Turn in your three autobiographical essays after you've made all the necessary corrections.  Make sure that you print them in 12 point font, double spaced.

Be ready for your AR test on Walk Two Moons.

We will continue with final exam preparation.

Remember to find out when you can study over the weekend.  We can do brunch, lunch, or dinner.....Sunday or Monday or both.

Remember to check with your parents so you can tell me tomorrow!

Homework for the weekend:

You are revising and editing the essay that I returned to you.  Make sure that you can access the essay via Criterion or the comp lab.  This is the final version for a grade.  Pay careful attention to the corrections and the comments.

You were each assigned one of the mysterious messages left for the Winterbottoms.  Your assignment is to do the following:

     1.  Explain the message in your own words.
      2.  Explain what the meaning of the message is to you and how it applies to your life.
The later is to be done in a well written paragraph that introduces the message, explains it in your own words, and then develops the message's meaning for and to you.

You should be reading the final selection of Walk Two Moons.  You will take the AR test on Friday, May 28, 2010.

You will take the reading comprehension SAT on Monday and the language SAT on Tuesday.  Report directly to Mrs. Colavito's class.  She will have your test booklets and answer sheets.  Good Luck!

We will study for our final exam beginning on Thursday, May 27.  Can you come to a study session that afternoon?  When do you want to study over the weekend?  Let's make some decisions.

Homework will not be due until Monday because you will be taking an SAT tomorrow.

Finish reading the assigned pages in Walk Two Moons. You will have finished pages 70-141.  Please respond to the two worksheets you were given.  They are both due on Monday, May 17th.

You are to be working on revising one more essay.  You each have something to work on.

Think about your essay to Dr. Ichilov.  Think about how you will expand them from an opening paragraph to a complete essay.

Wordly Wise Test on lessons 19 and 20 on Monday, May 17, 2010.

You will be tested on 20/30 words.  You will need to know part of speech and a brief definition.  You will have a fill in the blank exercise that indicates you understand the words.

Monday will be a little of AMND and Criterion, with Mrs. Philips help.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Your homework is not due until Wednesday, May 12, 2010, but I would not wait until Tuesday night to get it done........

Wordly Wise Lesson 20, A, B, C, and D ......due Wednesday, 5-12-10

Walk Two Moons pages 70-139 due Friday, May 14, 2010

Wordly Wise test on Lessons 19 and 20.....Friday, May 14, 2010

Read Acts III and IV of A Midsummer's Night Dream (read the modern English version again).  Determine what is happening and to Whom.  Write a brief "plot" update for the following characters:

1.  Oberon
2.  Titania
3. Puck
4. Lysander
5. Hermia
6. Demetrius
7. Helena
8. Bottom
9.  The cast of Paramus and Thisbe

Work on your assigned questions from the pronoun/verb/paraphrase test.  Nicole does 1-5, Tayla does 6-10, and Zach does 11-15.

Do handout # 3, vocabulary in context.  Do 1-14.

Do English workshop pages 227 and 228.  On 228,  do not do exercise 10.

Review A Midsummer's Night Dream so the you can easily read the text.  Bring props to enhance your roles.

I will assign you the study questions for Walk Two Moons tomorrow.  The written responses to all 7 questions will be due on Friday, May 7th .  You may, of course, read ahead.  The next 70 pages will be due on May 14.  You will get that set of study questions when you return from your overnight class trip on Wednesday, May 12th.

Make sure that you continue to work on your autobiographical essays.  I will be checking them and making comments if they are on Criterion.  You will be entitled to at least one more revision before your final grade.

Read all of Act III of A Midsummer's Night Dream.  Be able to recall the details.

Make sure that you are reading Walk Two Moons.  You will be given a homework assignment tomorrow to complete by Friday when the first 69 pages were due.

We will check Wordly Wise # 19 tomorrow, and you will write sentences using AMND in context.


Enjoy your afternoon!

Wordly Wise Test on Lesson 18.  You will need to answer questions, know synonyms and antonyms, and be able to capitalize and punctuate sentences.

You will share your fortune teller questions and answers.

You will revise your most recent essay submission.

You should have started reading Walk Two Moons.  You must complete the first 70 pages by May 7, 2010.

I have tried to get on Criterion, but I can't.  I am sorry that I will need to give you written comments for your revisions.

1.  You are to rewrite your child of the Holocaust autobiography making sure that you weave your two research topics into your autobiography.  I am expecting at least two additional paragraphs to be added to your essay.  Do not forget to take the materials I am providing home.

2.  You are to work on corrections of the Squealer essay.I would like the revised version tomorrow.

3.  You are to finish your found poetry assignment.  Remember, two poems and two sets of illlustrations are required.

4.  You are to finish reading A Midsummer's Night Dream pages 20-77.  You may read the information on pages 8-14 as you will be created a fortune-teller's cube for homework.  Pick questions and answers that will fool your classmates.  You will need to find 8 questions and know their answers.

5.  Start reading Walk Two Moons.  You will meet the following reading deadlines:

by May 7, you will have read pages 1-69 (Chapters 1-11)

by May 14, you will have read pages 70-141 (Chapters 12-22)

by May 21, you will have read pages 142-216 (Chpaters 23-32)

by May 28, you will have read pages 217-280 (Chapters 33-44)

There will be four assessments and 1 AR test in order to earn full credit.

Make sure that you have finished reading Act I and Act II of A Midsummer's Night Dream.

You should be working on your two found poems and the background or illustrations you will display your poems on.  This assignment is due, Thursday, April 29, 2010.

Wordly Wise Lesson # 17 test tomorrow, Friday, April 23, 2010.

I will be at a conference from Monday to Wednesday.  Mrs. Philips is subbing.  You will be working on Wordly Wise Lesson # 18, end marks, and commas. Mrs. Philips will be assigning nightly homework as per my instructions.   You will have time to use Criterion to work on your poems and to correct your autobiographical diaries.  Please pay careful attention to the due date.  I will be expecting completed work on that date.  I will make sure that Mrs. Philips returns the papers to you. 
Your final AR selection will be Walk Two Moons.  I'll make sure that you get it ASAP.  You will be required to take your final AR test on that book on Friday, May 28, 2010.  That's the last Friday before  your final exam.  There will be a Sunday evening study session at my house on the Sunday right before your exam.  Be there!  Food and drinks are on me.

Present your first draft of the three autobiographical essays.

Wordly Wise # 17 C and D

Midsummer's Night Dream:  Read through the end of Act II.  Read the modern English side only at this point.