Scribe Notes 8/29

Agenda

1- Spelling Test #2

2- Caesar: Timeline of events

Homework:

1- Vocab study sheet

2- Caesar review packet

Summary:

Today in class we took our second spelling test of the year. After that, Sr. Salma divided us into groups of three so that we can work on our Caesar timeline. For the timeline, we had to go over acts II and III, then we had to take the eight most important events from the scenes and put them in a timeline.

Agenda 8/28/08

AGENDA
1. "the vedlt": radio drama
--> evaluate effectiveness of each medium
2. Julius Caesar: begin review of acts 2 and 3
--> group work on time line of events
HW:
1. finish vocab packet/ study for spelling test
2. See you (and your parents) tonight for back to school

Today in class we listen to the rest of the Radio Drama and filled up our Venn Diagram Chart. We also wrote a journal entry (Entry #4) talking about how the Radio Drama was different from the story and which we liked better. That took up most of the class time. When we finished that we took out our Julius Caesar books and Sister Salma gave us a packet for homework that will be due Tuesday. WE flipped through that, Sr.Salma explaining what to do. When done with that the bell rang and everyone left for Quran class.

Scribe Notes for Wednesday August 27, 2008

Agenda
1. Journal
2. "The Veldt" Radio Drama
-Venn Diagram
- Compare media
HW:1-vocab ex 4
2- Bring Caesar and sketchbooks

Today in class, we had journal. The prompt told us to recall a special childhood memory. It could be anything that happened at anytime during your childhood.

Then we listened to "Future Nursery" Dimension X on NBC Radio. It is a radio station that was used for entertainment during the early 1950s. People then used to listen to it instead of watching tv as we do today. While listening to "Future Nursery", we had to draw a Venn Diagram and compare and contrast between the story mentioned in words, and mentioned in the radio.

For homework, all we have is to do vocab exercise 4, and to bring Julius Caesar and a sketchbook because we will start reading Caesar tomorrow.

Scribe Notes Tuesday: 8/26/08 (Abdu)

--Abdu--

Agenda:

• Grammar Warm Ups #1


• "The Veldt": Lit Essay

HW:

1. Vocab Ex 3
2. Finish "Veldt" Essay

Summary of Class

Today we did our first grammar warm up which is mentioned below and we worked on our Veldt literary essay.

Grammar Warm Up #1:

1. at 9 ft tall and waying in at 1700 lbs the alaskan brown bear is the larger carnivore that lives on land

2. the brown recluse spider which is a poison spider finded in the US they have fangs six eyes and an violin shaped mark on there back

Monday, 8/25

Agenda
1. Spelling Pre-Test #2
-->vocab exercise 1
2. "The Veldt": literary response essay

HW: 1-vocab exercise 2
2-work on "The Veldt" essay (due Wednesday)

Today we went over Lesson 2 in our vocabulary book after taking the pre-test. Then we learned how to take our six quotes from our dialectal entry response to "The Veldt" (the weekend homework) and use them to write a literary response essay.
The first step is to sub-categorize our quotes into THREE different sets. For instance, how can you divide the quotes by two? Are two of them about the parents? Two about the house they live in? Two about the children's strange behavior?
Then we create an outline based on our quotes to determine how to organize our essay.

THESIS: suspenseful story
- parents have morbid thoughts
- strange clues that foreshadow
- children behave unnaturally

REASON 1: parents have morbid thoughts about their children and the Veldt
- not enough to do?
- worried about the effect of the veldt/death
- call in a psychologist

REASON 2: strange clues that foreshadow
- chewed up wallet with saliva
- Lydia's bloody scarf found
- familiar screams?

REASON 3: children behave unnaturally
- threaten parents
- care more about the veldt/nursery/house than about parents
- drink tea at end after gruesome event

CONCLUSION: story held my attention, full of suspense
- confused first whether it was just all in the parents' heads or whether true
- clues were mysterious, especially bit about familiar screams
- children add element of weirdness by their creepy behavior towards parents

We will have time in class tomorrow to work on our actual essay.

Scribe duty, Friday, 8-22-08

Agenda
- Spelling Test #1
- "The Veldt": finish question/discusion

- What is your thesis (Book Review)

Homework

- Complete a dialectal journal chart. Find six instances that relate to your thesis and comment on them

Summary of Class:

Today in class, we took our first spelling test of the year. After that, Sr. Salma explained our homework assignment, which was basicaly a T-table about the story, "The Veldt" and we had to write a quote from the book, it's page number, and a 2-3 sentence response. And finally, she gave us time to work on our questions and turn them in.

Thursday, August 22

(Neda Awwad)

Agenda:

1- Ray Bradburry The Veldt

-Finish reading and annotating

-Develop three of each type discussion questions (fact, interpretation, evaluation)

HW: 1-finish vocab pack and study for spelling test and include parts of speech

Today in class, we finished annotating Ray Bradburry’s story, The Veldt. After annotating and reading the whole story, we learned how to develop new questions to the three types of discussion questions: fact, interpretation, and evaluation.

Fact: questions that you could find the answers to from the story

How many kids were there?

Interpretation: No one can answer. It’s your opinion

What do you think happens at the end?

Evaluation: own personal thought of the story

Whose fault was it, the parents or the kids?

Then we wrote down three questions of each kind of question during class. For Homework, we had to finish the vocabulary packet and study for the spelling test. If you didn’t finish annotating during class, then finish it at home.

Scribe Notes Wednesday 08-20-08(Oussama)

- - OUSSAMA - -

Agenda

• Literary Discussion Guide: Presentations
• Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt"

Homework

1. Vocabulary excersize 4
2. Bring " annotating tools" ( Highlighter, sticky notes, colored pencils)

Summary of Class

Today in class we presented our Literary Discussion Guides. There were soem really good presentations. Sister Salma also checked off our Julius Caesar books that she told us to bring. We started a small story by Ray Bradbury called "The Veldt". Sister Salma told us to annotate the important facts in the story. She told us that if we wanted to, we could annotate for homework.

Scribe Notes Tuesday 8/19/08 (Abdu)

--Abdu--

Agenda

• Journal #2
• Literary Discussion Guide --> Group presentations

HW:

1. Vocab Ex 3
2. Finish preparing for presentations

Summary of Class

Today in class we did our second journal and the prompt is:

What are you strengths as a writer? What are your weaknesses?

What specific skills do you hope to improve in?

Also we added a word count. Then there was a packet passed out named Literary Discussion Guide. After that we were assigned groups and each person got into their group and each group got a section of the packet :P. Then we had to summarize that section and write it on a transparency, if we did not finish it we had to for homework. Now have a great day!

Scribe Notes Monday: 8/18/08 (Abdu)

--Abdu--

Agenda

• Spelling Pre-test #1 -->Review Lesson 1; Do excercise 1
• "Jabberwocky"

HW:

1. Vocab exercise 2
2. Rewrite new version of Jabberwocky with substituted words, make sure it is typed

Summary of Class

Today we started our first lesson in our vocab book and did excerxise 1. Also we reviewed our parts of speech in our Jabberwocky Handout. We were assigned then to substitute words in class because we had time and start on our rewrite of the poem.

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