Feb. 8, 2011

Homework:

Planner signed due 2-9
Read 30 minutes

Soc. Studies: Read pgs. 230-235 in your soc. studies book. Count it as part of your 30 minutes of nightly reading. Begin to work on your ancient Rome map. Color the water using the border method.

Language Arts: "How To Handle A Bully" Essay Due: 2/28. We are finished working on the essay in class. Students will need to continue working on them at home to keep improving their scores. On February 28, I will record the scores.

Oral Poem Performance of "Don't Quit" Due: 2/15. Students will be graded, so remember to practice it "Loud, Slow, and Clear." Tomorrow, February 9, I will again be checking in class to see if students have at least the first five lines memorized, and yes, this will be for points. I'm finding that too many students have not been memorizing their "one line per night" assignment.

"Causes of Good Grades"Essay Due: 2/28. We will be working on this essay in class all this week and most of next week. After that, it will be the students' responsibility to keep working on their essay at home to bring up the scores.

Remember: If students are absent from my class, they need to makeup the missed class time working on their essays at home on myaccess.com, which is 40-45 minutes. Several students have been assuming that because I don't hand them a worksheet, they don't have any makeup work. Their makeup work is on-line.