Day Thirty, TEN-TWENTY-TWENTY-TEN

Today's Homework: A small grammar paper (click here AND here) concerning pronouns. Don't forget your science fair introductions, and please keep reading!

Today's Song: "PDA", Interpol

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about the science fair introduction and about the snake that killed the Airedale.

Day Twenty-NIne, 10/19

Today's Homework: A small grammar paper (click here AND here) concerning pronouns. Don't forget your science fair introductions, and please keep reading!

Today's Song: "Sunlight", Tune-Yards

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's peer editing and pronouns!

Click here for lab instructions, 10/18

Xtranormal

Day Twenty-Six, 10-15

Today's Homework: Gingerbread and Exploding Moment due Monday!

Today's Song: No Song, unless you count "Giga Pudding".

Today's Slides: None, as it was a quiet test day.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's novel test!

Day Twenty-Six, 10/14

Today's Homework: Novel Test tomorrow; Gingerbread and Exploding Moment due Monday!

Today's Song: "Blazing Arrow", Blackalicious

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's work on the vocabulary!

Day Twenty-Five, 10/13

EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!

We won't be going to the computer lab until Monday! So, tomorrow, in class, you will have time to a) Read, b) Plan your essay, or c) Finish Gingerbread.

Yipes!


Today's Homework: Exploding Moment Draft!

Today's Song: "Johnny Come Home", Fine Young Cannibals

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's novel discussion and the Exploding Moment Essay!

Day Twenty-Four, 10-12

Today's Homework: Finish the Gingerbread Project!

Today's Song: "Tell Me What Will It Be?", Javelin

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's work on the Gingerbread Project and the new Exploding Moment Essay!

Click on the video for lab instructions, 10/7

Xtranormal

Day Twenty-Three, 10/7

Today's Homework: NO HOMEWORK!

Today's Song: "In Ruins", Fol Chen

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's novel discussion and the new GINGERBREAD PROJECT!

Day Twenty-One, 10-5

Today's Homework: NO HOMEWORK!

Today's Song: "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth", Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about today's short story and the comments they received from peers for his or her second essay.

Click on the video for lab instructions, 9/29

My nerves shred asunder.
My hair is now whitening.
My keys lost--a blunder.
My panic is heightening.
The sky flashes blue;
The air rips in two.
Thunder's a wonder,
While lightning is frightening.

Day Sixteen, 9/28

Today's Homework: NO HOMEWORK!

Today's Song: "Trainwrecks", Weezer

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about their new essay draft and their novel reading schedule.

Day Fifteen, 9/27

Today's Homework: Vocabulary paper!

Today's Song: "To the Dogs or Whoever", Josh Ritter

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Please ask your child about conflict types, the first class novel, and the new vocabulary.

Day Fourteen, 9/24

Today's Homework: Please read your book! A new book is coming by Monday! And here is the new essay prompt!

Today's Song: "Looking Glass", by Little Dragon

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Ask your child about the first essay they wrote--and its final score--and about the impact of the Internet on language.

Click on this video for lab instructions, 9/23

Day Twelve, 9/22

Today's Homework: Grammar Page and Grammar Page.

Today's Song: "Maps", by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Here's to you, World Geo Student!)

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Ask your child about the comic strip summary they are making and about how to decide which verbs go with None, Some, Many, and All.

Day Eleven, 9/21

Today's Homework: Grammar page and grammar page

Today's Song: "1979", by the Smashing Pumpkins

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Ask your child about today's word puzzle and about our trip to the library.

Day Ten, 9/20

Today's Homework: vocabulary

Today's Song: "Golden Age", TV on the Radio

Today's Slides: click here.

PARENTS: Ask your child about our vocabulary words, about simple summaries of stories, and about the disgusting meal essay they turned in last week.