Class Work Week 12
NOVEMBER 5, 2001
DOL: Pronoun (Indefinite Reference), Capitalization, Comma Splice
More than 50 times a year, lightning strikes the empire state building,
It causes an average of 400 deaths and injuries every year.
JOURNAL: The movie Never Forget . . .
DIAGRAMMING: Did you get a poppy flower from the Veterans of
Foreign Wars yesterday?
Current events
Homework Helps
Standardized test prep
Essay - Why are the Salem Witchcraft Trials important?
Map projects and packets - leave the atlases in the room!
November 14, 2001
DOL: Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement, Usage (Right Word),
Run-on Sentence
A panophobe (in Greek, "pan" means "all" and "phobia" means "fear")
is a person which fears everything they would probably not be alot of fun to
be around.
JOURNAL: Your choice of topic . . .
DIAGRAMMING: Music allows me to express myself.
Current events
Standardized Test prep
Essay - revise and turn in
Map project and packets
Bring your text books tomorrow - in pairs - do you have a system?
November 15, 2001
DOL: Quiz - "Playing Mother Nature" - 25 errors
JOURNAL: Geography and maps make me think of . . .
DIAGRAMMING: Tom and Jerry laugh and chase.
Current events
Standardized test prep
Mind Maps - another way to take notes
Maps and packets
November 16, 2001
DOL: Subject/Verb agreement, hyphens (single-thought adjectives),
comma splice.
Most American car horns beeps in the key of F, a listener with a
good ear can tell a domestic made car from a foreign made car by
listening to its horn.
JOURNAL: The best thing about the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. . .
DIAGRAMMING: Tom and Jerry ran frantically.
Current events
Spelling test
Hand in DOL, Journal, Diagramming
Standardized test prep
Maps and packets