Thursday, January 22, 2009

January 22, 2009

Homework:
All classes have Choosing the Right Word for homework.
Students presenting in the debates should be prepared to go.
Section 3 students should have their essays ready to hand in tomorrow,

Special Notice for Sections 1 and 2 students:
Please be sure you have submitted your DuPont Challenge essays.  You can't win if you don't submit.
Also, Mrs. Eros would like students to give her the revised plays so they can be performed in the spring.  She needs them as soon as possible.

Today:
We reviewed the vocab and continued the debates.  Throughout the debate I am stressing how students need to explain what they mean. It is not enough to say that the boy should squish the ant because there are plenty of others.  What does that mean?  The way students earn points is meant to be an incentive to say more.  I also showed the academic classes an example of what proper explanation looks like.

I will start posting the winners on my website.