Mrs. Zana’s Class

1. Write your reading reflection for this week. Get a book if you need something new to read.

2. Copy this week’s 14 vocabulary words from the California Standards Test Vocabulary page. Note that the quiz will be in a different format this week. You will need to be able to give definitions or examples of the words.

3. Go to any of the Useful Sites listed that you haven’t been to yet (note the nice usage of the present perfect here). If you go to Mr. Kashman’s site, please comment on his “Roll Call” post.

4. When everyone is done with #1 and #2, we will do a group activity with more CST vocabulary. Yes, I know you love the CST vocabulary. And, to make it even more fun. . . it’s in a multiple choice format! Will the fun ever end?

5. Reader’s Theatre play, “Theseus and the Minotaur.”

Work on the following tasks. Please leave me a comment here to let me know how far your class got, and how the days went.

1. “History Alive!” Chapter 27. Do the preview activity in your Interactive Notebook. Read the chapter and complete the reading notes. Do the processing activity in your Interactive Notebook.

2. In your old grammar book, complete pages 146, 147 (NOT including the writing application), 151, 371. You do not need to write the entire sentences, but do include the helping verb on pages 146-147 (has, have, had, will have) and the indefinite pronouns on page 371.

3. Work on your Silly Questions comments (see the California Silly Test post for instructions).

4. If you finish, go to the new links I’ve posted that are grammar activities. These are:

Analogy Game
Analogy Of The Day
Analogy Quiz
Past Perfect Quiz
Present Perfect Quiz
Semicolon VS Comma Quiz
Semicolon VS Comma Quiz II

5. If you do all of that, go to Study Island and do the following quizzes:
punctuation
poetry
literary devices
revise writing
text organization

Period 1/2 and Period 5/6

1. Collect the 3 grammar worksheets they did in class and for homework yesterday. Give copies of the sheets to those who were absent.
2. Two packets of released CST questions are on the teacher’s desk. There are 56 questions total. They should use #2 pencils and a scantron. This will take quite awhile. Anyone finishing can read a library book or make up missing work. They must be quiet until everyone has finished.
3. Go over yesterday’s history classwork, chapter 24 reading notes. Answers are in purple teacher’s guide on desk.
4. If there is time, they should do the worksheet “Written and Oral English Language Conventions Standard 1.3” DON’T WRITE ON THE WORKSHEET” Do it on notebook paper.

Period 3 Computer Elective
1. Work on poetry project with Mr. Bernstein and his class (They will come to room 36)
2. Continue work on newspaper articles.
3. Anyone who has nothing to do can practice typing with the Alpha Smarts, or use Study Island.

I expect to hear you were wonderfully behaved! Let me know in your comments how the day went and if you got everything done. (Note: no comma in the last sentence because “if you got everything done” is not an independent clause. Extra credit if you tell me why it isn’t.)

Homeroom: Send me the absences and tardies as a comment. Only once, please!

Start the Social Studies lesson immediately after the announcements.

Pd. 1 Social Studies

1. Read chapter 24 and answer the Reading Notes questions in the Interactive Notebook (pp. 158-159) You may work with a partner if you work quietly.
2. Create the Silk Road Game, pp 160-161 in the Interactive Notebook. You can make a spinner by placing one end of a paper clip in the center of the spinner, place the point of a pencil inside that end of the paper clip to hold it in place, and then spin the paper clip. Paper clips are in the top right drawer of the teacher’s desk. Ask the teacher for one for whoever is playing your game. Return the clip when you are done playing

Pd 2 English

1. In the orange “California Content Standards: Practice and Mastery” booklets have the students do pp 7-8, question 17-21. If they ask you if they are supposed to fill out the application, just say, “Read the directions.” I want to make sure they won’t get tricked by this on the CST! They should answer on notebook paper; number it 17-21 and just write the letter of the correct answer.

2. When they finish, they should take out 2 laptops per table, go to my blog, and finish copying the standards and vocabulary for reading 1.5 and lang. conv. 1.3

3. When everyone is done, review the answers for questions 17-21 in the orange booklet. They should grade themselves (tell them it doesn’t count)

4. Pass out the 3 worksheets on Language Convention Standard 1.3. These are entitled:

Unit 12 Commas: Independent Clause Exercise
Commas to Separate Independent Clauses
Build Grammar Skills: Commas and Semicolons

You may need to go over the concepts with them – I only briefly introduced them. Whatever they don’t finish in class is homework due tomorrow.