4/11-15/11 - This week students finished and presented their movies of the classic stories they rewrote using SAT vocabulary words.
4/4-8/11 - This week students are rewriting classic stories, like The Three Little Pigs, using SAT vocabulary words. Students will produce a movie of their stories using Audacity and Windows Movie Maker.
3/23/11 - Students completed and graded the Ch. 22 Fighting Scientists drills #1 and 2.
3/22/11 - Students completed a crossword puzzle for Ch. 22 Fighting Scientists.
3/21/11 - Students wrote a short summary of Ch. 22 Fighting Scientists.
3/3/11 -3/4/11 - In honor of students' hardwork learning about the ACT science reasoning test, students watched a "science" movie.
2/28-3/2/11 - Students applied the strategies gleaned from ch. 20 to the three charts and graphs drills at the end of the chapter (pp. 331-333).
2/21-25/11 - Students worked independently on a video podcast about ch. 20. Video podcasts project is due 2/25/11.
2/14-18/11 - Students worked independently on a video podcast about ch. 20.
2/7-11/11 - Students worked in pairs to create Voki avatars to summarize an assigned section of Ch. 19. Voki avatars are due on 2/11/11.
1/31-2/4/11 - Students worked on SAT Vocabulary packets.
Friday 1/28/11
Students continued working on and submitted video projects.
Thursday 1/27/11
Students continued working on video project.
Wednesday 1/26/11
Students continued working on video project.
Tuesday 1/25/11
Students continued working on video project.
Monday 1/24/11
Students began a culminating activity today. Students were placed into teams to create informative videos about how to crack the ACT reading test. Videos must be submitted by Friday.
Friday 1/21/11
Students took a test on Ch. 17-Distracters and Ch. 18-The Four-Step System.
Thursday 1/20/11
Students continued working on and turned in the assignments from the syllabus given Monday.
Wednesday 1/19/11
Students continued working on the syllabus.
Tuesday 1/18/11
Today students were given the syllabus for the week with various assignments due by Thursday. The assignments cover the Four-Step Process strategy for the reading section of the ACT (ch. 18).
Monday 1/17/11
Holiday
Friday 1/14/11
Today students continued working on and turned in the assignments from the syllabus given Monday. Students also completed the Paraphrases worksheet.
Thursday 1/13/11
Today students continued working on the syllabus given Monday.
Wednesday 1/12/11
Today students continued working on the syllabus given Monday.
Tuesday 1/11/11
Today students continued working on the syllabus given Monday.
Monday 1/10/11
Today students were given the syllabus for the week with various assignments due by Friday. The assignments cover the various distracters for the reading section of the ACT (ch. 17).
Tuesday 12/21/10
Today students took the first semester exam.
Monday 12/20/10
Today students practiced ACT-style english and math questions.
Friday 12/17/10
Today students practiced ACT-style english and math questions.
Thursday 12/16/10
Today students practiced ACT-style english and math questions at http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/index.html.
Wednesday 12/15/10
Today students received their graded math packets and took Math Drill #2.
Tuesday 12/14/10
Today students continued the math skills packet begun Thursday.
Monday 12/13/10
Today students continued the math skills packet begun Thursday.
Friday 12/10/10
Today students continued the math skills packet begun yesterday.
Thursday 12/9/10
Today students began a math skills packet.
Wednesday 12/8/10
Today students completed the practice sheet on rational equations.
Tuesday 12/7/10
Today students began a math practice sheet on rational equations.
Monday 12/6/10
Today Ms. Sanders showed students how to solve the problems on the math drill given last week.
Friday 12/3/10
Today students practiced ACT-style math questions online.
Thursday 12/2/10
While some students completed the math drill given yesterday, others took ACT-style math practice quizzes online.
Wednesday 12/1/10
Today students took the math drill as a major assessment.
Tuesday 11/30/10
Today students scanned the math sections of the ACT booklet and indicated which topics they understood by placing a check mark next to it and the topics with which they had trouble by placing a question mark next to it. We then worked on those topics that were problem spots. Tomorrow is a major assessment on the math section.
Monday 11/29/10
Today students corrected their Homework Humdingers math assignment from 11/17.
Friday 11/19/10
Today students were allowed to work on their science project research papers. (Happy Thanksgiving!)
Thursday 11/18/10
Today students were allowed to work on their science project research papers which are due tomorrow in their science classes.
Wednesday 11/17/10
Today students completed the Homework Humdingers assignment. On this assignment, students had to conduct error analysis on math problems, and then use complete sentences to describe how to arrive at the correct answer.
Tuesday 11/16/10
Today students finished the math drill on page 116. Problems were worked out on the board and students were able to help each other figure out how to solve the difficult problems on the drill.
Monday 11/15/10
Today we began Part III in the ACT book: the math section. Students watched the math section of the ACT DVD before beginning the Basic Math drill on page 116.
Friday 11/12/10
Today we finished watching Over the Hedge.
Thursday 11/11/10 - No school
Wednesday 11/10/10
Today we discussed the answers to the ch. 7 test. Students did very well! We watched the first part of the movie, Over the Hedge, as a reward.
Tuesday 11/9/10
The students continued the chapter 8 assignment that was started yesterday.
Monday 11/8/10
Today we took a grammar and usage test (ch. 7). Then students took a rhetorical skills pretest and used chapter 8 in the ACT book to identify the following things about each question: rhetorical skill being tested, correct answer choice, and justification for each answer choice.
Friday 11/5/10
Today we discussed the grammar and usage packet (for ch. 7) that was turned in on 10/25. Students were allowed to make corrections for a re-grade.
Thursday 11/4/10
Students played each other's games and critiqued them. Funny stuff!
Wednesday 11/3/10
Game boards with typed rules and necessary game pieces were due today.
Tuesday 11/2/10
Today students resumed working on their board games.
Monday 11/1/10
Today students resumed working on their board games.
Friday 10/29/10
Today students resumed working on their board games.
Thursday 10/28/10
Today students resumed working on their board games.
Wednesday 10/27/10
Today students resumed working on their board games.
Tuesday 10/26/10
Today students were placed into teams to create board games for assigned grammar and usage topics.
Monday 10/25/10
Today we finished the grammar packet.
Friday 10/22/10
Today we continued working on the packet from yesterday.
Thursday 10/21/10
Today we received a grammar and usage packet (for ch. 7).
Wednesday 10/20/10
Today we took a sentence structure and punctuation drill (major assessment). Today was the last day for extra credit.
Tuesday 10/19/10
Today we prepared for tomorrow's sentence structure and punctuation major assessment. Extra credit was also offered today (same as yesterday).
Monday 10/18/10
Today we finished our practice packet on sentence structure and punctuation. Extra credit was also offered today.
Friday10/15/10
Today we practiced sentence structure and punctuation.
Thursday 10/14/10
Today we finished our ch. 6 notes and played an online punctuation game to help review the rules of sentence punctuation.
Wednesday 10/13/10
Today we took structured notes on ch. 6 using a foldable.
Tuesday 10/12/10
Today we discussed ch. 6 and, using an interactive activity, reviewed the four common sentence structure errors tested on the ACT.
Monday 10/11/10
Today we discussed ch. 5 and reviewed some basic parts of speech.
Friday 10/8/10
Student Holiday
Thursday 10/7/10
Today was an early release day, and we were finally able to hear the podcasts. What a treat! Students did a great job.
Wednesday 10/6/10
Today we didn't listen to our podcasts because several students were absent due to Trend Setters. Instead, we took the time to make up old assignments.
Tuesday 10/5/10
Today we finished our podcasts! Tommorow we listen!
Monday 10/4/10
Today we continued working on our podcasts. They are due tomorrow.
Friday 10/1/10
Today we continued working on our podcasts.
Thursday 9/30/10
Today we continued working on our podcasts.
Wednesday 9/29/10
Today we learned how to use Audacity, which is an audio recording program. We will use this program to record our podcasts.
Tuesday 9/28/10
Today small groups were assigned sections of part I (chapters 1-4) in the ACT textbook. Each group will create informative and creative podcasts of their assigned section.
Monday 9/27/10
Today we discussed the answers to Friday's video worksheet. Those who had not completed assignment #1 were allowed to do so today.
Friday 9/24/10
Today we watched the first 24 minutes of the "Cracking the ACT" DVD. We also completed a video worksheet.
Thursday 9/23/10
Today we created accounts on The Princeton Review website. We also completed assignment #1.
Wednesday 9/22/10
Today we tried creating accounts on The Princeton Review website. Unfortunately, most students experienced problems with the laptops, so we spent the period consulting with tech support. We'll try it again tomorrow.
Tuesday 9/21/10
Today we discussed the purpose of this course and what topics will be addressed. We also discussed classroom rules and procedures and completed a related crossword puzzle.
