Tuesday, August 12, 2014

• Today's writing prompt: Make sure you tell a story. Do not simply tell me what you see here. You should write for a minimum of 5 minutes.
• Next we wrote a "Letter to Myself" that we would read in 10 years at your 10 year reunion. Here are some more guidelines.
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  “Letter to Myself”
  
  You are to write a letter to yourself that would be opened 10 years from now at your high school reunion. Please write the best you can and consider grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. while composing the letter. The letter should include some of the following information. Also, feel free to add whatever you may think is relevant.
  
  ·        You could talk about your friends.
  
  ·        Explain what high school is like. Maybe tell yourself what you will miss or things you cannot wait to be done with.
  
  ·        Talk about your car/truck.
  
  ·        Write down your future goals and plans and explain how you plan to accomplish them.
  
  ·        Write about your high school accomplishments. 
•  Simply think about what you would want to tell or remind your 28 year old self about and write it down.

• This writing assignment is due at the beginning of class tomorrow, August 13th.
   

Monday, August 11, 2014

• We went over the class syllabus and class expectations today.
• We created a Google account on the iPads. If you do not have one you will need to create an account.
• We briefly looked at the tools available on Google including Google Docs, YouTube, Blogger, etc.
• Everyone sent me an email message to tsummers72@gmail.com to confirm that they had an account set up. Make sure you use complete sentences and proper grammar in your emails, NO TEXT TALK! This is for a grade.

Friday, August 8, 2014

• Checked for schedule issues.
• Checked for questions about  the class or anything else that had to do with school.
•  We did the following writing prompt so I can assess your current writing skills.

Write a narrative explaining what you did this summer. You could pick one major thing that happened or you could talk about the whole summer.

Organize it so that it reads like a story. Do not just start listing things that you did.

Make sure you think about structure, grammar, and word choice.

Be as descriptive as possible, use great adjectives.

 

Thursday August 7, 2014 

Welcome back to school!

• Today I introduced myself and showed a PowerPoint all about me.
• Students completed an index card to tell me about them. 
• I introduced the class including expectations, policies, and what to expect in the coming year. 

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

We discussed the differences between the TV movie j"The Lottery" and the short story.

Then we discussed and debated the execution that took place last night in Oklahoma and the death penalty. Remember we wrote a persuasive essay over whether or not the death penalty should be allowed two weeks ago.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

We finished watching "The Lottery". We will be discussing it tomorrow.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Today we began watching the 1996 TV version of "The Lottery".