HL Critical Response & SL vocab practice

HL students took notes today on how to write a critical response. Click here to see those notes.

SL continued to practice vocab and how Greek and Latin roots combine to make new words. They tok practice quizzes to see if they are ready for Friday's quiz. These scores will be reported on PowerSchool, but will not be added into the final grade for the quarter.

Words have meanings

Today we took a pop quiz on the vocab words that will be on Friday's quiz. This will not be included on their final grade, but hopefully it inspires them to come home and STUDY!!!!

Please ask to see their notebooks, pages 2-3. These are the words they should know for Friday!

Monday 9.30

We read through another chapter in each book.

Pause and Think Links:
Hunger Games
Hound

HL vocab is due Wednesday.

HL and SL kids will have quizzes on vocab on Friday.

Moving Along

Kids continued to read their books, write their summaries and do their "Pause and Think."

HL finished chapter 8 in Hound. SL finished chapter 7 in Hunger Games.

New Vocab for HL

HL kids got vocab lesson 2 today. It will be due next Wednesday.


All classes will have a vocab quiz next Friday, 10/4.

I continue to push on kids to get their notebooks organized and put together. There are still some kids who are having a hard time getting organized. Please see yesterday's blog post to get important information.

Remind 101

Today we added some information to our notebooks. For those of you who are still unsure, here is what the table of contents looks like in the notebook:

On pg 60 you will find the beginning of the chapter summaries.  This picture is for an HL class, so it says "HOB" (Hound of the Baskervilles). The page number is the same for SL, just with "HG" in that section for "Hunger Games"

On pg 55 we started our first notes on elements of fiction. Today kids learned about theme. Please ask them to share their definition with you, or have them check the board if they don't have it in their notebook yet.

At the far back, and upside down, we have our "Pause and Think" section of the notebook. In that section kids are writing more reflective pieces.  Here is the link the the SL Pause and Think, and the link to the HL Pause and Think. The responses in these sections should be 4 sentences. I'm working on getting some writing prompts together for the students who are reading an alternative novel, but that is not complete at this time.

Also, today I discussed my pilot use of Remind 101 with my HL classes. I will be telling SL about it tomorrow. See below for the directions on how to get the reminders. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A REMINDER SERVICE. STUDENTS ARE NOT TO RELY ON THIS FOR INFORMATION. MY FAILURE TO SEND OUT A REMINDER WILL NOT BE A VALID EXCUSE FOR A STUDENT TO NOT COMPLETE THEIR WORK. ALL ASSIGNMENTS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSTED EITHER IN THE CLASSROOM OR ON THE BLOG, IN ADDITION TO BEING EXPRESSED VERBALLY IN CLASS.

High Level classes (hours 5,7), follow these directions:

Standard Level classes (hours 2,4, 8),  follow these directions: 

Monday, Monday

A couple students were rewarded today for having their notebooks up to schedule. We played another round of pictionary to study our vocab words. Students need to continue to review these! Please ask them about the words. HL finished Chp 5 in Hound, and SL finished Chapter 4 in Hunger Games.

Hope to see you tomorrow at the open house!