Tuesday, October 21

Book Projects are due today!
Warmup: Review verbs with a partner: action and linking, helping verbs and transitive and intransitive verbs. Holt Handbook pages 44-53
Idioms
Verb Quiz
Word of the Day: deleterious (4/6), comprehensive (5)

Homework: Read Chapter 5 of The Outsiders. Answer the following questions with complete sentences: What did they do to their hair in Chapter 5 and why? Why is their hair so important to them?

Friday, October 17

Warmup: Holt Handbook page 69 A and B 1-15; do not write the whole sentence. Follow instructions in the book.

Review warmup

Hear Chapter 4 Outsiders summaries

Discuss Chapter 4

Discuss conflict

Review Verbs

Word of the Day: component (5), convergence (4,6)

Homework: Finish book projects. They are due on Tuesday!

Wednesday, October 15

Warmup
Review homework:  finish verbs - helping, transitive and intransitive
Outsiders Chapter 4
Word of the Day: compliment/;complement (5), conformist (4/6)

Homework: Write a summary of Chapter 4

Friday, October 10

Warmup: Roots biblio (book), bio (life), cent (100), chrono (time)
Vocabulary Quiz 3
Discuss chapter 3 and characterizations
Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives review
Word: compensate (5), condescending (4/6)
Start Verbs: action versus linking
Homework: verbs - Hole handbook page 49 exercise 4 1-10, Write the verb in the sentence and write whether it is action or linking.

Book Projects Due October 25

Wednesday, October 8

*Warmup: Adjectives
Share paragraphs
Discuss intros and conclusions
Direct and indirect characterization discussion, Outsiders
*Words of the Day: commence (5), collaborate (4/6)

*Homework: Read Chapter 3 in The Outsiders and write down (copy straight from the book)three examples of characterization in Chapter 3. Use three different characters. Tell who is being characterized in each example.( Periods 4 and 6: use examples of indirect characterization only.) Please put the page number where each passage or quote comes from.

*Study Vocabulary Words for Quiz!!!

*these items need to be made up if you are absent.

Vocabulary Words for quiz -

4/6
collaborate
circuitous
censure
camaraderie
benevolent

5
commence
coherent
cite/site
category
benefit

Monday, October 6

*Warmup: Roots ambi/amphi (both ways), anthro (man), aqua (water), aud/audit (hear)
Discuss Outsiders Chapter 2 in groups - finding evidence
Finish adjectives
*Word of the Day: coherent (5), circuitous (4/6)
*Homework: Write the paragraph "What I Would Do If I Won a Million Dollars"

• 6-12 sentences
• 3-line heading on left  after the margin line
• title centered on top line
• indent
• one paragraph only
• topic sentence
• details
• concluding sentence
• typed or in ink - hand in a final draft

Thursday, October 2

Agenda -

*Warmup- Brainstorm for new paragraph
Discuss Outsiders Chapter 1 and go over character sketches
Pronouns review
Begin Adjectives (page 36 exercises 7 and 8)
*Word of the Day: 4/6 - censure 5- site and cite

*Homework: Read The Outsiders Chapter 2. Write down any unfamiliar words and their page numbers. Think of and write down two adjectives to describe each of these main characters: Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Dally, Johnny, Cherry

* Means that these items need to be made-up if you are absent.

Tuesday, September 30

Pronoun Warmup
Stamp and review pronoun homework
Pronoun cases discussion
Word of the Day: 4/6 - camaraderie; 5- category
The Outsiders - hand out book, book cards, author bio, preliminary discussion
Discuss character sketches

Homework: Read chapter 1 of The Outsiders and (1) write a one-paragraph character sketch of anhy one of the main characters and (2) write down any words that are unfamiliar to you and their page number. You do not need to find the definition.

Friday, September 26

Warmup: Write a paragraph. Topic to be announced
Review instructions for reading project
Word of the day quiz (words listed under September 24 post)
New word of the day: 4,6: benevolent; 5 benefit
Begin pronouns

Homework:
5: Holt Handbook page 41-42. #6-15. Write the pronouns only.
4/6: Find an article in the newspaper, magazine, or internet, of at least three paragraphs. Find all the pronouns and identify the type of pronoun each one is.

Wednesday, September 24 - National Punctuation Day!

Agenda:

Warmup - paragraph writing
Prefix Bingo
Prefix Test on all prefixes 1-37
Begin pronouns

Homework: Study five vocabulary words for quiz on Friday. You need to know the spelling, definition, use in a sentence, part of speech, and the related words we wrote down in class.
4 and 6: anecdote, anonymous, antagonist, arid, assiduous
5: adequate, alternative, ambiguous, analyze, attribute

Monday, September 22

Prefix warmup: super, tele, trans, tri, un
Characterization discussion
Paartner classwork on story
Write in-class paragraph
Word of the Day: analyze (5),arid (4,6)

Homework: Study all 38 prefixes for test on Wednesday.

ALL LATE WORK MUST BE HANDED IN BY WEDNESDAY AT 2 P.M.
ALL QUIZZES MUST BE MADE UP ON MONDAY!!

PLEASE CHECK THE AERIES PORTAL FOR GRADES ON SUNDAY NIGHT; THEY SHOULD BE MOSTLY UP TO DATE THEN. SORRY FOR THE DELAY.

Thursday, September 18

Warmup: Prefixes pro, pseudo, quad, re, sub
Review nouns
Prefix Quiz 1-27
Word of the Day:
5: ambiguous
4/6: antagonist
Discuss paragraph and essay writing
Assign Reading Project #1

Homework : Read in Holt Literature book: "Mother and Daughter"pages 110-114.

All late work must be in by Monday at 3 p.m. All quizzes must also be made up by then.

Tuesday, September 16

Warmup: Next 9 prefixes - 19-27
Word of the Day:
5: alternative
4/6: anonymous
Review homework and review types of nouns
Prefix Bingo

Homework: Study for Prefix test on prefixes 1-27. Same as usual. Know the meaning of the prefix and one sample word (period 5) spelled correctly or two sample words (periods 4 and 6) spelled correctly.

Friday, September 12

Warmup - sentence edits
Vocabulary Quiz 1 - first five words
Word of the day:
5- adequate
4/6 - anecdote
Discuss nouns

Homework:
5: Holt Handbook page 41 1-5 follow directions in book
4/6: Find an article in a newspaper or magazine, or print one out from the Internet. It should be at least three paragraphs. Circle all the abstract nouns and write a summary of the article.

Wednesday, September 10

Daily warmup in Holt Handbook -page 6 exercise 1
Words of the Day: 5: adjacent    4/6: anachronistic
Review warmup
Review homework stores
Prefix quiz

Homework: Study the first five words of the day for a quiz next class
5: accommodate, achieve, acquire, affect, effect, and adjacent
4/6: adulation, adversity, aesthetic, amicable, anachronstic

Monday, September 8

Daily warmup - parts of speech
Word of the Day - 4/6: amicable       5: affect/effect
Discussion about plot
Duffy's Jacket questions

Homework: Write a story with 9 sentences total. In each sentence use one word with a prefix from prefixes 10-18 on your sheet. These are the ones we made sample words from last class. Please use the prefixes in order. So you will uses word with prefix 10 in your first sentence, 11 in your second sentence, etc., until you finish prefix 18.  Study all prefixes 1-18 for a quiz next class.

Thursday, Sept. 4

Agenda for the Day:

Warmup: Look over first 9 prefixes for quiz
Computer Lab: Renaissance Testing
Hand out literature books
Prefixes 10-18
Word of the Day: 4 and 6: aesthetic/ 5: acquire

Homework: Read Holt Literature (big book that you got today) pages 4-6 (about story plots) and the short story "Duffy's Jacket" on pages 7-11.

NOTE: I will be out September 8,10,12, and 16 for my daughter's wedding. The sub is an English teacher I have used many times before (as far as I know she will be the sub) , and she will be teaching the same lessons I would teach if I were there. I have left her all the details.

Tuesday, September 2

Warmup
Assign and go over reading project #1 - due date October 21.
Start prefixes : a/ab, ad, ante, anti, auto, bene, bi, co, contra/counter
Word of the Day #2: adversity (4 and 6), achieve (5)

Homework: Study the first 9 prefixes for a quiz next class. You need to know the meaning of each prefix and sample words for each, spelled correctly:
Periods 4 and 6: two sample words for each
Period 5: One sample word for each.

Thursday, August 28

Daily Agenda:

Warmup
Stamp and review homework
Song Title Exercise
Grammar Nonquiz /review
First word of the day:
periods 4 and 6: adulation
period 5: accommodate

Homework: No homework - have a good weekend!

Tuesday, August 26

Agenda

Warmup
Share homework/collect homework and stamp
Roots lists - discuss suffixes
Make portfolios

Homework:

Holt Handbook Page 2 Diagnostic Preview A, Chapeter 1, 1-10. Identify all fragments and rewrite them by adding words, not taking words away. If it is a sentence, just write "Sentence."
Title of homework on top line is: Holt Handbook page 2, Diagnostic Preview A