February 23, 2010

Homework:
Unit 9 Quiz Wednesday

Today:
We reviewed the Completing the Sentence for unit 9.
Judging essays for the science fiction writing contest:
We read over three essays and chose one to move onto the next round.  I also asked the students to give the essays feedback.  When the students get their essays back, they should have an idea of what they could do to improve them for the final draft.  Tomorrow, at least three students will score each remaining essay.  From those scores, I will pick the top scoring essays and declare them the finalists.  I am not sure what I will do after that.  I want winning students to submit their essays to the Teen Ink magazine.

These students have made it past the first round of our sci-fi story contest amongst my five classes:

Tyler F.
Kristi C.
John B.
Amjed H.
Shailja G.
Dominic M.
Matt W.
Mark M.
Tyler G.
Cate M.
Miles W.
Brianna L.
Habibullah A.
Mike D.
Sally O.
Sharon Y.
Caitlyn M.
Vickram R.
Ania S.
Sriram C.
Cynthia Y.
Jasen R.
David R.
Travis W.
Pasha T.
Mark R.

February 22, 2010

Homework:
Completing the Sentence Unit 9
Quiz on Unit 9 on Wednesday

Today:
There are two grades that I am entering today.  We reviewed the vocab words and entered the Choosing the Right Word for Unit 9.

Then we reviewed the rules for using quotations and took a quiz.

I handed out grades to most of my classes today.  They do not need to be signed.

The final drafts of the sci-fi stories are not due yet.  We will begin judging them tomorrow.  Students will start getting them back Wednesday.

February 18, 2010

Homework:
Choosing the Right Word Unit 9
Quiz on using quotations in dialogue

Today:
practice quiz on dialogue using the responders
drew pictionaries on the board
reviewed the synonyms
finished the lessons on dialogue

Here is an example of what we have been studying:

Exercise 5
1. Has anyone read the story To Build a Fire asked the teacher.
2. I have said Eileen. It was written by Jack London.
3. Do you know the poem To Make a Prairie?
4. The New Yorker magazine features excellent short stories.
5. Did you read asked Ms. Carlson the article Animal Architects in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch?

Exercise 5 (Answers)
1. “Has anyone read the story ‘To Build a Fire’?” asked the teacher.
2. “I have,” said Eileen. “It was written by Jack London.”
3. Do you know the poem “To Make a Prairie”?
4. The New Yorker magazine features excellent short stories.
5. “Did you read,” asked Ms. Carlson, “the article ‘Animal Architects’ in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch?”

February 17, 2010

Homework:
Pictionaries 11-20 and Synonyms Unit 9

Today:
We started the class with an assessment of how well the students are understanding the punctuating of dialogue.  I use the remotes.  Most students get the basics, but we still need some more practice.  As soon as I feel sure students know how to do dialogue correctly, we will start looking at each others' papers.

We listened to words 11-20 Unit 9.

We continued the grammar lessons from the book.

*** I will update the HAC grades tomorrow afternoon.  ***

Febraury 16, 2010

Homework:
Pictionaries 1-10 Unit 9
There are some students who have not handed in their sci-fi stories and/or need to make up unit 8 quiz.  Those who were in school today were reminded.

Today:
Daily Drill on using quotes in sentences
Listened to words 1-10 unit 9
Worked on exercises dealing with using quotes in sentences and dialogue.

The general plan for this week is to finish teaching lessons on punctuating dialogue.  Around Thursday or so, we will be reading each others' papers to determine the top ones.  We will also give the writers feedback on dialogue and grammar.  That's the plan for now.  The final draft will be due next week sometime.

February 4, 2010

Homework:
None
Book Fair is tomorrow. Bring some money if you would like to buy books.

Today:
Buzzword and extra questions on punctuating dialogue
Reviewed vocabulary
Quiz Unit 8
Exercises on dialogue

!!! I collected the sci-fi stories today. Not every student handed it in on-time. That is a shame. !!!

February 04, 2010
melancholy (noun) \MEL-un-kah-lee\
What does it mean?
: a sad or gloomy mood or condition
How do you use it?
Carolina's excitement about moving was tinged with melancholy because she knew she would have to leave many friends behind.
Are you a word wiz?
In medieval times, people thought melancholy was caused by one of the organs of the body. Which body part do you think was once considered the root of all gloomy moods?

Answer: kidney 

February 3, 2010

Homework:
Quiz 8 Thursday
Good draft of the sci-fi story is due.  Good means good, not rough or incomplete.  I expect the stories to be of sufficient length.  I told sections 1 and 2 that I think two pages, single-spaced is a good start.  That is about 1,000 words.

Today:
We reviewed the vocab for the quiz.
Then I read one piece I had written.  The first class thought it was totally boring, so I wrote another story.  The next two classes thought the idea was good, but it needed more action.  Apparently seventh graders love violence and ninjas!  Who knew?  :)  Regardless, I am having fun.  It has been too long since I taught creative writing!  I love thinking of the story I want to read, not what someone else thought of!

If you feel like it, here is the second thing I wrote.  It is not complete:

John sat in the comfortable leather chair of the sales manager’s office of Virtual Eternity, Inc. He felt a little silly, though, being only thirty years old and thinking about his death. But his friends said that he should check it out. Whenever they would talk about dying, they acted like it didn’t matter, like they knew something he didn’t. They seemed to enjoy life more knowing they had nothing to worry about once they died. John thought he wanted what they had.
Sitting across John, Mr. Anderson began his sales pitch for his company’s services. “Digitizing the dead is big business now that the planet has run out of space to bury the bodies. It now takes less energy to scan and digitize a body than it does to vaporize them into ash. With the density of the population increasing, the old fashioned way of cremation would fill the air with smoke day and night. In this world, we know children are born and people die. People know they will die, but they can’t face the reality of not knowing what will happen to them after that, so we promise them eternity. We are Virtual Burial, Inc.”
John must have looked like he agreed with Mr. Anderson’s assessment of his beliefs because he began to explain John in more detail. “Your mind is all you really have, the collection of neurons and electrical impulses that rush through the fleshy material in your skull. Your thoughts are what make you, well, you. When you die, the electrical impulses end, and your brain shuts down and you cease to exist. Heaven? Hell? Rebirth? I imagine that you are here today because you are unsure. Are you unsure? We at Virtual Burial Inc. are sure. We are your afterlife, your eternal life.”
“Through a patented process,” Mr. Anderson continued, “we scan your living brain and record the electrical patterns and connections, like a wiring map of your brain. Through a rigorous, yet painless, process, we stimulate your brain to get a full picture of your life and your memories. This ‘map’ becomes your virtual you for eternity. Once you are scanned into our system, your future awaits your passing.”
“Currently, we offer two options. You can have your brain scanned and saved for your eventual death. At that time, we activate the image we have and your afterlife begins. Unfortunately, you will not have any memories from the time after your scan. The second, but not always successful option, is to have your dead brain scanned. Through an experimental process, we can pump enough blood through your brain for a few minutes. During that time, we stimulate the brain with slightly more electricity to create the map we need for your virtual eternity. From our monitors, we see that these clients have a virtual afterlife, but we are not positive about the quality. For now, we recommend a pre-death scan for the best results.”
“And what do you do with the body again?” John interrupted.
“The body is optional,” Mr. Anderson continued. “Should you want your body you had at the scan, we can map that body and use it for your eternity. Or, if you want something better, we can match your brain with the body of your choice. Of course, you have to make this decision beforehand, and we do have a nice selection. The only downside of choosing a body is there will be a number of people who look like you. It’s up to you.”
“So I can be stronger?”
“Yep! Mr. Anderson quipped. “Faster. A different race. Even a different sex. (Some people want this.)”
“Huh?” John said seeming slightly offended.
“I am just mentioning it. It’s something we can do.”
“Thanks. I won’t be needing that.”
“Of course.”
John continued to question. “So, if I am thirty now, I will be thirty for eternity?”
“You will be as you are now for eternity.”
“And eternity is where exactly?”
“In our computers,” Mr. Anderson answered confidently, opening his arms wide and pointing in all directions.
“Your computers are eternal? Nothing physical is eternal.”
Maybe a little too smugly, Mr. Anderson replied, “Let’s just say our computers are… not physical.”
John wondered, “So it’s a gamble. I have to have myself scanned before I die and while I am healthy because I have to be that person for eternity.
“Correct. Once the map is made, no new connections are made. You would live as you are today for eternity.”
“I won’t make new memories or learn new things?”
Sensing a potential sale slipping, Mr. Anderson quickly answered, “No. However, we are working on that right now, and maybe one day you will be able to, but the software is experimental right now. The ability to create new connections in your virtual brain is very advanced science. But your life in the virtual eternity will be as vibrant and full of life as it is right now, at this moment.”
“Just no better.”
“Nor any worse.”
“Forever?”
“For eternity,” Mr. Anderson said, relaxed, knowing his job was now done.

****
“John, that’s the last thing I remember, too. Strange,” Sally replies as she picks up her coffee, just as she did every day at 9:00. John was a new customer in line behind her the past few days. Normally, she never talks to people in the morning, but John just walked up to her and introduced himself. It’s like he just popped into her life somehow.
Sally leaves the coffee shop and heads to work with the feeling that today will be a good day, almost like she knows what will happen, so she is not worried. She feels like this all the time. She assumes that she is just blessed with a good life. The gods must be smiling on her, or fortune, or angels. She’s not sure, but she is thankful to something greater than herself that she can live the life she wants to live. She lives in the moment and takes life one day at a time, her future unsure and her past unchanging.
“Wait.”
Sally was about to cross the street when she hear someone coming up behind her.
“Where are you going? It’s Sally, right?” John says slightly out of breath.
“I am going to work. John, right?” Sally says a little concerned, but confident that this will only take a minute. She will be patient.

February 2, 2010

Homework:
Completing the Sentence Unit 8
Good draft of story due Thursday so we can read the whole story
Book Fair on Friday.  Bring money if you would like to buy anything.

Today:
We watched a video and looked at adjectives.
Reviewed vocab and started the Completing the Sentence
Began a short unit on punctuation dialogue.

Ex 2. (Add quotes where needed.)
1. I hope, said Elizabeth, that we will reach Atlanta soon.
2. If the traffic does not get worse, the driver predicted, we should be there in half an hour.
3. Mrs. Yamaski, our physical education teacher, told us we would begin the volleyball unit Monday.
4. We took the injured young owl into the house, said Dick, and we made a nest for it in a basket.
5. Mr. Howard said that we might have trouble persuading the owlet to eat.

January 29, 2010

Homework:
The students could work on their stories.  I would like a good draft done by Thursday so we can proofread them.    The final draft will be due Monday, February 8th. 

Today:
I asked the students to have something done by today.  Most did, but a few too many really did not have as much as I would have hoped.  We will spend time next week studying punctuation dialogue.

January 28, 2010

Homework:
I would like the students to have written a good chunk of their stories for Friday.  The stories should be mostly complete so we can look at them and they can get feedback.  Ideally, all students will do as I ask.  That is why I have left it vague like this.  But how do you assign making a best attempt at writing a story?  How do you define that?

The stories should have dialogue.  We will be focusing on proper punctuation of dialogue in the days to come.

Today:
Daily Drill
We entered and reviewed the Choosing the Right Word
We watched a little clip on Apple's new iPad and dreamed about how we could use something like that in the future.
I gave the students some work time.

Daily Drill:

(Yes, copy these.)
Thursday, January 28, 2010 (F6)
1. How ____ did you do on the test? (good, well)

2. ____ puppies are growing bigger every day. (Are, Our)

3. ____ that woman standing by the car? (Who’s, Whose)

4. Do you know ____ jacket that is? (who’s, whose)

5. When ____ the book reports due? (are, our)

January 27, 2010

Homework:
Choosing the Right Word Unit 8
I would like a draft of the sci-fi story done by Friday if possible.

Today:
Reviewed the synonyms unit 8
Read a sample story
Writing time on the sci-fi story
I also showed them the start of my story and asked for suggestions.

I told the students about how they will be scored in this sci-fi story writing contest:
     (x2) First inpression
    Craft of telling a story
    Realistic dialogue
    Vivid imagery
    How well they stuck to the theme: sci-fi shows us a future so we can reflect on today.

They will be scored on this scale:
1- not so good
2- OK
3- Good
4- Great
(5) Incredible

We will add up the scores from 5 people, and hopefully, a few pieces will rise to the top for another round.  I am so excited to see these stories.  The good stories will be submitted to TeenInk.

January 26, 2010

Homework:
Pictionaries 11-20 and synonyms unit 8

Today:
Daily Drill
Listened to 11-20 unit 8
Read a story from TeenInk to discuss the length of the sci-fi story, dialogue, and point of view.  I will post the requirements for the story tomorrow on MrBoZ.com.  I plan to make this unit into a story writing contest.  More details to follow.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (R6)
1. What contraction is made from we and are? __

2. Add a prefix to this word: ___test

3. If we work hard replied Judy well earn an excellent grade.

4. Michael ask how soon will breakfast be ready

5. What tense is occupied? (past, present, future)

January 25, 2010

Homework:
Pictionaries 1-10 unit 8
I would like the students to have their stories ideas again for tomorrow.

Today:
Daily Drill (see below)
We listened to 1-10 unit 8

I explained how to present their story idea:
Explain the
      technology
      setting
      plot
      conflict
      author's purpose (the lesson to think about)

In one section we discussed a technology where we upload the curriculum of information into  the brain.  We discussed at what age this should be done, if at all.  That lead us to discuss why we go to school.  Is school just learning information?  What does maturity have to do with learning?  It was a good discussion that focused on the thoughts that should be happening behind the technology idea.

My idea is to digitize the dead.  My brain is teeming with thoughts about this.  I can't wait to organize this and develop a story. 


Monday, January 25, 2010 (W6)
1. Every Saturday morning my little brother watches rug rats.

2. Last summer my friend sarafina moved to Santa Fe New Mexico.

3. Seldom : many :: often: (lots, more, few, several)

4. quick, speedy (synonym, antonym, homophones)

5. week, weak (synonym, antonym, homophones)

January 22, 2010 (Story idea due Monday)

Homework:
By Monday, I would like the students to be able to explain the basic idea for their story.  They should be able to tell me the basic plot, the conflict that needs to be resolved, and the future technology that is being used in the story.

For my story, I have a future setting where, instead of burying people, the bodies are digitized and sent either to be stored on a server or to somewhere else where they are undigitized and buried.  In my story, the bodies start arriving with areas missing.  This is due to how files are sent on the Internet now, in small packets that are reassembled when they arrive at the receiving computer.  I have ideas for the conflict.  Someone could be stealing the packets mid-stream.  Maybe some packets are getting lost.  Maybe they are getting misdirected. 

Here are four writing prompts.

Science Fiction Writing Prompt: Sucked into a computer

Set-up:
You have been physically sucked into your computer. Not only can you see everything being done on your computer, you are also able to leave your computer and travel through the Internet and view what others are doing on their computers.

How to start:
Start by listing all of the good and bad things we do on computers.
What would you see people doing?

Think about the computers that you would want to visit. What are your reasons for going to these?

Exploring the reality behind the idea:
Based on research, what you have read, or what you have experienced, what would you expect to see?

(Hacking, monitoring, tracking, controlling remote computers, viruses. If you know how computers work, that will add realism to your piece.)

Brain storm a setting and story-line:
This story is pure science fiction. We cannot physically enter the network and move around, but in this story we can. How?

What is the setting? Where? When?
Who are the characters?
Most importantly, what is the conflict that needs to be resolved?

Purpose for writing- social commentary:
This piece will be a mirror for us to examine what we do on our computers today. Do we need to worry about where our habits will lead us to in the future? Is there something we need to change before it is too late? Does something need to be invented that shows up in your story?

Deeper themes:
Should our computer use be monitored and controlled?
Who determines what is morally good or morally wrong?

Science Fiction Writing Prompt: Portable communications devices and use in future

Set-up:
Watch the MSNBC clip that explains how use of electronic communication devices is up in children. The report asks if we should be concerned about how much time children spend communicating. It gives statistics that seem to say that too much use impacts children negatively.
You are a kid who uses these things. What do you think? If the use has gone up so dramatically in five years, what will it be like in twenty-five? Write a story that includes the use of communication devices in the future.

How to start:
Start by listing all of the good and bad things about Facebook, Twitter, texting, cell phone usage, and IMing. How do you and your friends use these things? What have you observed about other people using these?

From morning until sleep, jot down every way that you use your devices to communicate. (Or describe how you know others use theirs.)

Now envision how we will be constantly in touch with each other in the future. If the MSNBC report is right, children will use these things even more!

Exploring the reality behind the idea:
What is the latest technology we have for communicating? How many people use Facebook and Twitter? Find statistics about time spent on electronic devices.

Brain storm a setting and story-line:
Think about how we communicate now. Think about how natural it is for you, but to adults and older generations, what you do now is so strange. Well, 25 years from now, what your kids will do will be normal to them but strange to you. What will they be doing? (I wrote notes when I was in school. How old fashioned!)

What is the setting? Where? When?
Who are the characters?
Most importantly, what is the conflict that needs to be resolved?

Purpose for writing- social commentary:
This piece will be a mirror for us to examine what we do on our computers today. Do we need to worry about where our habits will lead us to in the future? Is there something we need to change before it is too late? Do you want to show us that we have nothing to worry about?

Deeper themes:
Being in touch with others is a basic human need. Do these devices make us more or less human?



Science Fiction Writing Prompt: Imagine the city of the future

Set-up:
Find a picture on the Internet of someone’s vision of how we will be living in the future. Stare at it! Imagine living there. Now think about the city and how it functions, how it is constructed. How is this city different from what we have now. Why is it designed like it is? What problems do we have today that you imagine they have solved in the future?

How to start:
Stare at the picture and describe all the things you see happening in the picture. Where do the people live and work? How do they relax? How does the city function on a mechanical level? Really examine the structures. Then compare each thing you see to what we have today.

You will have to imagine a lot of other things. What about schools and sports?

Exploring the reality behind the idea:
Explore cities that are over crowded, like Hong Kong. Explore large sky scrapers and futuristic buildings that being built now.

Brain storm a setting and story-line:
The setting for your story will be the city in your picture, so the story can be about anything. However, you will want to make the image of the city vivid in the reader’s mind. You will want to use lots of sensory details. (The picture will not accompany your written piece. Create the scene in our minds. That’s what writer’s do.)

What is the setting? Where? When?
Who are the characters?
Most importantly, what is the conflict that needs to be resolved?

Purpose for writing- social commentary:
Do we need to worry about where our habits will lead us to in the future? Is there something we need to change before it is too late? Does something need to be invented that shows up in your story?

Deeper themes:
Nothing stays the same.
Hope for the future.

Science Fiction Writing Prompt: “Think different”

Set-up:
Imagine something we don’t have today that you hope we will have in the future.

How to start:
Put on your thinking cap! Don’t be limited by your imagination. However, this is science fiction, so don’t have magic pixie horses and stuff. Thing science and technology creating something that will help mankind.

Exploring the reality behind the idea:
After you have though about your idea, do some research. Is there something like it today? Is someone working on a solution now?


Brain storm a setting and story-line:

What is the setting? Where? When?
Who are the characters?
Most importantly, what is the conflict that needs to be resolved?


Purpose for writing- social commentary:



Deeper themes:

Science Fiction Writing Prompt:

Set-up:

How to start:

Exploring the reality behind the idea:

Brain storm a setting and story-line:

What is the setting? Where? When?
Who are the characters?
Most importantly, what is the conflict that needs to be resolved?

Purpose for writing- social commentary:

Deeper themes:

January 21, 2010

Homework:
By Monday, I would like the students to have a rough idea of the creative story they will write.  I will have all this organized for tomorrow.

Today:
The past two days we started class with an exercise of ending sentences.  Many students are trying to write complex sentences, but they don't always know how to punctuate them.  If you look at the two paragraphs below, you will see what I mean.  I also wanted to give students a reminder that they should read their pieces out loud and proofread a little better.

At this point all the essays are graded, and I will finalize grades tomorrow morning.

I also entered the results of the vocab final we took this week.  Actually, it is the final they will take in June.  They also took this same test in September.  Online you will see how your child scored and how much he/she improved.  The score does not count in the grades.

I will post the five prompts I have decided to suggest for the science fiction piece on my web page tomorrow.

Daily Drills:
Even though I feel that sometimes I would like to drop my foot on a few of them, I still leave them alone because it is the right thing to do. I also picture myself as that ant, it must be so scared and helpless if I was that ant I would not want to die. I also picture myself as that ant’s brother I would be devastated if I found out my own brother was killed by a giant even worse I could not do anything about it because they are so small! Also nobody knows what an ant rolls around in, but I have seen that ants mostly take what they touch because they are great full for anything that they can get their hands on! Nobody would want to die or would want a sibling to die, think of it this way, a humongous giant comes out of nowhere and steps right on your sister, or brother and is squished without a chance to fight back. I think pretty much everyone would not want that to ever happen to anyone they know even worse a family member would be hard to get over. I know that nobody would want that to ever happen.

Then second, ants are completely worthless like really what do they do for us? Nothing! It’s like legit! All they do is annoy you they get into your food and steal it and stuff which brings me back to nasty I don’t want them in my food I don’t want any bugs in my food! Also when I say there worthless there might be people that will be like well with out ants the food chain wouldn’t work what about ant eaters or something stupid like that. Oh yeah and I love it when they say ants pick up trash and bring it back to there colony…. Right...So If I dropped a bottle on a bunch of ants they would take it back to there colony and use it some how… I don’t think so.

January 20, 2010

Homework:
None that is pressing.  We are just beginning to start writing a science fiction story.  I have not made a web page yet because I am still grading the ant essays.  I am backed up with grading, but I hope to have them all done tonight.  Once those grades are in, I will enter a little last minute make-up work, and the 2nd MP grades will be done. 

January 15, 2010

Homework:
None

Today:
Daily Drill
We listened to and discussed "Key Item" by Isaac Asimov
The goal for the coming week is to show the students examples of what I want them to write for their sci-fi short story.

**The grades are up for the Unit 7 quiz

I am grading the ant essays.  I hope to get a lot of grading done on Monday.  Sections 3 and 6 have been graded.

Friday, January 15, 2010 (T6)
1. Does the underlined adjective tell which one, what kind, or how many?
Carlos exclaimed, “Look at that huge pumpkin!”
2. Circle the predicate in this sentence:
The whiskers on my kitten twitch when I rub its back.
3. Maggie clamed she was two busy too do her homework last night.
4. Mario Lee and Robert went to the steinhart aquarium to find out more about dolphins.

5. Which word is not spelled correctly?
inconsi derate uncomfo rtable prej udice prev eiw

January 14, 2010

Homework:
None

Today:
Quiz Unit 7
We watched a few appropriate clips from the new Star Trek movie.  I wanted to show the students that in sci-fi, the devices and technology may look like magic to us, but they are just the devices used in the story.  In Star Trek, people are beamed down to a planet.  That's just what they do.  However, we would know that it is a mode of transportation.  Also, there are doctors, but they just use amazing tools.

I am trying to set a purpose for writing science fiction.  I don't want students to write some silly story.  I want them to understand that science fiction stories are written to get us to look at our present life.  The stories ask us to imagine our future so we can live better today.  The first step I am going to have them do is figure out what needs to be commented on about life today.  I showed them the scene in Star Trek where Spock was learning.  We compared the way he learned to the way we learn today.  That future technology makes us rethink how we teach today.  Do we need reform?  Could some far out idea in a sci-fi movie inspire us to do better?  I say yes!  We need dreamers to give us ideas we have not thought of!

I suggested three themes we see in sci-fi stories:
1. Something is bad now that the sci-fi story shows will be worse if we don't act now: for example consumer spending ruins the planet in the Disney movie Wall-E.
2. Something is good now, but if we don't think about its implications, it will be bad: In the 40's, we were trying to harness the atom.  What resulted was the atomic bomb.  In Star Trek, there was a material called Red Matter which caused black holes.  I am sure at one time, scientists dreamed of making it, but did they think through the potential dangers of making it?
3. Something is bad now, but if we invent something, we can solve the problem: global warming is a problem.  Maybe sci-fi writers will suggest a solution and show us a world we can have in we work towards making the invention a reality.
(picture is from http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/star-trekkin/ which is taken from somewhere else I am sure)

January 13, 2010

Homework:
3,6,7- Flashcards
Quiz on unit 7

Today:
Daily Drill
Reviewed vocab
Students gave presentations on future devices

1. Explain a problem we have with the current device.
2. Explain the device and the technology behind it.
3. How does the device benefit society?


Wednesday, January 13, 2010 (M6)
1. Mr and Mrs Lee have traveled to europ asia and south america.
2. I cant weight to travel by myself.

3. Use context clues to figure out the meaning of mettle:
Climbing to the rock ledge will test his skills and his mettle.

4. Two synonyms for mistaken:

5. Fiction or nonfiction?
Unopened flower buds of the clove tree are used to dull the pain of a toothache, freshen breath, and flavor ham.

January 12, 2010

Homework:
Finish unit 7 vocab
Students should be ready to present their device tomorrow.  Sections 3,6,7 should hand in a worksheet.
Grade slips were given to students in class.  They did NOT have to be signed.


Today:
Daily Drill
Reviewed Completing the Sentence
Work time on future device

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 (W5)
1. After ive finished skateing I am going to the library four a new book to read.

2. Did you get a letter from youre pen pal

3. Which part of speech is the underlined word?
The flickering birthday candles stood at attention in the frosting drifts. (noun, verb, adjective, adverb)
4. Are reluctant and eager synonyms or antonyms?

5. What is the correct abbreviation for Michigan?
(MIC, MI, MN, MH)