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