Week 6

 

Assignment Due:

Quizzes, Tests, or In-Class Essays

Monday

5/5

 

 

Tuesday

5/6

 

 

Wednesday

5/7

 

 Articles quiz (go to the grammar part of this website to practice)

Thursday

5/8

 

 

Friday

5/9

 Essay-2nd draft: paper copy by 10:30am, email by 5:00pm.

Nouns Singular/Plural, Count vs. Non-Count Quiz



 

Week 7

 

Assignment Due:

Quizzes, Tests, or In-Class Essays

Monday

5/12

·                     Vocabulary practice

·                     Subject verb practice

·                     Outline the following essay: Compare the responsibilities of a teenager to the responsibilities to the parents of teenagers. Use point by point method. Write about 3 main differences. Use 3 facts from your textbook and 2 examples from Friday’s listening activity. (See me before or after class on Monday if you were not here to listen to this.) You should have at least one example from these sources in each body paragraph.

Nouns quiz.

Tuesday

5/13

 Homework: do activities for

Subject/Verb Agreement quiz.

Answers for part 2 of today’s homework can be found here.

Essay directions here.

 Subject/Verb Agreement quiz

c-4 vocabulary quiz

Wednesday

5/14

 

 

Thursday

5/15

Vocabulary assignments 1 and 2

Finish modifier activities on this page.

 

 

Friday

5/16

 1st draft of comparison essay due

Second misplaced and dangling modifiers quiz.

Week 8

 

Assignment Due:

Quizzes, Tests, or In-Class Essays

Monday

5/19

 

 

Tuesday

5/20

Modifying practice

Read chapter 6

 

Wednesday

5/21

  • Page 122: Vocabulary in context
  • Page 123-124 vocabulary in context
  • P 125 Reading for detail
  • read and do page 126-129

 

Modifiers quiz #2 (writing sentences and correcting errors)

Thursday

5/22

1)     Reading and Questions. (USE CONTEXT, NOT A DICTIONARY TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.)

2)     10 short exercises from Grammar Bytes: pronoun exercises You will need to go down the page to see all of the pronoun exercise.

 

 

Friday

5/23

Read about the Northwest Folklife Festival and answer questions here.

 

Optional: Listen about twins that were seperated at birth for science. part 1, part 2 (Click “listen now” on the website to hear the reports.)

 Pronouns and Pronoun Antecedents (you should be comfortable answer questions similar to the “more difficult” part of this page.)

Week 9

 

Assignment Due:

Quizzes, Tests, or In-Class Essays

Monday

5/26

No school, Memorial Day

Tuesday

5/27

 

 

Wednesday

5/28

 

 

Thursday

5/29

Error corrections homework

Reading and Vocabulary in Context questions

     

Friday

5/30

 Final draft of cause/effect essay due.

Vocabulary Chapter 5/6 quiz

Reading Quiz

Participial Adjectives Quiz (“ed” vs. “ing”)

Week 10

 

Assignment Due:

Quizzes, Tests, or In-Class Essays

Monday

6/2

 

 In-class essay related to intelligence

Make sure to review the intelligence readings, specifically:

Chapter 5 and 6,

History of the only child

Freedom to say no (Why women are not entering certain scientific fields)

Grandfather reading

Nature vs. Nurture (cat essay)

Mozart Effect

Some questions to think about and have specific examples to answer:

            What is the difference between intelligence and skills?

            How does the enviornoent effect intelligence?

            Should we allow scientists to help us choose the genes for our children?

            Should we control our intelligence?

            How is intelligence defined?

            What does it mean to be “intelligent”?

            How does biology/genes/instinct/genetics/heredity/nature compare to nurture/experience/education/environment/learned intelligence?

Tuesday

6/3

 

 Redo subject/verb quiz

Wednesday

6/4

 2nd draft of comparison essay

Vocabulary Chapter 5 and 6

Redo pronoun quiz

Thursday

6/5

 

 Redo articles quiz

Friday

6/6

 

 Redo passive voice quiz

Week 11

 

Assignment Due:

Quizzes, Tests, or In-Class Essays

Monday

6/9

Last day to turn in any assignments

Writing Final Exam

Tuesday

6/10

No class

 

Wednesday

6/11

Thursday

6/12

Friday

6/13

 

Final Reading/Grammar Exams


 

 

Week 1

 

Assignment Due:

Quizzes, Tests, or In-Class Essays

Monday

3/31

 

Reading comprehension bonus quiz

 

Tuesday

4/1

·        Read syllabus

·        Purchase textbook (if used, it must be completely erased)

·        “Oatmeal” reading and questions

In-class essay. This is a bonus essay, but will be graded following the essay rubric. If this essay grade is higher than your overall average at the end of the quarter, it will count towards your grade. If it is lower than your average, it will not hurt your grade.

Wednesday

4/2

·        paraphrasing handout

·        Questionnaire

·        Be ready for syllabus quiz

 

 

syllabus quiz

Thursday

4/3

·        Plagiarism Self Study

·        Be ready for Plagiarism quiz

Plagiarism quiz

Friday

4/4

·        Mexicanadian reading, questions, and journal

 

Week 2

 

Assignment Due:

Quizzes, Tests, or In-Class Essays

Monday

4/7

  •  “Said” exercise (Email this assignment to me by 3:00pm on Monday. You will get a bonus homework grade if you send this to me on Saturday.)
  • Reading and questions from textbook (to be announced)
  • Be ready for the 200 words spelling quiz

“200” words spelling quiz part 1

Tuesday

4/8

 

  • lying” reading, comprehension questions, and cause and effect practice.

 

Wednesday

4/9

  • Laughter reading and questions (given out at the end of class).
  • You may want to print page 2 and 3 of this page for a more complete list of subordinators (because, as….), coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS), and conjunctive adverbs (However, therefore…)
  • Finish Vocabulary definitions sheet from Monday’s class

 

Thursday

4/10

·                     Extra credit homework (Email me your answers by 3:00 and I will comment on them for you.)

Building Compound Sentences
Building Complex Sentences

·                     Reread Chapter , p5-6, 11, 15-16, 19-21

·                     Review the vocabulary definitions

Open-book reading quiz from chapter 1 (all 4 sections)

Friday

4/11

1) (to be announced)

 

2)  Multitasking-listening activity

(more to be announced)

3) Things to do: Go to one of the following websites and find something you think would be fun to do. Take notes about what it is, when it is happening (if it is an event), how to get there, and why it would be fun. Be ready to report to other students in class.

· Seattle Guide (if you want to see other cities around Seattle, go down this page)

·  Local Entertainment and Restaurants

· Washington Guide

More Seattle Concerts

 

Vocabulary quiz from chapter 1

Week 3

 

Assignment Due:

Quizzes, Tests, or In-Class Essays

Monday

4/14

Page 31, Find and paraphrase the thesis

Page 31-32, Find and paraphrase the sentence that contains the main idea

Page 32, Find and paraphrase the topic sentence of paragraph 3

Page 32, Find and paraphrase the two sentences that contain the main idea of paragraph 4

Page 33 Page 32, Find and paraphrase the topic sentence of paragraph 5 and 6

 

Page 34, Task 1

page 35, Task 4

Pages 37-39, find the sententences that contain the main ideas and paraphrase them.

Page 40-41, Task 1

“200” words spelling quiz part 2

 

 

Tuesday

4/15

 

 

Wednesday

4/16

 

 

Thursday

4/17

1)     Reread chapter 2,

2)     Write 10 questions about details (who, what, where, when, how)

3)     Write 5 main idea questions

4)     Write 3 “why” questions

5)     Paraphrasing Exercise.

 

Friday

4/18

Things to do: Go back to one of the following websites and find something else you think would be fun to do. Take notes about what it is, when it is happening (if it is an event), how to get there, and why it would be fun. Be ready to report to other students in class.

· Seattle Guide (if you want to see other cities around Seattle, go down this page)

·  Local Entertainment and Restaurants

· Washington Guide

More Seattle Concerts

 

 

Week 4

 

Assignment Due:

Quizzes, Tests, or In-Class Essays

Monday

4/21

Listening exercise

Vocabulary: Write a new sentence for each word on this list.

 

Tuesday

4/22

Last day to notify instructor of final exam conflicts

 

Wednesday

4/23

 

 

Thursday

4/24

 

 

Friday

4/25

 

Passive Voice quiz

Week 5

 

Assignment Due:

Quizzes, Tests, or In-Class Essays

Monday

4/28

 

 

Tuesday

4/29

 1st draft of essay

 

Wednesday

4/30

1)                     What images do the media (magazines, newspapers, TV, and movies) have of adolescents today? Are they generally positive or negative? Are they generally representative? (Do the media’s images and stories of adolescents honestly reflect the experiences that most adolescents have?)

2)                   What do you think identity formation is? Besides yourself, who has the most influence over your identity formation? How can identity formation be painful for adolescents and their parents?

 

Homework:

A)      Modifiers Handout

B)      From Academic Encounters:

Read pages 49-50, then answer these questions:

 

1) What are the three ways adolescence is defined?

2) What does “transition” mean?

3) What do they mean by a “social stereotype”? What are the affects of stereotypes that you have seen?

 

Do the exercises on page 52, then read pages 53-54. Then, answer these questions:

 

1)If you are an early bloomer, is it better to be a girl or a boy?  Why?

2)For girls, why could it be disadvantageous to be an early bloomer?

 

 

Thursday

5/1

If you were not in class: Listening exercise 

 

Homework:

1)Read and outline pages 57-60. For each paragraph you should write the main idea and 2 to 3 supporting ideas (you do not need to write complete sentences, a few words is all that is necessary.)

 

2)Read pages 65-66, do task 1 p67

 

 

Friday

5/2

 

Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers Quiz