Thursday, December 16, 2010

Holiday Assignment

Complete Practice CST Exam
Check your answers and on separate sheets of paper
1.  Take notes on the topics you need us to review next semester.
2.   Explain why the answers are correct.

Remember practice SAT is on January 29th with corrections/review on February 4th at Will and Ariel Durant Library on 7140 Sunset Blvd.

Have a Happy Holiday and Best Wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Week 15


Day
Class Work
Homework
Monday
Read the Pit and the Pendulum and
Do Questions1-7 pp.265


Read the Pit and the Pendulum and
Do Questions1-7 pp.265

Declaration of Independence Exam Essay due to Turnitin.com

Tuesday

Do questions:
  1-9 pp. 250
Vocabulary to add to glossary
Propitious
Prevalent
Melancholy
Eminent
Parsimony
Ostentation
Perplexed
Resolute
Notorious
Impregnable

Study for Vocabulary Quiz

Wednesday
College Bowl

Folk tale
symbol
Mood setting
Imagery

Read The Raven
Thursday

G

Listen to Raven

Sound devices
Alliteration, repetition of consonant sounds
Assonance-repetition of similar vowel sounds
Onomatopoeia-the use of words whose sound suggest the natural sound of an object or activity
Repetition-the repeating of a word or phrase
Parallel construction-items in a sentence that are of equal importance should be expressed in parallel (or similar) forms.
Do questions 1-6 PP. 273
Friday


Author’s chair Reception P5

P6  Finish watching Crucible.
 Complete CST Packet for 1000 extra credit points
Completion means you explain why each answer is correct!  

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Week 14


Day
Class Work
Homework
Monday
Declaration of Independence
Pp.177-182



Vocabulary make index cards and add vocabulary words to your reader’s writer’s notebooks
Notebooks will be graded on Tuesday in class.
Tuesday

Declaration of Independence
Pp.111-182

Do questions 1-6 pp.182
Wednesday
Tone

Answer question on tone pp.182
Vocabulary Quiz Thursday
Unalienable, transient, usurpation, constrain, harass, abdicate, perfidy, barbarous, magnanimity, consanguinity
Thursday

G

Vocabulary Study

Vocabulary Quiz
Read The Devil and Tom Walker pp. 240
Friday


Do questions:
  1-9 pp. 250
Vocabulary to add to glossary
Propitious
Prevalent
Melancholy
Eminent
Parsimony
Ostentation
Perplexed
Resolute
Notorious
Impregnable

Read the Pit and the Pendulum and
Do Questions1-7 pp.265