Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Period 1 and 2
We discussed Chapter 9.4 - creating a graphic organizer for citizenship. We discussed how people become US citizens and the responsibilities that go along with citizenship. Our Social Studies quiz for Chapter 8 and 9 will be this coming Thursday. We worked in the computer lab on our expository essays - due tomorrow! Also, we were assigned words 11-20 on our TomSawyer vocab list; the quiz will be on Friday.

Period 3
We worked in the computer lab on our expository essays - due tomorrow! Also, we were assigned words 11-20 on our TomSawyer vocab list; the quiz will be on Friday.

Period 5 -6
We did a quick write to the prompt: "What do I do when I'm bored in school": we wrote as many details as we could in a 10 minutes writing period. Homework: Read TomSawyer Chapter 5 for tonight; complete page 295 #2 and #3 in Social Studies; finish the Expository Essay...you may turn it in either Wed. or Thursday...and study for the vocab test on Friday (words 11-20 this week!)
Expository essay demos will begin on Friday - we will assign dates tomorrow during class!