Leopard Man

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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

                                                                   John F. Kennedy

1.  Independent Reading -  Please begin at the bell 

NOTE: Please refer to my blog if you are absent from school.  Turn in any missed assignments promptly when you return.  Please use abaltrushes@sandi.net for correspondence.  Speaking to me in person is better.   

2. Expository Reading & Writing Course Unit:  You have received a packet for this unit of study.  It is several pages long so please keep track of it.  Put it in your notebook.  You will be making written response to the activities.  For that purpose, I have distributed a handout for your activity responses. Yesterday, you responded to the painting "The Wanderer."  Before we read the text "Leopard Man," we will complete Activity #1, #2, and #3.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Leopard Man

Good Morning!

1.  Independent Reading -  Please begin at the bell 

NOTE: Please refer to my blog if you are absent from school.  Turn in any missed assignments promptly when you return.  Please use abaltrushes@sandi.net for correspondence.  Speaking to me in person is better.   

2.  Narrative quiz and paper return.  Please keep all papers in case I have made any error in recording.

3.  Expository Reading & Writing Course Unit:  You will receive a packet for this unit of study.  It is several pages long so please keep track of it.  Put it in your notebook.  You will be making written response to the activities.  For that purpose, I am distributing notebook paper which you will use. 

ACTIVITY #1: Before we begin with the Quickwrite in the packet, please respond in writing to the following painting.  Describe every you see as significant to help you interpret the painting. Interpret.


 HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Literacy Assessment

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 Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

LITERACY ASSESSMENT: Only a few of you finished this test yesterday because the netbooks were SO SLOW.  If you did not finish, please do so today.  If you have, please read your independent reading book or work on something else quietly.  Thank you for your patience!

Student Directions: 

1. Go to: illuminate
2. Login with your district username and password, the same one you use to login to the netbooks. 
3. You should see Pending Assessments on the right.
4. Choose Literacy Interim Assessment -Grade 10.
5. Read the directions carefully as you work through the assessment. 
6. Read your book or work on homework for another class when you finish. 

  HOMEWORK:  Independent reading

Literacy Assessment

Good Morning!

 Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

LITERACY ASSESSMENT: As I indicated to you on Monday and Tuesday, you are taking the district mandated literacy assessment test today.  It is not a timed test, so if you do not complete it today, you can finish it tomorrow. The following are the directions for you to follow once you log on to your netbook. Go to my blog and click on the provided link below.

Student Directions: 

1. Go to: illuminate
2. Login with your district username and password, the same one you use to login to the netbooks. 
3. You should see Pending Assessments on the right.
4. Choose Literacy Interim Assessment -Grade 10.
5. Read the directions carefully as you work through the assessment. 
6. Read your book or work on homework for another class when you finish. 

 

Narrative Test

Good Morning!

1.  Independent Reading -  Please begin at the bell 

NOTE: Please refer to my blog if you are absent from school.  Turn in any missed assignments promptly when you return.  Please use abaltrushes@sandi.net for correspondence.  Speaking to me in person is better.   

NOTE: Yesterday I collected the assignments on "The Window."

2.  Test on Narrative -- take a few moments to review the terms that you should have in your notebook.  I reviewed them with you yesterday.   When you are done with the test, please read your independent reading book.

3. NOTE -- Tomorrow you will be taking a mandated district literacy test.  It might take two days to complete.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

"The Window"

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1.  Independent Reading -  Please begin at the bell 

NOTE: Please refer to my blog if you are absent from school.  Turn in any missed assignments promptly when you return.  Please use abaltrushes@sandi.net for correspondence.  Speaking to me in person is better.   

NOTE: Yesterday I collected the assignments on "The Bracelet."

2.  "The Window" -- Explain how the setting contributes to the theme of the story.  What is the theme?  What is the irony?  Use the back of the handout for your responses.

3.  Review for test on narrative texts -- the test is tomorrow.

HOMEWORK:  Review terms for the test on Narrative.

"The Bracelet"

Good Morning!
I hope that you had a great weekend! 
". . . but the powerful and sensual genius who creates and nourishes the marvels of childhood, who gradually weakens, then dies mysteriously within us, did not even stir." 

1.  Independent Reading -  Please begin at the bell 

NOTE: Please refer to my blog if you are absent from school.  Turn in any missed assignments promptly when you return.  Please use abaltrushes@sandi.net for correspondence.  Speaking to me in person is better. 

2.  "The Bracelet"  -- This story was assigned to you on Friday and you completed the graphic organizer on the different elements of the story.  We will discuss this assignment, and then I will collect it. 

NOTE:  Test on Narrative Unit will be on Wednesday.  We will review the terms we have used as we read the stories and others that have not been mentioned frequently.  Study the list of terms that you have.

HOMEWORK: 1. Review the list of terms for narrative text
                         2. Independent Reading