Last Block Day (except for first period on Monday...and next year...and the next year...ahhhhhhhhh!)
* Open
* STAR Test (horror of horrors!): instructions
* Grammar (Bedford Book Online)
For Monday (or if class is ahead)
* Cry, the Beloved Country: Last chapters reviewed
- Turn in your resume
- Look over your roots
- Add one new word for each root you have
* STAR Test (horror of horrors!): instructions
- Student taps on the STAR app on their iPad
- Enter username: usually the first letter of the first name followed by the first four letters of the last name.
- Residents students use their birth name (NOT their American name)
- If there are less than four letters in the last name, then the username will be the first letter of the first name followed by the entire last name, i.e. QWU
- In the case of students who would have the same username as someone else, one of the students will have a 1 after their username.
- Enter password: password or PASSWORD (not case sensitive)
- Select “STAR Reading”
- Tap “Next”
- Tap “Start”
* Grammar (Bedford Book Online)
- Schwager: Review 24-1
- Who and whom: 25-1 Rules and Examples
- Exercise 25-1
- Optional: 24 and 25 Practice Sheets for Extra Practice (answer given on Monday)
For Monday (or if class is ahead)
* Cry, the Beloved Country: Last chapters reviewed
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Ch. 32: Theme: Repentance (Absalom prepares for death); Theme: Native Poverty in the Country (church scene) (278-279); Theme: Growing unity, love, and respect between black and white people (milk arrives)
Ch. 33: Theme: Growing unity, love, and respect between black and white people (a new church will be built; Jarvis behind these things)
Ch. 34: Death and darkness. No mercy for Absalom. James Jarvis' wife dies. Theme: Forgiveness (the Bishop expected the congregation to ask Stephen Kumalo to leave, but they are happy to have him still as their pastor; the Bishop is surprised 297). Symbolic reference: "Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, these things will I do unto you, and not forsake you" (Isaiah 40 ff).
Ch. 35: Theme: Rebirth, resurrection: "There is a new thing happening here....There is hope here" (301).
Ch. 36: Motif: "God put His hands on you" (Msimangu's epithet is now employed by Stephen Kumalo to describe James Jarvis' generous heart, pg. 308). Theme: Some things are God's secret, "But his mind would contain it no longer. It was not for man's knowing. He put it from his mind, for it was secret" (309). Allusion: "My son, my son, my son" (pg. 310; see II Sam. 18:33). Symbolically and allusively dense conclusion. Read the last two paragraphs of the novel: what do you find? Discuss.
- Theme
- Motif
- Symbol
- Allusion
- Motif
- Narrative voice (changing in one way or another)
Final Exam Review Page
* The Final Exam
1. What will the final exam cover?
A: 90 minutes. You will write an in class essay on Cry, the Beloved Country. You will have any combination of short answer, true/false, matching, and multiple choice questions concerning your novel, prefixes, roots suffixes, punctuation, agreement, and pronoun usage.
3. Which punctuators do I need to review?
A: Ask a friend to work with you, and go through the blog posts.
6. How much of my grade is the final exam worth?
A: 10% (5% for the essay and 5% for the M.C. test).
7. What day of the week is my final?
A: See the course calendar.
1. What will the final exam cover?
- Cry, the Beloved Country (the novel)
- Vocabulary (prefixes, roots, suffixes)
- Grammar (punctuation, agreement, pronoun usage)
A: 90 minutes. You will write an in class essay on Cry, the Beloved Country. You will have any combination of short answer, true/false, matching, and multiple choice questions concerning your novel, prefixes, roots suffixes, punctuation, agreement, and pronoun usage.
3. Which punctuators do I need to review?
- commas
- semicolons
- dashes
- colons
- If you have forgotten how to use them, review Bedford Section 7: Punctuation.
- For Cry, The Beloved Country
- Review our notes and blog review page
- Reread sections you didn't understand or didn't read carefully.
- For vocabulary
- Study your binder notes
- For grammar
- Study your binder notes and review Bedford
- Part 5, Grammatical Sentences, Sections 21, 24, 25
- Part 7, Punctuation, Sections 32—35, 3
A: Ask a friend to work with you, and go through the blog posts.
6. How much of my grade is the final exam worth?
A: 10% (5% for the essay and 5% for the M.C. test).
7. What day of the week is my final?
A: See the course calendar.
Wednesday, 5/14/14
* Open
Suffixes
* Per. 1: Sheets Reviewed
* Resume
* Bedford Book Online
Subjective Case: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, who, whoever
Objective Case: me, you, him, her, it, us, them, whom, whomever (Mmmm . . .)
Possessive Case: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs
1. Do Ex. 24-1 a—5
2. Copy Rules for 25-1 a—c
3. Do 25-1 a—5
HW: Resume
And, for Schwager, a Very Brief Subject-Verb Quiz
Suffixes
| cian | possessing a specific skill or art | magician, physician, |
| cy | action, function | hesitancy, prophecy, normalcy |
| cule, ling | very small | molecule, ridicule, animalcule, duckling, sapling |
* Per. 1: Sheets Reviewed
* Resume
- When in doubt (i.e. you don't have something specific they need for a particular end), use the high school example resume and its general format:If you already have such a thing written, then the senior survey is fine.
- Requirements
- Typed
- Formatted (indents match, headings match, follows an example format)
- Grammatically accurate
- At least one full page in length
* Bedford Book Online
Subjective Case: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, who, whoever
Objective Case: me, you, him, her, it, us, them, whom, whomever (Mmmm . . .)
Possessive Case: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs
1. Do Ex. 24-1 a—5
2. Copy Rules for 25-1 a—c
3. Do 25-1 a—5
HW: Resume
And, for Schwager, a Very Brief Subject-Verb Quiz
Tuesday, 5/13/14
* Open
* Bedford Book Online
Subjective Case: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, who, whoever
Objective Case: me, you, him, her, it, us, them, whom, whomever (Mmmm . . .)
Possessive Case: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs
* Grammar: Pronouns: Subjective, Objective, and Possessive
1. Introduce
2. Read Bedford 24 a—g
* Resume
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Suffixes
| al | relating to | gradual, manual, natural |
| algia | pain | neuralgia, nostalgia, myalgia |
| an, ian | native of, relating to | African, riparian, |
| ance, ancy | action, process, state | assistance, allowance, defiance |
* Bedford Book Online
Subjective Case: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, who, whoever
- Use when the pronoun is acting as the subject of a clause:
- Correct: "I ran." "You ran." "He ran."
- INCORRECT: "Me ran" or "Him ran."
Objective Case: me, you, him, her, it, us, them, whom, whomever (Mmmm . . .)
- Use when the pronoun is acting as the object of a clause:
- Correct: "The dog bit me." "The eagle gave her a feather."
- INCORRECT: "The dog bit I." "The eagle gave she a feather."
Possessive Case: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs
- Use when denoting possession; hence, the term "possess"ive.
- Correct: "That is my glove." "The iPad is hers."
- NOTE: possessive case pronouns DO NOT use apostrophes, as non-pronoun words do, to show possession.
- Correct: "That is its food! Don't (do not) take it!"
- INCORRECT: "That is it's (it is) food! Don't (do not) take it!"
* Grammar: Pronouns: Subjective, Objective, and Possessive
1. Introduce
2. Read Bedford 24 a—g
- Copy each blue rule into your notes
- Give one example sentence of your own to illustrate each rule.
- Do Ex. 24-1 a—5
* Resume
- When in doubt (i.e. you don't have something specific they need for a particular end), use the high school example resume and its general format:If you already have such a thing written, then the senior survey is fine.
- Requirements
- Typed
- Formatted (indents match, headings match, follows an example format)
- Grammatically accurate
- At least one full page in length
Monday, 5/12/14
* Open
* Grammar Review Sheets: 21, Agreement
* Bedford Book Online
* Resume work
HW: Work on your Resume
- Suffixes
- A suffix creates a derivative by modifying a root (sub, suc, suf = below, subordinate; figere = to fasten)
able, ible able, capable capable, agreeable, edible, visible ade result of action blockade age act of, state of, result of storage, wreckage, damage
* Grammar Review Sheets: 21, Agreement
* Bedford Book Online
* Resume work
- Cornell University
- Virginia Tech
- High School Resume Template
- High School Example Resume
- Reminders from Stanford
HW: Work on your Resume
- finish grammar sheets (Schwager)
- (Reno) Rewrites
- Due Wednesday
- Typed, MLA Format
- Fix your errors
- Make sure you have specific support
- Consider literature and history
- Underline your thesis
- 500 Words or longer: include your computer's word count.
- Upload to turnitin.com
Blocking Out Some Labor
* Open
* Finish Video
* Grammar Sheets
* Resume work
HW: None
* Finish Video
* Grammar Sheets
* Resume work
- Cornell University
- Virginia Tech
- High School Resume Template
- High School Example Resume
- Reminders from Stanford
HW: None
Wednesday, 5/7
* Open
HW: Resume applications; rewrites; make sure your binder is sweet
- Roots
levi light alleviate, levitate, levity liber, liver free liberty, liberal, liberalize, deliverance liter letters literary, literature, literal, alliteration, obliterate
- Grammar Review Sheets: 21, Agreement
- Reno's classes, finish the remaining two pages
HW: Resume applications; rewrites; make sure your binder is sweet
- Reno's classes: quiz covering final chapters of CBC and SVA
Tuesday, 5/6/14
* Open
HW: -- 36 (finish the book!)
- Roots
juven young juvenile, rejuvenate lau, lav, lot, lut wash launder, lavatory, lotion, ablution, dilute leg law legal, legislate, legislature, legitimize - Reno's classes:
- Do Ex 21-2 (page 2 on your PDF); check your answers with a neighbor
- Block Day: We will be working on resumes. So, please get a job application from the company you would like to work for this summer, and bring it with you on block day. If you already wrote an application for Health, or if you will not be working this summer, then you will begin a high school resume to use for college applications when you are a senior.
- How do perspectives concerning Africa today reflect perspectives you found in Cry, the Beloved Country.
- This is the kind of thought the WSJ article is responding to.
- Reno: hand back SAT essay #1 on Leadership (rewrites must be MLA formatted and typed; they are due next Tuesday)
- Per 4 - choose either to rewrite it for a second grade OR choose for me to grade your Cry essay instead
- Per 7 - choose either of your two essays to rewrite
HW: -- 36 (finish the book!)
A boy stands in front of wind turbines at the Ashegoda
Wind Farm, near a village in Mekelle, Tigray, 780 km (485 miles) north
of Addis Ababa, October 25, 2013.
Reuters.
Monday, 5/5/14
* Open
*Grammar
HW: CBC -- 35
| hydr, hydra, hydro | water | dehydrate, hydrant, hydraulic, hydraulics, hydrogen, hydrophobia |
| ignis | fire | ignite, igneous, ignition |
| ject | throw | deject, inject, project, eject, interject |
| join, junct | join | adjoining, enjoin, juncture, conjunction, injunction, conjunction |
*Grammar
- 21-2 (section k)
- Reno - Go to Focus and open "Bedford 21: SVA Practice"
- Do Ex 21-1 on the PDF
- Also, underline the simple subject(s)
- NOTE: On the right column you will see the Bedford rule being tested.
HW: CBC -- 35
Block Day
* Open
* Do Ex. 21-2
* Schwager Only
HW: CBC--34
- Roots
hema, hemo blood hemorrhage, hemoglobin, hemophilia, hemostat here, hes stick adhere, cohere, cohesion, inherent, hereditary hum, human earth, ground, man humus, exhume, humane
- Quiz (oral review)
* Do Ex. 21-2
* Schwager Only
- Rewrites
- Due next week, block
- Typed, MLA Format
- Fix your errors
- Make sure you have specific support
- Consider literature and history
- Underline your thesis
- 500 Words or longer: include your computer's word count.
- Upload to turnitin.com next week
- Video
HW: CBC--34
Character Awards
Please vote for your character awards!
Senior https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Juniors https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Sophomores https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Freshman https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Thank you,
Mr. S
Senior https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Juniors https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Sophomores https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Freshman https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Thank you,
Mr. S
Wednesday, 4/30
* Open
HW: CBC--32
- Roots
greg herd gregarious, congregation, segregate, gregarian hypn sleep hypnosis, hypnotherapy helio sun heliograph, heliotrope, heliocentric - Grammar
- Do ex. 21-1 letters and numbers (you may simply write the noun(s) and verb(s) that agree...you do not need to copy the entire sentence)
HW: CBC--32
Tuesday, 4/29
* Opening
* Grammar
* Work in Class
HW: CBC Ch. 31
- Roots: Copy the three sets of roots, definitions, and example words into your notes
graph, gram write, written graph, graphic, autograph, photography, graphite, telegram grat pleasing congratulate, gratuity, grateful, ingrate grav heavy, weighty grave, gravity, aggravate, gravitate
* Grammar
- Go to 21-1 (Grammatical Sentences, 21)
- Read and copy rules for 21b-k (lots of rules)
- Compose or copy at least one example sentence for each rule.
* Work in Class
HW: CBC Ch. 31
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