Fantastic Friday!

Hello wonderful English students!

Registration: Xavier, Yohali, and Denise-go to your counselors at 1140!!!

Here is today's agenda:

1. Warm Up: poetry journal!

In your REGULAR notebooks, respond to the following quotes:

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." -Robert Frost-

What do you think this means? What do you think about poetry

"Rap is poetry." -Jay Z-

Agree or disagree? How is rap poetry?

2. Chart poetry pros and cons!

3. Poetry Anticipation Guide

HW: have a great weekend!!



THE  CHALLENGE:

Ms. Sewell has a challenge for the students of fifth period: if there are NO D's or F's at progress reports and we will have a celebration!!

Options include:

-Movie day
-Doughnut Party
-Pizza Party

SO KEEP WORKING HARD AND LET'S SEE IF WE CAN MEET THE CHALLENGE!!

Thursday!

Hello wonderful English 1 students!

Here is today's agenda:

1. Warm Up: OH #5
2. Figurative Language Quiz (take your time and do your BEST!)
3. Correct the Quiz

HW: Make a list of what YOU think are the pros and cons of poetry (the things you like and don't like about it). List FIVE pros and FIVE cons.

DUE TOMORROW! (just hand-write it on binder paper).

Tuesday!

Hi there! Hope you are all having a wonderful day, lets get started!

HAVE YOUR HW ON YOUR DESK SO WE CAN GRADE IT!

Remember: preposition poem presentations are next week
                      A-L: 2/5/15      M-Z: 2/6/15

Today's Agenda:

1. Correct HW and Warm up: OH #2
2. Figurative Language Practice  (contd)
3. Figurative Language Posters

REMEMBER: Figurative Language Quiz on THURSDAY!!

SEE ME AFTER CLASS:

XAVIER
ALEXIS

MONDAY!

Good afternoon/morning all! Hope you had a great weekend!

We will be officially kicking off our poetry unit FRIDAY!

And...since figurative language is going well, the QUIZ has been moved to THURSDAY!!!

Here is today's agenda:

1.Collect HW and peer grade, submit
2. Complete Prepositions, Lesson 72
3. Figurative Language Practice Overhead

HW: Figurative Language Worksheet, DUE TUESDAY

FRIDAY!!

Good morning and happy Friday!! Please come in and get your notebooks.

Here is what we have going today:

1. Warm Up: Grammar OH #2 (TAKE OUT YOUR FLASHCARD HW)
2. Preposition Poems

If your last name is A-L, you will recite your poem 2/5

If your last name is M-Z, you will recite your poem 2/6

Write it down, I will send you reminders when the time comes!

3. Figurative Language Practice

HW: Lesson 71 Worksheet, DUE MONDAY

Thursday!

Good afternoon! I was happy to receive a good sub report yesterday :)

Here is the plan for today:

1. Warm up: Figurative language

Prompt: what do you know/remember about figurative language from junior high school? Write down everything that comes to mind. What is the purpose of figurative language? (5 minutes)

2. Figurative Language Prezi and notes

HW: Make FIVE flashcards of the FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE terms we covered today. You will need these for your quiz NEXT FRIDAY!!!

DUE: Friday

Tuesday!

Good morning! I hope you all had a fantastic three day weekend!

Out of respect for the grieving process, DO NOT talk to Ms. Sewell about the GB Packers, it hurts too much :(

Here is what we have going today:

1. Discuss Survey Responses
2. Finish Preposition Notes
3. Prepositions practice #1

HW: Complete the Remind App sign up by Friday (unless you are one of my individuals who already informed me of their technology situation). 

Friday!

We survived our first three days back- whew! ;) 

Remember, today is a special schedule so be in your seat and ready to go when the bell rings!

Here is what we have going today:

1. Please turn in your survey HW before the bell!
2. Remind App set up
3. Grammar Notebooks
4. Prepositions Notes (time?)

HW: None (don't get used to it) Have a great three day weekend!

Remind App Instructions:

1. Take out your phone
2. Send a text to 81010
3. In the message box type: @6d1e21
4. Hit send!
5. Bam! Good to go!

Thursday!

Good afternoon! 

Today's Agenda:

-Continue the CFA 2 Pretest

Reminder: Survey HW due tomorrow!

Welcome Back!!

Welcome students! I hope you all had a wonderful break and I look forward to this semester with you all!

Here is what we have going today:

1. Welcome
2. Mini-Presentation
3. New seating chart
4. Start CFA #2 Pre-test

HW: Please complete the short survey (located in Course Documents). Print it out and return it by Friday!! If you have printer issues, see me after class.