Wednesday, March 15, 2017

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 13-15

Wednesday 15 March 2017 for Periods  5 & 6 and Thursday 16 March 2017 for Periods 1, 2 & 7

Students listened to Chapter 14 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took a quiz over Chapters 13 and 14.

After the quizzes, students spent ten minutes practicing their vocabulary on Membean.

Homework:  Read Chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird.

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 11-13

Tuesday 14 March 2017 for Periods  2, 5 & 6 and Wednesday 15 March 2017 for Periods 1 & 7

Students listened to Chapter 12 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took a quiz over Chapters 11 and 12.

After the quizzes, students spent ten minutes practicing their vocabulary on Membean.

Homework:  Read Chapter 13 of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Monday, March 13, 2017

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 9-11

Monday 13 March 2017 for Periods 1, 2, 5 & 6 and Tuesday 14 March 2017 for Period 7

Students listened to Chapter 10 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took a quiz over Chapters 9 and 10.

After the quizzes, students spent ten minutes practicing their vocabulary on Membean.

Homework:  Read Chapter 11 of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Thursday, March 9, 2017

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 7-9

Thursday 9 March 2017 for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday 10 March 2017 for Periods 1, 2, & 7

Students listened to an audio recording of Chapter 8 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took quizzes over Chapters 7 and 8.

Students spent over ten minutes on Membean.

Homework:  Read Chapter 9 of To Kill a Mockingbird.

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 5-7

Wednesday 8 March 2017 for Periods 5 & 6 and Thursday 9 March 2017 for Periods 1, 2, & 7

After listening to an audio recording of Chapter 6 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, students took quizzes over Chapters 5 and 6.

Students spent ten minutes on vocabulary drills on Membean.

Homework:  Read Chapter 7 of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 3-5

Tuesday 7 March 2017 for Periods 2, 6 & 6 and Wednesday 8 March 2017 for Periods 1 & 7

Students listen to an audio recording of Chapter 4 of To Kill a Mockingbird at the beginning of class and the take a quiz over Chapters 3 & 4.

After spending ten minutes completing vocabulary drills on Membean, students take their weekly vocabulary test.

Students have the opportunity to begin reading Chapter 5 before the end of the period.

Homework:  Finish reading Chapter 5 of To Kill a Mockingbird in preparation for a quiz over Chapters 4 & 5.


Monday, March 6, 2017

To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 1-3

Monday 6 March 2017 for Periods 1, 2, 5, & 6 Tuesday 7 March 2017 for Period 7

Students listened to an audio recording of Chapter 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird when they came to class. Mr. Stone expects them to follow along in either a print or electronic copy of the text as they listen.

After listening to Chapter 2, students took multiple choice quizzes over Chapters 1 and 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Students then spent ten minutes in vocabulary drills on Membean.  During their next English class period they will take their weekly individualized vocabulary test (20 questions).

Students began listening and/or reading Chapter 3 of To Kill a Mockingbird during the remaining class time.

Homework:  Finish reading Chapter 3 of To Kill a Mockingbird. Expect a quiz over Chapter 3 during the next class period.

Friday, March 3, 2017

Comma Test & Chapter 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird

Thursday 2 March 2017 for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday 3 March 2017 for Periods 1, 2, & 7

After students took their comma test, they spent ten minutes completing vocabulary drills on Membean.

Mr. Stone began reading aloud Chapter 1 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

Homework:  Finish reading Ch. 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird.  (If you don't have a book yet, then Chapter 1 is available for preview on Amazon.  You can ask Mr. Stone to read the last page in class if you don't yet have a book.)

Students need to have a print or digital text version of the novel so that they can follow along while we listen to a dramatic recording of the novel during class time.  They will be expected to read chapters outside of class time as well.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Comma Test Reminder

The comma test will be on Thursday, March 2nd for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday, March 3rd for Periods 1, 2, & 7.

Sentence Combining

Wednesday 1 March 2017 for Periods 5 & 6 and Thursday 2 march 2017 for Periods 1, 2, & 7

While students completed ten minutes of vocabulary practice on Membean, Mr. Stone checked on their completion of Comma Practice #3.

Mr. Stone went over the correct answers for Comma Practice #3, identifying the specific construction as well as the rule for each question.

Students then practiced combining two clauses to look at comma uses from a sentence construction perspective.

Homework:  Review Comma Practices 1-3 and the Rule sheets to prepare for the test.  If time permits complete some of the self-scoring comma quizzes available through links on the righthand side of this blog.