October 18, 2010

REMEMBER: Portfolio Conferences begin this week - Thursday, October 21, 2010. However, some teachers (myself included) are available to meet on the days leading up to Thursday.

THURSDAY and FRIDAY this week are HALF DAYS - please plan accordingly.

If you are not aware of your conferencing time, please ask your child if they have received a conference confirmation sheet (which they may have forgotten they have) or contact your child's advisory teacher to determine when and with whom you are meeting with.

Today in class I returned vocabulary quizzes from last week which we reviewed as a group. These quizzes will be part of students conference portfolios as well as this weeks Reading Response. Students continue to struggle with completing and returning these on a consistent basis, which is bringing down grades.

On Monday's I review student notebooks and Reading Responses and continue to show students who have been repeat offenders for missing Reading Responses how it is impacting their grades.

After reviewing the quiz we spent the remainder of our first period together organizing and stuff portfolios and then got started on our vocabulary for this week.

HOMEWORK
Students were given class time to look up and define the following words. Any words not defined in class our homework and must be completed by class tomorrow. We will be having a quiz on these words on Thursday (for 1/2nd periods) and on Friday for (6/7th and 8/9th).

Truss(ed) –

Beaker –

Recurring –

Ballistic –

Exasperate (d) –

Cowling –

Gravitate –

Fugitive –

Subterranean –

Commode –

Terse (ly) –

Interrogate –

Turbulence –

Inquire –

Rebuke –

Emblem –

Reconnaissance –

Salvage –

Dilapidated –

Derelict –

Anticipate –


We ended our day by reading Hoot. We will be trying to complete chapters 6-10 in class this week so that we can have a Hoot quiz at the end of the week as well.