HAPPINESS IS READING AND TEACHING ENGLISH
HAPPINESS IS READING AND TEACHING ENGLISH!
By Elizabeth Jean Cundieff, Ed. D.
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A guide to teaching reading and English complete with activities and 180 days of classroom objectives for multiple classes/grade levels. A manual for English and reading teachers everywhere!
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Copyright , 1996. All rights reserved by Elizabeth Jean Cundieff. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the authors, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in reviews.
Acknowledgments
I want to give very special thanks to my husband, Newton B. Cundieff, for his unconditional love, support, and encouragement, and to my parents and our families for their love and loyalty throughout my lifetime.
I am also indebted to the many teachers and colleagues at Alvin High School, and Blinn College who assisted in developing many of the ideas described herein and a special thanks to the generations of Farson-Eden students for the part they played in refining the reading/English program over a period of many years.
Most of all, God and the Lord Jesus Christ, have guided and directed me in my endeavor, and may I always remember, “whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” I thank God for my life and my salvation and my wonderful husband who has made happiness a reality for me.
To the readers of this guide, “Thanks for reading this booklet and I hope it will help and encourage you in your teaching endeavors. May God Bless You!”
Jean Cundieff
Matthew 5:16
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1- Teaching Concepts that Work
1-Reading is the Heart of Education
Fun Sheets
Use Multimedia
Intersperse Games
Posters and Black Lights
Use What Works
Rewards and Contests are Powerful Motivates
Selecting Reading Materials
Students Select Their Own Topics
What About the Classics?
Remedial Reading
Measuring Success
Good Study Methods Important
Oral Response Builds Confidence
Spelling is one of the keys
2- Teaching English
Chapter 2- Classroom Management
1- Overview
My Background
2- Classroom Management Techniques
Daily Activities
Sample Plan
Future Teachers of America
Chapter 3- Daily Objectives for 180 Days of Teaching
Chapter 4- Conclusion
Appendices
Preface
Many programs now exist which might aid a beginning reading or English teacher in his or her search for materials, objectives and daily activities, as he or she is beginning a new career in teaching reading or English. However, a new teacher typically does not have the time to read volumes of works and hopefully, this is where this booklet might prove useful.
Over my thirty year career which involved teaching reading and English, (elementary through college levels), I had the opportunity to try out a variety of teaching approaches. Some worked, some didn’t. This book contains those approaches that seemed to work best in my classrooms.
The curriculum guide presented in this booklet allows for smooth and efficient learning in the classroom environment. The students benefit greatly by learning and implementing good organizational skills and assuming responsibility for tracking and meeting their assignments and becoming proficient in the subject matter! Many go on to successfully complete college programs with ease based on the skills mastered in elementary school and refined at the high school level.
By following the guidelines and ideas developed over a lifetime of teaching in the classroom, you can increase your effectiveness in teaching reading and English and begin to turn out well-prepared graduates which is what teaching is all about!
Jean Cundieff
Chapter 1
Teaching Concepts that Work!
1-Reading is the Heart of Education.
Reading is fascinating and fabulous. No other subject can surpass it
because no other subject can be effectively taught unless the
student can read!
If a teacher can convey the idea to the students that reading is fun, the job of teaching reading is greatly simplified! The students will take it from there. With fun and interesting materials, a student will teach himself or herself, to read better. His or her skills will improve automatically as the student begins reading more and more.
One simple way to make reading more fun is by selecting a theme and making reading assignments based on the theme (e.g. racing, frontier life, etc.). Then concentrate on their reading skills “secretly” within the selected theme. Try to choose activities which students can enjoy which takes their attention off the fact that they are being taught a reading skill.
The more a child reads, the better reader he or she will become....this is my theme! So, if I get the student to read more, I do not have to stress skills and dwell on workbooks.
Your attitude as a teacher is what is most important when teaching reading in the classroom. Be excited, be prepared, be creative, smile, and read a lot! Don’t expect your kids to read if you don’t.
Fun Sheets
Make everything you do in class a “fun” activity. Call them “fun sheets” instead of “work sheets”.
Use Multimedia
Use the television set, tape recorder, VCR, and record player once a week or more, if possible. Video-tape your students in their activities and you’ll see a marked improvement in the students’ attitude and progress. Pursue activities that use media, because kids love it!
Intersperse Games
Games are more important than most teachers think. Any teacher can waste valuable hours teaching vocabulary and spelling while their students are “tuned out”. However, one game of Password or Scrabble will tune the students back in. Insist that students use these games, so that they are continually reinforcing the use and meanings of words. Games really work- try to design original games or adapt commercial games for each reading skill. This brings lots of fun into the READING class.
Posters and Black Lights
Bright colored posters and black lights sound outrageous in a classroom, but if you culminate a library project with a “read-in” with black lights, you will be surprised how much more successful your library project will be.
Use What Works
Granted, all students in junior high and high schools will not work well with the same activities and games. You may have to refine the games/activities to come up with ones that for your students. This is where your creativity is put to the test. If one activity does not go over, drop it....try another. You may drop ten before you find a successful, fun learning experience for one particular group of students, but it is worth the trouble. Instead of being in a rut, you find you are constantly thinking of activities to motivate one student or a whole group. And the best place to get those motivating ideas is from your students themselves. Let them read about subjects they like and enjoy and show an interest in...That’s when reading becomes fun for them. Sit down with your students. Ask them, “What would you like to read about these next few weeks? Name some activities for me to consider as I write this unit.” You’ll get some brilliant and some dull suggestions. Your job is to filter...find the most fun activity which best suits the reading skill you are concentrating on. Then try it!!
Rewards and Contests are Powerful Motivates
Use rewards, contests and prizes constantly. Even if the students work for the prizes rather than for acquiring reading skills, do not worry. As long as he or she has to have the skill to win the prize, your job is a success. Whatever his or her aim, he or she still acquires the skill, and that is what
I am interested in. Awards and rewards work wonders. You’ll be
surprised how long a very poor reading student will read, just to
get a piece of gum or a bookmark...no big prize...just a token to
show that I appreciate his or her efforts. More and more, students will try for that appreciation. Many people disagree with me on the reward system, but, I know that we, as adults, thrive on kind words, 5-year pins, “Woman of the Year” awards, and rewards of all types, sizes, and shapes. Why, then, would we
not expect our students to thrive on simple rewards such as kind
words, certificates, prizes, trophies, etc.? No matter what our
ages are, we like to be recognized for achievement, and if our
rewards are not misused or overused, them I definitely believe in
them. Not only that, but in thirty years, I have seen the reward
system work over and over, with students on whom other teachers
had “given up”.
Selecting Reading Materials
What part do readers and other material play in the classroom, and what types of materials should I use? These are questions often asked by teachers. I say, use anything and everything you find to interest your students and get them to
read. Then, slowly integrate some good books and stories into their reading schedule...along with those comics. Yes, I recommend comics if that’s all you can get student to read. I sometimes use comics and magazines in my READING classroom as a supplement and a treat. Then I try to have interesting paperbacks on topics in which my students are interested.
Paperbacks are more appealing than readers, although I do cover the standard readers. I believe in allowing and encouraging students to read books on motorcycles if this is one of their interests you will find this stressed over and over in my writings.
Students Select Their Own Topics
Let the student read anything worthwhile on topics he or she loves. Don’t force your books and materials on him or her. Expose a student to good paperbacks but do not choose for him or her. You’ll run into listlessness, sleeping students, uncooperativeness, and discipline problems if you do. Direct and
guide to good materials on a wide variety of subjects and at the same time, get rid of any trash they might have. A good way to do this type of filtering is to have a book trade their trashy paperbacks for some good sound reading on their favorite subjects. I do not believe in “trashy” language or stories, so I
read the books first, and burn the garbage. Bad language shows a lack of intelligence and a lack of vocabulary so I wish students would keep out the books with filthy language. There are “tons” of books with decent language in them for students to read. However, I leave the choices to the students and their parents, and never tell a student he/she cannot read a particular book or
author.
What About the Classics?
What is a classic? It is a book which, due to excessive reading, has become a very popular book. Many of our so called “classics”, however, were chosen many years ago when interests were entirely different. Should we cling to all of them as the “foundation of good literature”? I say, expose them to these “Classics” and let today’s readers make their own classics! Many “classics” are popular with our current students and they are fine but some are forced on students because the teacher or parent liked the book herself! This, to me, is an injustice to the child. Let the kids be free to choose and make the classics of 1996, but only if guided and directed, so that “trash” is not considered a classic!
Remedial Reading
Teaching reading is fun because all sorts of opportunities and paths can be takes. Those kids who “can’t read or who hate to read” can be brought around to “love to read” with easy, interesting materials. You need to show a great interest and love for reading yourself. I keep “fanciest” for those students
who have particular reading problems and individually help him or her with that skill. But I never try to force stories and books of my choice only.
Remedial reading is part of any READING curriculum because there are students in almost every grade who cannot read at their grade level. The most important thing in the teaching of remedial readers is motivation, as no one can be taught something he does not want to learn.
Remedial reading students usually have a long history of failure, and, although they do not like to fail, they have grown to expect it and react either stoically or flippantly. In order to establish an aura of hope about their study, it is necessary, first of all, to convince each student that he really can succeed.
Measuring Success
The measure of success to the student is the grade. One of the most successful approaches to the teaching of the remedial reader is the guarantee him/her that you can assist him/her to raise his or her grades from one to four levels, if
the student will apply himself. This must be done at the beginning of the year, even before the student can see the long range results of the reading therapy to be undertaken and developed painstakingly throughout the year. In order to implement this guarantee, supportive work in the other solid subjects of the student must be a part of the remedial curriculum.
Good Study Methods Important
Study methods must be emphasized. The techniques of extracting information from a textbook without reading word for word, must be taught and practiced in the reading classroom. The student must be taught to look at chapter title, introductory remarks, section headings, pictures, charts, and graph captions, and words must be encouraged to study the questions at the end of the chapter before he starts to study, as well as afterward.
Even if the reading class becomes temporarily almost exclusively supportive to science, social studies, and other courses outside of the reading, the time is well spent in establishing motivation.
Oral Response Builds Confidence
The student must be urged to respond orally in his other classes whenever he understands the answer to the instructor’s question, in order to build an image, in the eyes of his peers and his teachers, of one who is able and interested in the work. The most important result of this work is the change of the student in his own estimation of himself. During this period of study, the remedial reading teacher may also place emphasis on supportive work in the study of spelling, if it is a part of the English curriculum.
Spelling is one of the keys
Spelling is such a concrete type of discipline, that concentrated work in reading class can make an immediate difference to the student’s grades. Board work can bring in phonics, syllabication, blend and digraphy study, etc., all taught through the medium of the weekly spelling unit. As the student’s study increases in spelling, his grades will almost certainly reflect the time spent. As the grades improve, interest grows. A beautiful thing to see is the growth in spirit of the remedial reading student who has raised his hand in social studies class to answer two questions correctly, and has made a glorious C in spelling for the first time of the current year. As the student tastes success, possibly for the first time in his/her life at school, his/her ambition and appetite for further
achievement is whetted to the point where he will push the remedial teacher to help him study a difficult point in a supported class rather than avoiding the issue. The inspired remedial class will often tell the teacher that they need to
study vigorously on some other subject rather than have a more pleasant, sometimes recreative period which she may have planned, to vary the curriculum.
Classroom Behavioral Changes
The major result of motivation in the READING class is the achievement of the child, resulting in a change in attitude and behavior in the classroom. A secondary result may be that remedial readers who are not in a class receiving help, may apply for such help. The remedial student who has tasted success and believes that it is possible for him to succeed is more tenacious in his pursuit of excellence than many grade level pupils who are content to “sustain average” work.
Arranging the Classroom to Increase Achievement
One of the areas of greatest concern, in regard to my own classroom, has always been the matter of arranging the classroom in such a way as to best help each child concentrate and develop good work habits. I have often put a few desks against a wall or in some other position away from the main work areas. To further isolate a child having difficulty concentrating, I have used
chart stands to make partitions between desks.
One year I decided to go one step further and experiment with a more permanent partitioned study area. I placed a library table in a back corner of the room and around it I constructed a lightweight wooden frame work with six divisions. From the top poles, I hung sheer but still opaque fabric which was weighted on the bottom with wooden rods.
No child is seated in this area permanently. As much as possible, the use of this area is left to the discretion of the child. Of course, I make suggestions to children who I think really need to use it. The children enjoy this privacy and are quite eager to have the privilege of having an “office” to themselves.
The atmosphere in the room during the reading period is definitely quieter and more conductive to study with use of this device and the children’s work has shown marked improvement. This is also useful when most of the class has completed the assigned work but a few still need a settled environment to
complete their work.
In using this, device, I hope the children can learn to concentrate and complete their work accurately and without delay. The ultimate goal is that the children will be able to work in any environment, regardless of distractions that may occur in the general classroom. I see this aid as being merely a help along
the way.
Classroom management is tremendously important in teaching reading, and I’ll cover it more in teaching ENGLISH. Using such procedures as “feedback” charts for novels read, can be great time-savers for teachers. I put a chart up for each class, and as novels are read and evaluated by tests, essays, or oral reports. I record a grade under the names of the “suggested” novels. (I include lots of heading called “Free Choice” books.) By using this chart, my fast readers can “zoom” and I can easily keep track of all readers. They can also see which books they have read, and which ones are still required! I love the feedback charts, and later, I’ll explain how I used them in ENGLISH class.
The Importance of Praise
Praise is so important in a reading classroom because it encourages students to help themselves. The more you praise, the more the students will read, and the more they read, the better readers they will become! So your praise sometimes works “wonders”, and keeps students excited and enthusiastic!
Teaching READING is fun because all sorts of opportunities and paths can be taken. Those kids who “can’t read or who hate to read” can be brought around to “love to read”. There are many books written on the field of reading, but this is one which I feel will be helpful and unique one which I hope a reading
teacher in junior or high school can pick up, read, and use as a
guide in the classroom a tool, not a dust catcher. I sincerely hope you find it an aid to helping your students discover that happiness is reading, and reading is the heart of education.
2- Teaching English
English classes are so difficult to teach because of the material which is required (such as vocabulary, grammar, analogies, literature, spelling, writing, speaking, and reading.)
Therefore, to build enthusiasm for such a difficult subject I implemented a reading contest to be included in the English curriculum. Here’s how it works:
Increasing Student’s Concentration
Each day for three weeks, students come in, sit down, and begin to read for the duration of the class period. Because concentration is one of the “key factors” in the contest students may not talk or leave the room from bell to bell. If they do, one hundred pages are deducted from the class total that day. This
helps everyone so much (especially the students who have a difficult time concentrating.) Students may read books of their choice from the library, their homes, or my classroom, and must turn in a “framed paragraph” over each book read during the three week period. This requirement is short and simply documents the books. I do not like “book reports” because I feel they are sometimes a “threat” to students I just want them to enjoy the books and not dread the end of one!
Reading Log
Each student has a “Reading Log” on which he/she records beginning pages, ending pages, and total pages read each day. I also walk around the room and take page numbers at the beginning and end of each class period. At the end of three weeks, pages read by each class, are totaled and all notes for outside reading are added to these totals. The totals are divided by the number of readers in the class so an average is obtained.
Pizza Field Trip for Winning Class
The class which has read the most pages per reader (average), wins the contest and gets to take a field trip with free pizza. I use an average because I have low readers, fast readers, small classes, and large classes, and the average is the fairest way to determine the winner.
I give no vocabulary, journals, or homework during reading contests because I want students to read on the bus, at home, on activity trips, in spare time during the school day, and during my classes!
Try a reading contest. Some kids told me they had never read a book until now! It works!
Chapter 2
Classroom Management
1-OVERVIEW
This section describes several effective classroom management techniques developed through trial and error which should prove very beneficial to entry-level teachers in a rural school environment with multiple grade levels.
My Background
Years ago, I taught 3rd and 4th grades in one classroom with no aides, no computers, no music, art, or PE teachers, and no time off from 7:30 to 3:30 each day because of lunchroom duty and playground supervision. For three years, I thought that was a challenge.
Later, I moved to Blinn College where I was a college librarian and taught Freshman English and Speech. That was a little easier, but still a tremendous challenge.
While at Blinn, I met and married the most wonderful man alive, Newton Cundieff, and I began teaching reading in Alvin, Texas where I was responsible for setting up the entire reading program for 7th and 8th graders (over 500 students.) Four colleagues and I implemented a reading program for students from the nearby prison (some were 18 to 19 years old and couldn’t read), and nearly 400 students who had never read a book of any length in their entire lives! Talk about a tremendous challenge!
This is where my ideas for a book and a weekly column in the Sun, were “born”. Happiness definitely is reading. A person who reads is never bored and can travel to all parts of the world through reading! I love it and try to instill this same desire and love for reading in all my students. I truly believe “reading is the heart of education” and I concentrate a great deal of my time, effort, and imagination in trying new ideas to help kids develop a love for reading!
Newton and I flew to Wyoming in 1973 to see his sister and her family and loved it here, so a month later, we quit our jobs in Texas (teaching and Montsanto), and moved here. I taught 4th grade at Yellowstone School and when the Farson English teacher moved to Rock Springs, we moved to Farson and have been here ever since! We love it but here was the really huge challenge grades 7-12 in a rural school teaching the required subject of English (which nearly everyone hates). Now, I would certainly have to use my brain to meet this challenge!
Almost all the textbooks for English are the same for all grade levels, just a little more advanced each year. The texts include Warriner’s Grammar and Composition for grammar; Adventures in Reading Series for literature; Wordly Wise for vocabulary; Spelling Series, Writing Process for all grades; Speech Class and Business English. Each English class has to have the following subjects in their curriculum: reading, writing, vocabulary, analogies, grammar, spelling, and word processing for essays! I needed to devise new ways to teach the “same thing” each year!
Over the twenty-two years of teaching in Farson, Wyoming, I tried all sorts of activities to try to interest the students. I love English so I wanted to try and instill a love for English and reading in each person who walked into my classroom. It didn’t always work, but sometimes it did! I wanted each person to feel good about himself/herself and experience some success in a subject that no one enjoys! I also wanted students to be motivated enough to be successful in college English classes.
2- Classroom Management Techniques
Daily Activities
My day is divided into seven class periods and here’s what I do every day.
Each morning as students come into class, they check the lunch menu and sign up for lunch at the door. By doing that simple thing, I am able to begin class at the bell and teach until the next bell rings. Wasted time in our schools, I believe, is the number one reason our students are behind so many other nations. I love to see kids sit and chat and relax at lunch time, ten-minute breaks, before and after school, but we need to “get down to business” in our classrooms! If all seven teachers did that every day, I sincerely feel the students would have very productive days. TYPICAL SCHOOL DAY, 1996
FIRST HOUR: Reading class has 16 people in it. Each student has a reading long on which he/she records the beginning page, ending page, and total pages read each day. They also grade themselves. If they talk, leave the room, or write notes, their grade is lowered. To receive a hundred (which is “perfect”) a student would have to be “perfect”. I don’t believe in giving 100% to anyone who doesn’t work for 100% of the class time. If they’re leaving the room, talking, or writing notes, they obviously are not being on task 100% of the time. Many students are used to receiving 100’s regardless of daily grades, behavior, responsibility, meeting deadlines, and organizational skills, all of which are as important as head knowledge. Elevated grades are one of the reason we are behind other nations in many areas. We lead many of our students to believe they are 100% (perfect), when in reality, very, very few people are that caliber. If it’s earned in all areas...fantastic! If it isn’t, then we are really “cheating” the students by inflating their grades and making them think they are “perfect”. Perhaps we should be challenging them more, so they must study, have no chance to retake so the first time around is important, and because we can offer so much extra help and encouragement. Therefore, we must be much more strict or ”tough” in deadlines, quality of writing, spelling, knowledge of the subject matter, work ethic, etc.
I do not accept any late work. Therefore, students sometimes have to take off work, ask parents for more time at home, or come in early in the morning to meet deadlines. Unless there is an emergency such as hospitalization, a student receives a zero for late work, and must work harder to bring that grade
up. We cannot continually allow students credit for not meeting their deadlines. Why would we set deadlines if we do not intend for them to meet those responsibilities?
I do not believe in test retakes because in colleges, it’s very rare that an instructor would invite a student to retake a test just because the grade was lower than the student wanted. I feel it is setting the students up for failure in college and in life. We do not always have a chance to retake anything....Therefore, we had better be ready the first time. Again, if we enable students to succeed by using retakes, I feel we are doing those very students an injustice (not to mention other instructors who do not give those retakes). Too many times, the comment is heard, “Why study the first time?”
During this same first hour, I have an English 7 class. Years ago, I began the “overhear” method, where I have an overhead on as the students enter the classroom, and on this overhead would be the journal topic, five vocabulary words per day, the objectives we hope to accomplish this day, and any reminders which are important (such as deadlines and assignments due today).
The English 7 class begins with a journal topic such as: ”My experience with dogs,” or “Traditions we observe around Christmas time.” They are responsible for writing a title, skipping a line after the title, writing a topic sentence and 3-4 sentences in the body, and completing the entry with a concluding
sentence.
After the journal writing time, students have a dictionary in their desks so they look up the five vocabulary words per day. If they cannot understand the meanings, or need help with sentences, they must wait for the oral time in class where we all do the words, meanings, and sentences together. I sincerely believe students need to learn something new in my class every single day of the 180 days of class in a school year, and these five vocabulary words give them some new verbal skills for reading, writing, and speaking. I began with three words per day, increased that number to five words per day, and will increase the number to ten words per day this next year since our classes will be longer as we switch to the “block schedule.”
Upon completion of the “quiet time” where students wrote in their journals and looked up their vocabulary words, we begin the oral portion of the class period where we do the vocabulary orally, in order to ensure that each and every student understands the meanings of those words and could use them in a
paragraph. Then we proceed to one or two objectives which we hope to accomplish this day. Those include working in our grammar books, taking notes from those chapters, reading a story in literature and taking a quiz over the story, brainstorming for a creative story and having them write a story, or working in numerous other texts and on various projects such as children’s
books, Young Authors Contest, poetry, or reading.
After the objectives are copied in class, students may read in novels of their choice from the library or from home. I do not require particular novels unless they are part of the curriculum. Therefore, I ask students to bring composition
notebooks, a novel, their textbooks, and a binder to class each day. When I return their assignments and tests, I want them in a binder to ensure I haven’t made a mistake on any grade, and to encourage responsibility for papers.
This seventh grade class has a speller so we do a spelling unit every week with a test on Thursday. That is usually something they do for homework but other than reading, there is very little homework in my classes, due to this farming
community, and due to the fact that every student in involved in several activities after school, as well as holding down jobs and helping on the farm.
Sample Plan
A sample plan on an overhead of the seventh grade day is as follows:
English 7 Date:
Journal: “My Seven Best Friends and Why They Are My Best
Friends.”
Vocabulary: famine, prior, faulty, opponent, drastic
Objectives:
Students will copy objectives in the objective section of notebook.
Students will look up vocabulary words and write sentences with them.
Students will complete Spelling Unit 31 by Thursday and take a test Thursday.
Students will put all papers and returned assignments in their binders which counts 1/3 of the final English grade.
Students will write a creative story, using 40 of their vocabulary words in a humorous manner.
Reminders:
Journals are due Monday and count as 1/3 of the final exam.
Binders must be neat and organized and complete. Fill out framed paragraphs for any novels you have read this week.
SECOND HOUR: ENGLISH III (JUNIORS)
Students will come into the classroom and follow a similar procedure by having quiet time to copy objectives, look up vocabulary words, work on assignments, and complete objectives. This is possibly the most difficult class I teach because English IV is not a requirement in our school district and I must make
sure these students can go from English III into a college classroom, and be successful in reading, writing, and speaking.
Therefore, I have this class do more verbal skills, oral reports, writing and rewriting, reading and analogies, than the younger students in other classes.
Again, I must reiterate how wonderful it is to use the overhead, have it one when students walk into the classroom, and have them copy the objectives, vocabulary words, and reminders in their English composition notebooks. After thirty-one years of teaching, it is wonderful not to have to repeat the answer over and over to that infamous question, “What are we going to do
today?” It also keeps students from asking for “free time” or feeling as if they can miss your class because nothing is happening anyway! By putting lesson plans on overheads, it is possible to have those available to absentees. It has also “saved my life” literally hundreds of times when a student who turns in late assignments says, “I didn’t know when these assignments were due.” We simply check the overheads (which are filed in a cabinet), and if I am wrong, I correct the error. If the student was mistaken, he/she can see it for himself/herself.
Organization on the part of my students is responsible for much of their grade and the overhead system helps them stay organized. It allows them to keep all deadlines, assignments, objectives, and vocabulary words in one place...their composition notebooks. I make these overheads daily during my prep hour and it only takes a few minutes per class.
This system has also been a “lifesaver” when I have been sick and a substitute has had to step in. The overheads are available for each class and, therefore, the classes run more smoothly when I cannot be in my classroom. I love the statement by J.E. Sparks, “My job is not to teach you to be creative; my
job is to teach you organization...”
Since writing is usually taught the first semester of college English, I cover all nineteen types of writing during this English III class. We cover the following: process; profile; definition; creative; opinion; research paper; argumentative;
expository; persuasive; descriptive; poetry; analyzing literature; summer vacation; Christmas vacation; letters to the president; narrative; Children’s Books; autobiography; and resume. My students may rewrite every essay for a higher grade.
This serves two purposes. It helps the students from their mistakes, and it encourages them to raise their grades. If I find common errors in essays, I have the students copy a chart called, “Ways To Get A’s in English.” This chart would include helpful tips such as use of the word “a lot” and putting a
conclusion on every essay.
One of my favorite quotes is by Dr. Carol Santa of Project C.R.I.S.S., who states, “If there is something students must learn, have them write about it.” That’s why I use journals for short writings, essay-writing, poetry contests, and Young Author contests for creative writing. I even have my students write and illustrate a Children’s Book, and tell or read the story to an elementary class! When I retire, I would love to spend my time reading and writing.
Journals are important in so many ways that I order one for each student each year. We use them to respond to reading, respond to current event topics, or just to convey our feelings about a weekend or a problem we have. I only require a title and topic and concluding sentences. I do not count off for spelling, punctuation (conventions), because that is not my purpose in
using journals. I count them as 1/5 of final grade and 1/5 of the final exam.
Binders are required in all my classes because this encourages organization skills and responsibility. I grade them periodically and require all papers, tests, grade sheets, etc. be contained in the binders to receive 100%. These, too, save my life if I make a mistake on a grade because the student has the paper/grade to show me the error. I count these as 1/5 of the final exam and 1/5 of the entire English final grade.
Several years ago, our district provided training in the 6 trait writing process and I use it as much as possible in my classes. In the appendix, you’ll find information concerning this process (which I love), and how to use it, but here are some basics about it. The steps in the writing process are planning,
rough draft, read aloud, writing groups, revise, edit, final copy, and publish/share.
I use the portfolio for each student in my class. I keep these filed in a file cabinet from grades 9-12 and I give them to the seniors when they graduate. In these, I file all essays, stories, poetry, children’s books, or writings of nay type for all 4 years. This gives him/her a chance to see how he/she has improved in writing skills, and it gives the student a change to take writings which may have been lost or thrown away, to college with them. Some can be revised and used in college English classes! Portfolios are nice folders full of “nice” writings!
Speech Class is the next class I’d like to cover. In a rural school, a teacher often has to teach and coach in many areas. Speech (Public Communications) is one of my favorite subjects because we can do a great many “fun” activities. I use the same text as is used in may colleges so my students are familiar with the requirements for college speech. I begin the year with non-verbal speech pantomimes), and I invite my Speech II students to do an impromptu speech for the Speech I students. We do lots of “warm-up” activities for the first two weeks and after that, we do one speech every two weeks, beginning with informative. I require an audio-visual aid, 6 minutes of text, an attention-getter, an outstanding introduction and conclusion, use of a pointer, an overhead and one handout.
We use class time for research, preparation, and rehearsals. Types of public speaking we covered in 1996, include the following: pantomime, impromptu, improvisation, informative, demonstration, persuasive, argumentative (pro/con), debate, panel discussion, after-dinner speech, tribute, presentation of an award, acceptance of an award, introduction of a speaker, creative storytelling, valedictorian and salutatorian speeches, Student Council campaign speeches, choral reading, and parliamentary procedure. As you can see, we stay busy and have a great deal of fun.
My fourth class of the day is English IV for seniors so this is not a required class in our school district. For the students who choose to take it, I cover as much vocabulary as I can so their verbal skills will be higher on standardized and college entrance exams. I also have them read a great deal in novels of
their choice, do a 5-page research paper, read “Pygmalion”, study ”Hamlet” by William Shakespeare and write an analysis of literature on this play. We also work on analogies as they are also covered on standardized tests, and we write essays which might be covered on college writing exams (caring for the elderly, latchkey kids, aspects of television, teenage pregnancy, and other expository topics). I am also allowed to give the college entrance exam for Western Wyoming Community College and these seniors take it as part of their final exam.
English I (freshmen), follow the same plan as my other English classes. We cover analogies, vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, poetry, and literature. This is a very busy year.
Business English is the last class I have every day, and we have a great deal of fun in this class. This year (1996), I had nine students and we did one unit orally (guided instruction), each day. We highlighted the information we read orally, worked the checkpoints together and took a test over each unit? Every
fourth day, we had a “catch-up” day because this is very difficult material, and those who were caught up, could read, grade, file, or work ahead! I have thoroughly enjoyed these none students because of their sense of humor, work ethic, and willingness to work hard and “go the extra mile” to get good
grades.
Future Teachers of America
Fridays are special days in my classes because these are the days the members of the Future Teachers of America leave my classroom to do peer-tutoring activities throughout the school in grades K-12. They work with kids, do aiding activities for teachers, help in the office, and do a multitude of other
activities for which they are graded.
In the appendix, you’ll find a copy of the evaluation from I use and the list of students and their Friday assignments. For the remaining students in classes, we have a reading day so there is no “direct instruction” on this day. Since many activities, games, etc., are held on Friday, students do not miss instruction. They just have to alert their F.T.A. supervisor that they will be gone on specific Fridays.
The Future Teachers of America association raises money through $5 dues which is collected and used in presenting two $100.00 scholarships to two deserving senior F.T.A. members. The criteria is included in the appendix.
Reading Club
A reading club was organized nearly 8 years ago to encourage students to read and share good books. There are no dues and we have door prizes (usually very good books), and refreshments at each meeting. We also host a read-a-thon, and a “used book” and bake sale to raise money for door prizes, refreshments, and a trip to visit a college library and go bowling. Since I believe so strongly that reading is the heart of education, this Reading Club helps promote that concept. Parents, teachers, and students of all ages, are invited to join! It was a valuable experience in 1996 for me and hopefully, for the thirty-eight members we had this year!
This concludes the chapter on classroom management techniques, activities, class descriptions, and purposes for F.T.A., Reading Club, and various classroom activities.
Chapter Three: Daily Objectives For 180 Days of Teaching
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
ALL CLASSES
1. Students will receive orientation throughout all of the
English classes, in order to have a smoother year. English rules will be covered.
1. Please be in seats when the bell rings, and be writing quietly in your English Journal.
2. Please use ink only in English class.
3. Please come in with a smile, work with a smile, and
leave with a smile!
1. Grading will always be fair and we will use the
grading scale found in your handbook.
1. No “off-color” or abusive language is ever allowed,
as this shows disrespect for the instructor.
1. Students will receive their books, put their names on them, and each one will be explained, as to use and care!
2. Novels will be handed out according to grade level, and
the first two chapters will be assigned for next Tuesday.
1. Students will be given Wordly Wise, and its use will be
explained.
1. If time allows, students will begin reading the first chapter
in their assigned novels
SECOND DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will, upon request of the teacher, write in journals
in order to be able to put their thoughts down on paper.
Journals will be filed in folders in top drawer of light
cabinet and black file cabinet.
2. Students will complete their personal inventories, and turn
them in. They will be used to aid the instructor in
preparing essay topics, and getting to know the students
better.
3. Students will work Unit 1 in Wordly Wise, in order to learn
18 new vocabulary words for this week. They will exchange
and grade Unit 1 in order to see their success, and, if there
is a failure, the instructor can answer questions for that
student.
4. Students will read silently in their novel, as Chapters 1 and
2 are due on Tuesday, and students must be prepared for a pop
test over that novel assignment on Tuesday.
1. Students will write. Test (Practice)
2. Personal inventories.
3. Wordly Wise
4. Reading - 8th Grade - Chapter 1
OBJECTIVES...SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will listen and respond to a lecture over a demonstration speech and ask any pertinent questions concerning this first assignment.
2. Students will discuss the pep rally skit for the Volleyball team, and write dialogue for it, as well as collect costumes for “old folks”.
3. Students will keep a composition notebook for this class, and
turn it in at the end of the first semester.
1. Students will watch the inspiration speeches given by the 1995 speech and drama students, in order to alleviate any fears they might have about giving speeches. A few minutes of each of the 14 speeches, will be watched, and the instructor will point out the gestures, visual-aids, eye-contact, posture, and other important points, as the speakers
are giving their speeches.
PLAN
1. Notes
2. Discussion of demonstration speeches
3. Discussion of pep rally skit
4. Tape of inspiration speeches
THIRD DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
ENGLISH 8
1. Students will write 20 new spelling words for a Spelling Test
with 90% accuracy. They will correct the tests, and turn them in to be filed.
1. Students will write in journals for 6 minutes, in order to be
able to put their thoughts down on paper.
1. Students will spend 15 minutes working on Wordly Wise, Word
List 2, and write sentences with the words in both Word List
1 and Word List 2, in order that it might be easier for them
to use their new vocabulary words in speaking.
1. Students will put definitions by the spelling words, and work
Unit 1 together in class, in order that students might be
given a chance to ask the instructor some questions.
1. Students will work Exercise 2, pp. 5 and 6 in Warriner’s.
PLAN
ENGLISH 8
1. Journal
2. Notes
3. Spelling Test
4. Wordly Wise and Sentences
5. Spelling, Unit 1
REMINDERS
1. All test grades count 3 times, so prepare yourselves well!
2. Pop tests count 3 times, too, and you usually won’t known when
those will be.
3. Extra credit is given to students who work ahead, only if
they make 90% and above on the work. In other words, don’t
work it unless you understand it.
4. A smile is worth a fortune in my class. Even if you grades
aren’t the highest you can receive an award at the end of the
year, for being the brightest, most-cheerful student with the
best attitude of kindness to others in your class, and
helpfulness to your teacher.
OBJECTIVES
ENGLISH III
1. Students will use each of the 18 words in Unit 1 of Wordly Wise, in a sentence and turn those in, in order to show that they can correctly use their new vocabulary words in speaking and writing.
2. Students will write for 6 minutes in their journals in order
to be able to put their thoughts down on paper.
1. Students will listen and respond to a lecture on common and
proper nouns, and use of pronouns and the antecedents, and
then work pages 1 and 2 in their Grammar Workbook.
1. Students will take the diagnostic test on page 4 in Warriner’s in order to show the instructor how much they remember about Parts of Speech. There will be no discussion of the answers. This is a test.
PLAN
ENGLISH III
1. Journal
2. Warriner’s
3. Sentences with words from Unit 1 in Wordly Wise
4. Pages 1 and 2 in Grammar Workbook
5. Silent reading
REMINDERS
1. All test grades count 3 times, so prepare yourselves well!
2. Extra credit is given to students who work ahead, only if
they make 90% and above on the work. In other words, don’t
work it unless you understand it.
1. A smile is worth a fortune in my class. Even if your grades
aren’t the highest, you can receive an award at the end of
the year, for being the brightest, most cheerful student
with the best attitude of kindness to others in your class,
and helpfulness to your teacher.
OBJECTIVES
ENGLISH IV
1. Students will write in their journals for 6 minutes in order
to put their thoughts down on paper.
1. Students will work Unit 1 in Wordly Wise, and use all 18
words correctly in sentences of their own. The sentences
will be handed in.
1. Students will work the diagnostic test in Warriner’s over
parts of speech on p. 4. Please do your best, and there will
be no collaboration.
1. Students may read silently in their novels, in order to
prepare for the pop test over chapters 1 and 2 on Tuesday.
PLAN
ENGLISH IV
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. Wordly Wise
4. Warriner’s
5. Novel
THIRD DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
ENGLISH 1
1. Students will write in their journals in order to be able to put their thoughts on paper.
2. Students will complete Unit 1 in Wordly Wise together as a
group, and then write sentences using the new words
correctly, and hand those in to the instructor.
1. Students will take a practice test over the words in Unit 1,
and take the main test on Tuesday, and they will write them
correctly on paper, correct them, and turn them in.
1. Students will listen to and respond to explanations about
nouns and pronouns, and work pages 3 and 4 in their grammar
workbook.
1. Students will work the diagnostic test in Warriner’s, and
will do so with no collaboration, as this will show the
instructor what they know and remember from their previous
year.
PLAN
1. Journal
2. Notes
3. Practice Test
4. Sentences
5. Workbook Warriner’s
7. Reading
REMINDERS
1. All test grades count 3 times so prepare yourselves well!
Pop tests count 3 times too, and you usually don’t know when
those will be, so meet all deadlines.
2. Extra credit is given to students who work ahead, only if they make 90% and above on the work. In other words, don’t work it unless you understand it.
3. A smile is worth a fortune in my class. Even if your grades aren’t the highest, you can receive an award at the end of the year, for being the brightest, most cheerful student with the best attitude of kindness to others in your class, and helpfulness to your teacher.
OBJECTIVES
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse the pep rally skit in costume in the
classroom, in order to see what is still needed.
1. Students will watch the 2 Christmas plays presented by the
1996 speech and drama students in order to acquaint them with
procedure, and with presentation.
1. Students will take notes, and keep their composition
notebooks up-to-date.
1. Students will listen and respond to lecture on eye contact.
PLAN
1. Notes
2. Skit
3. Plays
REMINDERS
1. Many of your points in this class come from attitude...if you are enthusiastic about everything you are asked to do, you will make A’s because you will do well! Believe it or not, attitude affects your performance and definitely affects other students around you.
FOURTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
ADAPTABLE FOR ALL CLASSES
ENGLISH
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put
thoughts down on paper. Leave them in desks or take them to
lockers.
1. Students will take a pop test over the first chapter in their assigned novels, in order to show instructor that they have read the assignments.
2. Students will work Unit 2 in Wordly Wise, in order to prepare
for their tests which are held on Fridays.
1. Students will receive the grading scale in order to ask
questions about it.
PLAN
1. Journal
2. Notes
3. Pop Quiz
4. Grading Scale
5. Wordly Wise
REMINDERS
1. Do not write on the back if you can help it, and draw only one line through an error.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will listen and respond as pages 117-125 are read
and worked in their workbook, Speaking by Doing. The purpose
of the reading and working is to better prepare students to
give their demonstration speeches on Thursday.
1. Students will watch 2 plays from last year’s Speech and Drama
Class, in order to help them overcome their nervousness.
FIFTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put thoughts on paper.
2. Students will read silently in their novels in order to have the next 2 chapters completed by Friday, and to have a better idea of what the book is about!
3. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise 2 which was assigned in class yesterday, in order to see their success.
4. Students will begin sentences with the words in Unit 2 and
turn them in on Thursday.
PLAN
1. Journal
2. Notes
3. Reading
4. Grading
5. Sentences
REMINDERS
1. If you say “ain’t” in this class, you may write 100 times “I won’t say ain’t during English class”, or pay one nickel (which is used to buy writing paper). Reason: Stamp it out, as it is incorrect grammar.
2. You may get 25 points of extra credit added to a daily grade by writing a 3 ½ page essay on any subject, and receiving an 80% or better on it. I do not ever add points to test grades because tests show what you really know without receiving help from anyone.
3. This Friday, you will have your main test over Wordly Wise 1 and 2, and tomorrow we’ll take a “practice” test...if you make a hundred, you don’t have to take it Friday. These words are hard at your level, and they need studying!!
SIXTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will exchange and grade Spelling, Units 1 and 2.
2. Students will finish and turn in sentences for words in Unit
2 of Wordly Wise.
3. Students will take a practice test on spelling and vocabulary
and if 100 is scored, they do not have to take the main test
tomorrow.
4. Students will read silently in novels in order to finish
Chapter 4 by Friday.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. Grading
4. Practice Tests
5. Sentences
6. Reading
REMINDERS
1. Our contests, prizes, and etc. in English, will all begin
next week.
1. Test grades count 3 times and cannot be altered, so study
what is required of you.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will present a demonstration speech today (their
first of this year). They must be well prepared and will be
graded on eye contact and cannot go over the 10 minute time
limit. (4-5 minutes preferred)
1. If time allows, they will rehearse pep rally skit!
SEVENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will spell and define 36 new words from Wordly Wise, with 80% accuracy and turn those tests in to be graded by the instructor. There will not be one word spoken during the test. If I go too fast, they are to raise their hands, and whoever talks during the test, gets extra words to spell and
define...not the entire class, but just the one who did the interrupting. The purpose of this rule, is to allow students to concentrate on their words.
1. Students will work one exercise in Warriner’s on parts of speech and hand it in to the instructor to be graded. The purpose of this rule, is so that the instructor can see which students are understanding adjectives and adverbs.
2. Students will read silently in their novels for the rest of the period. The purpose of this is to allow them class time in case they cannot concentrate in a busy home.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. Test
4. Warriner’s
5. Silent Reading
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will present a skit today during class, to the entire school during a pep assembly.
2. They will be graded according to their performance. They may not laugh if it is uncalled for, and they may not yell in the dressing rooms or behave in an unprofessional manner.
EIGHTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will write in their journals in order to be able to put their thoughts on paper.
2. Students will listen and respond to objectives and plan for
the day.
1. Students will read silently in their novels in order to finish the book as soon as possible, and be ready for pop tests at any time.
2. Students will work Unit 3 in Wordly Wise, using their own intelligence, and without collaboration with another student as all students should now be familiar with the procedure used in this book. The spelling-vocabulary test over Unit 3 will be on Friday.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. Reading
4. Wordly Wise
5. “Catch-Up” Time
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will begin a new skit to prepare for presentation to
the 4th graders. We will sit and read it in a “round-table”
session today...and choose parts.
1. Students will spend time in the library searching for a
”contest speech”.
NINTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will have time to work Unit 3 in Wordly Wise books
and write sentences using the words in Unit 3, which will be
turned in.
1. Students will be able to identify nouns, pronouns, adjectives
and adverbs, by listening to explanations of pages 3-8 in
workbooks, working those, and then turning them in to the
instructor for evaluation.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. Workbook
4. Sentences- Unit 3, Wordly Wise
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students who are doing an extra credit speech for student council offices, may work on their speeches during class and present them orally for us.
2. Students who are not doing an extra credit speech for student council offices, may continue their search for a contest winning speech by looking in all of the speech books in my classroom.
TENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will complete Wordly Wise, Unit 3, in order to
prepare for their tests on Friday, in which they must spell
and define correctly, all of the words in Word List 3.
1. Students must listen and respond to a lecture entitled “Ways
to Get A’s in Writing”.
1. Students may read silently in their novels in order to finish the book as soon as possible.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. Ways to get “A’s”
4. Wordly Wise, Unit 3
5. Reading, 20 minutes
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will spend 30 minutes preparing and “brainstorming”
another skit for a future pep rally.
1. Students will each prepare an oratory speech as their next
grade, and the best ones will take their to
contest...Reader’s Digest will be the best source.
ELEVENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will complete notes on “Ways to Get A’s in Writing”
in order to be prepared to write their first theme on
Tuesday.
1. Students will finish Unit 3 in Wordly Wise and be ready to
grade the last 15 minutes of the class period.
1. Students will take a practice test on Unit 3 and if 100 is
made, they may not have to take the test tomorrow.
1. Students should make sure that each week, sentences with
words from Wordly Wise are turned in by Thursday. These can
be done at home, if there is not enough time in class.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. “Ways to Get A’s”
4. Unit 3
5. Grading
6. Practice Test
7. Sentences
REMINDERS
1. Due date for first novel is next Friday. Read several chapters a night!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will “brainstorm” for 15 minutes in order to prepare
a skit for next pep rally.
1. Students will write their first draft of their “oratory”
speech today. It is due tomorrow.
TWELFTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will exchange and grade Unit 3 in Wordly Wise.
2. Students will take their Main Test on Unit 3 in Wordly Wise,
and correctly spell and define 17 words with 70% accuracy or
better!
1. Students will read silently in And Then There Were None,
A Cross And The Switchblade, Chariots Of Fire, Or That Was
Then, This Is Now, in order to finish the book by next Friday!
PLAN
1. Journal
2. Notes
3. Grading
4. Test
5. Reading
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Today students will write oratory speech, and turn it in at 3
P.M. for a grade. It may be rewritten many times before it
is given next Friday. We’ll begin memorizing these speeches
on Monday!
THIRTEENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will work Unit 4 in Wordly Wise, and turn in
sentences using those words correctly.
1. Students will receive last minute instructions on how to
handle Tuesdays, (the essay days).
1. No journal or notes
2. Take out 4 sheets of paper, get the assignment sheet, and
begin a rough draft outline
1. Write the entire essay, and turn in at the end of the
hour, if you had time to PROOFREAD. If not, turn it in
Wednesday morning, as soon as you get to class! It will not be counted late.
1. Students will add 1 more “Way to Get and A in Writing”...Use
dialogue and humor in your essays tomorrow.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. Wordly Wise
4. Silent Reading
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. “Brainstorming” for the skit.
2. Students will receive their oratory speeches with corrections
and suggestions, and memorize for 30 minutes.
1. Students will get up and practice what they have
memorized orally!
1. Students will read handouts about speaking in public!
FOURTEENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will plan, organize, write and turn in a completed 3-1/2 page essay all in one hour, if they had time to proofread! If not, they may complete the essay at home, and turn it in on Wednesday, as they are coming into class, and it will not be counted late.
2. Use lots of descriptive words or adjectives in your
essays.
1. Be creative or inventive!
PLAN
1. Students will write all hour. If they should finish early,
they may read in their novels.
FIFTEENTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will read a great deal today, as there are some
slower readers who must have their first novel finished by
Friday. This is a major grade and counts three times, and no
one watches movies based on books, unless they have read the
book first, because everything must be English-related!
1. Students will work in Warriner’s and work to page 12 in their
workbooks in order to be able to grade them by Friday.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. Silent Reading-45 minutes
4. Warriner’s and Workbook
REMINDERS
1. Essays have to be turned in today as you come into class. I
do not accept any late papers at any time...unless you have
an excused absence! Please don’t plant to give me any other
excuses!
1. You may watch movies only if you have read the book...if you
haven’t, you may have a special place to sit and read, while
we watch!
1. Prizes and awards for essay contests each week, will usually
be awarded on Mondays. That way, you will be prepared to
write again on Tuesdays!
SIXTEENTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will work and exercise in Warriner’s, in order to
review parts of speech. It will be turned in without
collaboration.
1. Students will take practice test in Wordly Wise, Unit 4, and
grade that unit.
1. Students will complete workbooks to page 10, put them on the
table, and read in novels, as they are due tomorrow, and
there will be a test over them!
PLAN
1. Journal
2. Notes
3. Grading Unit 4
4. Warriner’s and Workbook
5. Practice Test
6. Silent Reading
REMINDERS
1. Your sentences for this unit, are always due on Thursday.
Don’t bother to turn them in late.
SEVENTEENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will take their final exam on the novel they were
assigned the first day of classes.
8th grade: And Then There Were None;
9th grade: That Was Then This Is Now;
English III: Cross and the Switchblade;
English IV: Chariots of Fire. As they turn in their exams they will
receive their second novel.
8th grade: When the Legends Die; (workbook)
9th grade: When the Legends Die; (workbook);
English III: The Pearl;
English IV: Julius Caesar and Romeo & Juliet.
2. Students will take their main test over Wordly Wise, Unit 4.
3. Students will write in journals order to put their thoughts on paper, and drawings are not acceptable...descriptions are fine!
4. Students will hand in yesterday’s assignment in Warriner’s, if they have not already done so.
5. There is no homework assigned over the weekend, so students may “get ahead” in Wordly Wise or novels.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. Novel Tests - Study silently after you finish (for Wordly
Wise) -Get new novel
4. Wordly Wise Tests
5. Silent Reading
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will study speeches for 15 minutes silently and then present them for a grade and critique. These will be taped with a tape recorder, and someone will listen to them and choose the best two speeches to go to the Contests! Give a critique sheet to the instructor.
EIGHTEENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will receive several more “Ways to Get A’s” and receive their essays back with awards and certificates. If your essay has a heart on it, that means “I Loved It”. If your essay has an autumn seal on it, that means it had good organization and sentence structure. If your essay has no seal on it, that means you need to improve tomorrow, but don’t give up! Critique Sheets must remain on the essays all year. I’ll be duplicating some of the best ones, and sending them to your parents.
1. We will make a beautiful essay booklet at the end of the year, with every single essay in it! Don’t lose one!
Hand them back in to me, and I’ll keep them in a separate
file drawer (along with novel tests). You may show them
to parents if you want, but then return them right away!
1. On Tuesdays, remember, you have no journals and no notes;
just 5 clean sheets of paper, 2 pens, and your smile and
brain! You need to study your list of “Ways to Get A’s” because
half of the students did not follow even the first 6 of
those, (skipping a line after the title, complete
heading, 3 ½ pages, etc.)
1. “Ways to Get A’s”
b) Don’t use “run-on’s”...These are two sentences put
together with a comma when there should have been a
period. (It is warm, it is nice.) This is also called a
”comma splice.”
a) Make sure everything is a complete sentence...subject, verb, makes sense, period. There means a place such as over there! Their means you own something, such as their car. They’re means they are going to town...the apostrophe stands for the “a”.
b. Compound sentences are the best to use in essays...Two sentences connected by “and, but and or.”
c. Only 6 people out of 50 received extra credit points for Wordly Wise words. Use them correctly in your essays! Keep your book out where you can see it.
d. Improve each week. Study your old essay, and don’t make the same mistake twice!
5. Students will work Unit 5 in Wordly Wise and turn in the
sentences for that unit. If finished, work spelling Units 4
and 5.
3. Students will receive puzzles for fun and enrichment.
PLAN
1. Journal
2. Notes
3. Essays (take them up)
4. Wordly Wise
5. Nouns due Friday
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Due to interruptions on Friday, students will say their oratory speeches by memory today in the classroom. These must be memorized, and students must walk back and forth as they speak. The subjects include:
Mark: Should Prayer be in the Public Schools?
Rebekah: What Can be Done About Child Abuse?
John: Do We Want Gun Control or Crime Control?
Cindy: Why Do Teenagers Run Away?
Ken: What Is the Arms Race?
NINETEENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will plan, organize, prepare, write, and turn in, an essay on one of the assigned topics, or a topic of their choice, all in one hour. However, if they run short of time during the hour, I do allow them to take it home and turn it
in at the beginning of the next day’s class period, without
counting it late.
This objective, when achieved in one hour, will prepare the students for college composition classes.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will find out about speech meets, play schedules,
duet interpretation, and at 2:30, they will sit around a
table in the library to read a play, “You’re a Good Man,
Charlie Brown”. (and Snoopy) Students will work on their
oratory speeches.
TWENTIETH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will complete Wordly Wise 5 and the sentences for
that unit, and hand in essays as they come into class.
1. Students will complete blue workbook to page 12 and hand in
to be graded.
1. Students will read the first 37 pages in novel in order to
have silent reading time.
1. Students will be able to see movie beginning tomorrow.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. Hand in essays
4. Finish Wordly Wise and workbook
5. Read first 37 pages
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will finish chapters from book, and prepare for a
major exam.
1. Students will read and discuss, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie
Brown”.
3. Students will have their first rehearsal of the duet.
TWENTY-FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students in English 8 are having achievement tests.
2. Students in English III are reading The Pearl today, in order
to finish it.
1. Students in English IV are watching “Chariots of Fire”.
2. Students in English I are:
a. Finishing Wordly Wise 5
b. Turning in sentences for Unit 5
c. Turning in essays (some girls were at Volleyball on
Tues.)
d. Reading in When the Legends Die.
PLAN
Video, silent reading and silent working.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will go in groups of 2, to the auditorium to work on
their duets. Rebekah and John are doing a duet from “Fiddler
on the Roof”, called “Do You Love Me?” and Mark and John are
doing a cutting from “God’s Favorite”.
2. Students will write introductions for their duets.
TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF SCHOOL
PICTURE DAY
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will take their test over Wordly Wise, Unit 5, and
hand in books and sentences.
1. Students will read silently in novels.
2. English IV will finish Chariots of Fire.
3. English III will begin Cross and the Switchblade.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will memorize silently for 15 minutes, read orally
in chapters from What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say,
and practice their duets.
TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF SCHOOL
BOOK FAIR TAKING PLACE IN ENGLISH ROOM!
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will read the first 30 pages in Shane. (English 8)
Wordly Wise 6, Spelling 6.
2. English III will watch Cross and the Switchblade today in
the auditorium.
3. English IV students will begin Shakespeare and will read
Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar stories orally, in
order to prepare for film tomorrow. They will also begin
their Shakespeare Notebooks, and work Wordly Wise 6.
4. English I will discuss essays and prizes, work Wordly Wise 6
in book, and do sentences, and read 20 pages in When the
Legends Die.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Collect folders
3. Go to auditorium
4. Work Wordly Wise 6, and read silently or watch video (Eng.
III)
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will memorize 30 minutes, and say speech to the
other group for 30 minutes.
TWENTY-FOURTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECIVES
1. Students will receive essays back and write essay #3 today.
English 8 will read in Shane all hour in order to finish the
novel by Friday. (Some students are reading Lisa, Bright and
Dark first, so they will finish that novel by Friday.
1. English I students will work the first 4 units in workbook
for When the Legends Die, and then attend the Book Fair. The
first 10 to finish the workbook and make 70% or better will
receive treats!
PLAN
English 8 meets in auditorium; English III and IV meet in
auditorium; English I meets in classroom.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will fill out p. 214-215 about their duets and turn
those in for grading. They will memorize for 30 minutes.
Students need to say oratory speeches today for practice.
TWENTY-FIFTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. English 8 will work Wordly Wise 6, sentences, and Spelling 6
during class today.
1. English III will work Wordly Wise 6, sentences, and turn in
essays on Cross and the Switchblade. They will read silently
in The Pearl.
1. English IV will watch Julius Caesar and William
Shakespeare.
1. English I will find out essay winners from last week, read 30
minutes in When the Legends Die, work p.11 in Blue Workbook,
and exercise 14, p.21 in Warriner’s.
1. All classes may attend the Book Fair when objectives have
been accomplished.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will memorize 30 minutes, say duets orally for a
grade, and oratory speeches should be revised.
1. Students will work pages 1-9 in Speaking By Doing.
TWENTY-SIXTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. All classes will exchange and grade all units of Wordly Wise that have not been graded.
2. All classes will make sure their sentences are on my desk for Unit 6.
3. All classes will work an exercise in Warriner’s on Sentence Structure, in order to make better sentences in essays on Tuesdays. 9 and 10 review ex. p. 22 in Warriner’s.
4. All classes will finish a novel for tomorrow’s test.
English 8 - Shane
English III - The Pearl
English IV -Little Women
English I - When the Legends Die (This test is not until
the 17th of October.)
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Notes
3. Grading
4. Warriner’s
5. Silent Reading...finish the book.
REMINDERS
1. Your 9-weeks test will cover all of the words in Wordly Wise,
two exercises from Warriner’s, which you have already worked,
and Part II will be an essay which shows you have learned
your 25 “Ways to Get A’s in Writing”.
TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will take their main test over Wordly Wise, unit 6,
and exchange and grade the tests. The grade will count 3 times after it is checked by the teacher to see if there are any errors in grading.
1. Students will take their tests over the novel which is due
today.
English 8 - Shane
English III - The Pearl
3. Students in English IV will watch 2 movies over Shakespeare.
4. Students in English I will read silently in When the Legends
Die. Test is the 17th.
5. All students will work a puzzle for a grade. Each pronoun is
worth 6 points, and you may not collaborate. If you do
you’ll receive a 0 and the reason will be written at the top
of the paper.
PLAN
1. Journal
2. Lecture
3. Wordly Wise Test
4. Novel Test
5. Puzzle
6. Book Fair
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will present their duets and their oratories for a grade and critique. If someone is absent from a duet, the other person will say the speech with a substitute.
2. Students will choose a dramatic speech for the next week’s assignment. We will work in the library.
TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will exchange and grade the puzzle on “Personal and
Possessive Pronouns”.
1. Students will exchange and grade Spelling p. 27. (English 8)
2. Students will work Wordly Wise, Unit 7 together for 15
minutes. Then the class must do the rest themselves by
Thursday. Their sentences are due Thursday.
1. Students in English III will exchange and grade their test on
The Pearl. They will also receive their essays on The Cross
and the Switchblade.
1. Students in English I will work pages 5 to 10 in Skilltrek.
2. Students in English I will read silently in When the Legends
Die.
PLAN
1. Journal
2. Lecture
3. Grade Puzzle
4. Read 15 minutes in When the Legends Die.
5. Work Unit 7 in Wordly Wise.
6. Work pages 5 to 10 in Skilltrek with partners.
REMINDER
1. The three weeks until your 9-weeks test will pass quickly.
Study 15 minutes each night.
TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will plan, organize, outline, write, and hand in, a
3 -½ page essay over one of the two choices on the round
table, or over a topic of their choice.
1. If, for any reason, one hour is not enough for this
assignment, the students may bring in the completed essay as
they walk into class on Wednesday.
THIRTIETH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will find out how to play games when “game day” is
allowed in English class.
a. Probe is played by the same rules, but Scrabble is
changed a little in order that you can finish a game
during only one hour.
b. In Scrabble, you will play with a partner, and each pair
has 24 letters. (In this way, you can make a lot more
words in the one-hour time limit.)
c. 4 people to a Probe game and 6 people (3 pairs) can play
each Scrabble game. Two people each can play the
Mastermind games.
d. You must keep score and turn your score sheets in at the
end of the hour for a grade...people who win the game
receive 100 and the losers receive a 90. In this way,
you really try to compete, and not just gossip!
e. Anyone who talks above a whisper has to get out of the game and read in his novel, because no one could
concentrate with the whole class being loud!
f. If no one abuses the privilege, you will get to play
English-relate games often.
g. You must put the games back before you leave, and they
have to be in perfect order. Throw away and scrap paper
and turn in score sheets.
h. “Game Days” are surprises. Sometimes I will have treats
for the quietest people, so that you can enjoy but not
disturb!
2. Students will receive some handouts telling them how to
improve their writing, after they add to their list of “Ways
to Get A’s in Writing”.
a. “Get done” means finished or completed...don’t use it
except in cooking.
b. ITS never uses and apostrophe unless it stands for it
is. Do not put an apostrophe on that word any other
time.
c. Use ‘I saw’...not ‘I seen’. Seen always uses a helper
such as have.
d. Use ‘I saw a man’....not I saw this man...do not put
”this” in front of nouns.
e. Capitalize all words of a title, not just the first
word.
f. Contractions are not to be used in essays. They may be
used in other writing such as Wordly Wise sentences, but do not put them in essays, because the college freshmen
composition class does not allow them!
g. Don’t Make the Same Mistake Twice! It counts off 5
instead of 1, if you have been told something is wrong,
and are still using it!
3. Students will work one exercise in Warriner’s and turn it in.
Eng. 8 - Exercise 14, p. 18
Eng. III - p. 29, Exercise 1
Eng. IV - p. 23, Diagnostic Test
Eng. I - p. 36, Review Exercise B
4. Students will read silently in assigned novels.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will prepare an excellent skit for the pep rally on
the 18th.
2. Students will have trial run of next speech (humor or drama).
3. Students will say duets once more...and oratories for extra
credit.
THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will grade Wordly Wise, Unit 7 and take grades.
2. Students will take notes over their work on Friday for the
substitute.
3. Students will grade Warriner’s exercise which was assigned
yesterday.
4. Students will work together in When the Legends, Skilltrek, or read silently.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Lecture
3. Warriner’s
4. When the Legends Die
SPEECH AND DRAMA
The boys will be gone to get physicals for basketball today,
so Rebekah will write a script for her pep rally skit, and
practice her dramatic speech.
REMINDER
Speeches tomorrow and they will be taped. Test tomorrow over
the chapters we read and highlighted.
THIRTY-SECOND DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
ENGLISH 8
1. Students will take their main spelling over Unit 7 without a
sound. Exchange and grade...take grades and hand those in.
1. Students will take their main Wordly Wise test over Unit 7
where they have to spell the word, and write the definition.
Take these up and grade them yourself, while the students are
doing the puzzles.
1. Students will work two puzzles, without a sound.
Collaborating is cheating.
PLAN
Journals, objectives, spelling, Wordly Wise, puzzles, hand in spelling books.
OBJECTIVES FOR ENGLISH III
1. Students will take their main Wordly Wise test over Unit 7
where they have to spell the word, and write the definition.
They may not say one word...not even to ask me to repeat a
word...all they do is raise their hand and I know to repeat
the word, or that I am calling out the words too fast. They
immediately get an extra word from the preceding
lesson...every time they do it. EXCHANGE AND GRADE AND TAKE
UP PAPERS!
1.
2. Students will work two puzzles, without a sound.
Collaboration is cheating. If they finish both of the
puzzles, and turn them in by the end of the bell, great! If
not the puzzles are due Tuesday.
PLAN
Wordly Wise Test, exchange and grade, puzzles, reading
OBJECTIVES FOR ENGLISH IV
1. Students will take their main Wordly Wise test over Unit 7.
2. Students will each give oral report over a Shakespearean Play
and I would like to have these taped, so I can grade them
when I come back Monday.
3. Students have a Shakespearean notebook on which they may
work. They may write reports, draw covers, etc.
PLAN
Journals, notes, tests, oral reports, notebook.
OBJECTIVES FOR ENGLISH I
1. Students will take their main Wordly Wise test over Unit 7.
Same procedure. For every person who speaks out, one
additional word is given. Must use a cover sheet.
2. Exchange and grade test, and take up papers.
3. Students will work 2 puzzles without collaboration.
Collaboration is cheating. Treats for those who finished
both puzzles.
4. Students may read silently in When the Legends Die, or
another novel.
PLAN
Journals, objectives, test, exchange and grade, puzzles,
silent reading.
OBJECTIVES FOR SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will present 2 duets to you to be taped. They may
also say their oratories and humorous speeches to you for 25
points extra credit. PLEASE TAPE THESE. Fill out critique
sheets on duets!
1. Students will take a test over 2 or 3 chapters which they
read and highlighted.
THIRTY-THIRD DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will read all hour in novels, in order to finish
them. (8) Lisa, Bright and Dark or Shane (11) Chariots of Fire (9) When the Legends Die (12) Julius Caesar
1. Students will be ready for Wordly Wise on Thursday, as there
is no school Friday.
PLAN
Journals, objectives, silent reading
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will finish examination over chapters in Speech book
about “Bad Speech Habits” and “Dilemmas”.
1. Students will brainstorm about their pep rally skit on
Thursday.
THIRTY-FOURTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will read silently for 30 minutes in order to finish
novels. If students are already finished, they may work
Wordly Wise 8 and write their sentences for Unit 8, or study
words for test Thursday, as there is no school Friday.
2. Students will take exam over Chariots of Fire. (11)
3. Students will make out a written study guide for Chapters 1-9
with all the words and definitions on it, to study for the 9-weeks test. This study guide is worth 10 points added to the
test. The reason is because you will be helping
yourself, by making this study guide. It must be completed
by Monday, in order to get the credit on the test! (8, 9,
11, 12)
1. Students will work Unit 8 in Spelling in order to be ready
for test on Thursday, as there is no school Friday. (8)
5. Students will show they are organized, by presenting their
English bag of materials for extra points! (8, 9)
6. Students will clean out their desks in order to keep this
room immaculate at all times! (all classes)
PLAN
Journals, lecture, silent reading, test or “work time”
REMINDERS
1. Your nine-weeks test is 2 weeks away, and your notes show
what is on it. You must begin studying by making that study
guide for Wordly Wise. Write your “25 Ways to Get A’s in
Writing” about 10 times for extra points!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will have a dress rehearsal of their pep rally skit,
after they take the following notes:
a. If you laugh once during the skit, you receive an “F” because this is professional...not stupid. Be professional.
b. You must do exactly what you rehearse...nothing extra!
c. You must show what you brought today for a grade!
THIRTY-FIFTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will learn new and more correct ways to speak and
write the English Language by working 2 exercises in Warriner’s, and one page in their workbook.
English 8 - Exercise 18, p. 23; Exercise 19, p. 25; Shane
Workbook, pp.1-6
English III - Ex. 3, p. 36; Ex. 2, p. 34; Workbook, p. 11
English 9 - Ex. 1, p. 39; Ex. 2, p. 41; Workbook, p. 10
2. Students will make sure their Wordly Wise, Unit 8 and
sentences are completed by Thursday, and that they are
prepared to take their test tomorrow and make 100.
3. Students will take exam over When the Legends Die today.
PLAN
1. Journal
2. Lecture
3. Warriner’s & Workbook
4. Test (9)...Reading (8)...Reading (11)... Julius Caesar (12)
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will again receive a grade for what they brought for
the skit and rehearse the skit 3 times, until it is perfect,
WITHOUT LAUGHTER!
1. Students will save their humorous speeches for me until we get
back to the classroom.
THIRTY-SIXTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. As there is no school tomorrow for “Hunting Holiday”, students will take their main test on Wordly Wise, Unit 8 today, and will exchange and grade it. 8th grade will also take Spelling, Unit 8. (100’s go on the Spelling Star
bulletin board).
2. Students will exchange and grade Unit 8 in workbooks... Wordly Wise.
3. Students will turn in Warriner’s exercises assigned yesterday, if they have not already done so.
4. Students will read silently in novels, in order to finish them.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Lecture
3. Exchange and grade books
4. Tests
5. Silent Reading
REMINDERS
1. If you are making study guide of all the words in Wordly
Wise, 1-9, it must be completed by Monday to get the 10
points added to your test grade. Remember, your 9-weeks test
is a week from Monday.
1. Warriner’s exercises go right along with your writing and
speaking skills, so try for top grades on those exercises!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse once, and then at 2:25, present their skit to the Girls’ Volleyball Team in a pep rally. I will serve as their narrator for “Foreign Friends in Pronghorn Territory!” The boys begin as little babies (adopted), and their names are Buckwheat, Geronimo, and Wong. Their mother is taking them to the Regional Volleyball Tournament, and then we see these same little boys 7 years later, and them again 10 years later, and they are still showing their school spirit by attending Regional. Students will be graded on
professionalism (F if they say something they did not
rehearse!) Giggling and unprofessionalism will not be tolerated!
THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will show their study guides to instructors for the
10 points added to the 9-weeks test grade. These must be
turned in at the time of the exam.
1. Students will receive essays back with critiques and
suggestions for improvement. The winners of the “Best All-Around Essays” will go up on the Writing Bulletin Board.
1. Students will work Wordly Wise, Unit 9 and sentences at home
tonight so they can play games. They must follow game rules
given earlier this year.
1. English I will continue watching When the Legends Die.
PLAN
Journals, Lecture, Essays, Games
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will begin reading their lines to “Snoopy”. They will read through the entire play about 4 times, talking about sets, suggestions for props, costumes, etc. (just as a real production does on Broadway), and then, they will be ready to go on stage.
2. The play is January 10.
THIRTY-EIGHTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will work on study guides for 9-weeks tests.
2. Students will read silently in novels in order to finish by
next Friday.
PLAN
Journals, Lecture Study Guides, Silent Reading
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will read “Snoopy” and begin on “Charlie Brown”.
THIRTY-NINTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will add to their “List of Ways to Get A’s in
Writing”.
a. When you write or speak, using yourself and other people
put yourself last...it should be “Mark and I,”...not “Me
and Mark”.
b. Don’t say...”We went and got something to eat...Say “We
went to eat.” Don’t use two verbs when you only need one!
c. Use “All of a sudden”, not “All of the sudden”
d. Indent in your writing, when something new happens or is talked about.
e. Indent every time some one new speaks.
2. Students will look at essays and turn them in and being making
an essay booklet cover for a contest. Cover is due next
Friday!
3. Students will choose any exercise out of Chapter 1 of
Warriner’s to work and turn in today, as a review for 9-weeks
test.
4. Students will make sure Unit 9 of Wordly Wise and sentences
are completed and they are prepared to take Unit 9 test on
Friday.
5. Novels are due next Friday.
PLAN
Journals, Lecture, Essays, Warriner’s, Wordly Wise - Unit 9,
Silent Reading
REMINDERS
1. 9 -Weeks Test counts one-third of your report card grade, and
is also recorded right on the report card.
1. Please study 30 minutes every night for Monday and Tuesday’s test.
FORTIETH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will begin on their essay covers which are due next
Friday.
2. Students will study silently for 30 minutes, memorizing their
words for their 9-Weeks test Monday.
PLAN
Journals, Lecture, Silent Studying, Oral Studying
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will take notes, read “You’re a Good Man, Charlie
Brown”, and begin sets. They’ll gather wood, take it to the
shop in order to begin building a dog house and 6 blocks for
the set!
FORTY-FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise 9 in book.
2. Students will turn in sentences for Wordly Wise 9.
3. Students will take test on Wordly Wise 9, exchange and grade.
4. Students will study words for 9-weeks test silently.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Lecture
3. Exchange and grade
4. Test and grade
5. Silent Studying
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will work on the set for “You’re a Good Man, Charlie
Brown”.
FORTY-SECOND DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will show they have learned 150 vocabulary words over the 9-week period, by passing a matching test from
Wordly Wise, Units 1-9.
2. Students will show they have learned some ways to get A’s in
writing, by listing about 10-20 of those on their exam.
PLAN
9-Weeks Examination
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students are working on the set for “You’re a Good Man,
Charlie Brown”, and this is part of their 9-weeks test, and
is due Friday.
2. Students are also working on their humorous speeches for
Thursday’s 9-weeks test.
FORTY-THIRD DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will take Part II of their 9-weeks Examination by writing a 3 ½ page essay over one of the two assigned topics. They must turn in a completed paper at the end of the hour, regardless if they are finished or not. This essay is to show the instructor that students have improved
in their writing skills!
PLAN
9-Weeks Examination, Part II. Essay.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will continue painting and building sets for “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”, and working on humorous speeches for 9-weeks tests Thursday and Friday.
FORTY-FOURTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
2nd Hour- Students will finish Wordly Wise test in 30 min.
and begin essay.
3rd Hour- Students will exchange and grade 9-weeks tests, and
check them over. They will average the two tests (WW and essay) together, and turn in papers. They will work on Wordly Wise 10 and essay cover for the
rest of the hour. They should be finished with Of Mice and Men. That test is Monday.
4th Hour- Students will work Wordly Wise 10 and work on cover
for the essay booklet.
5th Hour- Students will exchange and grade 9-weeks tests, and check them over. They will turn in papers, and work on essay covers and Wordly Wise 10.
FORTY-FIFTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will exchange and grade composition notebooks, and
this is the way it is to be graded.
30 sets = 100
-3 for each set less than 30
50 if the notebook is brought after class
0 if the notebook is lost or not here by 3 p.m.
2. Students will finish covers for essay booklets, as the covers
are due tomorrow.
3. Students will work part of Wordly Wise 10 together in class,
and then turn in sentences if they are completed.
PLAN
1. Journal
2. Lecture
3. Grading of composition notebooks
4. Wordly Wise 10 orally
5. Work on covers or sentences which are due tomorrow.
REMINDERS
There is a bag of candy for the essay cover which has the most work put into it. The Wordly Wise 10 book and sentences are due on Friday, but the test will be Monday, so that you don’t have too many tests this week. Read silently in your novel if you are through with everything that is due. Check the reading chart on the bulletin board, if you want the next novel to read.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will memorize all hour in order to present speeches
tomorrow. The set will be finished Monday at 3 p.m.
FORTY-SIXTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will hand in their essay covers to be laminated and
judged by Tuesday.
2. Students will hand in sentences for Wordly Wise 10.
3. Students will have quiet time and work Wordly Wise 10 or read
in novel for 15 minutes.
4. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise 10 and prepare
for test Monday.
5. Students will silently work the “Think About It” Puzzles in
order to earn a treat.
PLAN
Journals, Lecture, Quiet time, Exchange and grade, Puzzles
for a treat.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. As soon as speeches are presented, the students will go to
the shop to complete the doghouse.
FORTY-SEVENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will discuss puzzles assigned on Friday, and 8th
graders will look at 9-weeks test first.
2. Students will take Wordly Wise Test 10 (and Spelling 10 for
8th grade), and (Of Mice and Men test for English III, and
Shane test for 8th graders).
3. Students will read silently in next novel.
4. Wordly Wise 11 books are due Wednesday of this week, and
tests are Friday. (Same for Spelling).
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Lecture
3. Wordly Wise Test -Spelling Test
4. Exchange and grade tests.
5. Quiet time for silent reading or novel tests.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will work on set in shop.
2. girls will do the cute
cubes, and boys will do the tree.
FORTY-EIGHTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will plan, organize, and write an essay and turn it
in at the end of the hour.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will finish sets, and begin rehearsal on stage for
”You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.”
FORTY-NINTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will work one exercise in Warriner’s, exchange and
grade it, and prepare for a test over Warriner’s for Friday,
after Wordly Wise 11.
2. Students may read silently in novels.
PLAN
Journals, Lecture, Warriner’s, Study Chapter 1 and 2 in
Warriner’s for a test Friday.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will study lines for scenes 1, 2, and 3, with a partner.
PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES
FIFTIETH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will take test over Wordly Wise 11, and Warriner’s
Chapters 1 and 2.
2. Students will hand in tests, and read silently in their
novels. If they do not have a novel, they may also work the
Christmas puzzle which is due Monday.
PLAN
Tests, Silent Reading or Puzzle
SPEECH AND DRAMA
John and Mark may paint the dog house in the shop. They must clean all brushes spotless and have everything spotless before 3 p.m.
FIFTY-FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will be able to work Wordly Wise 12 with 80%
accuracy, or better!
2. Students will be able to play English-related games such as
Scrabble and Probe.
PLANÔ
Journal, Lecture, Wordly Wise 12, Games
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will be able to learn and recite the first four
pages or scene 1 of “Charlie Brown” on stage!
2. Students will finish the cube for “Charlie Brown.”
FIFTY-SECOND DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will hand in proof reading exercises.
2. Students will find out who the winners of the “essay booklet contest” are.
3. Students will begin preparing their essay booklet to be as perfect as they can make it, by rewriting the essays they wrote last quarter, making all of the additions and corrections, and stapling the best copy on top!
4. Students in English I will work in partners and try to finish their Skilltrek books by this Friday!
5. Students will have quiet work time!
PLAN
Journal, Lecture, Cover winners, Rewrite essay, Work time
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will rehearse first scene of “Charlie Brown” on
stage.
FIFTY-THIRD DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
English 8
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put
their thoughts down on paper, and find out who was the most
creative and best organized on essays!
2. Students will be able to cross out modifiers from 10
sentences, in order to decide what subjects and verbs are!
3. Students will be able to diagram subjects and verbs in 5
sentences with 90% accuracy, after listening to discussion
and lecture, and working 5 sentences together.
4. Students will have some quiet time to work Wordly Wise 12 and
write sentences with those words.
PLAN
1. Journal
2. Lecture
3. Cross out modifiers
4. Diagram 5 sentences from Warriner’s, Exercise 19, p.25,
orally, and students will diagram the last 5 sentences
independently.
5. Quiet time
English III
1. Students will be able to turn in one essay from last quarter
that has been rewritten to show no errors, and to make all
corrections and additions!
2. Students will work Wordly Wise12 and write sentences with
the words.
English IV
1. Students will finish watching “Othello” by William
Shakespeare and Ken will need to take his test, since
he has been absent.
English I
1. Students will be able to write in journals in order to be
able to put their thoughts down on paper.
2. Students will work together in groups, in order to finish
their Skilltrek workbooks by Friday. If finished, they may
read in their novels.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse Scene 1 and song on stage, and go to
the Old Shop and finish the Props.
FIFTY-FOURTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
English 8
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put
their thoughts on paper.
2. Students will listen to a review of yesterday’s diagramming
lesson.
3. Students will exchange and grade yesterday’s assignment.
4. Students will be able to pick out prepositional phrases from
sentences.
5. Students will be able to diagram compound subjects and
predicates with 90% accuracy.
6. Students’ll exchange and grade Wordly Wise12
PLAN
Journal, Lecture, Grading, Prepositional phrases, Diagramming
English III
1. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise 12 and turn in
sentences.
2. Students will work Exercise 1, pp. 42 43 and Exercise 2, p.
in Warriner’s, after reading the rules in read, and the introduction pages for Chapter 3.
3. Students will work p. 14 in blue Workbook.
English IV
1. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise 12, and turn in
sentences.
2. Students may watch Othello, and prepare for Shakespeare
exam tomorrow.
English I
1. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise 12 and turn in
sentences.
2. Students will work in pairs on Skilltrek, in order to finish
it by tomorrow.
3. Students will finish their novel, Durango Street by next
Friday. (or The Outsiders)
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will paint Snoopy’s Dog House.
FIFTY-FIFTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
English 8
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put
thoughts down on paper.
2. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise books for Units
11 and 12.
3. Students will exchange and grade Spelling Unit 12.
4. Students will exchange and grade tests and proofreading
exercises.
5. Students will finish Shane.
English III
1. Students will take exam over Wordly Wise 12, and hand in
Warriner’s exercises.
2. Students will work pp. 14-15 in workbook.
English IV
1. Students will take Wordly Wise 12, and Shakespeare exam.
English I
1. Students will finish grading Unit 12 in Wordly Wise, and
complete Skilltrek.
2. Students will have silent reading and working time after
taking test over Wordly Wise 12.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will finish their cubes in the Old Shop.
FIFTY-SIXTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put their thoughts down on paper.
2. Students will see what they will be doing all three days this
weeks, because Thursday is Thanksgiving, and there is no
school Thursday and Friday.
a. Monday...Work Wordly Wise 13, sentences, and Spelling 13.
Finish novel tonight.
b. Tuesday...In class, rewrite one essay from last quarter.
Two, if you have time. No need to bring other books on
Tuesdays. Novel (*8)
c. Wednesday...Grade Wordly Wise 13 and sentences...Take
test. Read.
PLAN
1. Journals
2. Lecture
3. Oral work in Wordly Wise 13
4. Silent work time
REMINDERS
1. Your novels for English 8, are due tomorrow. (Shane or Lisa
Bright and Dark.)
2. Novels for English 9 are due Monday...(Durango Street or The
Outsiders.)
3. First 50 pages of novel for English III must be read by this
Wednesday.
4. English IV novel must have first 50 pages by Monday.
5. No homework except for reading, over the holiday. GRADES CAN
BE AVERAGED TODAY
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse Charlie Brown up to the first 8 pages
today on stage and finish dog house.
FIFTY-SEVENTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
English 8
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put
their thoughts down on paper.
2. Students will be able to diagram the subjects and verbs of 9
sentences after reviewing and listening to a lecture, with
90% accuracy.
3. If time allows, students will have time to work on spelling
and Wordly Wise.
PLAN
Journal, Lecture, Review, Diagramming, Grading and
evaluation, Work time
REMINDERS
1. Your homework tonight is to study Wordly Wise 13 and Spelling
13 and to finish Shane. If you have a ball game, take your
materials along to study on the bus.
2. Next week is Skilltrek Week: We will work in partners to
finish the workbook.
English III
1. Students will rewrite one or two of their essays from the
first quarter, in order to have a perfect essay booklet.
English IV
1. Students will take their tests on Shakespeare and make-up
tests today.
English I
1. Students will rewrite one or two of their essays from the
first quarter, in order to have a perfect essay booklet.
2. Students will turn in Skilltrek books if they have not done
so, already!
3. Students will finish Wordly Wise 13 and sentences by
tomorrow, and read in Durango Street.
PLAN
Journals, Lecture, Rewrites, Silent work time
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse “Charlie Brown” to p. 10 on stage and
work in cold “old” shop on props. Cubes should be finished
and carried to the stage today.
FIFTY-EIGHTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will take test for spelling and vocabulary, Unit 13.
2. Students will exchange and grade workbooks and tests, and
turn in rewritten essays.
3. Students will read their novels in order to finish them by
Monday.
PLAN
Journals, Lecture...Hand in rewritten essays, Grading, Tests, Reading
FIFTY-NINTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
English 8
1. Students will finish their Shane and Lisa Bright and Dark
tests, and work together on Skilltrek books, in order to
finish them by Friday.
English III
1. Students will read in their novels all hour in the
auditorium...Holocaust or All Things Bright and Beautiful!
English IV
1. Students will begin writing a beautiful love story or humorous western story or “way-out” fiction to mail into a publisher. They must have the rough draft completed by Friday, and it must be at least 10 typewritten pages.
English I
1. Students will read all hour in the auditorium, or if completely caught up on novel, they will play games.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse to page 20 in You’re a Good Man,
Charlie Brown.
2. This play is January 9.
3. Dog house needs black roof, and front boards. Back must be painted another coat of white. Lucy’s block needs more letters and decorations! The booth needs braces, and needs to be painted red on the backside...and in white, needs 10c, 8c, 6c, and finally 2c in white. (psychiatrist)
SIXTIETH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will rewrite one essay in order to have a perfect
booklet for the “Young Author” program in Rock Springs in
January. They may work on Wordly Wise 14, when they finish
this rewrite.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will have an audience today in order to have a
better performance for “Charlie Brown”, pp. 1 20 & songs.
SIXTY-FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will work Wordly Wise 14 and write their sentences,
which are all due tomorrow. Then the 8th grade will work on
Skilltrek.
2. Students will work on their blue workbooks...
English III: 16, 17, 18...
English I: 16, 17, 18...
English IV: Writing Project for Publication.
3. Students will review phrases, gerunds, and participial, in
order to work on exercise in Warriner’s...Exercise 5, pp. 48,49. (English III) English I: Exercise A, p.54 (Review Exercise A)
4. Students may read in novels for the rest of the hour.
PLAN
Journals
Lecture
Wordly Wise 14 and sentences
Skilltrek
Workbook explanations
Warriner’s Readings
REMINDERS
Tomorrow, after we grade Wordly Wise 14, will be “extra credit day”. You may work on extra credit for this class...you may not turn in any late work or extra credit, the weeks of semester tests, even if you are failing...in other words, with semester tests, there are not enough hours in the day to grade all your late work and extra credit...that must be done during the nine-weeks, and you
have about 5 weeks left.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students cannot leave the room until the play lines are memorized...we will be splitting up into different parts of the room, and memorizing lines, all hour!!!
SIXTY-SECOND DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Today is “Extra Credit” or “Catch-up” Day. After we grade Wordly Wise 14, and your sentences are on the round table, you may work in the booklets in your folder which are for extra credit, or you may make study guides for all of the units in Wordly Wise for extra credit, or you may write essays for 25 points of extra credit, or you may read in your novel... Remember, you may not turn in any late work or extra credit work during the semester test week...that is too late, as I cannot get it graded. It must be done in the next 4 weeks,
if you are trying for the honor roll!!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will memorize in the classroom with their partners, and then go on stage for a short rehearsal, if time allows. They are to learn all of Act I perfectly and go on to Act II.
REMINDER
January 12, I will be taking students to the speech meet in Rock Springs. Be prepared for at least 2 categories.
SIXTY-THIRD DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will write in journals in order to put thoughts down on paper.
2. Students will take their Wordly Wise Test 14, exchange and
grade it.
3. Students will read 12 pages in their novels today.
4. 8th Grade will exchange and grade Spellers and take Spelling
14 today.
PLAN
Journals
Lecture
Wordly Wise Test 14
Silent Reading or Grading Spelling 14
Spelling Test 14 (8th Grade)
SPEECH AND DRAMA...
WILL FINISH THE PROPS AND GET THEM ON STAGE TODAY FOR A BIG REHEARSAL ON MONDAY!
SIXTY-FOURTH OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. For those students wishing to make the honor roll, you will turn in your study guide for Unit 15, sentences for Unit 15, and Unit 15 in book for Wordly Wise, in order to get extra points! Due Thursday.
2. Students will read 12 more pages in their novels, and when all of the above are accomplished, they may split up into groups and play games!
PLAN
Journal; Lecture; Wordly Wise Study Guide, Book, Sentences; Games
SPEECH AND DRAMA
BIG REHEARSAL TODAY FOR “CHARLIE BROWN”...ACT 1
SIXTY-FIFTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will rewrite as many essays as they can within the hour time limit, as next week, we will be writing a “new” essay for this quarter. You may do any other rewrites at home, or on Thursdays, on “extra-credit” days!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse Act II for “You’re A Good Man, Charlie
Brown”.
SIXTY-SIXTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will work exercises in Warriner’s and turn in.
2. English I and English III will also work pp. 19-21 in blue workbook.
3. All students will be sure their Wordly Wise is ready for grading on Thursdays, and that sentences are turned in by Thursday.
4. English 8 will check to see that all Spelling is ready to grade for Friday.
PLAN
Journal, Lecture, Warriner’s, Workbook, Work time...
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Rehearse Act I and Act II on stage!
SIXTY-SEVENTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise Unit 12, and
spend the rest of the hour doing “Extra-Credit” or make-up
work. If all is done, they may read silently in the
auditorium.
2. Exchange and grade Warriner’s and Workbook...
PLAN
Journal
Lecture
Grade Wordly Wise
Grade Warriner’s and Workbook
Silent time
SPEECH AND DRAMA
STUDENTS WILL DO THE ENTIRE PLAY IN ONE HOUR, IF POSSIBLE.
SIXTY-EIGHT DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will be able to spell correctly their words from Unit 15 in Wordly Wise, with 90% accuracy or better.
2. Students will read 12 pages in their novel today in the auditorium.
PLAN
Wordly Wise Test 15
Grade Spelling (English 8)
Spelling Test 15 (English 8)
Silent Reading in the Auditorium
SPEECH AND DRAMA
FINISH ALL PROPS!!
SIXTY-NINTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will work their study guides and sentences for Wordly Wise 16. They will also sort their books for Wordly Wise 16 and Spelling 16.
PLAN
Work on the bleachers until all above items are completed, and then attend the rummage sale, if students have a few minutes left over.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse “Charlie Brown” on stage because they have a performance to give to the Green River students on Wednesday.
SEVENTIETH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. All students will write a 31/2 page essay on a Christmas Theme. A list of choices will be given to the students, or they may choose a Christmas subject of their own. Included in the writing assignment is Christmas poetry, serious essays, humorous essays, and 6 choices where students may use their imaginations!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse “Charlie Brown” on stage and clean
stage when they are finished.
2. Students will plan and rehearse a skit for the pep rally
tomorrow. (In scene from “Charlie Brown”...change from
baseball to basketball.)
SEVENTY-THIRD DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
As tomorrow is Homecoming, and today and every day this week, was a “Spirit” Day, and since there is a pep rally from 2 to 3 p.m. today, the classes are each shorter by 10 minutes!
1. Students will write in their journals in order to be able
to put their thoughts down on paper.
2. Students will take their tests for Wordly Wise 16, exchange and grade.
3. Students will read 12 pages in their novels, silently, in the auditorium.
4. English 8 will also grade Spelling 16, and take test for
Unit 16 in Spelling.
5. English 9 will rearrange my room in order to make it look different for the second semester. The Christmas tree will be by the door!
PLAN
Journals, Lecture, Tests, Silent Reading
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will study lines for Act II, and be quizzed on
them!
2. Students will change into costumes and do a skit for the Pep Rally! They will be graded on lines, and keeping a ”straight face.”
SEVENTY-FOURTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will do study guides, sentences, workbook pages in Wordly Wise 17, and read silently in novels, after all the above items are completed. (They will always write in their journals). Novels:
8th Grade: Johnny Tremaine
9th Grade: Tex
11th Grade: All Things Bright and Beautiful
12th Grade: Little Women
PLAN
Journal, Lecture, Wordly Wise 17, Silent Reading
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will be video-taped today on their songs for
”Charlie Brown” and on Act II.
SEVENTY-FIFTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will rewrite the essay they wrote last Tuesday (Christmas Essay or poetry). When this is completed, they will punch holes in their covers for their booklets. These may be put together with the Christmas Essay last.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse Act I of “Charlie Brown” today on Stage! Then they will come to the classroom to watch yesterday’s video-tape!
SEVENTY-SIXTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will write in their journals in order to be able to put their thoughts down on paper.
2. Students will listen to and respond as the teacher reviews agreement principles.
3. Students will be able to work an Exercise in Warriner’s and do 3 pages in their blue workbooks for homework on agreement, with 70-100% accuracy.
4. There will be silent work time for students.
PLAN
Journal
Lecture
Exercise in Warriner’s and grade it in class for feedback
or evaluation.
Workbook assignment.
REMINDERS
1. Your semester exam is three weeks away, not counting the holiday. You must have all extra credit and make-up work in before the exam!
2. Tomorrow, I will give you exactly what is on your exam, so that you will be prepared!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse Act II of “Charlie Brown” today, until it is perfect.
SEVENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Today, students will read silently all hour in the auditorium, in order to finish their novels by tomorrow!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Today, students will rehearse act I in “Charlie Brown”!
SEVENTY-EIGHT DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise 17 and take the
test over the unit.
2. Students will take their novel tests today, so there is no homework over the holidays.
3. Students will be given little stockings full of fruit for a Christmas present, after they eat lunch, they may come in from free ice-cream (it is in the teacher’s lounge).I will use plastic spoons and paper cups, and bring some topping. They may bring cookies and goodies, if they wish! I will have a Christmas program on video tape for them to watch!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students may rehearse the entire play and work on all props!
SEVENTY-NINTH DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will work Wordly Wise 18 study guides, sentences,
and unit. They may then play games.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Will rehearse for big dress rehearsal on Friday!
EIGHTIETH DAY OF CLASSES
1. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise 18 (and 17),
and play games.
EIGHTY-FIRST DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will take test over Wordly Wise 18, work on
puzzles, and work at least two pages in an extra credit
booklet!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Will make the fire hydrant, and two trees!
EIGHTY-SECOND DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will find out what will be on the semester examination, when it is, and review for it.
a. Monday, Jan. 14...GRAMMAR: 8 pages for pages 1-21 (9th)
in blue workbook and Chapters 1-3 in 1-21 and 37-40 (in)
Warriner’s: 8th and 12th will have test over chapters
1-3 in Warriner’s.
b. Tuesday, Jan. 15...Essay...must be completed in one
hour. Must be written on one of three topics suggested.
c. Wednesday, Jan. 16...100 words to be matched with definitions from Units 1-18 in Wordly Wise. We will exchange
and grade these in class if everyone finishes early.
The exam counts one-third of your semester grade for English! First quarter is one grade: second quarter is one grade: Semester exam is one grade: add the three: divide by 3: That grade is the one which determines whether or not you Get one the honor roll...
This week we will be working every day on the review (which Is worth 10 points on your exam grade). Your extra credit Booklets which must be turned in by Friday, if you with to Have extra credit for this quarter, and we will be calling Out words to each other to review for exam!
Today: begin your review, and staple your 18 study guides Together in order to have ten points added to your exam grade! Both must be turned in at the time of the exam! Tomorrow: bring all of the extra credit booklets which Were in your folder, and work in them for minutes... Then study the first 8 pages in your Warriner’s. Then, for 10 minutes, call out words from units 1-5 in Wordly Wise. Same procedure Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday! (different chapters and different units, and different pages in Workbooks.)
SPEECH AND DRAMA:
REHEARSE END OF THE PLAY AT LEAST 3 TIMES!
EIGHTY-THIRD DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will work their grammar reviews for the test next Monday. When they finish the review, they use my key to correct it, in order to have a perfect study guide. The review has 400 questions on it from Warriner’s and the blue
workbook, and the test will only have 100 questions, taken from that review.
EIGHTY-FOURTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Tonight is our play production!!!!!
Students will call out Wordly Wise words to each other And finish their reviews. The reviews must be checked With my keys, so that students have a study guide for exam. ”Charlie Brown” cast shall discuss last minute items for
Play tonight!!
EIGHT-FIFTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Our play went fine last evening. Students will complete their reviews, make their essay Booklets, and work on extra credit. This is the last week to turn in extra credit for grades This quarter.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will clean up the stage, prop room, dressing rooms, carry props to the old shop, mop the stage, unpin the curtains, untape the lights, and leave the stage area in perfect condition.
EIGHT-SIXTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will receive their averages for this quarter. They are to look at them, study the, and let me know if There are any errors. They must do this in writing, as I never take any complaints orally!!! Then, they must turn in any and all extra credit, as this Is the very last day of the quarter.
Then students must use my keys in order to make their Study guides for grammar, so they can study over the weekend. The test will be given on Monday!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will find a speech in order to prepare for the first speech meet in Evanston on February 8 and 9. They must write and give a speech for their semester examination this Friday! This will be a persuasive speech (p. 250-271) in Speaking by Doing!
EIGHTY-SEVENTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will take the grammar part of their semester examination today. It has only 100 questions, taken from their Review. They must first hand in their review and hand in Their composition notebook! Then they have the whole hour To finish the exam. They may not leave the room or talk After the exam.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will work orally on pages 251-271 in Speaking by Doing: when this is completed, we will write a persuasive Speech and give it Friday for ½ of the semester examination. The play was ½ of the semester examination. I will average the two grades for the report card grade for Their semester examination. This whole week will be used in Preparation of this persuasive speech!
EIGHTY-EIGHTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will take the essay part of their semester examination today! (Part II). They will have three choices For essays, and must use one of those three, and finish 3-1/2 page essay in one hour! This should be the very
best essay they have ever written!!!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Today, students will begin writing the actual persuasive speech for Friday, so they can memorize, and there will be rules to follow.
1. You will not leave the room any time during the week to practice. All practice will be done in the classroom!
2. The book must be completed before we choose our topics and write our speech.
3. Quiet time will be just that...you will have memorization time in class, and they you will also stand and give your speech several dozen times, in order to be ready for Friday.
4. We will video tape the speeches Friday, so you will not be able to argue your way out of the grade...in other words each error will be one point off.. each “ugh”, each time you read instead of “saying” the speech, each time you forget
something...etc.
5. You will receive 1 point extra credit for each audiovisual aid you have with your speech, so plan to use some!
6. This should be the very best speech you have ever given!
EIGHTY-NINTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will take the vocabulary part of their semester Exam today! (Wordly Wise) this will be 100 words from Units 1-18, and it will be a matching exam!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will memorize their persuasive speeches, and say them to the wall in the classroom today!
NINETY-FIRST DAY OF CLASSES
LAST DAY OF THE FIRST SEMESTER
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put
their thoughts down on paper.
2. Students will turn in old folders to be filed, and receive
new folders.
3. Students will complete their essay booklets and put them on
file cabinet.
4. Students will find out about county spelling bee, and
receive lists in order to study for the contest on March 9,
to be held here in Farson.
5. Students may play games quietly.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will present their final examination speeches today
(PERSUASIVE SPEECHES). Each person’s grade on this speech
will count ½ of the exam grade. (“Charlie Brown” was the
other half and each person received a 100.)
NINETY-SECOND DAY OF CLASSES
FIRST DAY OF SECOND SEMESTER
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will do unit, sentences, and study guide for Wordly Wise 19.
2. When students finish those three items, they may read in Durango Street, or Tex, both of which are due on Friday. (Chapters 1 & 2 of Lord of the Flies, due Wed.) Johnny Tremaine for 8th gr. is due Wednesday.
English IV is reading Letters From an Army Wife.
PLAN
Journal
Lecture
Wordly Wise Unit
Study Guide
Sentences
Silent Reading in classroom
REMINDERS
REPORT CARDS COME OUT THIS THURSDAY!!!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will take notes over the objectives and plan for the day.
2. Students will read about 8 plays, and decide upon one in their book for reading.
3. Students will begin preparing their speech meet speeches by Friday.
4. Students will work 191 215 in their speech books.
5. Discuss pep rally skit and dinner theater.
REVIEW OF RULES FOR SECOND SEMESTER
1. You will turn in one composition notebook with all of the notes for the entire year, and the grade will count 3 times. Tear out notes and put them in one notebook.
2. You may not leave the room. Do not ask. You have 45 minutes
for lunch!
3. The last grade for the year is the one that goes on your transcript, and counts for valedictorian and salutatorian, so work hard this semester.
4. When we finish our Wordly Wise book, we will begin our research papers, so be thinking of a good topic.
5. You may sit anywhere today, but if you talk, you must move
and sit in an assigned seat for 9 weeks. Also, you may not move desks closer...keep them right where they are!
NINETY-THIRD DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will write in their journals in order to be able
to put their thoughts on paper.
2. Students will listen to and respond to a lecture concerning
”agreement.”
3. Students will have oral drill over Exercise 4, p. 133, Exer.
5, p. 136, and Review A & B, pp. 136-137 in Warriner’s.
4. Students will work first 5 of Exercise D., p. 139. Exchange
and grade.
5. For homework, students will work p. 42 in workbook.
PLAN
Students will write in Journals.
Lecture
Oral drill
Written exercise-grade
Silent work time
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will read plays orally and decide which ones to
present March 27th for an assembly.
2. Students will work on oral interpretation speech for
speech meet, Feb. 8.,
NINETY-FOURTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will write in their journals in order to be able to
put their thoughts down on paper.
2. Students will listen and respond to a review over agreement.
a. Singular means “one”.
b. Plural means two or more.
c. If a subject is singular, the verb has to be singular.
d. If a subject or noun is singular, the pronoun
which stands for the subject is singular.
e. A plural subject has an “s” on it, usually.
A plural verb has no “s” on it.
g. Indefinite means you do not know if something is
singular or plural so you have to look at other words
in the sentence to see which it is.
3. Students will have oral drill over Exercise 8, p. 141 and review Exercise F., p. 146.
4. Students will be able to choose the correct verb in Review Exercise G, p. 146, with 80% accuracy or better!
5. For homework, students will work pp. 43 44 in their blue workbooks and this is on agreement.
6. If time allows, students will read silently in novel.
PLAN
Journal
Lecture
Oral Drill
Written exercise-Exchange and grade Evaluation...Review
Exercise G, p. 146
Quiet time for homework
Silent Reading
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will say the first page of their speeches from memory. They will learn the next two pages of their speeches and practice orally all hour, in the classroom.
2. Students must have a perfect introduction for their speeches.
English 8 is taking a test on Johnny Tremaine, and seeing
Part I.
English III is taking a pop quiz on Chapters 1 &2 of Lord
of the Flies, and seeing two sound filmstrips over the book.
(three, if time allows).
English IV has the above objectives, and plan!
NINETY-FIFTH DAY OF CLASSES
REPORT CARDS GO OUT SIXTH HOUR TODAY!
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will watch the remainder of the film, Johnny
Tremaine.
2. Students will work Exercise 15, pp. 65 and 66; and exer. 16,
pp. 66 67 for homework, or in class, if there is time.
3. Students will turn in sentences and grade Unit 19 in Wordly
Wise.
4. Spelling and Wordly Wise tests are tomorrow.
PLAN
Lecture
Film
Grading
Homework quiet time
ENGLISH III Students will work Exercise 5, pp. 93- 93,
exchange and grade. Exchange and grade Wordly Wise 19, pp.
42 43 in blue workbook.
ENGLISH I Grade Wordly Wise. Exchange and grade blue
workbook...42 44. Work Exercise 11, pp. 150 151 in
Warriner’s. Exchange and grade.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will say second page (and first)
by memory, and learn third page.
ENGLISH IV Students will work Exercise 1, p. 87 and Exercise
2, p. 87 and Exercise 3, p. 90 in Warriner’s, after listening
to lecture on rules.
NINETY SIXTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Fridays are test days and students will write in journals, Take notes, and take their tests... Wordly wise 19 and Eighth Grade also takes spelling 19, and eight students take 25 Words in order to determine the winner for the county
Spelling contest.
Students will review the chapter on “agreement” in Warriner’s. As they will have a test over that chapter on Wednesday. They will do one more exercise on “agreement” Today in class.
Students will read in their novels:
Eighth Grade Chariots of Fire
Ninth Grade The Red Pony
Eleventh Grade Lord of the Flies
Twelfth Grade- Letters from an Army Wife
SPEECH AND DRAMA:
Students will prepare a skit for next week’s pep rally called “big, bad green”, and say their speeches individually to the teacher, for improvements and
for a grade!
NINETY-SEVENTH DAY OF CLASS
OBJECTIVES
Students will work unit 20 in Wordly Wise, do their Sentences, and do their study guides for that unit. They may Also read chapter two in their novels. Speech and drama Students will say their speeches perfectly each day so that This Friday, they are ready for the Evanston speech meet. The two extemporaneous speakers, john and ken, must research a speech each day for Friday! Turn in requisitions today! I did them over the weekend!
They are due Feb. 8.
NINETY- EIGHTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Today, students will read silently in their assigned novels
And complete their work in Wordly Wise 20.
PLAN
Journal
Lecture
Silent reading in classroom
Silent work time on Wordly Wise
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will continue to say their oratory, dramatic,
Humorous, extemp, and duet speeches for me every day to get
Ready for next Friday’s speech meet.
NINETY NINTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will work exercise one in Warriner’s where they are beginning “sentence combining”. This chapter is in preparation for research papers later this quarter.
PLAN
Journal, lecture, silent reading, exercise one in sentence combining, work in spelling and Wordly Wise
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Speeches will rehearse the pep rally skit which is tomorrow
At third hour for the boys regional tournament.
ONE HUNDREDTH DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will turn in sentences for Wordly Wise, exchange and grade the unit which is always due on Thursdays, and work exercise two in Warriner’s on “sentence combining”, in preparation for writing a research paper later this quarter.
PLAN
Journal
Lecture
Silent reading
Grading Wordly Wise
Warriner’s exercise two
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will say speeches individually for critiques, so they can improve each day!
ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
(Temperature is 60 below zero...busses and school building are freezing...my classroom is warm!!)
Students will take their test over Wordly Wise 20, spelling 20,
And play games today or read silently in novels.
PLAN
Journal, lecture, test, silent reading, games
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will say their speeches perfectly for preparation
for the speech meet next Friday in Evanston.
ONE HUNDRED AND SECOND-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will work unit 21, sentences, and study guides for
Wordly Wise.
Students will read silently in their assigned novels.
Eighth Grade: Chariots of Fire (we are on chapter 7)
Ninth Grade: Death be not Proud (Chapter 2ô)
Eleventh Grade: Lord of the Flies (Chapter 6)
Twelfth Grade: Letters to an Army Colonel from an Army
Wife
PLAN
Journal
Lecture
Silent reading,
Wordly Wise
REMINDER
1. This Thursday, there is a field trip to Jackson hole for Skiing (pee. classes) so we will take our tests this Wednesday, and on Friday, we’ll do all of our Warriner’s Exercises in class for wed. Thurs. Fri.
2. You may redo any Warriner’s sentence combining exercise, for a higher grade!
Schedule for the week
Monday... Wordly Wise and reading
Tuesday...finish Wordly Wise and study it. Silent reading
Wednesday...test and grading of Wordly Wise. Silent reading
Thursday...we’ll play games
Friday... Warriner’s exercises on sentence combining...4, 5,
And any extra credit ones
ONE HUNDRED THIRD-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will complete their Wordly Wise 21, study guides and Sentences, and we will grade the book today. The test will Be tomorrow since many people will be gone Thursday on a Skiing PE trip, and I will have a substitute on Friday.
Speech and drama students are preparing the following:
Oratory “Abortion a New Angle”
Dramatic “The Bad Seed”
Extemporaneous speaking
Dramatic “Of Mice and Men”
Duet “God’s Favorite”
Oratory “Gun Control”
ONE HUNDRED FOURTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will read in their novels and take their Wordly Wise 21 test today (except for 8th graders as they will be here Thursday).
English 8 will work in Spelling Unit 21, and finish Chariots
of Fire.
English 11 finish Lord of the Flies.
English 9 will finish Death Be Not Proud.
English 12 will finish Letters From An Army Wife.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Since many of these kids will be skiing tomorrow, then today,
they must say their speeches twice, perfectly both times.
REMINDER
Friday, for the substitute, you will be working up to exercise 7 in Warriner’s. If you forget your book, you may not go get it, or share. You’ll sit and work some puzzles until someone finishes all six exercises, and gives you
his/her book. Bring paper, pen and Warriner’s on Friday.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students are gone skiing today, so a few will be here in classes. English 8 will exchange and grade Wordly Wise and Spelling, and take County Spelling Tests and other two tests. They will have everything turned in and graded on Thursday so they can work in Warriner’s for the substitute tomorrow. I
will be in Evanston with the Speech Team.
English 11- Three people will be here so they may play Scrabble, or catch up on work, or help put up the bulletin board!
English 12- All will be gone so I will type next week’s objectives, and get my awards order out.
REMINDER
You must have your paper, pen, and Warriner’s tomorrow to finish all six exercises on sentence combining.
ONE HUNDRED SIXTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
SPEECH MEET IN EVANSTON (speech students)
1. Students will write in journals.
2. Students will write down objectives and plan for today.
3. Students will work the first 6 exercises in Warriner’s in the chapter on sentence combining and revising. Some have already done the first three and some people have only completed one or two. Today, as they finish an exercise,
they turn it in. If they do not quite get #6 completed, it can be turned in one Monday, but the rest must be turned in before the end of the period...(English III only has to do 5 due to a pep rally last week.) For them #5 could be turned
in on Monday, but the rest will be turned in today.
4. If students forgot their Warriner’s, they must sit and work puzzles on parts of speech, until someone has completed all 6 exercises, and lends them a book (unless I have a book in the back bookshelf). They may borrow mine, and return it at the end of the period, but they may not look on together to do
their exercises.
5. As all 6 exercises are finished, students may work the puzzles for extra credit, or read in their novels here in the classroom.
REMINDERS
Do not ask to leave the room for lockers or restroom today. Try to work as carefully and accurately as you can, so that you receive 6 100’s. Have a very good day!
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will finish any Warriner’s exercises they did not turn in Friday, and begin work on Wordly Wise 22, sentences, and study guides.
English I may watch the movie “Tex” as they read the book.
Speech and drama will make any changes in their speeches they wish to make and prepare for the Jackson speech meet. They won the sweepstakes trophy in the Evanston meet.
Tomorrow we will take pictures for the annual!
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
English 8 Students will write in journals and respond to lecture. Students will work Unit 22 in Spelling and Unit 22 in Wordly Wise. They will complete white booklet for Spelling for homework.
English III Students will write in journals and respond to lecture. Students will complete Unit 22 in Wordly Wise, and work pp. 19-21 in blue workbooks. Students must finish Lord of the Flies. Test tomorrow.
English I Students will receive Literature Books, read the first story
aloud, and work Unit 22 in Wordly Wise.
English IV Students will write in journals and respond to lecture. Students will complete Unit 22 in Wordly Wise and work pp. 24-26 in blue workbook.
Students will watch the rest of “Tex” today.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will begin practicing their speeches for the Jackson Speech Meet. Those who aren’t going due to conflicting circumstances, must sit and read plays orally so that they are not gossiping and running around the building. Rebekah will work on dramatic, oratory, and duet. Shawn will work on
duet and oratory (drugs). He is joining our team...Andrea is also joining our team in duet and oratory.
ONE HUNDRED NINTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will take novel test on Lord of the Flies, and all classes will take exam over sentence combining. They may finish Wordly Wise 22, sentences, and study guides.
English 9 will finish Tex movie and read silently.
Speech and Drama will continue looking for a skit...4 boys and 2 girls, and
finalize speeches!
ONE HUNDRED TENTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will be presented with information on the reader’s
Guide by the librarian. She will bring handouts and show them how to use the reader’s guide completely. I will grade their notes at the end of the
Period!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students may begin final preparations for
Jackson’s speech meet Friday, February 22.
ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will staple the list of magazines we have and when they start, to the back inside cover of folder.
2. Students will staple their schedule to the front inside cover of the folder.
3. Students will put grade sheet in the folder, and record
grades daily themselves.
1. Students will paperclip all handouts Mrs. Henthorne or Mrs. Cundieff give them.
2. Students will go to the library and work blue worksheet and turn in for a grade. No school Monday.
3. Speech and drama will say speeches to each other, the wall, And alone!!
ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will make rough outlines using the guide I give them, and they will then begin their preliminary bibliographies, using the handout. They will
receive a hundred for each, and have two days to work on the bibliography.
ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will complete preliminary bibliographies, rough outlines, and do paraphrasing exercise on “snow mobiling”. Some classes need to work the worksheet on “Research papers”. When students finish something, they should “work ahead” by reading their sources.
ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
English 8...paraphrasing and example of note cards...Check out 3 sources...will take your first five note cards tomorrow in the classroom...This is the last day to go to the library, so be sure you have your three sources here in class Friday.
English 9-...some students still must finish bibliographies and check out 3 sources.
English III and IV...Take at least 5 note cards...they must be full and not partial ones to count for 100. If for some terrible emergency, you do not get 5 finished in class, then you would have homework. Those who get 5 would have no homework.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will come into classroom with 3 sources they checked out yesterday...and begin taking 5 note cards...If they can get more than 5, they get extra credit.
2. They may not talk, but must spend their time reading the material, and paraphrasing it on note cards. They already know how to
paraphrase, and how to do the note cards.
1. No one should leave the room...if they run out of sources, they may go (possibly...depends on how serious they are...), to the library to check out one encyclopedia to use.
2. No student should stay in the library to work, as we have all completed our bibliographies, and checked out at least three sources to begin the note cards...Each COMPLETE note card is worth 20 points... 5 FULL NOTE CARDS ARE WORTH 100 POINTS. If you cannot read and finish 5 full note cards on Friday in class, you would have homework, and still get your hundred on Monday at the beginning of class.
3. No talking, lots of reading, and paraphrasing on Note cards, and when five full note cards are finished, show to instructor for a grade of one-hundred!!
4. During first hour and speech and drama class, grade Wordly Wise books.
ONE HUNDRED SIXTEENTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will take five note cards during class, in the
classroom, using sources from the library. Their assignment
is to complete five more tonight at home.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will do two impromptu speeches today!!
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEENTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will take five complete note cards during class today in the classroom, using their sources from the library. They must read the material, and then paraphrase the note cards.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will read some skits orally today.
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEENTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will make five note cards in class today by reading
the material and paraphrasing it.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will write a demonstration speech today
ONE HUNDRED NINETEENTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will make five more note cards after they have read
the material from their sources. All of these note cards must
be finished by next Monday, in order to begin the rough
draft.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will practice their demonstration speeches today!
ONE HUNDRED TWENTIETH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will take out five clean sheets of paper, and by
following the lecture and the handouts, they
will make the following parts of their rough drafts:
Title page
Preface
Outline
Table of contents
First page of rough draft
They will spend the rest of the time completing the rough
draft.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will prepare a skit for the pep rally for the girls team.
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SECOND-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will complete at least three pages of their rough draft in class today. They will be copying their note cards, putting in transition sentences as they write, and trying to have a perfect copy.
2. Should anyone finish, they should give the rough draft to me, after putting endnotes, and bibliography on the end of it,
and I will read and correct it.
1. I will return it to the student immediately, and he/she will begin the final draft.
2. These final drafts are acceptable in any form: ink, typed, computer printout.
3. Final drafts are due on MARCH 22.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will do two more impromptu speeches today.
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY THIRD-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will complete three more pages of their rough drafts and complete three pages at home tonight.
2. By tomorrow, they should have about 9-12 pages of rough draft completed, or be finished (if they put in some extra hours at home), and be working on the final draft.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will begin thinking of topics for a debate...and a panel discussion.
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FOURTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will complete three more pages of their rough
drafts...or, if they are ahead of this deadlines, they may
work on final drafts.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will do research in the library on “should the drinking age be kept the same or raised?”
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FIFTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will complete three more pages of rough draft and complete six over the weekend.
2. Their rough draft should be finished about Monday night so that we can get it corrected, and the final draft can be started.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will work on their debate topic, “Should the drinking age be raised or kept the same?”
English classes will be working on rough and final drafts of research papers!!
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY NINTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will turn in rough drafts to be read and work on final drafts.
2. Speech and drama will play games.
3. March 15 : no school
ONE HUNDRED THIRTIETH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will be busily working on final drafts of research papers.
2. Speech students will read some skits for grandparents day.
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIRST-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will work three pages of their final draft. They will do six more at home.
2.
3. Girls leave for district tournament tomorrow.
4. No late papers as the last day of the quarter is Friday!
5. Girls who play basketball must finish their paper before they do leave!!
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will work on the computers! (in the classroom)
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SECOND-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will do three more pages of their final drafts.
2. If they are finished, they may read a novel, or work some puzzles.
3. They may not waste the time.
4. They may also proof read other research papers (optional).
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will prepare class speeches.
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY THIRD-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will complete final drafts and proofread, proofread, proofread!
2. If their papers are already turned in, they may read a novel, work on the computer, type, or work in their Wordly Wise.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will do the “Old folks” skit for the pep rally.
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FOURTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
LAST DAY OF THIS QUARTER.
OBJECTIVES
1. Students must run in final drafts...absolutely no late papers!
2. Those who are finished may work on computers, type, read, or play English related games, as long as there is silence for those who are trying desperately to finish their papers.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will prepare a class speech for next Friday.
2. First, they’ll need to study some old year books to see how it has been done, and then they may begin writing their speeches!
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIFTH-DAY OF CLASSES
FIRST DAY OF THE NEW QUARTER
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put their thoughts back on paper. Students will take notes over weekly plan.
2. Students will work Wordly Wise.
3. We will hear from a representative from Bridger Valley about an essay contest.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will write class will, prophesy and history for
Class of 1985 and 1986.
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SIXTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put thoughts down on paper.
2. Students will check to see if they did last night’s home work, and do unit 24 in spelling today. When both units are finished and on my desk, those students may set up the stage for a rehearsal today.
3. Students will work units 23 and 24 in Wordly Wise (finish the book), and turn it in tomorrow. Tests on Spelling and Wordly Wise will be next week.
4. Students will rehearse play!
ENGLISH III
1. Students will write in journals.
2. Students will work Unit 23 in Wordly Wise, do sentences
and study guide, as they watch “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
3. Students will work on essay Friday.
ENGLISH I
1. Students will write in journals.
2. Students will work Unit 23 in Wordly Wise, do sentences
and study guide, as they watch “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
3. Students will see which novel they are one.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will write a speech and memorize it for Friday.
2. They will be gone to a Career Fair tomorrow, and Parent Teacher conferences are Thursday, so they will not have class again until Friday.
3. I will be gone to a Humanities Conference on Friday, so they will present their speeches to the substitute.
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SEVENTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Juniors and seniors all are in rocks springs for a career Fair.
2. Basketball team is in Sheridan for the state meet. Only a few students are here today.
English 8 students will work units 23 and 24 in spelling and Wordly
Wise. They will plan props and costumes for a play rehearsal next Monday.
English 9
Students will work three puzzles, turn in sentences for
Wordly Wise 23, and turn in books for Wordly Wise 23.
While they work, they may watch “Seven brides for seven brothers” in the classroom. No speech and drama class as they are juniors and seniors.
Will use the time to get items ready for parent teacher Conferences tomorrow.
Parent teacher conferences March 28, 1985
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. First hour...and any other time...grade Wordly Wise books and spelling. (count off 2)
2. English 8 :Students will be handed essay topics and paper as they enter the room.. They will write a 31/2 page essay and turn it in. Then they may read in Old Yeller or Born Free.
3. Any student who forgot his novel, will receive three spelling worksheets and must work them in class. If they cannot finish in class, they may bring those in on Monday.
4. If a student cannot finish his/her essay in class, and not “goofing off,” he/she may turn it in on Monday.
5. English III: Students will be handed essay topics and paper as they enter The room. They will write a 31/2 page essay and turn it in. Hopefully, most of them will be writing on electricity , as there is a big contest they will enter with this essay on Monday.
6. They do not have to write on this topic, however, and, if necessary, students may finish essays at home and turn them in Monday.
7. English IV: Students will be handed essay topics and paper as they enter the room. They will write a 31/2 page essay and turn it in. It may be one the suggested topics or on a topic of their own! When they finish, they may read in novel or work on computer in the classroom!
8. English I: Students will be handed essay topics and paper as they enter the room. They will write a 31/2 page essay and turn it in. They may read silently.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will present a five minute speech to the instructor. It may be timed, and it must be memorized. One will present the class history, and will; another will present the prophesy for 1985 seniors and another will present the prophesy for the 1986 seniors.
2. After they finish their four speeches, they will read both plays orally. Just assign parts and let them read aloud.
3. No one needs to leave the room.
4. Please grade all of the papers and work, as you have little to do as the students are writing. If time allows, please grade the essays they turn in, but only count off 2 points per error.
5. In each class, choose the three “most creative” essays, and record their names on paper for me. I can actually put the grades on the essays, if you will only mark them!
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY NINTH-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
Students will work unit 24 and crossword puzzle in their Wordly Wise books, do sentences for each word, and make a study guide for the words in this unit.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will sit around tables and memorize play lines for skit.
REMINDERS
1. Honor roll is a tremendous accomplishment. Work for it.
2. Manage your time well.
3. Be organized!!
ONE HUNDRED FORTIETH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will exchange and grade unit 25 in Wordly Wise. They will read silently in novels when they finish grading.
2. In order to do better work in Wordly Wise, students will take time to make study guides writing the words and their definitions 10 times.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will rehearse skit on stage.
ONE HUNDRED FORTY FIRST-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. in order to be able to identify incorrectly spelled words, students will work exercises in Warriner’s.
2. Students will be able to produce a 31/2 page essay on a given topic in one hour.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will be able to paint scenery for skit.
ONE HUNDRED FORTY SECOND-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. In order to be able to identify words with “i.e.” and “ei”, which are spelled correctly, students will work exercises in Warriner’s.
2. Students will discuss essays written yesterday, in order to come up with additions to “Ways to Improve Writing Skills.”
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will be able to paint scenery for skit.
ONE HUNDRED FORTY THIRD-DAY OF SCHOOL
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will be able to spell and define 18 words correctly by taking a Wordly Wise Test.
2. Students will be able to rewrite their essays for an excellent paper.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will be able to paint trees for skit.
ONE HUNDRED FORTY FOURTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will be able to listen and take notes as a guest speaker, Casey Jones, tells them about “Olden Day Schools”.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will complete scenery for skit today.
ONE HUNDRED FORTY FIFTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will be able to listen and take notes as a guest speaker compares her school days to those of these students.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will construct flats for skit.
ONE HUNDRED FORTY SIXTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will listen, take notes, and ask questions as guest speakers, John and Cathryn Wood, tell then about “Olden Day Schools.”
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will continue to construct flats for skit.
ONE HUNDRED FORTY SEVENTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will listen, take notes, and ask questions, as guest speaker, Ella McMurry, tells of her experience as a teacher, 50 years ago.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will present skits to student body.
SPRING BREAK...APRIL 12 APRIL 21...NO SCHOOL
ONE HUNDRED FORTY EIGHTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES:
1. Journal
2. Students will organize the information they have collected on
the school project, so that the paper can be written next
Friday and Monday IN CLASS. It will not be taken home. You
may do some rough drafts ahead of time if you wish. They are
worth 2 points each. The purpose of the paper is to force
you to organize material, so that you can write in college.
1. Students will work two Warriner’s Exercises after listening
to the lecture on principal parts of verbs. Both exercises
are due tomorrow when you come to class.
1. 8th Graders will read a story in class and work the first
four pages in the workbook, after listening to an explanation
of them.
PLAN
1. Organize information and make an outline for your paper...10
minutes.
1. Read story and listen to lecture on workbook pages.
3. Listen to lecture on Warriner’s and work the two exercises.
4. Spellers should be turned in as soon as they are completed.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse skits and write a speech to give for
the substitute Friday. This will be a speech to persuade and
must be on a controversial topic or current events.
1. WARRINER’S
8th Grade: Oral drills pp. 161
Written work Exercise 4, pp. 163 164 and Exer.
5, pp. 165 166
English III: Oral drill Exercise 1, pp. 127 128
Written work Exercises 4, pp. 130 131 and
Exercise 5, pp. 131 132
English IV: Oral drill Exercise 1, pp. 127 128
Written work Exercise 4, pp. 130 131 and Exer. Á
5, pp. 131 132
English I: Oral drills Exercises 4 and 5, p. 158
Written work Review Exercise A, pp. 159 160 and
B, pp. 160-161
ONE HUNDRED FORTY NINTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
PLAN
Journals
Lecture
Turn in homework
Silent Reading
Workbook for Accents
Warriner’s Explanations and work.
English 8
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put thoughts down on paper.
2. Students will turn in homework assignments from Warriner’s on verb usage.
3. Students will finish reading story in Accents silently and tear out the first four pages of their workbooks to turn in when they are completed.
4. Students will be able to use verbs correctly after working Exercises 7 & 8, 10 & 11 in Warriner’s.
English III
1. Students will turn in homework at the beginning of the period, and tonight, will work Exercise 7, p. 134, and finish Wordly Wise book before Monday, for 30 extra points.
2. Students will listen to guest speaker, Marge Homan, as she tells about olden days in schools.
English IV
1. Students will hand in homework at the beginning of the period, and tonight will work Exercise 7, p. 133 in
Warriner’s
2. Students will listen to guest speaker, Marge Homan, tell about her school days, and will finish Wordly Wise books by Monday.
English I
1. Students will hand in homework at the beginning of the period, and will listen to explanations of lie, lay, sit, set, rise, raise.
2. Students will work Exercises 12, 13, 15, 17 on pages 170 173, and work in blue workbooks or silently read in novels.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will continue reading chapter on “Bodily Action” speeches in Speaking by Doing, and write their persuasive speeches.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTIETH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to coordinate ideas taken from notes on
”Modern Day Schools Compared to Earlier Schools”, and write a
rough draft of their papers.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will memorize persuasive speeches.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY FIRST-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will improve writing skills by producing 3 ½ page
essay on a given topic in one hour.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will present persuasive speeches to a partner.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY SECOND-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
First Hour: Please grade Warriner’s exercises and check
front and back of students’ papers. Record grades on paper
for each exercise. Thanks! Leave everything on round table.
Second Hour: Ask students to put homework on back table as
they come into room (Warriner’s). Give each a blue
instruction sheet and paper (on round table), and ask them to
begin their essays. Sit at back table. You could grade
while they write or monitor. NO TALKING! At the end of the
hour, take up the papers and I’ll give them back to the
students on Monday to finish.
Homework: Finish Spellers and read one story in Accents.
Work pp. 3 4 in reading workbook.
Third Hour: Ask students to put homework on back table as
they come in. (Warriner’s). Give them the blue packets for
essay on test, and, as the write, you can monitor or grade
the exercises they have turned in. Sit at back table.
Homework: Finish Wordly Wise and work Exercise 11, p. 141 in
Warriner’s.
This must be written in class Friday, Monday, and on
Thursday, if necessary! Under no circumstances may it be
taken home, as this must be your own work completely!
Writing project...comparison/contrast paper on schools
instructions:
Using only the paper provided, organize the information you have collected about earlier schools as compared to modern day schools.
Then, write a very creative essay...a trophy will be presented to the winner at the awards banquet in four weeks. You may organize your essay using the following idea, or you may organize it in a completely different manner. It is your Essay! Do an outstanding job! You will be graded on grammar, punctuation, spelling, use of writing skills learned earlier this year, penmanship, and creativity...as well as organization!
EXCITING TITLE!
THESIS STATEMENT: (Example) What a tremendous opportunity we have today in modern day schools, as compared to schools around the 1920’s,
when there were no electric typewriters, computers, libraries, field trips, and
all of the other activities and equipment we enjoy today!
I. INTRODUCTION
Thesis Statement
General statements about schools and education
II. ACTIVITIES
What I learned from my four interviews of parents, teachers, and friends
What I learned from the handouts Mrs. Cundieff gave me on history, and one-room schoolhouses.– What I gathered from Mrs. Smith, Mr. Jones, and Mrs. Homan’s presentations.
What activities we have today.
III. SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
What are our schools like today?
How was the schoolhouse described in the 1920’s by guest speakers?
What did the schoolhouse look like in the video you
watched?
What are the similarities and differences between
olden-day and modern-day buildings?
IV. EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES, BOOKS, PAPER, PENCILS, DESKS
What are the similarities and differences between earlier schools and modern ones?
B. According to the speakers and yours research and
interviews, which schools had more of these items,
and how did they treat them?
V. STYLES
VI. DISCIPLINE
VII. PROCEDURES IN CLASSES
VIII. ETC...
IX. CONCLUSION
A. Which schools had more advantages and which were disadvantages and why? (Opinions)
B. What you learned from this project about modern education.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THIRD-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
ENGLISH 8
Students will turn in spellers, completed, by 3 p.m. today. Students will complete writing project on “Olden Day” Schools for a trophy!
Students will read in ”Old Yeller” tonight, or write essay over the book, if you have already read it. The essay is due tomorrow.
Tomorrow is Wordly Wise sentence day. You are to complete all sentences for units you have not turned in. If they are already turned in, you will read in Old Yeller.
ENGLISH III
Students will turn in Wordly Wise books, after they have
written their sentences for Units 27 30.
Students will complete writing project on “Olden Day” Schools
for a trophy!
ENGLISH IV
Same Procedure
ENGLISH I
Students will complete writing project on “Olden Day” Schools
for a trophy.
Students will complete blue workbook.
Students will read in current novel and turn in the essay on
that novel this Wednesday.
Get names and novel/essay.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will rehears on stage, and on Tuesday, be graded on
costumes.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY FOURTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. To improve writing and vocabulary skills.
2. To improve letter writing skills
3. Students will write five minutes in their journals.
4. To improve spelling skills.
8th Grade English: Get ready to write letters to
Grandparents after writing in journals.
1. Given a program of events for Grandparents and Senior Citizen Day (Thursday, May 16th), students will write two letters of invitation to each of their grandparents. Everyone will write letters. If your grandparents
are not living choose someone in the valley you could invite with a letter.
2. Include the schedule of the day, what you would like
them to attend.
3. If you are involved in a skit, invite them to attend to see you.
4. Mention the free lunch which will be served.
5. Include other things if you wish.
6. Use neat handwriting. Use friendly letter form.
7. Your address goes on the top right of you letter. It includes: Box number
Town, State, Zip Code, and Date
8. You will be given an envelope to address, bring your grandparents address from home. If your grandparents live in Farson or Eden, you will complete the address after you have written the letter.
9. This letter will be graded.
10. Do not fold the letter. Attach the letter to the envelope with a paper clip.
11. These letters will be mailed from the school. After completing the above letter, students will complete exercises in Spelling Unit #36 due Friday.
12.To improve vocabulary skills. students will complete exercises in W.W. #30 due Friday.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY FIFTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wide books and grades will be recorded.
2. Books will be turned in.
3. 8th Grade will also grade spellers, in order to record grades and see if any progress reports need to go out this week.
4. 9th Grade will also grade blue workbooks, and record the average of those pages.
REMINDER
1. Tomorrow, there will be a test over the verb chapter in Warriner’s.
2. If you do not get 90% or better on the these (which will be over the exact exercises in the book), then you will need to repeat some of the exercises after I have explained them again.
3. If we need to finish grading tomorrow, the exam will be Friday, and will count three times! Study that chapter, and ask questions.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Watch the film “Oklahoma”, from which they will choose a speech to present to the class.
2. They will also prepare their Audio Visual speech for Friday.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY SIXTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will be able to see between lie and lay.
2. Exercises and worksheets will be given.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will be able to present 2 impromptu speeches today.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY SEVENTH-DAY OF CLASSES
NO SCHOOL!!
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY EIGHTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
ENGLISH 8
Students will take notes over lie, lay, sit, set, rise, raise, as a review, and take test over chapter 9 in Warriner’s. Old Yeller reports are due Monday.
Students will grade spellers and grades will be recorded. Students will write two letters, inviting Grandparents to Grandparents Day, May 16. For homework, students will work review exercises D and E,
Ápp. 176-177 in Warriner’s.
REMINDER: Dress rehearsal Monday with people eating. We will read in Accents and work pp. 4-5 if time allows.
ENGLISH III
Students will retake Warriner’s exam if they made some low grades. (Below 80%)
ENGLISH IV
Students will work on “Paradise Lost” and John Milton themes, and turn them in at the end of the hour. We will read ”Paradise Lost” together in class.
ENGLISH I
Students will take notes over lie, lay, sit, set, rise, raise as a review, and take the test over chapter 6. They will listen to explanation of capital letters and
punctuation, and for homework, will work Exercises 1 and 2 on pp. 466-467.
Students will read silently in novels. Begin Literature Unit.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will rehearse two skits for Grandparents and Senior Citizens Day.
”Audio Visual” Speeches
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY NINTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to distinguish between sit and set.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will prepare skits for Grandparents and Senior
Citizens Day.
ONE HUNDRED SIXTIETH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to identify rise and raise correctly
in sentences.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will rehearse on stage.
WEDNESDAY...NO SCHOOL...MAY 8, 1985
ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FIRST-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
ENGLISH 8
1. Students will read in novels or write in journals for 5 minutes in order to be able to put thoughts down on paper, or have quiet time.
2. Students will review the use of apostrophes, and cover some new rules which they will write in their notebooks. They will cover pronoun possessives.
3. Students will do Exercise 10, page. 265 orally.
4. Students will work a worksheet on apostrophe use, and be able to use those apostrophes correctly with 90% accuracy or better. using a key, they will check those worksheets.
PLAN
1. Journals or silent reading
2. Review of possessives and pronoun possessives
3. Oral drill
4. Worksheet and correction
5. Evaluation
6. Silent time for homework, Exercise 11, p. 267.
REVIEW
Overhead projector
Composition Notebooks
Oral drill
ENGLISH III
1. Students will read in novels or write in journals for first five minutes or class in order to be able to put thoughts down on paper, or have quiet time.
2. Students will exchange and grade their homework exercises, Ex. 2, p. 182, and ask questions about their understanding of the usage of the English grammar.
3. Students will be able to produce a one page essay after reading and evaluating material on Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton. This will be a summary of their lives.
4. Students will be able to use correct grammar by working Ex. 3, p. 183 with at least 80% accuracy.
5. Students will read pp. 65 84 in their literature book.
PLAN
Grading
Reading lives and writing a one page essay over each person.
Silent Reading
Homework exercise in Warriner’s
ENGLISH IV
1. Students will read in novels or write in journals for first five minutes of class period.
2. Students will read lives of authors, write summaries, and read pp. 75-84 in book.
ENGLISH I
1. Students will read in novels or write in journals for first five minutes of class.
2. Students will exchange and grade homework exercise 2, pp. 226. Evaluation.
3. Students will be able to use the glossary of usage correctly by working Review Ex. A, pp. 227 with 80% accuracy or better.
4. Students will complete stories #4 and 5 today from their literature books.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
1. Students will rehearse “Grandparents Day” skits, and prepare to write controversial speeches tomorrow by checking out
magazines and collecting articles on that subject.
ONE HUNDRED SIXTY SECOND-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
ENGLISH 8
Students will work apostrophe worksheets and turn in and ”End of the Year” Spelling packet in class. (May take home) Study play lines for “Little Red School House.” If all students finish the packet, please exchange and grade.
Use key.
ENGLISH III AND IV
Students will be writing a 31/2 page essay over the ”Canterbury Tales” which they read this week, studied, and saw two films over these tales. They may use their notes, and an outline is worth 10 extra points. During fourth hour,
please grade these essays for spelling and sentence structure, counting off 5 points per error. (I’ll go over them when I get back.)
ENGLISH I
Students will exchange and grade the Warriner’s Exercise due today. (Exercise A review, p. 228). Use key. Take grades. Assign exercise 3, pp. 230-231). Can be done in class. Then students will read silently in Literature books, and work on their fifteen story summaries. Put up chairs on
desks.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Write a five minute speech over a controversial topic they chose Wednesday. They may use the articles I have attached and they must turn in their 31/2
page speech. They, they may watch “Oklahoma” on video, but not until the speeches are complete and turned in.
They are not to leave class for any reason...not even for a
Minute! (unless nose is bleeding, etc.) No lockers or
Drinks during class.
ONE HUNDRED SIXTY THIRD-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will work Wordly Wise, Unit 31, and turn in sentences. Due at the end of the hour.
2. Students will review the parts of speech by working exercise 81 and 82 in Warriner’s. Due at the beginning of the hour tomorrow.
3. Students will make study guides for Unit in W.W. if they wish to have extra credit on tomorrow’s test. You receive 1 point for each time you wrote the work and the definition.
PLAN
Journal
Notes
Warriner’s Explanation
Wordly Wise, Unit 1 and sentences
Make study guides for tomorrow’s test
REMINDER
1. Test grades count three times.
2. Study guides are turned in at the time of the exam...right before we take it.
3. We are one day behind this week since there was no school, so next week, your schedule will be different, and Monday it will be followed the rest of the year!
ENGLISH III
1. Students will write in journals in order to be able to put
thoughts on paper.
2. Students will work Unit 1 in Wordly Wise and turn in
sentences. They’ll make study guides, only if they wish
extra credit on tomorrow’s test.
3. Students will work p. 33 in King’s English, and work Exercise
81 in Warriner’s.
4. If time allows, students may have time to read silently.
PLAN
Journal
Notes
King’s English
Warriner’s Explanation
Wordly Wise, Unit 1 and Sentences
ENGLISH I AND ENGLISH IV
Same.
SPEECH AND DRAMA
Students will do warm up activities to the wall, and finish reading “West of the Pecos.” They will write demonstration speech.
ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FOURTH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
ENGLISH I
1. Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise and prepare for test tomorrow. Sentences are due at the beginning of the hour. Please put them in the wooden box.
2. Students will work Unit 31 in Spelling on paper. Due tomorrow at the end of the hour. Spelling test is tomorrow also, and you may or may not count this first grade. All the rest of the tests count 3 times.
3. Students will turn in Warriner’s from yesterday and do Exercise 52 for tomorrow.
PLAN
Grading
Warriner’s Explanation
Spelling
Free time
REMINDERS
1. I count off 5 points per error on sentences, essays, units,
Warriner’s, etc.
2. I count off 10 points if end punctuation is missing or if the first word in a sentence is not capitalized.
3. I watch for good attitudes and reward those people with certificates, gifts, trophies, etc.
4. Next week, we will begin using the calendar. Staple it in your composition notebook.
5. Each Tuesday, we write an essay, and you receive 3 choices of topics. You write it in class and read when you finish. I require 31/2 pages, and will teach you how to get that much. There is a contest each week for the best all around
paper, so try hard.
ENGLISH III
Students will exchange and grade Wordly Wise, turn in Warriner’s, and work Warriner’s Exercise 2, and King’s English pp. 3-4. You have free reading time when you finish your work. Test tomorrow in Wordly Wise, 31.
ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FIFTH-DAY OF CLASSES THROUGH ONE HUNDRED EIGHTIETH-DAY OF CLASSES
OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to review the grammar, vocabulary, spelling, reading and writing skills they have covered this semester, by working a review sheet for their final examinations. There will be about 25 review pages, and from
those, the final exam will be taken.
Students will rewrite their research papers correctly for part of their examination. This will improve their writing skills, show them the errors they make on their final copy, and encourage excellence. Students will be turning in composition notebooks to be checked for accuracy and completeness, and check in their books on the last day of school.
There is a purpose for everything that has been done in these 180 days. Hopefully, each student has accomplished the goals we set the first few days of the school year:
Students will strive for excellence, by rewriting and rewriting.
Students will be more organized by using composition notebooks.
Students will meet all deadlines by losing half credit for late work.
Students will improve writing skills by producing essays and poetry every week, and rewriting those for higher grades.
Students will do better on achievement tests and ACT tests, by learning how to take tests, and how to work under pressure.
Students will develop a better vocabulary by covering
Wordly Wise every week of the year.
Students will “stamp out” run on’s and fragments.
Students will be able to speak and write more accurately by covering all of the exercises in their Warriner’s book, discussions, and working the King’s English.
Students will be able to put their thoughts on paper and be able to settle down for class right at the bell, by writing daily in a journal.
Chapter 4
Conclusion
1- Effective Classroom Management Techniques
The key to success in teaching is a desire to see students succeed and be able to survive and operate in their world, after high school, as well as a dedication by the teacher to see that every single child achieves that goal.
However, if I had to pick out one single thing that will make the whole realm of teaching easier, more enjoyable, more successful, more rewarding, and more worthwhile, it would be the area of classroom management. It is in this area that minutes are lost to tardies, conversation, misplaced textbooks, reprimands, roll call, homework collection, etc.
Therefore, many valuable minutes of actual instructional time are lost every day, and over a school year, it actually becomes days of lost time. The question I will attempt to answer here is “How can I set up my classroom so that every single minute of the hour the students are in here, will be used for instruction, so that students are learning something new every single day they step into my class?’
The answer to this question involves organizing time and materials before instruction begins. It also involves carefully planning strategies for managing the students, so that they put forth their very best efforts during instruction. It has been proven that students who work to capacity usually learn more and
learn faster than students who only intermittently attend to the lesson, so my goal is to present strategies to encourage students to work to capacity!
The following techniques have been used by master teachers and I have observed them in action, borrowed them, and used them in my classroom at the rural school setting. They work! However, they take a few more hours in order to prepare for the first day of school, and a few more hours on the part of the instructor. You cannot follow these techniques unless you, as a teacher, are willing to put in the extra time too prepare, organize, grade papers, and follow through with every single one of them! Again, I say, “They do work in the
classroom, and are effective, and make your school year run beautifully.” Try them one year, make some adjustments for yourself and your students, and see if you are not using every minute of instructional time to the maximum!
Appendix A-
Five Ways To Improve Instruction For The Benefit Of The Students!
I am making it a goal to teach at least one new fact to all of my students every single day of the school year, so that at the end of 180 days, they might know 180 new facts in grammar. (At the same time, I hope they will be learning to be organized, take good notes, be prepared for class, meet deadlines, use a dictionary and thesaurus, listen, and follow directions carefully.) I am really
interested in students improving their scores on achievement tests and ACT tests on the grammar, and to do this, I will make sure they learn one grammar fact each single day (or two some days when we miss class).
2. I have make a weekly calendar for the students which we will follow as much as possible, and the goal here is to help them be more organized, and be able to meet deadlines.
3. I am using Reading Charts this year for each grade level, so that faster readers can go ahead of slower readers, and I can keep track of each student’s reading. By using the chart, students can also keep track of how many books they have read, and what their grades on the reading tests are. I am hoping this makes them more responsible for their own reading.
4. I have initiated a program (based on an old timer guest speaker I had last year), where I would award every single student in my classes, who makes a straight “100” on the spelling-vocabulary tests that we take each week. My
goal here is again to improve scores on ACT and achievement tests, increase vocabulary and spelling skills, and increase the level of their speaking vocabulary!
5. In order for students to be aware of education in the news, they will bring one article per week about English or the field of education. I have set aside one bulletin board for these articles and they are required each Friday, so
hopefully, students are reading the newspapers more, and becoming more aware of what is happening in the world around them.
Appendix B:
Ways To Get Extra Credit In English Class
1. Write a 31/2 page essay on any topic, which is coherent and written to the best of your ability...Value = 25 points.
2. Write a 11/2 page poem on any topic, which you have made up yourself. I am trying to encourage the “poets” to share their work with me. Value = 50 points
3. Make a study guide every Tuesday night for Wordly Wise, where you write the word and the definition from one to ten times each. Value = 1 to 10 points, depending on how many times you write them. You may not receive more than 10.
4. Finish your Wordly Wise and/or Spelling (Vocabulit) units before they are due, and you receive 10 extra credit points.
5. Every Tuesday, you will write one essay. If your rewrite that essay after it is corrected, you can receive a perfect score on that paper. The old grade would be erased! Reason: Rewriting papers improves your writing skills, and shows you what you are doing wrong, so it is worth your time to try for perfect scores. You may do this every Friday in class, instead of reading in your novel!
6. Extra credit of 10 points per page, is given for every essay over 31/2 pages long, which is written in class on Tuesdays. However, it must be finished before the hour is up!
Appendix C:
Ways To Receive A+’S In English
1. Meet all deadlines.
2. Be very, very, very organized.
3. Do all extra credit work each week, not at the end of the quarter, when you are “snowed under.”
4. Make a 10 point study guide every Tuesday night for Wednesday’s test.
5. Be prepared.
6. Ask intelligent questions.
7. Study hard for every test.
8. Turn Wordly Wise and/or Spelling (Vocabulit) in early.
9. Listen well.
10. Don’t be lazy!
11. Smile a lot, and have a great attitude! Be willing to learn!
Appendix D:
Purposes For Doing Things In English Class
1. Journal: You will be able to write at a moment’s notice and it will not scare you to write.
2. Taking Notes Every Day: Learn to take notes for college. Be able to find out what you did in class if you missed
class.
1. Knowing Objectives and Plan: You know what is expected of you at all times.
2. Warriner’s: You need to be able to speak and write correctly. Your achievement and ACT test scores will be higher if your have a good grasp on grammar.
3. Essays: You’ll be able to produce 31/2 pages using an introduction, body, and conclusion.
4. Rewriting Essays: You see mistakes, correct them, and produce excellence.
5. Demanding Excellence: When you strive for perfection, you will produce better work and be less “sloppy,” than if I accept mediocre work!
6. Giving Extra Credit For Early Work: You will be able to keep up with all your work if you do assignments early!
7. Perfect Form for Papers: You will be able to use this form all the way through college.
8. Taking Tests: You will overcome your fear of tests if you take more of them (we hope).
Appendix E:
English Class Requirements
WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER SCHOOL YEAR!! I hope you had a nice summer, and that you will learn a lot and enjoy my classes. In order for you to know what is expected of you, here is a list of rules and requirements.
1. You are to come to class fully prepared every day. (This means even if an assembly is scheduled for that hour, or whatever, because sometimes things are canceled, and you will still be prepared!) You will bring your textbooks,
composition notebooks, and two pens. You may not leave the room for trips to the locker, drinks, phone calls, or to use the restroom except in an emergency situation.
2. You will go to the file cabinet, get your folder, take out journal, and be seated quietly in your chair by the second bell. During class, I expect you to act like young ladies and gentle men. This means you write in your journals for the first five minutes, take notes as I lecture about your objectives and plan for the day, follow directions, do not talk out of turn, and do not touch another
person. Part of your English grade is determined by class room behavior. You must remain on task all class period, come prepared, be quiet, and take all of your books with you when you leave. If you do these things, you earn a
full 100. If not, reductions are made accordingly.
3. Your grade will be based upon the following:
a. Bringing materials and pens to class
b. Written assignments
c. Tests and quizzes which count three times
d. Classroom participation and behavior
e. Being organized and listening
f. Meeting deadlines
g. Workbook assignments
h. Special projects
4. Assignments will be accepted at the beginning of the hour on the due date, or earlier. No late work receives full credit... only half credit. The only exception is if you are ill and have missed school. (Or were representing the
school in an activity.)
5. Your English assignments include a weekly clipping from a magazine or newspaper on a current English topic or anything concerning education and/or English. You may turn in an article summary on the article rather than bringing the clipping itself, if you wish. Some topics would include news about writers, books, schools, grammar, teachers, schools in other countries, law suits, buildings, etc. Each summary and/or clipping is worth 100 points,
and they are due every Friday. No late summaries will be accepted. The goal here (which all of our teachers decided upon in May), is to make everyone more aware of the world around them! So, begin reading the newspaper in your home or in the library.
6. Grading of written work will be based as follows:
a. Wordly Wise Units = 100 points
b. Vocabulary Tests on Fridays = 100 points and count 3
times
c. Warriner’s assignments = 100 points
d. Quizzes and tests = 100 points each and each counts 3
times
e. Journal writing = 100 points if totally quiet and
writing for the entire 5 minutes
f. Composition notebooks = 100 points and counts 6 times...
Make up the notes if absent.
g. Research paper counts 6 times and = 100 points
h. Projects and essays = 100 points and count 3 times each
i. Novels and tests over them = 100 points and count 3
times each.
j. Literature projects and reading count 3 times and = 100
points each
k. Your attitude and smile and willingness to learn and
work = extra credit points
7. The grading scale is:
A++ = 100% C+ = 80-83%
A + = 99-97% C = 79-77%
A- = 96-94% C- = 76-74%
B+ = 93-90% D = 73-70%
B = 89-87% F = 69% and below
B- = 86-84%
8. Extra credit will be given only to those students who have completed the assignments designated by the instructor. In other words, you cannot even think about extra credit until you have done the required work. Extra credit is
just what is says....”EXTRA” after doing the required.
9. When tests are announced, be sure you bring your assigned novels to class so that you have something to do while others finish their tests. This is also true for the essay days. Bring your novels to class.
10. If you need extra help, I am always willing to help you! I love to see students succeed, not fail. I will do any thing necessary to help you succeed, if you are trying to help yourself! I usually stay after school every day until 5 p.m. I do not go home for lunch, so I am in my room if you
need to study or ask a question. Please, feel free to ask for help. You’ll get it!!!
11. Complaint policy. If you are unhappy with a grade, a paper, a seating arrangement, a neighbor, an incident, etc. you may not scream it out in class. You should write it down on a piece of paper, give it to me or leave it on my
desk, and I will see that it is settled peacefully and quietly by the next day.
I do not like complainers, because complaining is “catching.” I want you to look at everything positively....not negatively! Therefore, write your complaint on paper and sign your name, and it will be given priority. I’ll take care of it before the next day. I respect your wishes and want you to feel free to express something you are unhappy with, but not during class when we are all trying
to learn and finish our work.... WRITE IT DOWN! Sometimes, writing it down makes it less important and earthshaking, as you first thought it was...and sometimes it helps you to write things down. Just don’t gripe under your breath, in class or out, and write down your complaint so I know what it is and can help you. I love each one of you and will help you any way I can, but I will not tolerate griping about what I expect of you. If you are right in your written complaint, I will change something, or do something about it, and I will appreciate your concern!
So, SMILE, LISTEN WELL, STUDY HARD, WASTE NO TIME, SMILE MORE, BE POLITE AND CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS, READ, SMILE SOME MORE, AND YOU WILL GET A+’S IN MY ENGLISH CLASS.
If your return this sheet with a parent’s signature tomorrow, you will receive 10 points extra credit, added to a daily grade. Remember, I never add points to a test grade!
HAVE A NICE AND HAPPY YEAR!
Appendix F:
Speech And Drama Rules And Regulations
1. We will do an activity every single day of the school year, even if some members of the class are absent. The purpose of this is so that you overcome your nervousness, and learn to speak in front of small groups and huge crowds!
2. We have an exam every three weeks to see what you are learning. These grades count three times in the grade book.
3. We will do one speech per week, so that by the end of the year, you have made 36 speeches. Just think! You will be able to do all types of speeches, and do them well.
4. Your grade is based on the following:
a. Coming to this class prepared. This means you have your Speaking by Doing book, a pen, a play if we are doing one, and a speech if we re doing one. You also have a composition notebook for Speech and Drama.
b. Your enthusiasm and attitude in taking parts in skits and plays, not laughing during skits and plays if you are not supposed to, knowing your lines backward and forward, knowing your speeches by memory, and being willing to help in any you can.
c. Participation in every single activity we have (unless you are ill or on a school trip). Rehearsals, speeches, skits, building props, etc.!
d. Written exams every three weeks. Composition Notebook counts 6 times every quarter!
e. Your speech grades count three times, and your daily grade counts once!
5. We will begin the year with the easiest speech to do: the demonstration speech, and you will have 9 days to prepare it.
a. First, you choose your topic, and write the speech
b. Then every day, we stand and memorize, so that we have excellent eye contact, good voice, great audio visual aids, etc.
HAVE A GREAT YEAR!!!!
Appendix G:
Ways To Improve Your Essay Writing Skills
1. You cannot write “alot” as one word, because there is no such word. You must write it as two words...a lot.
2. Put yourself last, when speaking or writing. Example: John and I, not “me and John”
3. Capitalize the first words of sentences, and all names of places, people, and particular things. You learned this in second grade, and must use it.
Example: Friday, February, English, Mr. Jones, Farson Eden High School
4. Do not capitalize classes unless they are a language such as English, Spanish, French. Good Examples: math class, history class, English class,
home class, art class
5. The first sentence of your whole paper is called the THESIS STATEMENT. By reading your very first sentence, a person would know exactly what you are planning to write about. Example: My summer activities were fun and exciting, with many trips and the fair.
NOT: I am going to write an essay today.
6. Means you should have indented and started a new paragraph, because you switched.
7. Don’t use RUN ON SENTENCES: (These are two sentences put together with a comma instead of a period. I will be counting off 10 points for those this week. Make one good sentence and connect it by “and” if you need to, but don’t put two sentences together without a connector.) Bad Example: She is sweet, I really like her a lot, she is my friend.
GOOD EXAMPLE: She is sweet and I really like her a lot. She is my very best friend.
8. Use about 2 adjectives or more, in each sentence for variety. (These are describing words). This will make your essay much more exciting!
GOOD EXAMPLE: She is a sweet and kind girl, and she
is my very best friend.
Every time you USE A WORDLY WISE WORD, OR A SPELLING WORD
IN YOUR ESSAYS, UNDERLINE THEM, AND I WILL ADD TWO POINTS FOR EVERY WORD, TO YOUR GRADE. SOME STUDENTS USE AS MANY
AS TEN WORDS FROM WORDLY WISE, PER ESSAY, AND THAT IS
FANTASTIC!
10. Don’t be lazy. That ten points for an outline could really
help you. It is not hard to do. Here is an example:
Winter Activities in Wyoming
I. Introduction A. Skiing
A. Thesis Statement III. Doing Chores in Zero
B. General Statement Weather
II. Sports IV. Conclusion
A. Your opinions
Appendix H:
Weekly Calendar For English Students
MONDAYS:
Work Wordly Wise Unit and sentences
Warriner’s exercise
Free reading in novel
TUESDAYS:
Grade Wordly Wise Unit
Essay Day (You’ll be given a variety of topics on
which to write)
Free reading in novel when essay is finished.
WEDNESDAYS:
Test on Wordly Wise Unit (turn in study guides if
you made them for extra credit) (Grade on tests
counts three times)
THURSDAYS
Spelling (8) Vocabulit (I) King’s English III
Write sentences for spelling and Vocabulit
Warriner’s Exercise
Free Reading in novel
TEST on Spelling (8) Vocabulit (I) King’s English
(III)
Grammar (IV)
Rewrite essay from Tuesday, for a higher grade. Articles on English in the News due today. Put on bulletin board. Free Reading in novel Journals are written in every single day of the week for five minutes at beginning of the hour. When test scores are high (90% and above), you will have game days (Scrabble, word games). If you need to go to the library, ask, and you may go one at a time when necessary. Assignments made one day, are due at the beginning of the
hour the next day. Essays on Tuesdays, are to be written in class, so that
you can be evaluated accurately. When you finish a novel, ask for the test, and go right on to the next novel.
Test scores count three times, as do your essay grades. If you rewrite essays, you can receive a perfect score on them...for a perfect paper! If you turn in work early, it receives 10 points added to your grade. Study guides will be turned in right before tests are taken.
SMILE!!!
Appendix J
Reading
Appendix K
Appendix L
Organization
Appendix M
Teaching a Lesson
The following pages provide a functionally organized reference source and basic outline of information and process. This material will help the beginning teacher through the mechanics of lesson presentation. This appendix is based on a handbook on “Clinical Supervision”, by Sue Wells Welsh and Ann Wallace Huddleston, I use this plan every day, and I love it!
Appendix N
Appendix O
Happiness Is Reading” Columns
(Published in The Aluin Sun and The Rocket Miner)
Appendix P
Endorsements and Recommendations
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