English 10 (Period 4) Assignments
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- Spring 2013
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English 10 is a one-year course that surveys, in depth, literary genres of memoir, novel, poetry, short story, drama and nonfiction. The course also provides instruction in and practice with the writing process, deeper reading strategies, and several types of essay writing. The course will introduce basic elements of oral communication, emphasizing development of articulation, poise, and confidence in speaking, as well as developing a sense of audience. This course will prepare students for 11th grade English.
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Visit the following websites to help prepare yourself for the final exam over the Catcher in the Rye.
Shmoop Guide: CLICK HERE
Sparknotes: CLICK HERE
Shmoop Guide: CLICK HERE
Sparknotes: CLICK HERE
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Turn in your
- Catcher themes charts
- DPS topics chart
- Outline
- First draft with peer edits (hand written)
- 2nd draft with corrections made (hand written)
- Final draft (3-4 pages typed, MLA format, 12 pt. Times New Roman font, double spaced, and original title)
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Your second draft is due today. Attached below is a sample MLA formatted essay. You should have addressed the concerns from yesterday's self & peer edit and be prepared to type up your final draft in Rm 50 today. Bring a jump drive today to save your essay in case you don't finish.
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Your first draft is due today.
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Your completed outline is due today.
Why is it so difficult to grow up? Holden Caulfield from JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and the boys of Touchstone Picture’s Dead Poets Society struggle to understand the ways of the adult world they are about to enter. Compare and contrast how the major themes are handled by both the novel and film and what you learned from analyzing them. A must...MLA format, 12 point Times New Roman font, double spaced, original title, 3-4 pages.
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The Dead Poets Society topics chart and the Catcher in the Rye themes chart are both due today.
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Using the questions from the warm up on Monday 5/13/12. Choose a quote from chapter 24 of Catcher and analyze it. Bring your analylsis to class to discuss in a Socratic Seminar.
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FYI: TODAY IS A MINIMUM DAY.
Today begins the month of STAR Tests (California Standardized Tests). Below I have attached the schedule for you, as the schedule for school is adjusted.
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Your Warm Ups are due. Bring them starting from March 18th.
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Quest over Catcher Ch 8-10 and critical analysis.
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Catcher Ch 5-7 quiz today. This quiz will cover the novel and the critical analysis.
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*If you were absent on Thursday, April, 11th you need to make-up Benchmark # 3 test.
Benchmark Test Instructions
1) Go to http://www.ati-online.com/ .
2) Click on the K-12 Student-Parent Center tab.
3) Type in your Login Name (your first and last name run together) and your Password (your birthday written as mm/dd/yyyy) If month and/or day is a single digit, use single digit. (e.g. January 3, 1997 is 1/3/1997 not 01/03/1997)
4) Under Class Information make sure "English 10: Ortega" is selected on the pull down menu.
5) Under Scheduled tests, assignments, and quizzes click on the link 2012-13 CCUSD 10 Gr. ELA (on the right-hand side of the page).
6) Read questions carefully and work until you reach the end. Exit Test when finished & log out.
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Catcher Ch 1-4 quiz today. This quiz will cover the novel and the critical analysis.
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EXTRA CREDIT!!! Print out the Critical Analysis Packet (all the PDF files below) and bring them to class.
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Open-note quiz over the Mental Health packet.
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Bring a copy of Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger to class today.
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Complete the Making Decisions handout from class & Thinking activity 1.3.
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Thinking Activity 1.2 & Analysis questions for the Malcolm X passage are due today.
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Complete Thinking Activity 1.1
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CAHSEE Response to Non-fiction essay due today.
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CAHSEE Expository composition due today.
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CAHSEE Biographical Narrative due today.
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CAHSEE Persuasive composition (essay) is due today.
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Write out 7 passive and 7 active sentences.
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From Your Text
Reading Check A & B
Questions 3, 4, & 5
Reading Check A & B
Questions 3, 4, & 5
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Who is Responsible?
Group Project-- You & Your group members will be determining who was responsible for creating the Holocaust and to what extent they are guilty of crimes against humanity.
Create a pie/circle graph in which you assign the person(s) listed the percentage of responsibility you believe they should bear for the Holocaust. Remember, all percentages must add up to 100%.
Use the colors listed below for each section of your graph
After you have made the designations of responsibilty for each person(s), you must also provide a written explanation as to why you assigned that amount. (This may be done on the back of the graph.)
You may not assign each group 10%, and reasons cannot include "because it adds up to 100%."
RED- Residents of Auschwitz and other towns near concentration camps who knew about the camps but did nothing to stop them.
BLUE- Minor Nazi soldiers who carried out the mass extermination orders without questioning their superiors.
GREEN-Hitler, the leader of the Germany, who hated Jews and wanted them destroyed.
YELLOW-German citizens who voted for Hitler and the Nazi Party to revitalize their morally and economically depressed country.
PINK-Churches of all denominations who remained silent and refused to interven when confronted with evidence.
ORANGE-Jews who didn't try to escape/fight back.
PURPLE-Top SS officers who designed and executed the "final solution" for Hitler.
BROWN-Non-Jewish Europeans who turned against their Jewish friends and fellow citizens for fear that they too would be imprisoned as Jewish sympathizers.
WHITE-Leaders of the Allied countries who saw evidence of the Holocaust ut refused to get involved or oppose Hitler's plan.
BLACK-Yahweh, the God of the Jewish faith, who seemed absent and silent during the destruction of His chosen people.
Group Project-- You & Your group members will be determining who was responsible for creating the Holocaust and to what extent they are guilty of crimes against humanity.
Create a pie/circle graph in which you assign the person(s) listed the percentage of responsibility you believe they should bear for the Holocaust. Remember, all percentages must add up to 100%.
Use the colors listed below for each section of your graph
After you have made the designations of responsibilty for each person(s), you must also provide a written explanation as to why you assigned that amount. (This may be done on the back of the graph.)
You may not assign each group 10%, and reasons cannot include "because it adds up to 100%."
RED- Residents of Auschwitz and other towns near concentration camps who knew about the camps but did nothing to stop them.
BLUE- Minor Nazi soldiers who carried out the mass extermination orders without questioning their superiors.
GREEN-Hitler, the leader of the Germany, who hated Jews and wanted them destroyed.
YELLOW-German citizens who voted for Hitler and the Nazi Party to revitalize their morally and economically depressed country.
PINK-Churches of all denominations who remained silent and refused to interven when confronted with evidence.
ORANGE-Jews who didn't try to escape/fight back.
PURPLE-Top SS officers who designed and executed the "final solution" for Hitler.
BROWN-Non-Jewish Europeans who turned against their Jewish friends and fellow citizens for fear that they too would be imprisoned as Jewish sympathizers.
WHITE-Leaders of the Allied countries who saw evidence of the Holocaust ut refused to get involved or oppose Hitler's plan.
BLACK-Yahweh, the God of the Jewish faith, who seemed absent and silent during the destruction of His chosen people.
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Homework of 1/29
Schindler's List work Sheet-
4 Short Answer Responses to the Movie
Schindler's List work Sheet-
4 Short Answer Responses to the Movie
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Read through page 81 in "Night"
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In NIght please read to page 48 and study your review sheet.
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Continue Reading Night
Work Sheet 1 and Vocabulary
Who is Moshie the Beadle and how does the town feel about him and his position? What does Elie think of him?
According to Moishe where do we find the real answers and why do we find them there?
Who were the first Jews that expelled from SIghet? Why do you believe they were expelled first?
When "the Germans were already in our town, the Fascists in power" what did the Elders do?
Vocabulary- Hasidic, Cabbala, Synagogue, Encumbered, talmud, Insignificant, Waiflike or Waif, Profoundly, Unsentimental, Zohar
Work Sheet 1 and Vocabulary
Who is Moshie the Beadle and how does the town feel about him and his position? What does Elie think of him?
According to Moishe where do we find the real answers and why do we find them there?
Who were the first Jews that expelled from SIghet? Why do you believe they were expelled first?
When "the Germans were already in our town, the Fascists in power" what did the Elders do?
Vocabulary- Hasidic, Cabbala, Synagogue, Encumbered, talmud, Insignificant, Waiflike or Waif, Profoundly, Unsentimental, Zohar
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Finish your Essay Reflection and return the Character Anlaysis essay with it. Directions for the reflection are below. ***REMEMBER!!!! - if you do not return your essay and reflection today your essay grade will revert to a 0/200 F! These essays must go in your writing portfolio.
Essay Reflection Directions:
1. Read the rubric, specifically the boxes I checked.
2. Write 2-3 sentences reflecting on where you are currently as a writer.
3. Copy down EVERY comment I wrote on your essay. Under my comment respond to it by:
-Fixing the error(EX: R-O copy the sentence and break it up into two or more sentences)
-Respond to the commment. (EX: CD? I am missing a concrete detail after my TS before my DQ so that my DQ makes sense)
4. Be specific about fixing your errors or responding to my comments!
Essay Reflection Directions:
1. Read the rubric, specifically the boxes I checked.
2. Write 2-3 sentences reflecting on where you are currently as a writer.
3. Copy down EVERY comment I wrote on your essay. Under my comment respond to it by:
-Fixing the error(EX: R-O copy the sentence and break it up into two or more sentences)
-Respond to the commment. (EX: CD? I am missing a concrete detail after my TS before my DQ so that my DQ makes sense)
4. Be specific about fixing your errors or responding to my comments!
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Read Antigone Scene V, Paean, & Exodus pg. 728-737. Answer questions # 6, 7, & 8 pg. 741.
Antigone Sc V Graphic Organizer is due today.
Antigone Sc V Graphic Organizer is due today.
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The test over Antigone is today.
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Read Antigone Scene IV & Ode IV pages 723-726. Answer questions # 3, 5, & 8 pg. 727.
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Read Antigone: Scene III and Ode III and answer # 1, 2, 4, & 5 page 722.
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Read Antigone: Sc II & O II answer # 1, 4, & 5 page 714.
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Answer Antigone: Scene I & Ode I questions # 2, 4, & 10 from page 706 in the textbook.
Title your homework A: ScI & OI ?s
Title your homework A: ScI & OI ?s
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Read "Greek Drama", "Myth of Oedipus", & Antigone: Prologue & Parodos page 685-698.
Answer questions # 2, 5, & 7 on page 699.
Answer questions # 2, 5, & 7 on page 699.
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Use your Warm Up from 12/6 as an example to complete #6 on page 682 in the textbook.
Use a proper heading and title it "Letter to the Editor". Your final draft must be typed or in ink and be at least a page in length.
Use a proper heading and title it "Letter to the Editor". Your final draft must be typed or in ink and be at least a page in length.
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BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK!
Read up to page 679.
Answer questions 1-10 and complete the "How to Own a Word" Etymology Map from pg. 680-681.
INSFMF Act II Vocab List
INSFMF Act II graphic organizer
Read up to page 679.
Answer questions 1-10 and complete the "How to Own a Word" Etymology Map from pg. 680-681.
INSFMF Act II Vocab List
INSFMF Act II graphic organizer
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BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK!
Read up to page 668 in the textbook.
Read up to page 668 in the textbook.
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BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK!
I Never Sang for my Father (INSFMF) Act I ?s, Act I Vocab list (or flashcards) for the "Words to Own" from the bottom of pages 639-652. You will have ten vocab words when finished.
Quiz over reading comprehension and vocab from INSFMF Act I.
I Never Sang for my Father (INSFMF) Act I ?s, Act I Vocab list (or flashcards) for the "Words to Own" from the bottom of pages 639-652. You will have ten vocab words when finished.
Quiz over reading comprehension and vocab from INSFMF Act I.
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BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK TODAY!
Finish reading I Never Sang for my Father, Act I pages 636-656 and complete the graphic organizer for Act I that was distributed in class today.
Finish reading I Never Sang for my Father, Act I pages 636-656 and complete the graphic organizer for Act I that was distributed in class today.
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Bring your textbook.
Revise your 2nd draft after your self-edit. The self-edit guide is attached below.
Due today: 1) Final draft
2) 2nd draft w/self-edit marks
3) 1st draft w/peer edit marks (one of the four will suffice).
4) Outline
Revise your 2nd draft after your self-edit. The self-edit guide is attached below.
Due today: 1) Final draft
2) 2nd draft w/self-edit marks
3) 1st draft w/peer edit marks (one of the four will suffice).
4) Outline
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Type up your 1st draft of your TKAM character evolution essay.
Print 4 copies!
Print 4 copies!
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Your outline for the TKAM Character Evolution Essay is due today. Make sure it is complete (remember, you do not have to use complete sentences), just make sure you have your ideas in order.
Bring your TKAM book.
Bring your TKAM book.
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Choose your character and have your traits (3) and lesson (theme) for your TKAM Character Evolution essay complete.
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You have no homework for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Enjoy! <3
Bring TKAM with you on today, we will start the analytical essay today.
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Your TKAM Newspaper Project is due today. See the attached directions and rubric below for specifics.
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We will spend today, Monday, the 19th and Tuesday, the 20th in the computer lab working on the newspaper project. You will submit the hard copy at the end of class on the 20th.
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TKAM Final test is today over the reading and vocabulary!
Extra Credit annotations/notes are due today.
Extra Credit annotations/notes are due today.
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Word Poster is due today for your rhetorical device.
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Read TKAM Ch 29-31 and answer the comprehension questions. Your answers need not be in complete sentences.
TKAM Ch 29-31 Vocab is due. You will be quizzed on both.
Use quizlet and sparknotes to help!
TKAM Ch 29-31 Vocab is due. You will be quizzed on both.
Use quizlet and sparknotes to help!
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Read TKAM Ch 24-28 and answer comprehension questions.
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Reading comprehension quiz today over TKAM Ch 20-28.
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TKAM Ch 24-28 Vocab list and quiz today.
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Read TKAM Ch 20-23 and answer comprehension questions.
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Meet in Room 50 (English computer lab) today.
Open the attachment below to see how to create a newsletter in Microsoft Word.
Open the attachment below to see how to create a newsletter in Microsoft Word.
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TKAM Ch 20-23 Vocab list is due today. Quiz over these twenty words today.
Quizlet Directions:
1. Go to www.quizlet.com CLICK HERE!
2. Find search bar. (upper right-hand corner)
3. Search for "CCHSOrtega"
4. Click on the appropriate Vocabulary List. (CCHSOrtega TKAM Ch #-#)
5. Have fun!
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Meet in Room 50 (English computer lab) today.
Open the attachment below to see how to create a newsletter in Microsoft Word.
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Read Ch 16-19 and answer questions. Quiz today.
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Ch 16-19 Vocab list and quiz today.
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Read Ch 12-15 and answer 15 questions. (Answer all questions for extra credit.)
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TKAM Ch 12-15 Vocab and quiz today.
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Quiz over Ch 9-11 today.
TKAM Ch 9-11 reading comprehension questions and answers are due today.
TKAM Ch 9-11 reading comprehension questions and answers are due today.
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TKAM Ch 9-11 Vocab list is due today. You will have a quiz over these ten words today.
Your TKAM ASAP is due today (include your rough draft with peer edits and a typed double spaced final draft).
Your TKAM ASAP is due today (include your rough draft with peer edits and a typed double spaced final draft).
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Quiz over Ch 5-8 today.
Read TKAM Ch 7-8 and answer the reading comprehension questions. Your answers do not have to be in complete sentences.
Read TKAM Ch 7-8 and answer the reading comprehension questions. Your answers do not have to be in complete sentences.
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You must finish the Benchmark by today!!!!!!!
Benchmark Test Instructions
Benchmark Test Instructions
1) Go to http://www.ati-online.com/
2) Click on K-12 Student-Parent Center
3) Type in your Login Name (your first and last name run together) and your
Password (your birthday written as mm/dd/yyyy)
If month and/or day is a single digit, use single digit.
(e.g. January 3, 1997 is 1/3/1997 not 01/03/1997)
Password (your birthday written as mm/dd/yyyy)
If month and/or day is a single digit, use single digit.
(e.g. January 3, 1997 is 1/3/1997 not 01/03/1997)
4) Select your English class
5) Click on Take Test
6) Read questions carefully and work until you reach the end.
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Bring your TKAM ASAP today, you will have time at the beginning of class to finish it, then we will peer edit.
Read TKAM Ch 5-6 and answer the questions. Your answers do not have to be in complete sentences.
Read TKAM Ch 5-6 and answer the questions. Your answers do not have to be in complete sentences.
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Your Vocab List for TKAM Ch 5-8 is due today!
Quiz over the 20 terms.
Quizlet is a wonderful website devoted to vocabulary, if the traditional flash cards do not work for you. It has many different ways to interact with and learn vocabulary words and definitions, including, but not limited to: games, quizzes, and tests.
Quiz over the 20 terms.
Quizlet is a wonderful website devoted to vocabulary, if the traditional flash cards do not work for you. It has many different ways to interact with and learn vocabulary words and definitions, including, but not limited to: games, quizzes, and tests.
Directions:
1. Go to www.quizlet.com CLICK HERE!
2. Find search bar. (upper right-hand corner)
3. Search for "CCHSOrtega"
4. Click on the appropriate Vocabulary List. (CCHSOrtega TKAM Ch 1-4)
5. Have fun!
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Quiz over TKAM Ch 1-4 is today.
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TKAM Ch 3-4 comprehension questions are due today.
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TKAM Ch 1-2 ?s due today. This is simply a study guide. It does not have to be in ASAP format. Just make sure that your answers are in complete sentences. For example: Ch 1 ?1. What happened to Jem when he was nearly thirteen? Answer: Jem broke his arm. We will review the answers today in class, if you can't find the answer, don't stress! You will have time at the beginning of the period to find the answers to questions you couldn't answer.
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The Great Depression worksheet is due today.
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Your Vocab List for TKAM Ch 1-4 is due today!
Quiz over the 20 terms.
Quizlet is a wonderful website devoted to vocabulary, if the traditional flash cards do not work for you. It has many different ways to interact with and learn vocabulary words and definitions, including, but not limited to: games, quizzes, and tests.
Quiz over the 20 terms.
Quizlet is a wonderful website devoted to vocabulary, if the traditional flash cards do not work for you. It has many different ways to interact with and learn vocabulary words and definitions, including, but not limited to: games, quizzes, and tests.
Directions:
1. Go to www.quizlet.com CLICK HERE!
2. Find search bar. (upper right-hand corner)
3. Search for "CCHSOrtega"
4. Click on the appropriate Vocabulary List. (CCHSOrtega TKAM Ch 1-4)
5. Have fun!
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Hearing & Vision screening is today. Bring your glasses or wear your contacts.
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Bring a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee to class today.
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Your revised and edited "The Pedestrian" ASAP is due today. Include your rough draft with peer edit marks.
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Read and annotate "The Pedestrian" pg. 172-176. Answer # 2 on page 179 in a color-coded, double spaced ASAP. Be prepared to peer edit today.
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Bring your textbook tomorrow!
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Your rough draft of the "TTT" ASAP is due today.
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Your My Personality Poster is due today.
Email me at [email protected] an attached copy of your poster & print out a hard copy (color if possible).
In the subject put your first and last name and your period number.
Bring your hard copy today, you will present it to the class.
Directions & sample are posted below.
Email me at [email protected] an attached copy of your poster & print out a hard copy (color if possible).
In the subject put your first and last name and your period number.
Bring your hard copy today, you will present it to the class.
Directions & sample are posted below.
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Please address the peer edit remarks for you "Hair" ASAP, correct them and type up a color-coded final draft.
I will collect the rough draft with peer edit marks and your final draft today.
I will collect the rough draft with peer edit marks and your final draft today.
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The draft for your My Personality Poster is due today. We are going to the lab to create it on Power Point today.
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If you missed class today, read and annotate pg. 344-349 in the textbook. Answer # 2 (pg. 350) with an Analytical Short Answer Paragraph (ASAP) and color code it.
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Bring your textbook today!
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In case you missed the Personality Traits handout in class I have posted it below for you to print out yourself.
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Bring The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers.
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Be prepared to defend your CSI case.
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Complete the Big Five Factors chart.
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Test over the summer reading book:The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers.
Click here to use Sparknotes to help you review!
Click here to use Sparknotes to help you review!
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Using your list of personality traits select five and write down examples of actions, reactions, things you say, ways you dress, things other people say about you or things you do that support or illustrate these traits.