Books needed:

I need big grey textbooks from the following students:
Allie
Jolly
Nuly
Catherine
Ken
Mambo
Sarah
Ponk
Samkit
Peace
YongWoon
Jung
May
Wanissa
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I need No Way Out from the following students:
Allie
Kyle
Jolly
Ponk
Matt
Samkit
YongWoon
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You may return these books at any time in the next week.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Absent:
Jung
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Nuly
Allie (nurse)
Samkit (late)
Rahul (late)

In-Class Activities:
1) Quiz on part 2 of A Thousand Splendid Suns
2) Oscar & Lucinda

Homework:
1) Finish part 3 of the book for Monday
2) Vocab test on Thursday, units 13 - 15

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Absent:
Sarah (late)
Catherine (late)
Samkit (late)
Matt (late)
Peace (late)
Rahul (late)
Mae (late)
Allie
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In-Class Activities:
1) Finish discussion questions on Thousand Splendid Suns, part 1
2) Short video clip from CNN on women in Afghanistan
3) Vocab - go over answers to unit 15
4) Vocab review questions
5) Begin Oscar & Lucinda (12:26)

Homework:
1) Vocab test units 13-15 next week
2) Reading for next Tuesday - finish part 2 & questions

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Late and in big trouble:
Allie (late)
Nuly (late)
Perada (late)
Ponkk (late)
Mae (late)
Wanissa (late)
Rahul (late)
Lily (late)

Absent:
Kyle (absent)

In Class Activities:
1) Quiz
2) Powerpoint on Afghanistan with background for novel
3) Questions on A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Homework:
1) Vocab unit 15 due Thursday
2) Read to p. 207 and do questions for next Tuesday
3) Vocab test units 13-15 on April 29

Reading questions for A Thousand Splendid Suns

Here are the questions for your reading (up to p. 111 or through the end of chapter 15) in A Thousand Splendid Suns.

The following is a tentative schedule of reading & tests for the remainder of the school year. This schedule takes the place of any other schedules that I have given you.

If you have an AP exam on a day that is listed as a test day below, please make arrangements to make up the test with me.

According to this schedule, you will have three more tests this year.

Reading Schedule for A Thousand Splendid Suns
Date - Page
Apr 20 - page 111
Apr 27 - page 207
May 4 - page 312
May 10 - end, test on book

Vocabulary Schedule
Date - Activity
Apr 22 - unit 15 due
Apr 29 - test on units 13 - 15 (tentative - I'm thinking of canceling this and just having the May 7 test)
May 7 - vocab 2nd semester test

Please check this website after Sunday night for reading questions for A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Absent:
Mambo
Allie (late)
Perada (late)
Nuly (late)
Ponk (late)
Ken (late)
Jung (late)

In-Class:
1) Return papers. Distribute grade sheets for research paper so far.
2) Movie about Afghanistan to prepare to read A Thousand Splendid Sons.

Homework:
1) Paper for Friday. Please turn in hard copy and to turnitin.com
2) Turn in all papers that have been returned to you with your paper. This means turn in everything that I have written on. Clip it all together or put it in a folder.
3) Here are some things you are still having problems with overall - Book titles in italics, putting the punctuation in the right place with parenthetical citations, verb tense, clear thesis statement, making sure ideas are relevant to thesis statement, general grammar issues
4) Read A Thousand Splendid Suns to page 111 for first day back of class.
5) Please check back early next week. I will post the dates for the entire book and some study questions.

Monday, April 5, 2010

I did not hand back rough drafts today because I couldn't find eight hours this weekend to read them all. We will go over them in class. I will give you the self-evaluation paper in class also.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Absent:
Nuly (late)
Sarah (late)
Jung (late)

In-Class Activity:
1) Vocab quiz unit 14
2) Distribute A Thousand Splendid Suns

Homework:
1) Work on final draft. I'll try to return your rough drafts on Monday.
2) Check website on Sunday or Monday for a self-evaluation paper.
3) Final draft due next Friday. Please see me or email me with any questions.

Congrats, Matt!!!

Way to go, Matt! First rough draft submitted for your class. Any words of advice for your classmates?