Friday, June 24, 2011

Three more days - one project to finish!

Students must turn in their movie review assignment today by 9:00am. Late assignments will not be accepted.

We are finishIng the year with a linguistic inquiry assignment. Yesterday the students picked their topic and started work! Most students picked a partner, and they are creating a board game.

Sample topics: new language, Dictionary, Old English, comparison of British and Canadian spellings...

Students have two classes today to work and one on Monday!

Then we play and grade them on Tuesday!!

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

City of Ember

We just finished viewing City of Ember.  Students will have time to work on their written review tomorrow.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Non-Fiction PP Presentation

Required Reading - non-fiction book; 20-30 articles or 15-20 Chicken Soup stories

Required Components:
/5     Introduction - grab the interest of the reader...  title, author(s)...
/5     Print out of slide presentation
/20   20 slides
/5     Grammar/mechanics
/5     Factual information related to topic on one slides
/5     Personal responses

Presentation
/5     Volume
/5     Expression
/5     Eye Contact and Fluency

/60     TOTAL

DUE:FRIDAY, JUNE 10TH

Monday, June 6, 2011

June 6-10th

Monday - Test
Tuesday - hand in comparison for 2 movies and play chart, practice memoriztion of lines and discussing components of PP, and reading for non-fiction power point presentation
Wednesday- working on non-fiction power point - reading and/or presentation
Thursday  - working on non-fiction presentation
Friday - presentations