DI assignments - March 14,  DUE MARCH 18

Teacher Led:  Finishing Solitary Confinement Article with Green and Pink Groups, Monday/Tuesday; Wed/Thursday/Friday with Orange and White - new article

Activity 2:  Vocabulary Project - Instructions here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eK4MUvMA6djhxS8BIHaHAQfOMw7C9BN6dQZIsu0LJ4E/edit?usp=sharing  

Activity 3:  Subject Verb Agreement Quiz - FSA PRACTICE  

Activity 4:  Vocabulary Project-  Instructions above

Study for your Flocabulary Test on Thursday/Friday!

Prefixes:    https://quizlet.com/_23dbz2
Roots:  https://quizlet.com/_23dcbl

March 3 and 4, 2016

Important information:

•  ESSAY DEADLINE HAS BEEN MOVED to Thursday and Friday, March 10 and March 11.  
• FLOCABULARY TEST on Pre-Fixes and Roots has also been moved to Thursday and Friday, March 10 and March 11.

Your FSA Writing test is next week!  Do everything you can to mentally prepare over the weekend.  You are going to do an amazing job, as long as you use everything you have learned.

DI FOR THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 3 and 4TH

Teacher Led:  Doing "Solitary Confinement" article with final groups

All other groups:  Working on your essay due next week.  When you finish a draft, swap papers with someone else and get feedback on what you might need to work on. 

*If you finish your essay and you feel it is perfect, you can study for your Flocabulary Test by memorizing all of the pre-fixes and roots.  Make flashcards online at quizlet.com 

 

This Assignment is ONLY For the people working with Ms. Thomas:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5zApGYVcTrdbFJqejVVZk8xTG8/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5zApGYVcTrdajlLblN1Y1lGM0E/view?usp=sharing

DI for the week of Feb 17 -

Teacher Led-  President Obama's address on Solitary Confinement and Author's structure   (worksheet ;  you must be in class to get credit for this!)

Activity 2:  Flocabulary - Pre-Fix
Click for the instructions:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VYxiDvpGoQcNArIBrMbAWTaM7rYPVW0K0INq4agbRR4/edit?usp=sharing

Activity 3:  No Red Ink -  www.noredink.com   (Lists)

Activity 4:  Begin work on a 5 paragraph essay on Macbeth.  This will be your most important grade of the quarter.  The essay is due on March 2 and 3rd (depending on your class period).

1) Pick a topic from the following options:

• Who is ultimately responsible for Macbeth's downfall?  
• Is Lady Macbeth an evil character?  Why or why not? 
• How does Macbeth's trajectory, ending in irony reveal the theme of "The Tragedy of Macbeth"?

By the end of today,  you should have a strong thesis statement written.  When you complete the thesis, collect any evidence you would need to support your claim out of the play. 

Macbeth work for February 1 and 2

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1io06PXJl7R97Sx9N7EBkaC1rkds_J_tUtX6mWTL3nhU/edit?usp=sharing

Below is the DI for the week of February 1st!  Lets go....


Teacher Led: 

DATA CHAT  - Last year's scores and Midyear results


Activity 2:  Speaking and Listening

The audio file can be accessed here  IF YOU ARE IN GOOGLE CHROME ONLY.
You will need to log into your gmail in a separate tab.  Make a copy of this worksheet and then answer the following questions

James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar at Columbia, argues that Shakespeare behaved more like a chemist than a writer: by smashing words together--words like eye and ball--he created new words, and new ways of seeing the world.

Activity 3:  FLOCABULARY - Roots

You can find your directions for this assignment here!

Activity 4:  No Red Ink -  Parallel Structure

www.noredink.com