February 13, 2009

Final Day of Winter Carnival!!!

Period 5:
Descriptions.....

Have a great vacation & see you all at the ball tonight!

Thought for the day...
All glory comes from daring to begin.
- Eugene F. Ware

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Winter Carnival: Early Release Schedule!
Best of luck at Quiz Bowl and Lip Sync

Period 1:
Review vocabulary
All Quiet quiz
In-class reading

Period 2:
Review vocabulary
Don Quixote test

Period 3:
Reading Our Town

Period 5:
You are a detective - in a kitchen....

Thought for the day...
"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. "
Michael Jordan

May you all enjoy this week's events!

Winter Carnival day 2 & last day before break

Good morning,

Great lip synchs yesterday and nice work in the quiz bowl.

Today:

Period 5: Students will share and discuss their revised essays. Students will work on some revision exercises and also begin to explore what they would be interested in researching.

Period 6: Students will be taking a test on Things Fall Apart and turning in their TFA essays. Then students will begin topic selection and preliminary research for the Kindness Project.

Enjoy the events and see you at the ball.

Mrs. Tyler

Winter Carnival Begins

Good morning classes!

Today is the first day of winter carnival and thus, I will not be meeting with any of you in class.

Please see yesterday's post, Snow Day, for your class information.

Period 5, make sure you have your essays as we WILL be having class on Friday.

Period 6, make sure you have completed your essay (the prompt is under Snow Day) and are ready for the Things Fall Apart test.

Good luck at the Carnival - I am looking forward to my first Woodsville High School Winter Carnival. If you would like to help decorate please see me before lip synch or the quiz bowl.

Mrs. Tyler

PS - Don't forget to check out the extra credit opportunity - The first one takes place in about a week!

SNOW DAY!

Hi, all,

As you all know, today is a snow day and because of Winter Carnival, I will not be meeting with many of you before break.

Period 1:
Complete final drafts of your brochure and your 2 maps (Cannery Row & your community). If you need paper or to pick up the final draft you have started, please stop by my classroom on Thursday or Friday.

Period 3:
Work and practice those college speeches. Make sure your speech has a point and don't forget to dress for success on Monday when we return.

Period 5:
We will be meeting on Friday morning. Don't forget to bring a revised draft of an essay to class.

Period 6:
We will be meeting on Friday and you will take your Things Fall Apart test. Here is your essay prompt (the essay is due on Friday, typed & doublespaced):

At the end of the novel, we learn that the District Commissioner is writing a book called, The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger. He notes that "the story of ...[the] man who...killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph, at any rate." (Achebe 208-209) Contrast this with Achebe writing a whole book on Okonkwo. What does this tell us about how the imperialists viewed the native cultures? How did Achebe feel about imperialism?


Today's quote to consider:
"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it." - Irving Berlin
Do you agree? What do you think?

Enjoy your snow day!

Mrs. Tyler