Monday - We reviewed Vocab. 6 exercises today and began the intro. to Critical Reading with the video and practice questions. HW: Vocab. 6 quiz
Tuesday - LAB - finish sentence completion and begin passage based reading. Vocab. 6 quiz.
Weds. - Continue passage based reading practice, sentence completion, begin vocab. 7.
Thursday - Vocab. 7, intro. to packet on author's purpose, etc.
Friday - Vocab. video, practice for passage based reading.
Monday - Voc. 5 quiz. Continue with packets for Improving paragraphs.
Tuesday - Continue working with improving paragraphs and introduction to Sentence Completion.
Weds. - Receive Vocab. 6 words and work on vocab., improv. paragraphs, sent. completion
Thursday - lab for improving paragraphs, review for improv. paragraphs quiz, vocab.
Friday - improving paragraphs quiz, vocab. 6, sentence completion.
Monday - Vocab. 3 quiz and review for Identifying Sentence Errors quiz on Weds.
Tuesday - no school.
Weds. - Identifying Sent. Errors quiz, begin Improving sentences packet and Vocab. 4
Thursday - work on vocab. 4, lab - improving sentences, continue with grammar for Imp. sent.
Friday -
Monday - Vocab. 2 quiz, continue work with grammar and read in blue books pages 108-118 working on exercises.
Tuesday - Vote in mock election, go to lab to type essay from Friday, continue with grammar and essay work from Monday. DO NOT FORGET FOOD/ITEMS FOR BREAKFAST ON WEDS.
Weds. - SAT breakfast - a good strategy for the test is to eat a good breakfast the morning of the test. Vocab. 3, continue with grammar - pronoun agreement.
Thursday - Review vocab. 3 for quiz and grammar packet.
Friday - I will be out today and am expecting a good report!! You will continue with grammar practice, Vocab. video and a writing activity.
Research Essential Question: How can using information from primary and secondary sources (using Cobb Virtual Library) help me produce writing of appropriate organizational structure with a coherent focus? (ELA12W1, W2, W3, W4)
Vocab and Daily Grammar Practice essential question: How can demonstrating correct usage of grammar and vocabulary help you improve your writing? (ELA12C1, C2)
Monday - Turn in Works Cited page and outline. Begin Vocab. 9. Notes on Intro. and Conclusion paragraphs. Notes on Renaissance. Read pages 222-232 in textbook.
Tuesday - Vocab. 9, notes on incorporating quotes and citations. Continue notes on Renaissance, Shakespeare and Macbeth.
Weds. - Vocab. 9, sample research papers, last day for questions!!! Notes on Macbeth. Begin play if time permits.
Thursday - Vocab. 9, Senior play in theater, Macbeth.
FRIDAY - FIRST DRAFTS DUE - no lates, no absences, NO EXCUSES!!
Vocab. 9 quiz, Macbeth.
Monday - Vocab. 1 quiz, notebook check, work with Subj./verb agreement errors.
Tuesday - Essay grading, words for vocab. 2, continue with Identifying Sentence Errors.
Weds. - Vocab. 2, Identifying Sentence Errors, vocab. video
Thursday - LAB - identifying sentence errors, grammar book
Friday - Grammar, review vocab. 2
Welcome to SAT Prep! I'm excited to get to know you and help you practice and prepare for the SAT. Be sure that you get your notebook set up by Monday, October 20th. Divider information is in your syllabus. Have last sheet of syllabus signed and returned. Note that the following agenda may change as needed.
Monday - Intro., class policies, diagnostic test #1.
Tuesday - Begin get to know you activity. Vocab. 1 words, diagnostic test #2
Wednesday - PSAT TESTING/Early Release. No classes meet.
Thursday - continue with vocab. 1, continue introductions, writing sample, ident. sent. errors if time permits.
Friday - continue with sentence errors, finish vocab. 1, diagnostic test #3.
FOR MONDAY: Notebook check and vocab. 1 quiz. Turn in signed syllabus!
Monday - Work on vocab. 7 and passage-based reading. Plan breakfast which is Weds.
Tuesday - Lab, packet on passage-based reading.
Weds. - Breakfast, review for packet, review vocab., post tests
Thursday - Vocab. 1-7 test and continue with post tests
Friday - FINAL EXAMBe sure to bring your bathroom passes.
I've really enjoyed these last 9 weeks and hope that you have learned all you need to be successful on the English portion of the SAT. On Monday, Oct. 14th you will report to Room 414 for your Math class. Good Luck!!
Monday - Testing
Tuesday - 2nd period is after testing.
We will continue to work with vocabulary 6, Completing the Sentence practice. If a lab is available, we will try and print off Improving Paragraphs analyses. If not, please work on this at home.
Wednesday - I will be at a vertical team meeting. You will watch a video on critical reading and practice passage based reading.
Thursday - Essay # 4, Sentence completion and passage based reading.
Friday - Vocab. 6 quiz and lab.
FINAL EXAM IS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10th.
Monday - Work on Vocab. 5 in its entirety, continue with improving paragraphs.
Tuesday - lab to finish improving paragraph quizzes, review vocab. 5 for quiz on Thurs., review for GHSGWT.
Weds. - no class as you will be in homeroom taking the GHSGWT.
Thursday - Review improving paragraphs and take practice quiz, vocab. video. Quiz on Friday over improving paragraphs AND Vocab. 5 quiz on Friday,
Friday - Improving paragraphs quiz, vocab. 5 quiz, intro. to sentence completion (reading portion).
Monday - Improving sentences quiz. Work on vocab. 4 (quiz on Weds.). Intro. to Improving Paragraphs.
Tuesday (Early Release) - Vocab. 4 and improving paragraphs
Weds. - Vocab. 4 quiz, improving paragraphs.
Thursday - Field trip to College and Career Center
Friday - Field trip to College and Career Center
Monday - Essay #3, work on Vocab. 3 for quiz on Weds., complete packet for errors in improving sentences.
Tuesday - Review vocab. 3 for quiz, review common mistakes packet, work on grammar in yellow book, Lesson 3 in vocab. video.
Weds. - Vocab. 3 quiz, continue with grammar for improving sentences.
Thursday - Lab to type and submit essay #3. Receive Vocab. 4 words. Complete grammar and turn in for completion grade. Practice quiz for improving sentences. Quiz on Monday!
Friday - pep rally - shortened class. Work on Vocab. 4, review grammar for improving sentences quiz on Monday.
Monday - Labor Day!
Tuesday - Identifying Sentence Errors quiz, journal, read in blue book. HW: Study for vocab. 2 quiz.
Weds. - Vocab. 2 quiz, Improving sentences grammar and common mistakes, review essays
Thursday - Lab - improving sentences quizzes, new vocab. 3, critical reading.
Friday - Vocab. video, work on vocab. 3, continue with grammar for improving sentences.
Open House for juniors is Thursday, Aug. 28th.
Monday - Work on vocab. 2, complete packet of common errors, and work on grammar in yellow book. If time permits, we will grade the essay from last week.
Tuesday - more time in the lab to work on practice quizzes for identifying sentence errors. Finish grammar. Don't forget to bring items for breakfast on Weds.
Weds. - breakfast! A good breakfast is a must on the morning of the SAT! We will work with more vocabulary today.
Thursday - review for identifying sentence errors, Lab to work on analysis, go over grammar in yellow book.
Friday - continue to review for quiz on Tuesday over identifying sentence errors.
Please try and find your PSAT report from last year!
Monday - Analyze your essay plus 2 of your peers using the chart on page 105. Read/outline Ch. 10 in SAT book. Notebook check today. Vocab. quiz 1 on Weds.
Tuesday - I will be out today; please behave for the sub!! Vocab. 1 activity, continue working on Ch. 10 and on common mistakes packet. Journal #1 - write and place in your notebook. You must write a page.
Weds. Vocab. 1 quiz, review Identifying sentence errors and work on grammar practice in yellow book.
Thursday - lab, Vocab. 2 packet, continue with grammar practice from yellow book.
Friday - Vocab. 2, write 2nd essay, practice identifying sentence errors - expect a quiz on Tuesday!
Welcome to SAT Prep! I'm excited to get to know you and help you practice and prepare for the SAT. Be sure that you get your notebook set up by Monday, August 18th. Divider information is in your syllabus. Have last sheet of syllabus signed and returned. Note that the following agenda may change as needed.
Monday - Intro., class policies, journal - writing sample.
Tuesday - Take 2 diagnostic tests from the critical reading section. Grade one.
Wednesday - Take 3rd diagnostic test, intro. to vocab., get to know you activity.
Thursday - continue with vocab., introduce the SAT test format, begin working with identifying sentence errors.
Friday - continue with sentence errors, 1st essay.
Monday - Typed essay is due in class. Journal #7, silent reading, practice??
Final exam is on Thursday. You should review your book and packets on strategies and the types of questions that appear on the English portion of the test.
Monday - Finish assignments from Thursday and Friday. Complete more practice in blue book.
Tuesday - Write 4th and last essay to be typed in the lab on Wednesday. Journal #6
HW: Students are to get a book to read in class. They will receive a participation grade for reading. It may be any book that is on their level - possibly even summer reading for next year. It may NOT be a book they are currently reading for a class.
Wednesday - Lab - HW: Study for vocab. quiz
Thursday - Vocab. quiz. Time to read.
Monday - discuss Saturday's test. Journal #4 - turn in journals 1-4. Continue practice with Improving paragraphs. No vocab. this week!!
Tuesday -Finish practice for long passage - pg. 79. Vocab. activity in groups. Present tomorrow.
Wednesday - Present vocab. stories, work on sentence errors.
NOTE: I am out on Thursday and Friday, and I expect all classes to respect the sub and complete assignments.
Thursday - Begin working on Journal #5. Then, students will attend an orientation/activity in the College and Career Center. Complete reflection and turn in (by Friday).
Friday - Receive and work on vocab. packet for Units 16-18 (quiz on 5/15). Work on 2 practice tests with sentence completion. Look up 10 vocab. words from both practice tests. Turn in.
Monday - Improving paragraphs practice, Lab - take 3 quizzes, vocab. 13-15 and pg. 29 - intro. to Critical Reading/sentence completion.
Tuesday - Sentence completion, review for quiz over improving sentences and paragraphs(Weds.) Read pages 34-36 and work sample questions on pgs. 37-38. Watch critical reading video.
Wednesday - quiz - improving sentences/paragraphs, review vocabulary, practice passage based reading and sentence completion.
Thursday - Vocab. 13-15 quiz, review short passage based reading from Weds., look up 10 words from practice sentence completion and write definition - turn in. Practice long passage reading.
Friday - Timed practice test for SAT!
Please get a good night's sleep and eat a hearty breakfast before the test!
Monday - Work with 2nd packet for improving sentences, Journal #3, work in lab to try and finish Imp. Sent. quizzes.
Tuesday - Grammar practice, improving sentences practice. Intro. to improving paragraphs.
Wednesday - Lab to type essay #3 and finish improving sentences quiz. Review vocab. for quiz.
Thursday - Vocab. 10-12 quiz, grammar pg. 63&64, blue book - pg. 171. Improving Pargraphs packet.
Friday - Breakfast! One of the strategies for test day!! Continue with improving paragraphs activities and receive vocab. 13-15 packet.
SAT test is next Saturday, May 3rd.
Monday - work on vocab. 7-9. Intro. to improving sentences - pg. 153-158, work on parallelism. Receive 2nd packet on common mistakes for identifying sentence errors.
Tuesday - journal #2, continue with identifying sentence error review and improving sentences introduction, continue with grammar review for identifying sentence errors.
Weds. - assignment due - analysis of 3 online quizzes over identifying sentence errors. Review vocab. 7-9 for quiz on Thursday. Lab=improving sentences.
Thursday - Vocab. 7-9 quiz. Improving sentences practice AND review for identifying sentence errors for quiz on Friday.
Friday - identifying sentence errors quiz. Write 3rd essay.
Monday - Continue with packet of common mistakes for Identifying Sentence Errors, Vocab. 4-6, intro. to reading journals.
Tuesday - write 2nd essay, practice grammar of identifying sentence errors, vocab. 4-6 - quiz tomorrow.
Weds. - vocab. 4-6 quiz, lab to type and submit essay, take 2nd quiz of sentence errors online.
This week you will be testing - GHSGT! Bell schedules are adjusted. You will only meet with me on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Tuesday- Vocab. 1-3 quiz, continue with essay information. Continue with common mistakes packet.
Thursday - Receive vocab. 4-6, continue practicing with Identifying sentence errors. We might go to the lab if time permits.
Friday - Work on vocab. 4-6. Continue with identifying sentence errors and perhaps essays if time permits.
We will be back to regular schedule and bells on Friday.
Monday - Welcome to the new group coming from Math! I look forward to getting to know you. Today, we filled out the standard paperwork, looked at the syllabus noting that you must set up a notebook with 6 dividers. In addition, we took 2 diagnostic tests to "experience" the English portion of the SAT.
Tuesday - Receive Vocab. 1-3 - quiz is March 25th, take 3rd diagnostic test, Intro. to Identifying Sentence Errors, pg. 137 - 141.
Wednesday - Work on vocab, nametags, review pages 140-141 and complete practice questions on page 145 and 150. Write 1st practice (benchmark) essay.
Thursday - Receive packet on common mistakes for identifying sentence errors, continue work on vocab. 1-3, take next diagnostic test, continue work on nametags.
Friday - Present nametags, continue highlighting common mistakes, info. on essay requirement. Grade essays according to college board requirements.
Monday - Vocab. 16-18 quiz, reading journal #8, continue with practice test. HW: Choose 1 of the essays we wrote in class to polish up and type. DUE in class Tuesday.
Tuesday - Essays due in class. Continue with practice test and begin review for final.
Wednesday - Journals 5-8 are due today. Finish practice test and review for final.
Thursday- Review for final
Friday - English final exam.
I will really miss this great group of kids and hope that you find greater success when you take the SAT. Please let me know in May how you do!
Monday - Begin Vocab. 16-18 - last unit. Read and highlight introduction packet on critical reading. Complete sentence completion practice.
Tuesday - EARLY RELEASE - Intro. to passage reading. Practice. pgs. 49-61 complete all practice questions.
Wednesday - Write last essay and submit if time permits.
Thursday - Review vocabulary for quiz on Monday, continue with passage based reading practice.
Friday - Take a timed practice test.
Students should begin gathering their packets and information in preparation for next Friday's final exam.
Monday - QUIZ over improving sentences/improving paragraphs. Students will use review sheet on quiz. Read pages 119-135 in SAT book. Review vocab. for Thursday's quiz.
Tuesday - College and Career Center - we will meet in the CCC to review requirements for different colleges.
Wednesday - LAB - Write 3rd essay and then submit in lab.
Thursday - Vocab. quiz - 13-15, video on Critical Reading strategies, notes on Completing Sentence questions - Read pg. 29-36 in book.
Friday - Continue with critical reading exercises. Reading Journal #7. New vocab. packets - Chapters 16-18.
Monday and Tuesday - student holidays!
Weds. - Receive Vocab. 10-12 packets. Lab - work on Practice Test 2, section 3. Begin reviewing for quiz over improving sentences and improving paragraphs. Quiz is Friday.
Thursday - Practice essay - 25 minutes. Reading journal. Review for quiz over improving sentences and paragraphs.
Friday - quiz over improving sentences and reviewing paragraphs. Vocab. 10-12 - quiz Tues., 2/27. Watch video on Critical Reading skills.
Monday - Work on Vocab. 10-12 - vocab. quiz moved to Thursday. Continue with improving paragraph practice. Begin daily challenge - turned in at end of semester for a grade.
Tuesday - Intro. to the essay portion of the test. Look at the grading scale, hints for success, and begin one practice prompt.
Weds. - lab - practice test on writing section (except essay).
Thursday - Vocab. 10-12, trade essays from Tuesday and score. Read outstanding essays packet and evaluate essays - turn in for a grade. Read pages 119-135 in blue book.
Friday - Reading journal #5, discuss pages 119-135. Write 2nd practice essay.
Monday - Vocab. 7-9 quiz. Turn in Reading Journals 1-4 AND Improving Sentences lab analysis - both for a grade. Work on grammar exercises and introduce Improving Paragraphs.
Tuesday - Begin Vocab. 10-12 packet and Improving paragraphs common mistakes packet. Continue with grammar.
Wednesday - Early Release - Lab - improving paragraphs.
Thursday - Reading Journal #5, review for quiz over improving sentences.
Friday - Improving sentences quiz.
Monday - Review common mistakes and grammar workbook on sentence fragments/run-ons. Receive vocab. units 7-9. Continue working on common mistakes for improving sentences - misplaced modifiers, faulty parallelism and faulty coordination/subordination.
Tuesday - You will have a substitute today - please behave and do your work! Work on Vocabulary, reading journal, and 2nd common mistakes packet for improving sentences.
Wednesday - lab - work on improving sentences, review grammar on improving sentences. Continue working on Vocab. 7-9.
Thursday - Finish in lab. Assignment: Analyze all three improving sentences quizzes and write out next to wrong answers why or how it's wrong. This is due on Monday with the 6 total reports for these quizzes. Continue reviewing Vocab. 7-9 for quiz on Monday.
Friday - Journal 4 - 1-4 are due on Monday. Grammar workbook pages and intro. to improving paragraphs.
DUE MONDAY: Analysis on improving sentences, Journals 1-4 and Vocab. 7-9 quiz.
Monday - no school! Study for your Identifying Sentence Errors quiz.
Tuesday - quiz - Identifying sentence errors. Begin critical reading with journal. Vocab. 4-6. Begin reading improving sentences.
Weds. - Vocab. 4-6 review, improving sentences practice.
Thursday -Continue reviewing Vocab. 4-6 (quiz moved to Friday), improving sentences practice.
Friday -Vocab. 4-6 quiz, more critical reading with journal, continue with improving sentences and grammar practice - workbook pages 61-64.
Blog is updated mid-week as needed.
Monday - students will turn in S/V homework and continue working with Correcting Sentence Errors. Students should be studying vocabulary, and we will continue with aspects of the multiple choice portion of the test.
Tuesday -Work with Common Mistakes 5-10, review vocab., take practice quiz and determine what type of error occurs in sentence. HW: Vocab. 1-3 quiz.
Wednesday - Vocab. 1-3 quiz, grammar packet on s/v, p/a, other errors, receive vocab. 4-6 packet.
Thursday - Lab if possible to practice SAT exercises, work on vocab., complete packet on common errors.
HW: Write out a summary page over identifying sentence errors: include strategies and an explanation of each type of error that we have worked with. Quiz is moved to Tuesday
Friday - go over common mistakes, review for quiz identifying sentence errors, work on Vocab. 4-6, lab again??, critical reading??
Welcome to SAT Prep. I have 15 eager students for the next nine weeks as we practice, practice and practice some more.
Tuesday - Syllabus, student info. sheets, Diagnostic Test "A"
Weds. - get books, receive vocab. packet units 1-3, review test from Tuesday, nametags
Thursday - finish nametags, presentations, discuss notebook, diagnostic test - writing
Friday - review and grade test from Thursday, work on vocab., begin common mistakes in sentence errors.