Browsing Archive: December, 2011
Posted by Lori Knapp on Monday, December 19, 2011,
Midterm schedule this week:
1st, 3rd, and 5th-Tuesday
2nd, 4th, and 6th-Wednesday
Study and do your best this week!
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Wednesday, December 14, 2011,
Continue reading TKAM tonight as homework. Remember that you will finish the novel over the weekend.
I wanted to let you know that the scores scanned in during class today were mostly inaccurate. The error has been corrected, and I am very happy to report that many of you met the benchmark goal!!!! I will share details during class tomorrow.
Have a great night!
Ms. Knapp
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Tuesday, December 13, 2011,
Please be sure to bring your organized class binder tomorrow. The grade for completeness and organization is worth 100 points for the 2nd quarter.
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Thursday, December 8, 2011,
DON'T FORGET YOUR CHAPTER 10-18 QUESTIONS/2ND ALTERNATE ASSIGNMENT IS DUE TOMORROW!!
You have learned many different reading strategies during our in-class reading of To Kill a Mockingbird that will help you improve comprehension when reading. For that reason, you will become responsible to read many chapters independently before break.
As you noted in class today, the reading/chapter questions schedule to finish the novel is as follows:
Fri 12/8-in class reading of ch 19 weekend homew...
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Monday, December 5, 2011,
To the students who consistently come to class prepared with work, the novel, songs, THANK YOU!
If you are not in that group, I reminded the entire class to come prepared with the novel EVERY DAY. If you have been one of the repeat offenders, please remember that I will start making this a discipline issue as of tomorrow.
Show your SWAG and BE PREPARED!
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Thursday, December 1, 2011,
We have another song to help you learn the list of 23 helping verbs that can appear BEFORE the main verb(s) in sentences. Please work on mastering the list because you will be required to underline those as part of the verb phrase as we go through the 4 steps of sentence deconstruction.
The four steps include:
1. Are there any infinitives? Put them in parentheses.
2. Are there any prepositional phrases? Put a line through them.
3. What is the verb? Does it have any helpers? Underline the entir...
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