ALL STUDENTS

YOUR MIDTERM GRADES AND FINAL GRADES ARE POSTED FOR MY CLASS.

HAVE A WONDERFUL BREAK. BE SAFE. HAVE FUN. YOUR TEACHER CARES ABOUT YOU.

MR. C

Mid Term Exams

Good luck!

Tuesday: 1st, 3rd, and 5th hour exams
Wednesday: 2nd, 4th, and 6th hour exams
Thursday: We high-five and clean out lockers.

Want to pass your finals?

Hey boys and girls, if you want an easy way to study for finals check out this link. It will take you to a site where you can make online flashcards and share them with your classmates. Divide and conquer.

http://www.flashcardmachine.com/

Study Time for Mid-Terms! (12/15)

Classes, all of you have been given (or will be receiving tomorrow) study guides for the mid-term exams. Please contact your friends in that class in order to find out what you need to study if you missed class today.

If you still are unable to get a study guide, email me and ask what you need to study. cororkes@agsd.us

Happy Studying.

2ND SEMESTER CLASS OFFERING

STUDENTS, NEXT SEMESTER I WILL BE OFFERING A FILM STUDY COURSE DURING 4TH PERIOD. THIS CLASS IS AVAILABLE TO ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SO LONG AS IT DOESN'T INTERFERE WITH YOUR SCHEDULE.

-Mr. C

Wednesday 12/14

9s:
Break down Road Not Taken further, read some more poems

Basic:
ORP

Brit:
The Star

10s:
Read and broke down Break, Break, Break. Practice counting syllables

8s:
xmas tree lane

Tuesday (12/13)

Tuesday:
9s:
Read through Figurative Language, Read through The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Basic:
ORP

Brit:
Finished 2nd Final Draft

10s:
Read through Figurative Language, Read poems out loud, Read and broke down Break, Break, Break. Practice counting syllables

8s:Xmas tree lane decor

12/12/11

Monday (12/12/11)
9s: Read section on simile and metaphor, write a poem that uses similes (10 lines long, doesn't have to rhyme, must have a simile in every other line, simile must be explained in the following line, last 2 lines are about you and last line is the word, "unexplainable"

Basic:
Read One Red Paperclip

Brit:
Continue working on Paper

10s:
Read section on simile and metaphor, write a poem that uses similes (10 lines long, doesn't have to rhyme, must have a simile in every other line, simile must be explained in the following line, last 2 lines are about you and last line is the word, "unexplainable"

8s:
Read section on simile and metaphor, write a poem that uses similes (10 lines long, doesn't have to rhyme, must have a simile in every other line, simile must be explained in the following line, last 2 lines are about you and last line is the word, "unexplainable"

Brit Lit

Turn in your papers via email to me before Midnight tonight.

8s

Tues-Thurs we are writing and revising. Monday (12-5) your stories are due at the beginning of the hour.

10s

Continue working on your short stories. Due Thursday. One copy to me and one copy for you to read out loud.

Brit Lit

Read to line 470 and paraphrase. You will have a quiz over today's discussion as well as what you are going to read on your own tonight.

Basic

Finish Autobio of fictitious felon and turn in at end of hour tomorrow. All autobios need to be no less than 1.5 pages and no more than 2.5 pages. Focus on detail of feelings and keeping the major events (crime, guilt, punishment or freedom) in chronological order.

Grade 9s

Finish Myths by Wednesday in class. You will present to your class and other classes on Thursday.

Thanksgiving Break!

9: Continue working on myth

basic: finish autobiography of your fictitious felon

brit: see previous post

10s: finish character profiles and begin writing short story. The further you get the more we have to edit next week

8s: begin writing your short stories. The further you get the more we will have to edit next week.

Brit Lit

Read PL from line 280-470 for Monday (11/28)

Have a very nice Thanksgiving and a safe break.

Tuesday (11.22.11)

9: Continue Myth Writing
Basic: Turn in your autobio by midnight tonight! Begin new (original) autobio tomorrow - finish Wednesday
Brit: Breakdown PL
10: Character profile - begin writing short story
8: Review suspense - begin writing

Monday (11/21/11)

9: Begin writing myth
Basic: Autobio for Clyde
Brit: Your papers are due at Midnight or before. We'll be moving on to PL
10: Begin writing Realistic Fiction
8: How to build suspense

TEST TOMORROW

ALL CLASSES BUT BRIT LIT, YOU HAVE A TEST TOMORROW.

All Students

I HIGHLY recommend that you sign up for 'Poetry Out Loud'. The sign up list is on Mrs. Lundy's door.

Rest of Week (11/16-18)

Grade 8, 9, and 10:
We are reading more tomorrow, review on Thursday, Test on Friday

Basic:
We'll finish the film and practice autobiography

Brit Lit:
Finish Titus paper

8th Graders

Friendly reminder 8th graders. Your Third person to First person translated stories are due before class. You need to email them to me AS AN ATTACHMENT. If you do not have a proper subject line or message, I will promptly delete your email.

See you tomorrow.

8s

I finished the "Make a Change" video. We will watch it tomorrow at the beginning of the hour.

All Classes

1st hour - Debate is going down Tuesday, we'll practice speeches Monday, we move onto short stories Wednesday and will reading and writing them for the next few weeks.

2nd hour - Debate is going down Tuesday. We'll practice speeches on Monday.

3rd hour - TITUS

5th hour - Debate is going down Tuesday, we'll practice speeches Monday, we move onto short stories Wednesday and will reading and writing them for the next few weeks.

6th hour - Continue through short story unit. We'll revisit "Revenge" as a review and then move on to further examples of short story

Brit Lit

Come to class tomorrow having finished reading the intro to Titus Andronicus and a family tree of all the characters in Titus Andronicus.

Brit Lit

Students, be ready to embark on a Shakespearean adventure unlike any other.

Debate Classes

Tomorrow we are going to practice delivering speeches 1 and 2. On Tuesday, we will be having a mock debate without an audience. From there, your teams will revise their speeches and conduct further research based on whatever topic you have.

We will have the live debate next week.

A+ Class!

Students enrolled in A+:

You are no longer allowed to skip from lesson to lesson. You must complete these lessons in order and you must pass the lesson before you move onto the next.

Thursday [27th]

9s: Finish researching for the debate and begin outlining speeches #1 and #2. Friday your speeches are due.

Basic: Finish researching for the debate and begin outlining speeches #1 and #2. Friday your speeches are due.

Brit: Begin Anachronism and Film analysis presentation. Finish Friday. Present on Monday.

10s: Finish researching for the debate and begin outlining speeches #1 and #2. Friday your speeches are due.

8s: Directors - do you have everyone in the video?
      Editors - does everyone in the video look at the camera during their part?
      Producers - are you ready to mail your clip to me?

Monday [all classes]

Brit Lit: your final drafts are due
9, 10, and Basic: we begin researching our debate topics [the day for the debate has been moved to Tuesday (November 1st)
8: we breakdown how to use iMovie on our iPads. You must have your iPad to participate.

Follow the postings...

The Google site that I created for my classes has exhausted all available memory space. From here on out, you will be able to find what we did in class on this blog. I will also post updates for major assignments and their due dates.