Joiner FWHS agendas: English 4 and Drama: December 2008

Friday, December 19, 2008

12/16/08 is exam review day for all 1,3,5 classes
12/17/08 is semester exam for all 1,3,5 classes
12/18/08 is exam review day for all 2,4,6 classes
12/19/08 is semester exam for all 2,4,6 classes
All projects, AR, make-up work must be complete and turned in by close of school day on 12/19/08. No work will be accepted late after the holidays.

Complete all presentations and presentation observation journals
Go over list of assignments, solicit make up work, take up all finished work
Give time to work on chapter notes and remind that the next chapter will be on the semester exam (chapters 6 and 21 for respective levels)
Play with hat characters

Make up tests and other work
Grammar review
Gift: the Hannah is on my website for students to download and print. Students really only need to print pages 2-14 because the rest of the Hannah information is covered in other handouts they already have.
Last day for Author papers -- take up
All current projects must be completed by Friday, December 19 at the end of the school day for credit. This includes all AR, tests and reading logs, and the compare/contrast essay redo assignment.

Take up all make up and completion work.
Final teams complete their chapter project presentations
Students turn in hat character questions and get in to hat character for interviews and interaction activities
Students are to continue to work on their next assigned chapters for test next class and/or the semester exam
Students are assigned an observation journal for the hat character presentations.

Prepare, review, and give vocabulary lesson 8 test
Take up vocabulary 8 homework
Notebook test from overhead
Compare and Contrast questions and answers: students have until last day of class to complete the project upgrade/redo
Hannah notes and explanations: The Hannah has been posted on the website until Christmas. It is copyrighted so only FWHS students have permission to download and use. This is review and preparation for the semester exam. Students are required to know all the basics of grammar, subject/verb agreement, pronoun case and agreement, punctuation, capitalization and all the rest we have covered this semester. Students will be allowed to use their notebook and their copy of the Hannah on the test.
Take up Author assignment. Final deadline is 12/12/08 by the end of the day
A.R. questions and answers. We are at the end and all is due. Many students haven't even listed their second book with me. Any book not listed won't count.

Presentations for chapter projects. This will have to continue next period due to absences.
List make up work on the board so students can complete and turn in.
Students are required to write an observation journal based on current class presentations.
Next chapter was assigned and will be tested next Monday and/or on the semester exam.
Next class students will be expected to get in hat character and interviewed. Time was given to prepare. Suggested that each student create 3 to 5 questions they could answer the best in character. Reminded that questions are best when they are open ended.

Fine Art overhead #3 compare/contrast and show process
CYA 17 with all the related notes and mini-lessons
Reminder vocabulary notebook tests on 12/10,11
Go over comparison contrast essays in class using the document camera. Complete explanation/notes on topic/focus, main idea, example, and illustration/anecdote. Go over handout given last class.
Assign in the Elements of Language for review and preparation for semester exam: pages 404-566, and 666-772. Each class will choose review techniques and assignments which will help them most in their preparation.
Handout 5 stages of writing and prewrites
Handout singular/plural examples
Take up author essays (from day we had computers). Some students have forgotten and will be given until next class to turn them in.

Fine arts overhead #1: list, define, write about the artist's self portrait
CYA 16 with the related notes and mini-lessons
Give lesson 8 vocabulary words
Copy notes related to writing handbook for increasingly specific detail from topic/focus statement to main point to example to anecdote/illustration

Students were give time to prepare for their level appropriate test.
Tests given
Students given the rest of the period to finish chapter related projects. Students were encouraged to be aware of the critique values in their chapter for their presentation.
Project presentations begin at the beginning of next class.

Give students laptop computers immediately when they arrive to class
The lesson 7 vocabulary test was scheduled for 11/21,24, but was delayed in an effort to give students opportunity to have an extra make up opportunity -- vocabulary should, however, been completed
Students were told to do 2 assignments on the laptops.
Assignment 1: If vocab homework wasn't completed -- use the internet to look up and complete the vocabulary homework. The work can be turned in on paper or digitally.
Assignment 2: Student friendly research. Students are to go on the internet and their favorite or current author. They are to find three interesting facts about their author and write rough draft essays explaining why each of the facts is interesting to them. Anecdotes and personal illustrations are heavily encouraged. Work can be turned in digitally or on paper. If not completed during class, it may be turned in next class.
Review and take lesson 7 vocabulary test

Give students reprieve: chapter tests next class instead of today.
Give level 2 students computers and sound effects CD's for their work on sound project
Give level 1 students reminders and explanations about focus of movement project
Give all levels a reminder of the critique which will be used to evaluate their projects.
Give rest of period to work on completing projects.
Project presentation will begin next class after chapter tests

Students missed writing about the rural painting (overhead #6). They are to do 2 writings: a freewriting about the lifestyle represented in the painting, and a personal journal of their experience of the painting.
Discussion related to main points, examples, and illustrations -- the path to great thinking and writing
Use the document scanner to show student work on the projector and discuss for the rest of the period.
Some chit chat about Thanksgiving in an effort to get students thinking details and support.