August 30

Well, I was not in school yesterday because my daughter was sick. Oh well. What can you do? The students worked on the diagnostic grammar test.

Today the first period class had an assembly. The rest of the classes did the following. I collected the rest of the vocab money. I still need it from many students. We discussed MrBoZ.com, and I gave the a tour of my web page. Then we discussed the first piece of writing.

The homework for tonight is to get the internet form filled out. I would like the paper signed and returned. I would also like each student and parent to send me an e-mail. Last year I had many errors after entering the e-mails because handwriting is hard to read. I will just copy and paste the addresses from the e-mails. I will count it as a small grade. Unless there is not e-mail access, I expect an e-mail.

We started the first writing assignment. You can find the assignment and requirements on the main page of MrBoZ.com. It is listed under the current assignment on the right. I like to pick topics that make us think about ourselves and our place in the world. The topic is also part of the first theme for Language Arts: Human beings learn about life by making connections to themselves, others, and the world around them.

Welcome to the 2006-2007 School Year!

This is the first post of the new school year. I do not have much to say about the first day of school. It was a blur! In this blog, you will find daily messages. Many times it will just be the class assignments we did and the homework. Other times it will be my thoughts on how things are going in class. Maybe, if you are lucky (sarcasm), you will get my thoughts on life! Anyway, if you checked out MrBoZ.com and clicked through to here today, thank you! I will see you in class tomorrow where we will be finishing a diagnostic grammar test. Then we will start our first writing assignment based on a the Bob Dylan song, "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall."

Homework: Get vocab book money to me ASAP