Today's agenda:
1) Mead Hall day!
Tonight:
1) Relax!
2) Review your vocabulary words. We will have a vocabulary quiz after break.
1) Mead Hall day!
Tonight:
1) Relax!
2) Review your vocabulary words. We will have a vocabulary quiz after break.
Today's agenda:
1) Mead Hall day! Tonight: 1) Relax! 2) Review your vocabulary words. We will have a vocabulary quiz after break. Today's agenda:
1) Beowulf test! Tonight: 1) Prepare for our Meadhall day tomorrow! Today's agenda:
1) Silent reading: read the article we will use as the basis of our seminar. 2) Seminar Block 1: Gay men giving blood Block 3: Marijuana in the workplace www.denverpost.com/2016/12/04/can-my-employer-fire-me-for-legally-using-marijuana/ 3) Dsicuss Dragon pages 4) work on your project Coming up: 1) Tomorrow, you will have time to work on your project and complete a study guide for the test on Monday 2) Monday, Beowulft test 3) Tuesday, Mead Hall Day: 4) Wednesday: your revised papers are due if you have completed the two other steps. Today's agenda:
1) Silent reading 2) Discuss questions for section 87-123 3) Work time to complete: the blog post and vote (down below), read the dragon pages and answer the questions, and work on your projects. Block 1 and 3: go to pollev.com/meghansander111 OR Text MEGHANSANDER111 to 37607 and then text the letter of the answer you want. The answers will be listed on the site. A: Self driving cars sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/01/27/how-ubers-autonomous-cars-will-destroy-10-million-jobs-and-reshape-the-economy-by-2025-lyft-google-zack-kanter/ B: Quantum cognition:https://www.google.com/amp/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/405787/ C: Abortion and the heartbeat bill www.cnn.com/2016/12/07/politics/ohio-abortion-bill/index.html D: Gay men giving blood: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/health/fda-gay-blood-ban-policy/ Today's agenda:
1) Silent reading 2) Kenning lesson (see resources page) 3) Finish your questions for pages 87-123 and work on your projects for the Mead Hall Day. * I will collect these questions first thing in class tomorrow. Coming up: 1) Your 2nd student choice blog is due on Wednesday night. (I will check in Thursday morning) 2) Your questions for 87-123 are due tomorrow at the BEGINNING of class as we will be going over them. 3) Your questions for the end of the book, which you will receive tomorrow, will be due on Thursday before the seminar. 4) We will have the student choice seminar on Thursday. 5) Friday is a sub day, and you will get the period to work on your projects and prepare for the test. 6) Monday--Beowulf test 7) Tuesday--Mead Hall Day, projects are due Today's agenda;
1) Silent reading--article for the seminar 1st block's article: www.cnn.com/2015/07/17/opinions/holloway-death-penalty-future/ 3rd block's article: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/13724289/washington-redskins-name-change-inevitable 2) Seminar on the student voted topic 3) Finish questions on pages 41-57 and discuss 4) Introduce Mead Hall day Coming up: 1) Vocabulary journal due on Monday 2) Beowulf Test on Monday, December 19 3) Mead hall day on Wednesday, December 21 Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem 2) Vote on seminar topic 3) Finish questions on Beowulf pg 13-41 and discuss 4) Work in groups to read and discuss pages 41-57. Tonight: 1) Prepare for your seminar tomorrow 2) Finish reading pages 41-57 using the PDF for tomorrow
Today's agenda:
1) Opening Poem 2) Use laptops in class to complete your blog post for this week. * For this blog post, you will choose your own topic and find an article that discusses it. Your topic and article need to be: 1) Controversial, 2) Current, and 3) Significant. It should lead to larger questions that extend outside of your article. It should not be about celebrity gossip, sports (unless it leads to larger questions), or other simple topics. Once you choose you topic and find your article, answer the following on your blog:
3) Read Beowulf and answer the questions provided. In reading the text, you have the options reading silently on your own, reading aloud with a group, or listening to the audio book which cann be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaB0trCztM0&index=26&list=WL and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsxxg5P-DnY&index=27&list=WL You can also find a PDF version of the book on the resources page. Coming up: 1) We will have a seminar on one of your topics on Friday. Today's agenda:
1) Openign Poem: Pixar Shorts: 2) Finish your benchmark from yesterday 3) Seminar on Fake News |