September 29, 2010

Students took a vocabulary quiz on Moodle and then were assigned a copy of Huck Finn.  Together we read the preface.  Students should read up to Chapter 10 by Monday.

September 28, 2010

Students did a free write about racism and slavery in preparation for our first novel, Huck Finn.  We then watched a short video on pronouns, reviewed what we previously learned about pronouns, and students received a pronoun worksheet as homework.

September 20, 2010

I am out of the building today (Monday) and tomorrow, so students saw Mr. Lillibridge instead.  They were given an excerpt from The Hunger Games, a young adult novel and asked to identify and label all the nouns they found in the following categories: person, place, thing, idea.  Once they completed that assignment, they had some time to work on the vocab assignment they began last class.

September 17, 2010

After a brief warm-up excercise, students were given most of the block to complete a vocabulary assignment.  They received 15 new vocabulary words, then used a template on Moodle to define, give a synonym, antonym and picture of each vocab word.  Students should have approximately 10 of the 15 words completed before our next class on Monday.

September 15, 2010

Students took their first vocab quiz on Moodle.  Grades are available on the student and parent portals.  After the quiz we watched a short video on the life of Mark Twain to prepare for our first novel, Huck Finn.   

September 14, 2010

Students turned in their vocabulary crossword puzzles.  As a class we discussed compound, common and proper nouns and students worked on a worksheet that if not finished was to be completed for homework.  We then made flashcards for our 15 vocabulary words, which students should study tonight for their quiz tomorrow.       

September 10, 2010

Today we finished talking about the syllabus and classroom rules and procedures.  Then students defined 15 vocabulary words which we then discussed as a class.  Students were to complete this as homework if not finished in class.  We then dicussed nouns and the difference between common and proper nouns and identified them as a class in an article.

September 9, 2010

Mrs. Rennells, our resident tech expert, came into class to help students set up their minis and reviewed rules, policies and helpful tips regarding minis.

September 7, 2010

Today I introduced myself to students, and they wrote for approximately 10 minutes introducing themselves to me and giving me any information they thought I'd like to know about them.  They then briefly shared a few things about them with the class before we went over portions of the syllabus.  Students are to bring their syllabus back to class on Thursday so we can continue where we left off.