Thursday, May 29, 2008

Period 1:
Review for final

Period 3:
Message in the music

Period 5:
Work on Portfolios - Peer Review/Edits
Conferences

Period 6:
Review for final

Quote of the day...
Woodrow Wilson - "The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
What streams have you swam against? How strong is the stream?

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Period 1:
Read Act 2 of All My Sons
Discuss Final Exam Date

Period 3:
Quote Speeches

Period 5:
Work on Revisions

Period 6:
1984 Quiz
Discuss 1984
Vocabulary Review


Quote of the day...
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
-Saint Thomas Aquinas

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

I have decided that despite what the calendar says, it is NOT Tuesday. It is really Monday. Please excuse any inconsistencies & errors because Mrs. Tyler is having a real Monday.

Period 1:
Reading Act One of All My Sons
Work on "I believe..."

Period 3:
Talking about your final
Quote Speeches
Using Propaganda

Period 5:
Revision Activities: Another Point of View...

Period 6:
Discussing 1984 Parts I & II - Quiz tomorrow
Vocabulary Review Games

Quote of the day...
Walt Disney - "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

Mrs. Tyler's dream: Please let it be Tuesday...

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Period 1:
Persepolis Test
Present Current Events

Period 3:
Propaganda Role Plays

Period 5:
Work on Portfolios

Period 6:
Discuss 1984
Present Current Events
Vocabulary Quiz #15

Quote of the day...
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
Langston Hughes

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Period 1:
Review Vocabulary
**SADD ASSEMBLY**
Review Persepolis

Period 3:
Final Infomercial
Discussing Propaganda & role plays

Period 5:
Work on essays

Period 6:
1984 Quiz & Discussion

Quote of the day...
Socrates - "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit."
Do you agree?

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Period 1:
Review Persepolis Quiz & Reading
Work on Memoirs

Period 3:
Finish Infomercials

Period 5:
Work on Portfolio pieces

Period 6:
Hamlet Test
Review Vocabulary
Discuss 1984 - Questions from yesterday


Quote of the day...
Peter Drucker - "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
How does this quote apply to you?

Monday, May 19, 2008

Period 1:
Persepolis Quiz
Work on Memoir Project

Period 3:
Infomercials

Period 5:
Work on first lines/introductions
Prep for portfolios

Period 6:
Discuss 1984
Finish Hamlet

Quote of the day...
HG Wells - "If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."