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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Period 1
1. Schedule presentations:
Mon: Angela and quiz on first presented terms
Tue:Danielle and Alex
Wed: Vanessa and Aimee
Fri: Sydney and Alora
2. Test on pp200-201 Info on Faerie Queene
3. Check yesterday's quizzes
4. Discuss paraphrases from p 201
HOMEWORK: DUE TUESDAY Each student will paraphrase a section, to be assigned today. Dana has stanza 19

Period 4
1. SRF will be every day until we begin AR
2. Get gold textbooks for British Literature and turn to p 2. Read about life in early England. Copy the time line from the board with 5 given dates. For each date, tell WHO did WHAT.

PERIOD 3
1. AR reading 10 mins
2. Quiz on Beowulf from your questions
HOMEWORK: Read pp 14-24 for a quiz Monday

ABSENT 1
Foster, D

ABSENT 4
Johansdottir, S
Lutali, E
Neal, D
Rodriguez, J
Witham, A

ABSENT 3
Santos, N
Tardy: Levasseur, J

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Period 1
1. SRF
2. Quiz on Raleigh, Nature, and Spencer
3. Hand in Creative or Critical Response from p196 for "Nature, . . .", the list of differences between Raleigh and Spencer, and the drawings of the two couples and 5 events mentioned in bold on the top right of p 201.
4. Quiz on presented terms postponed to Monday.
5. In groups of 4, read the 3 stanzas of The Faerie Queene on p 201 and discuss to write a paraphrase for them, each student turning in his/her own version.
HOMEWORK: Read and study pp 200 &201, information about The Faerie Queene, for a written test tomorrow.

Period 2
1. SRF
2. Get gold textbooks for British Literature and turn to p 2. Read about life in early England. Copy the time line from the board with 5 given dates. For each date, tell WHO did WHAT.

PERIOD 3
1. AR reading 10 mins
2. Check 1) lists of peoples and descriptions, 2) ~50 word summaries of Anglo-Saxon life and religion, and the 5 questions about pp 12-13.
3. For the characters Beowulf, Grendel, and Hrothgar and the place Herot, listed on p 13, draw your idea of what they look like, one to a sheet of paper. See Art Rubric below.
Art Rubric
1) Fill the page
2) Use at least 3 colors
3) Print name of drawing big and bold at the top.
4) Put facts around the drawing.

ABSENT 1
Valdespino, G

ABSENT 2
Sauls, E
Tardy: Siatunuu, J

ABSENT 3
Haraguchi, A