To start off the day today, we got our tests back, and went over them. Steph was the extra credit answer. Then we opened our classical roots books and went over the words. Mr. Watson said that he thought we weren’t taking enough time with our words. After that, we opened out red vocab books, and went over the words. We have to do pages 101, and 102 by tomorrow, we also have to read and write a journal response about chapters 7-10 in TDA.
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CP: Today in class we went over the vocab quiz that we took on Friday. Then we went over our new vocab. Our quiz is Thursday. Our homework for this week is.
Due Tuesday: 7-10 TDA job & journal response, Vocab 101-102
Due Wendesday- Vocab 103-104
Due Thursday – Vocab Test
Due Friday – Revision of TRP essay
Jobs for Tuesday
Summarizer 5
Illustrator 6
Word Wizard 1
Passage Master 2
Connector 3
Discussion Director 4

Vocab Unit 8 Test

Today on class we took our vocabulary test and our grades are already posted. On Tuesday we have to read chapter 7, 8, 9, and 10 in The Devils Arithmetic. Number 5 is summarizer. Number 6 is Illustrator. Number 1 is word wizard. Number 2 is passage master. Number 3 is connector. Number 4 is discussion director.

Last of ERB's!!!

Today in Honors English, we went over our Classical Roots homework. Then we talked about the vocabulary quiz tomorrow. The words are from unit 8 in the red vocabulary book ad the 7 words in the classical roots book which are: bisection, duplication, monogram, monologue, quatrain, triumvirate, and unilateral. The CP test will only cover Unit 8 in the red book. Remember that you have work due for The Devil's Arithmetic on Tuesday.

-Steph

The Devil's Arithmetic 4-6

Today in class we started off by talking about The Devil’s Arithmetic, we talked about the genre of the story which was fiction. Then, we moved on to the author’s purpose in the story. We came up with the answer that was, “the author was trying to show the reader about the Jewish culture and their holidays, and the life of a young Jewish girl”. So far we also said that Hannah has not changed and that she is complaining more. We then shared our journal responses and jobs to the class. We shared illustrators, and we did summarizers and discussion directors. After that we had to take a quiz on the chapters. Tomorrow we going to have time in class to read your book and study for the vocab quiz on Friday or begin on the TDA 7-10 due Tuesday.

Important: Mr. Watson will be meeting with 6H-2 during lunch to discuss the Classical Roots vocabulary. Please join him if you would like a review before the test on Friday.

Writing Day

Today in class we went over the vocabulary homework that was due. We will have a quiz on Unit 8 on Friday, so be sure you're studying this week. Then we discussed the expectations for corresponding with the students in Italy we are working with. For the last part of class I met with individual students to review the last essays you wrote. Also, remember that your work for Chapters 4, 5, and 6 will be due on Wednesday because of our field trip. See you EARLY tomorrow morning.

Mr. Watson

ERB Day 2

Honors
Today mr.watson told us that we were going to receive our first e-mail from our friends in ITALY. He told us not to use our steds e-mail for another purposes besides school. The e-mail from out friends will be about a law that is being contemplated, the law is that parents of kids that smoke can not smoke in the car, while their children are in the car. Then we discussed our families experiences with the Nazis and the Germans and Jewish beliefs.

Here is the home work for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
*read chpts. 4-6 TDA job and journal response due Wednesday *classical roots pages 9-13 due Wednesday
And vocab pages 96-97 due Monday

CP
The first thing that we talked about is the rules for our email. THEY ARE THE SAME. We also talked about how we will be talking to our Italian friends about the law in Australia. The law is that if a parent smokes, then they aren’t aloud to smoke in their cars with children. Mr. Watson would also like us to copy the email to his address when you email the other kids in Italy. After we discussed our email obligations, we went over our Job and Journal Responses for the Devil’s Arithmetic. During this discussion, Sam was talking about how that his last Sunday school, was about the holocaust and how nobody had food and when they tried to get food they would get shot or killed someway. We ended our conversation by saying that homework will be chapters 4 THROUGH 6. This is due on Wednesday because we will be on a field trip Tuesday.

ERB Day 1

Mr. Watson said that we didn’t do as well as he had hoped on the vocab test, with a few exceptions. The rest of the class thought it was because we didn’t review enough. He passed back the quizzes, and then we went over them. After that, we corrected our homework, which were pages 94 and 95 in our vocab books. When we were doing that, Sam was rolling a water bottle up and down his desk. We also discussed the anatomy of his new shoes that he has had for one week now. That is all. :)

Self-Evaluations and Unit 8 Vocabulary

ENGLISH CP-The first thing we did today was we did our analogy of the day, and we finished the last part of our preposition project. YES THE PREPOSITON PROJECT IS DONE! For the last part we had to create a self-evaluation, the questions that we had to answer were:

1) Did I do my part?
2) Did I work well with my team?
3) Did I know when to speak and when to listen?
4) Was I an important part of the project?


After we were done with that, we went over the new vocabulary words. Our homework for tonight vocab pages 94-95 due on Thursday (tomorrow)


HONORS-Today first we went over the day’s analogy. Next, we finished our self-evaluation for the preposition project. We also went over the classical root’s book from our home work last week. Our home work due tomorrow is our English vocab pages 94 and 95

Vocabulary Unit 7 Test

Today we took a test on Unit 7 in our vocabulary books.

Important Dates:
Friday 4/20-Have job and journal response done for Chapters 1-3 in The Devils Arithmetic
Friday 5/18-Honors classes must have read two books and turned in the reviews, CP must
have read one book and turned in the review.

Final Day of Presentations

Today in CP we did our analogy for the day, wide: sombrero: long sleeve: sweatshirt. Then we went to see if a chain letter was true or a lie. Then we presented the last preposition project. NOTICE-Tomorrow we have a vocabulary quiz!

Today in honors we read a chain letter that Delaney sent to Mr. Watson. It was a fake cancer/ tumor story about Amy Bruce that had been fooling people since 1998. Then Sasha, Leigh, Mary Kate, Kimmy, and Paul did their presentation and people evaluated them.
Vocab test tomorrow on Unit 7 and pages 3-8 due in Classical Roots book.
Tori, and Hayden Abby and James are the best scribes in the world!!

Presentations Day 1

Today in class we went over our daily analogy. The analogy was FIRE: FLAME:: ________: squat, and the answer was B – crouch. Then, we went over our vocab pages 89-90 that we had to do for homework. The subjects we had to go over were “Choosing the Right Words,” and “Vocabulary in Context.” Then we went straight to the projects. The first presenter in 6H-1 was Hayden, Dana, Delaney, Cristian, and Elliot. The first presenter in 6-3 was Ashlynn, Cara, Jeremiah, Johnny, Evan, and Eric. The first presenters in 6-2 were Alex, Hillary, Brandon, Austin, and Chris. Last but not least, the first presenters in 6H-2 were Taylor, Matthew, Josh, Molly, and Rosie. No homework tonight.

Writing and Preparing Day 3

Today in class we went over plagiarism and how the teachers can find it in like 2 minutes. Someone… got caught because Mr. Watson copied and pasted into Google with quotes and he found out exactly where he got it. Then, after we talked about that we looked over our homework. Page 87-88 in our vocabulary books. Some kids were making up excuses because they didn’t do their homework. For example, I left my vocab book in my locker, forgot to do it etc. After, that we did our project because today is the last day, and it’s due tomorrow. Also, pages 89 and 90 in our vocab books are due.

Writing and Preparing Day 2

We did our daily analogy.

Rat: Rodent :: Ranch : _farm_

cattle
farm
barn


Then we talked about plagiarism, and Mr. Watson showed us an example. If you plagiarize at our school you get a white slip (academic dishonesty). Then we opened our vocab books on page 84, and we went over the words.

amiss
brawl
detest
domestic
flagrant
flaw
fledgling
fluster
foremost
momentum
notable
nurture
paradox
perjury
presume
prior
proficient
salvo
vigilant
wrath


Then we opened Criterion, and opened the most recent draft of our essay.

We copied and pasted it into word. Then we made sure we got the correct format. Then we e-mailed it as an attachment. At the end of class, Mr. Watson said that tomorrow is the last day to do our projects. They are due on Thursday. Also due on Thursday, 89 and 90 in our vocab books. Your projects should be done by Wednesday!!!

DUE Wed. - p. 87&88 in your vocab books.

Writing and Preparing Day 1

Daily analogy
The answer was 1. Barrette because it was a type of flower and a barrette is a type of hairclip
We went over what we will be doing for Thursday and Tuesday
We need to make sure that we use our time wisely
Style over Substance it means worrying about visual more than the content and doing what you are intending to do
We worked on our projects
Mr. Watson said that he wants to see the best work that we are capable of doing
He said that we will get to use Tuesday and Wednesday to finish our projects
We won’t get the whole period to work on our projects because we will get to work on vocab
Our vocab test will be the next Monday we have in school
Use our time our time wisely

Research Day 2

Mr. Watson went over why a lady has come here to our school. He said that if you have read two books, then you can vote on your favorite one. If you have read three, then you can get something free from the bookstore. He also said that we are taking the ERB’s over the next two weeks. We will be going over something at the beginning of every class to get us ready for the ERB’s.



In the beginning of the class today, we went over what analogies are.

Example: EXTINCT: DODO :: ___________ : PALACE

Answer: SPLENDID





The relationship between the first pair of words is descriptive; extinct is describing dodo. Therefore, splendid is describing the palace.



Also, the groups worked on their projects. They worked on researching and maybe started their presentation.



Your lists of resources are due today by 3:30.

Day 1 Research

Mr. Watson talked about Criterion and his grading difficulties. Sarah presented her essay and Mr. Watson posted comments on our essays. He put in the introduction paragraph that we needed to include the author’s name and also the lessons that he learned. Mr. Watson changed the due date of our final draft by 3:30 on Thursday. Some of the spelling errors on Criterion are actually right such as names and quotes. Be sure that your entire essay is in present tense. Criterion doesn’t catch all the errors but at the same time, some of the errors are not really errors. For our preposition projects, you must have your plan by Tuesday 3:30 if you want 9/10. Tomorrow you must have a list of all of your research sourced turned in by 3:30. Interview, web, and books, are all the resources you need of you want full credit.

Plan Due

Mr. Watson was telling us about the Preposition Project…and how you can use the resources, the emails and the blog, to see that your first draft for your essay is due today by 3:30. Also we learned that the Essay will be due this Wednesday. He showed us an example of a plan for our project and Mr. Watson told us it would be an 8 out of 10. He explained it has to have correct grammar and spelling, that we can use our resources. He also talked about how it doesn’t matter if you don’t look at the blog every night because he emails it to us every homeroom study. Also you can write an article for the Press Journal on blogging and blogs and also how it helps us…if you want to do this please talk Mr. Watson. Then, after this we worked on our project.