!
AP English III:
Over the weekend you'll be reading one of the most difficult things of the entire year, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Over Soul". I'm telling you now that it's difficult to encourage you to work hard on this. As you read - here are some tips:
- Use paragraph three as his argument. In this piece he is defining an abstract concept. Use the later paragraphs as examples of the concept.
- Consider the purpose of each paragraph. What is it telling you? How does it help to clarify the argument he is presenting about "The Over Soul"?
- Use the five traits of Transcendentalism to help you make sense of this - How do you see him working these ideas into his article?
- Use Jim Casy to help you make sense of all of this. Remember that Steinbeck is putting a lot of this philosophy into practice with Ma, Casy and Tom. Use Grapes of Wrath to help you make sense of this piece.
- Develop questions - if you want you can post them as a comment here and I'll try to respond through the weekend.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Russian Students Post
https://open.spotify.com/user/djmiller01/playlist/54mDUxWvfmhL4dZBHtCVY8
Here's the link to my Spotify Russian Music playlist. There's a bit of everything, so have some fun. A great activity is following along with the lyrics as you listen, it'll help you train your ears. You'll need to copy and paste the link.
Here's the link to my Spotify Russian Music playlist. There's a bit of everything, so have some fun. A great activity is following along with the lyrics as you listen, it'll help you train your ears. You'll need to copy and paste the link.
Homework for A-Day Students: 16 September 2015
English II
Tonight you need to read section two of Gogol's "The Overcoat". As you read, make sure to complete the following tasks:
Tonight you need to read section two of Gogol's "The Overcoat". As you read, make sure to complete the following tasks:
- Collect five new vocabulary words. Collect more if you want, but five is the minimum.
- Take notes on the symbol of Akaky's coat. Why do you think it is important? What does it symbolize?
- Take notes on how Akaky changes as a person - go back to what we've discussed in section one and compare how he is now in section two. What causes these changes?
Don't forget we will have a quiz on Friday to start class on section two. If you take good notes you'll do well on the quiz!
Russian I, II, and III
We have exams coming up on Friday. Russian II/III - You'll be having your case exam. Make sure that you're studied and prepared with nouns, adjectives, and pronouns of all types. Use your notes and your grammar review packets to help you to prepare. We've been drilling this information daily so you should be ready to go.
For Russian I we will have our alphabet and phonics test. Make sure that you know all of the letters and their sounds. The handwriting helpers will be gone, so know your stuff!
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Homework for All Classes - 14 and 15 September
All Students - Here are your reminders for the next class.
Russian II/III
Next class we will spend a lot of time reviewing for our exam on cases which is coming soon. You should be spending time nightly drilling and memorizing case endings and constructions which will lead you to a better understanding of Russian. To begin, make sure that your exercise packet is as complete as you can make it. We'll start by fielding questions there before we move on.
Russian I
Continue to study your phonetics and handwriting for the coming exam on the alphabet. We'll have our last day of practice on Wednesday.
English II
Using your copies of Gogol, go through the text and stay focused on finding new vocabulary words. Write the words and the definitions at the bottom of the page if you don't have your bookmarks. We'll spend some time reviewing before we move on.
AP English III
Continue your rereading and reexamination of Steinbeck. For tonight, read and annotate chapters five through eight focusing on:
Russian II/III
Next class we will spend a lot of time reviewing for our exam on cases which is coming soon. You should be spending time nightly drilling and memorizing case endings and constructions which will lead you to a better understanding of Russian. To begin, make sure that your exercise packet is as complete as you can make it. We'll start by fielding questions there before we move on.
Russian I
Continue to study your phonetics and handwriting for the coming exam on the alphabet. We'll have our last day of practice on Wednesday.
English II
Using your copies of Gogol, go through the text and stay focused on finding new vocabulary words. Write the words and the definitions at the bottom of the page if you don't have your bookmarks. We'll spend some time reviewing before we move on.
AP English III
Continue your rereading and reexamination of Steinbeck. For tonight, read and annotate chapters five through eight focusing on:
- motif of person to animal and the American Dream
- the use of irony in the text (grab bag)
- the characterization of Ma and Jim Casy
- pay special attention to Jim Casy's philosophy and how Ma responds to certain elements of it.
If you're interested in more about the Dust Bowl, check out the PBS Documentary which we looked at a bit in class. Here's the link to it.
Friday, September 11, 2015
Homework for the Weekend - B Day - 11 September 2015
AP English III
First off, here are the links to the supplemental texts that we looked at today in class.
New York Times Book Review of Kozol
Washington Post Article about Wake County
Economist Article on Charter Schools
NPR Transcript on Pre-K
Remember to use these if you would like as you are revising your essay outlines this weekend. Work hard on these and remember to include and show all of the ideas that we have been learning in regards to analyzing a text and constructing an argument. Remember that your outlines are due on Tuesday.
In addition, make sure to read/annotate chapters one, two and four of The Grapes of Wrath - we will begin our study of that text on Tuesday.
English II
You have no homework this weekend - make sure that you study and review your notes - we'll have our Russian literature test sooner than you think!
First off, here are the links to the supplemental texts that we looked at today in class.
New York Times Book Review of Kozol
Washington Post Article about Wake County
Economist Article on Charter Schools
NPR Transcript on Pre-K
Remember to use these if you would like as you are revising your essay outlines this weekend. Work hard on these and remember to include and show all of the ideas that we have been learning in regards to analyzing a text and constructing an argument. Remember that your outlines are due on Tuesday.
In addition, make sure to read/annotate chapters one, two and four of The Grapes of Wrath - we will begin our study of that text on Tuesday.
English II
You have no homework this weekend - make sure that you study and review your notes - we'll have our Russian literature test sooner than you think!
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Homework for the Weekend - A Day Students - 9/10/2015
Russian II/III
After our writing conferences today I can say that all of you are ready to finish your writing assignments and turn in on Monday your final drafts. Make sure that you account for all of your changes and read through it several times to make sure that it is correct and grammatical. In addition, try to add some adjectives for your nouns - this will help you to better learn all of the endings.
I will not be with you on Monday, so you will turn in your work to Ms. Ginocchio.
Russian I
This weekend I want you to continue working on your handwriting and pronunciation as you begin studying Russian cities. Make sure that you write each city five times - and each time you write the name of the city, say all of the sounds and the word as a whole. In the last column, tell me where the city is. Use Yandex maps to find your cities. If you need a Russian keyboard you can use this one at this link.
On Monday you'll start your research on these cities.
For my Russian students, here's Полина Гагарина - a wonderful Russian singer.
English II
Over the weekend you have no homework to complete - please stay focused on studying your notes from the two pieces we've read so that you are constantly preparing for your unit test on Russian literature.
After our writing conferences today I can say that all of you are ready to finish your writing assignments and turn in on Monday your final drafts. Make sure that you account for all of your changes and read through it several times to make sure that it is correct and grammatical. In addition, try to add some adjectives for your nouns - this will help you to better learn all of the endings.
I will not be with you on Monday, so you will turn in your work to Ms. Ginocchio.
Russian I
This weekend I want you to continue working on your handwriting and pronunciation as you begin studying Russian cities. Make sure that you write each city five times - and each time you write the name of the city, say all of the sounds and the word as a whole. In the last column, tell me where the city is. Use Yandex maps to find your cities. If you need a Russian keyboard you can use this one at this link.
On Monday you'll start your research on these cities.
For my Russian students, here's Полина Гагарина - a wonderful Russian singer.
English II
Over the weekend you have no homework to complete - please stay focused on studying your notes from the two pieces we've read so that you are constantly preparing for your unit test on Russian literature.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students: 9/9/2015
AP English III
Tonight your only homework is to work on your outlines and to revise! Put to practice all that we have learned over the last few days of class, and show me how you are growing as a writer. Remember to start with your argument revision since that is the heart of the essay - then move forward into developing your topics, details, and explanation. Please come to conference as you are working - remember that five minutes face-to-face can really help you a lot as you go through this process. The revised outlines are due to class on 9/15/15. You will need to submit your original and the revised copy.
Next class make sure that you have Kozol - we'll be finishing him up and getting ready to move to Oklahoma.
English II
Your homework is the same as the A-Day students. I want you to write your personal reflection on the prompt using a clear detail from the story to support your opinion. You're going to write three of these reflections - so remember to keep them together on the same piece of paper. Your prompt is:
Do you agree with Sasha's final thought that he is "indeed a criminal"? Why or why not? Use one clear piece of evidence from the text to support your idea.
In addition, if you are still missing the travel paragraph, or the vocabulary work you will need to get that turned in for credit by Friday.
Tonight your only homework is to work on your outlines and to revise! Put to practice all that we have learned over the last few days of class, and show me how you are growing as a writer. Remember to start with your argument revision since that is the heart of the essay - then move forward into developing your topics, details, and explanation. Please come to conference as you are working - remember that five minutes face-to-face can really help you a lot as you go through this process. The revised outlines are due to class on 9/15/15. You will need to submit your original and the revised copy.
Next class make sure that you have Kozol - we'll be finishing him up and getting ready to move to Oklahoma.
English II
Your homework is the same as the A-Day students. I want you to write your personal reflection on the prompt using a clear detail from the story to support your opinion. You're going to write three of these reflections - so remember to keep them together on the same piece of paper. Your prompt is:
Do you agree with Sasha's final thought that he is "indeed a criminal"? Why or why not? Use one clear piece of evidence from the text to support your idea.
In addition, if you are still missing the travel paragraph, or the vocabulary work you will need to get that turned in for credit by Friday.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Back from the long/birthday weekend...Homework for 9/8/15 - A-Day
Remember: Each and every day makes us older and hopefully wiser, too.
Russian II/III
Thursday we will begin with our writing conferences which we cut today in order to work on phonetics. Make sure that for Thursday you are fully prepared with a paragraph that has all nouns, pronouns (of all types), and adjectives translated into Russian into the appropriate case. Your paragraph should reflect all six cases. If you use a translator/dictionary for a word, indicate that so that I can give you another, easier word or reference my dictionary.
For verbs, put your verb analysis chart at the bottom of your work. Verb in English with tense and subject (for II and III) followed by aspect and directionality (III only). As we conference we'll go over the individual verbs you need.
Bring your textbooks - we'll use them in class during conferences.
Russian I
Looking at your handwriting packets I see that a few of us will be having a working lunch to correct some mistakes and misunderstandings. The grades are already posted in PowerSchool - if you have B lunch, you could come to lunch on Wednesday instead of waiting until Thursday to earn your credit back.
For tonight's homework, study your alphabet and your new vocabulary. I encourage you all to make flashcards which will help your handwriting and memory. Study the main words, not really the whole phrases. Also, continue to practice with your phonetics packet - we'll have more phonics work on Thursday.
English II
I've updated PowerSchool to reflect missing assignments including the vocabulary work. If you want to, please turn in your work tomorrow to me or Ms. Ginocchio and we'll fix the grade as soon as we can. Remember that missing work must be turned in by Friday to be eligible for full credit.
For tonight you will be writing your first of three personal reflections to a text - remember that you will keep this until the end of our unit on Russian literature when it will be collected for a full quiz grade. For tonight, you will reflect on Chekhov's "A Problem" - your prompt is:
Do you agree with Sasha's final thought at the end of the story that he is "indeed a criminal" or not? Why do you agree or disagree? Use one clear example from the story to support your opinion.
Remember to follow your rules for good paragraph writing and build complexity by talking about a story.
Russian II/III
Thursday we will begin with our writing conferences which we cut today in order to work on phonetics. Make sure that for Thursday you are fully prepared with a paragraph that has all nouns, pronouns (of all types), and adjectives translated into Russian into the appropriate case. Your paragraph should reflect all six cases. If you use a translator/dictionary for a word, indicate that so that I can give you another, easier word or reference my dictionary.
For verbs, put your verb analysis chart at the bottom of your work. Verb in English with tense and subject (for II and III) followed by aspect and directionality (III only). As we conference we'll go over the individual verbs you need.
Bring your textbooks - we'll use them in class during conferences.
Russian I
Looking at your handwriting packets I see that a few of us will be having a working lunch to correct some mistakes and misunderstandings. The grades are already posted in PowerSchool - if you have B lunch, you could come to lunch on Wednesday instead of waiting until Thursday to earn your credit back.
For tonight's homework, study your alphabet and your new vocabulary. I encourage you all to make flashcards which will help your handwriting and memory. Study the main words, not really the whole phrases. Also, continue to practice with your phonetics packet - we'll have more phonics work on Thursday.
English II
I've updated PowerSchool to reflect missing assignments including the vocabulary work. If you want to, please turn in your work tomorrow to me or Ms. Ginocchio and we'll fix the grade as soon as we can. Remember that missing work must be turned in by Friday to be eligible for full credit.
For tonight you will be writing your first of three personal reflections to a text - remember that you will keep this until the end of our unit on Russian literature when it will be collected for a full quiz grade. For tonight, you will reflect on Chekhov's "A Problem" - your prompt is:
Do you agree with Sasha's final thought at the end of the story that he is "indeed a criminal" or not? Why do you agree or disagree? Use one clear example from the story to support your opinion.
Remember to follow your rules for good paragraph writing and build complexity by talking about a story.
Friday, September 4, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students: Weekend Edition - 9/4/2015
AP English III
This weekend for homework you have a few things to read and consider as we start moving to the end of Kozol and into The Grapes of Wrath. I would like for you to read "On Compassion" by B.L. Ascher which is in 50 Essays or at this link. Read and annotate the piece closely: pay attention to her argument and the way in which she proves the argument to us as an audience. How does she appeal to ethos, pathos, and logos?
In addition, read over chapter twelve in Kozol as well as his Epilogue. For the Epilogue, look at it only as a conclusion - go to your notes on a conclusion and notice how he does what he needs to do over the course of several pages.
You'll be getting your outlines back next class - be ready to start revising!
English II
Your homework for this weekend is the same as the A-day students below. Using your vocabulary bookmark select five words from our study so far and use them to write a short story (about 100 words) about someone borrowing money from another person. Try to include some conflict in the story because that always happens when people borrow money. When you turn in your story you will also turn in your vocabulary bookmark to get full credit!
This weekend for homework you have a few things to read and consider as we start moving to the end of Kozol and into The Grapes of Wrath. I would like for you to read "On Compassion" by B.L. Ascher which is in 50 Essays or at this link. Read and annotate the piece closely: pay attention to her argument and the way in which she proves the argument to us as an audience. How does she appeal to ethos, pathos, and logos?
In addition, read over chapter twelve in Kozol as well as his Epilogue. For the Epilogue, look at it only as a conclusion - go to your notes on a conclusion and notice how he does what he needs to do over the course of several pages.
You'll be getting your outlines back next class - be ready to start revising!
English II
Your homework for this weekend is the same as the A-day students below. Using your vocabulary bookmark select five words from our study so far and use them to write a short story (about 100 words) about someone borrowing money from another person. Try to include some conflict in the story because that always happens when people borrow money. When you turn in your story you will also turn in your vocabulary bookmark to get full credit!
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Homework for A Day Students: 9/3/2015 - Weekend Edition
I won't see all of you until I'm thirty-one! Thankfully that happens on Saturday, so we won't have to wait too long. Here are your reminders for the weekend:
Russian II/III
Continue to work on the grammar exercises to help you review genitive, accusative, and prepositional case. A lot of you were making some breakthroughs today in terms of case construction and knowledge, keep practicing and learning. In addition, go back to your paragraphs - apply the dative case and continue to edit and develop. I will be collecting finalized versions for cases soon!
Russian I
I want you to make sure that your handwriting packets are complete this weekend so that you can completely study the alphabet. After today's class we've done all the letters, and now we're starting to get at phonetics too. Continue to write, read, and practice. We'll be doing all of that next weekend.
For my Russian language students - here's a fun song that you can listen to this weekend just for the heck of it.
English II
We've started studying Chekhov and will continue that work next week. For the weekend, I want you to write using your vocabulary. Construct a short story using FIVE vocabulary words from your bookmarks. The story should be about someone borrowing money from another person. Don't write more than a paragraph or two - I want the stories short. Include some conflict - that always happens when people borrow money.
When you turn in the story you will also turn in your vocabulary bookmarks - so make sure that all the words on them are defined.
Russian II/III
Continue to work on the grammar exercises to help you review genitive, accusative, and prepositional case. A lot of you were making some breakthroughs today in terms of case construction and knowledge, keep practicing and learning. In addition, go back to your paragraphs - apply the dative case and continue to edit and develop. I will be collecting finalized versions for cases soon!
Russian I
I want you to make sure that your handwriting packets are complete this weekend so that you can completely study the alphabet. After today's class we've done all the letters, and now we're starting to get at phonetics too. Continue to write, read, and practice. We'll be doing all of that next weekend.
For my Russian language students - here's a fun song that you can listen to this weekend just for the heck of it.
English II
We've started studying Chekhov and will continue that work next week. For the weekend, I want you to write using your vocabulary. Construct a short story using FIVE vocabulary words from your bookmarks. The story should be about someone borrowing money from another person. Don't write more than a paragraph or two - I want the stories short. Include some conflict - that always happens when people borrow money.
When you turn in the story you will also turn in your vocabulary bookmarks - so make sure that all the words on them are defined.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students: 2 September 2015
AP English III
Tonight for your homework you have two key things to accomplish. First, continue to revise and edit your outlines and especially pay attention to the refutation. Most of you left this out of your original outlines and as we discussed today, it is necessary. Find a place to include this and start to develop it.
In addition, complete your rereading and annotation of chapters eight and ten from Kozol. Continue to notice the way in which he is building and developing his argument as the text proceeds.
English II
If you didn't finish your tone analysis work, make sure to turn that in at the beginning of next class!
Tonight for your homework you have two key things to accomplish. First, continue to revise and edit your outlines and especially pay attention to the refutation. Most of you left this out of your original outlines and as we discussed today, it is necessary. Find a place to include this and start to develop it.
In addition, complete your rereading and annotation of chapters eight and ten from Kozol. Continue to notice the way in which he is building and developing his argument as the text proceeds.
English II
If you didn't finish your tone analysis work, make sure to turn that in at the beginning of next class!
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Homework for A-Day: 9/1/2015
Russian II/III
The exercises tonight for homework are intended to be used so that you will memorize your case endings for the accusative and genitive cases. Practice and then practice some more. Here are the exercises you should study and complete:
For Accusative case - pages 82-85.
Russian II and III: Exercise 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37.
Russian III: Exercise 25 and 26.
For Genitive case - pages 122-123.
Russian II and III: Exercise 15, 16, 17, 29, 21, 24.
I'll have your written work to you returned soon.
Russian I
Please complete the additional handwriting work tonight to finish your study of the letters. Only focus on the handwriting exercises. Do not worry about translating words that you don't know. I'll collect all of your handwriting work on Thursday.
English II
If you did not complete your tone analysis and imagery from the Pushkin poem, make sure to finish that tonight and turn it in on Thursday. Also, if you were a late addition to the class you need to complete your paragraphs and turn them in on Thursday too.
The exercises tonight for homework are intended to be used so that you will memorize your case endings for the accusative and genitive cases. Practice and then practice some more. Here are the exercises you should study and complete:
For Accusative case - pages 82-85.
Russian II and III: Exercise 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37.
Russian III: Exercise 25 and 26.
For Genitive case - pages 122-123.
Russian II and III: Exercise 15, 16, 17, 29, 21, 24.
I'll have your written work to you returned soon.
Russian I
Please complete the additional handwriting work tonight to finish your study of the letters. Only focus on the handwriting exercises. Do not worry about translating words that you don't know. I'll collect all of your handwriting work on Thursday.
English II
If you did not complete your tone analysis and imagery from the Pushkin poem, make sure to finish that tonight and turn it in on Thursday. Also, if you were a late addition to the class you need to complete your paragraphs and turn them in on Thursday too.
Monday, August 31, 2015
Homework for B-Day Students - 31 August 2015
Happy Monday Everyone! We're back in the swing of things, and I'm especially excited about this week because it ends with my birthday! Here are your reminders for tonight to move you into Wednesday.
AP English III
Tonight you should all be working on two tasks which will move us forward into Wednesday. First, I want all of you to start to do the heavy lifting and work to revise your outlines - especially the thesis/argument statements since we focused on that today. Take a moment to look at what you have written: Most of you have given me only the defensible point that you are trying to make. Remember that this is only one part of the necessary argument structure. Follow the way we created Kozol's argument today and use that as a model to help you rework yours. Once this is done, the rest of the process will begin to fall into place.
In addition, reread and annotate chapters four and six of Kozol. Remember to apply what we are doing in class to your reexamination of the text. This is crucial as you begin to open your approach to reading texts such as these.
English II
There is no homework that you have to complete to turn in tonight unless, of course, you forgot to turn in the final draft of your paragraphs. Since some students have been added to the class late I'm giving everyone an additional day with no penalty to turn in these assignments. Make sure to submit both your first and second draft of the work to get full credit. See me or Ms. Ginocchio if you have any questions or need help.
AP English III
Tonight you should all be working on two tasks which will move us forward into Wednesday. First, I want all of you to start to do the heavy lifting and work to revise your outlines - especially the thesis/argument statements since we focused on that today. Take a moment to look at what you have written: Most of you have given me only the defensible point that you are trying to make. Remember that this is only one part of the necessary argument structure. Follow the way we created Kozol's argument today and use that as a model to help you rework yours. Once this is done, the rest of the process will begin to fall into place.
In addition, reread and annotate chapters four and six of Kozol. Remember to apply what we are doing in class to your reexamination of the text. This is crucial as you begin to open your approach to reading texts such as these.
English II
There is no homework that you have to complete to turn in tonight unless, of course, you forgot to turn in the final draft of your paragraphs. Since some students have been added to the class late I'm giving everyone an additional day with no penalty to turn in these assignments. Make sure to submit both your first and second draft of the work to get full credit. See me or Ms. Ginocchio if you have any questions or need help.
Friday, August 28, 2015
Homework for the Weekend - 8/28/2015
Russian II/III
This weekend you have to complete some writing to turn in to me. Take your paragraphs and begin to write in Russian. At any point when you are using nominative, accusative, or genitive case I want you to write that in Russian. All other case instances or verbs should be written in English. At the bottom of you work, do a verb analysis. Russian II - You only need to tell me the tense of the verb. Russian III - Tell me the tense, aspect, and if it is a verb of motion, the directionality of the verb. In addition, practice your singing! Here's a video to go along with our song about passionate, dark, gypsy eyes! Enjoy Fillip Kirkorov - he's a bit like a Russian Liberace.
Russian I
This weekend you should master the first three groups of Russian letters as well as the handwriting that goes with these. Make sure that your packet is complete, for all the letters we have reviewed. I will check these on Tuesday!
English II
You have no official homework this weekend; however, some of you need to complete your travel paragraphs and everyone needs to study their Russian literature notes. Make sure that you are practicing and reviewing every night so that you remember everything really well.
This weekend you have to complete some writing to turn in to me. Take your paragraphs and begin to write in Russian. At any point when you are using nominative, accusative, or genitive case I want you to write that in Russian. All other case instances or verbs should be written in English. At the bottom of you work, do a verb analysis. Russian II - You only need to tell me the tense of the verb. Russian III - Tell me the tense, aspect, and if it is a verb of motion, the directionality of the verb. In addition, practice your singing! Here's a video to go along with our song about passionate, dark, gypsy eyes! Enjoy Fillip Kirkorov - he's a bit like a Russian Liberace.
Russian I
This weekend you should master the first three groups of Russian letters as well as the handwriting that goes with these. Make sure that your packet is complete, for all the letters we have reviewed. I will check these on Tuesday!
English II
You have no official homework this weekend; however, some of you need to complete your travel paragraphs and everyone needs to study their Russian literature notes. Make sure that you are practicing and reviewing every night so that you remember everything really well.
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Homework for the Weekend - B Day Students - 8/27/2015
I won't be seeing you all again until Monday, so here is what you need to accomplish leading up to then.
AP English III
Over the weekend I want you all to go back to Kozol and re-investigate him given what we discussed today about rhetoric and argumentation. Reread and annotate the introduction and chapter two of Shame of the Nation. I would suggest using a different color of ink to the one you looked at originally - that way both you and I will see how you have updated your approach to the text. Approach this the way we did Alexie today - How is Kozol manipulating the relationship between the topic/audience/himself? How do the rhetorical appeals impact his work and your understanding of it?
English II
This weekend you need to complete your final draft of your travel paragraph. You'll turn it in to me on Monday for your first grades of the course. Make sure that you also turn in your rough draft with the peer editing notes so that I can give you credit for that part of the assignment.
AP English III
Over the weekend I want you all to go back to Kozol and re-investigate him given what we discussed today about rhetoric and argumentation. Reread and annotate the introduction and chapter two of Shame of the Nation. I would suggest using a different color of ink to the one you looked at originally - that way both you and I will see how you have updated your approach to the text. Approach this the way we did Alexie today - How is Kozol manipulating the relationship between the topic/audience/himself? How do the rhetorical appeals impact his work and your understanding of it?
English II
This weekend you need to complete your final draft of your travel paragraph. You'll turn it in to me on Monday for your first grades of the course. Make sure that you also turn in your rough draft with the peer editing notes so that I can give you credit for that part of the assignment.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Homework for A-Day Students: 8/26/2015
Russian II/III
Tonight, continue to work on your written paragraphs. By the end of it, all of your paragraphs will contain all six cases - as you are writing, continue to develop your work so that all six cases are in the paragraph. In addition, use this time to find translations of needed words. Remember that if your paragraph involves motion/travel, you may want to talk to me about what verb to use. Tonight you should be able to complete all the work in nominative and accusative case.
Russian I
Today we went over the second set of letters and I gave you a packet for practice which contains these letters and several others. Please only do the letters and exercises which we have covered today. You will finish the packet on Friday once we've finished all of the letters in the packet. Remember to write the letters/words/sounds multiple times and to say the letter/sound/word each time you write it!
English II
For Friday I need the final draft of your travel paragraph. Remember that when you turn in your final draft I will also need the draft you worked through today in class from peer editing. If you would like for me or Ms. Ginocchio to look over your work, please see us outside of class before Friday.
Tonight, continue to work on your written paragraphs. By the end of it, all of your paragraphs will contain all six cases - as you are writing, continue to develop your work so that all six cases are in the paragraph. In addition, use this time to find translations of needed words. Remember that if your paragraph involves motion/travel, you may want to talk to me about what verb to use. Tonight you should be able to complete all the work in nominative and accusative case.
Russian I
Today we went over the second set of letters and I gave you a packet for practice which contains these letters and several others. Please only do the letters and exercises which we have covered today. You will finish the packet on Friday once we've finished all of the letters in the packet. Remember to write the letters/words/sounds multiple times and to say the letter/sound/word each time you write it!
English II
For Friday I need the final draft of your travel paragraph. Remember that when you turn in your final draft I will also need the draft you worked through today in class from peer editing. If you would like for me or Ms. Ginocchio to look over your work, please see us outside of class before Friday.
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Homework and Announcements for 8/25/2015 - B Day Students
And now I've met all of you and I can say that this year is going to be really wonderful. I'm really excited to see how you all are approaching the course and your new year at Jordan. Here's what you need to take care of for tonight:
AP English III
The parent information and contact sheet is located two posts down. Make sure that if you fill out the sheet online then you bring back the paper version with the first line filled out and the word "ONLINE" at the top. Then I'll know where to find the information.
In addition, I want you to finish reading the Alexie piece we started in class. Make sure to read and annotate - follow the same ideas we began discussing today in class. At the end, please answer question number two. Make sure to write a thorough response to this question as we will spend time working through the idea in our seminar on Thursday. The question is:
In paragraph 7, Alexie repeats a certain verb fourteen times. What is this verb, and what effect does this repetition have? What might Alexie be trying to say about the process of his coming to literacy, in terms of both the effort required and the height of the obstacles encountered (or, given the metaphor introduced in paragraph 4, the thickness of the doors that must be broken through)?
The whole Alexie piece and the question can be found at this link.
You should be able to turn in your response if I were to ask for it. Make sure to also bring in your copy of Shame of the Nation next class.
English II
The homework for the A-day class is the same as your homework tonight. Please complete the parent information sheet either on paper or using the online form below. Remember to turn in the paper form, even if you complete the form online. After this, complete the rough draft of your travel paragraph. Remember that your paragraph needs all four parts to be complete. Have your paragraphs with you next class so that we can complete our peer editing!
AP English III
The parent information and contact sheet is located two posts down. Make sure that if you fill out the sheet online then you bring back the paper version with the first line filled out and the word "ONLINE" at the top. Then I'll know where to find the information.
In addition, I want you to finish reading the Alexie piece we started in class. Make sure to read and annotate - follow the same ideas we began discussing today in class. At the end, please answer question number two. Make sure to write a thorough response to this question as we will spend time working through the idea in our seminar on Thursday. The question is:
In paragraph 7, Alexie repeats a certain verb fourteen times. What is this verb, and what effect does this repetition have? What might Alexie be trying to say about the process of his coming to literacy, in terms of both the effort required and the height of the obstacles encountered (or, given the metaphor introduced in paragraph 4, the thickness of the doors that must be broken through)?
The whole Alexie piece and the question can be found at this link.
You should be able to turn in your response if I were to ask for it. Make sure to also bring in your copy of Shame of the Nation next class.
English II
The homework for the A-day class is the same as your homework tonight. Please complete the parent information sheet either on paper or using the online form below. Remember to turn in the paper form, even if you complete the form online. After this, complete the rough draft of your travel paragraph. Remember that your paragraph needs all four parts to be complete. Have your paragraphs with you next class so that we can complete our peer editing!
Monday, August 24, 2015
Homework and Announcements for 8/24/2015
Happy First Day of Class! It was really great to meet a bunch of new students as well as reacquainting myself with my старики in Russian II/III. Here are your reminders for tonight's homework - all classes have something to prepare for our next meeting on Wednesday.
Russian II/III:
Tonight you don't have to do much work in Russian - most of your work will be in English. For tonight write your paragraph in English and then mark the words in a highlighter which will need to be in the NOMINATIVE case when you translate into Russian. Tonight just focus on nominative case. If there is vocabulary you need for your paragraph you can also look up words.
II: Tell me about one thing that you do today. (Only writing in present tense)
III: Tell me about one thing that you did this summer. (Mixture of past and present tense)
Russian I:
Tonight you will need to start learning the first six letters of the Russian alphabet - remember these are not the first six in order, just the easy six. Using your own paper, write the words from the homework sheet at least five times. Practice making your letters. Say the words aloud as you write them. Write this on your own paper so that you can practice making your words nice and neat. We'll begin by reviewing this next class.
English II:
Tonight your homework is to complete two things! One - Fill out the parent information sheet either on paper or online (link below). Two - Complete the first draft of your travel paragraph. Make sure that you have all four parts to ensure a complete response! We will work through these a bit more on Wednesday, when we do some peer editing.
Russian II/III:
Tonight you don't have to do much work in Russian - most of your work will be in English. For tonight write your paragraph in English and then mark the words in a highlighter which will need to be in the NOMINATIVE case when you translate into Russian. Tonight just focus on nominative case. If there is vocabulary you need for your paragraph you can also look up words.
II: Tell me about one thing that you do today. (Only writing in present tense)
III: Tell me about one thing that you did this summer. (Mixture of past and present tense)
Russian I:
Tonight you will need to start learning the first six letters of the Russian alphabet - remember these are not the first six in order, just the easy six. Using your own paper, write the words from the homework sheet at least five times. Practice making your letters. Say the words aloud as you write them. Write this on your own paper so that you can practice making your words nice and neat. We'll begin by reviewing this next class.
English II:
Tonight your homework is to complete two things! One - Fill out the parent information sheet either on paper or online (link below). Two - Complete the first draft of your travel paragraph. Make sure that you have all four parts to ensure a complete response! We will work through these a bit more on Wednesday, when we do some peer editing.
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Online Parent/Student Contact Form - 2014/2015
Dear Parents and Students - Please find below a link to the online parent/student information sheet. If you would rather submit your information electronically, complete the form at the link below. If not, please return the paper form to me.
Parent Information Sheet
Parent Information Sheet
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