CLASSROOM WORK - May 7, 2001
Week 33
May 7, 2001
DOL: Fragment, Usage (Right Word), Commas (Series), Spelling
Environmental problems such as ozone depletion acid rain
overflowing landfills and oil spills effect everyone. Because we all
share one earth.
JOURNAL: The best thing about standardized testing week. . .
Current events
Homework Helps - back to school - don't give up NOW!
Awakenings - extra credit?
Civil War - artifacts
Sherman's March to the Sea
Review Chapter 12 - Test Thursday or Friday?
Lee or Grant - film
Read - whatever book you are on now - status check
May 8, 2001
DOL: Usage (Right Word), Apostrophe (Contraction), Dash (Emphasis)
Did you no that youve got alot of nerve 45 miles of nerves too be exact.
JOURNAL: America's reaction to not being on
the UN Human Rights Commission. . .
Current events
Appomattox Courthouse - film
Review Chapter 12
How do we finish the re enactment?
Literature - reading - short story
May 9, 2001
DOL: Usage (Right Word), Commas (Introductory Adverb Clause
and Incorrect Use)
When you get a headache the sense of pane being in the front or
back of your head is an allusion; the pain is in the nerves, and mussels
who surround your brain.
JOURNAL: What does it mean to be "popular"?
Current events
The Arts assignment
Computer lab
Civil War - review and Chapter 12 questions
May 10, 2001
DOL: Quiz - Green Politics - 15 errors
JOURNAL: If I had been alive at Appomattox. . .
Current events
Test review
Jeopardy - final year - 1865
Quickwrite - Essay - How do teens grow up successfully?
Use quotes and examples liberally
May 11, 2000
DOL: Hyphens (Single-thought adjective), Subject/Verb Agreement,
Capitalization, Abbreviations
The avg. three year old american child spend as much as
30 hrs./wk., watching Television.
JOURNAL: After the Civil War my character would hope . . .
Current events
Spelling test
Social Studies test
What comes next? Reconstruction
May 17, 2000
DOL: Commas (Nonrestrictive Clause), Usage Right Word)
Babe Ruth who's career began as a pitcher could throw two
baseballs in such a weigh that they would remain parallel from
his hand all the way across home plate.
JOURNAL: Gettysburg - Journal for other identity
Current events
Straighten up room for open house
Computer lab - period 6
Gettysburg
May 18, 2000
DOL: Subject/Verb Agreement, Capitalization,
Comma (Introductory Phrase)
According to some studies most types of violent crime, including
Assault and Armed Robbery, increases in number during a full moon.
JOURNAL: Recopy one (or both) of the Gettysburg journals. . .
Current events
Mind Maps - Chapter 12 - study and review
Sherman's March to the Sea
May 19, 2000
DOL: Quiz
JOURNAL: Finish and hand in Gettysburg Journal(s)
Current Events
Sherman's March to the Sea