Final day to practice

Tomorrow will be your last opportunity to practice your presentation in front of an audience and receive feedback. Your final exam is on Thursday and we will present in front of the school on Friday. Make sure that you are ready to practice tomorrow morning.

Finals Week!

This is the last week of the quarter! For some of you, there is a lot to do to complete your presentation and prepare to give it in front of the whole school. We have a final exam on Thursday. That means that you have tomorrow and Wednesday to prepare your presentation. Remember, I will help you with any question that you have, you just have to ask me.

Also, remember that you should continue to write in your blogs this week. I look forward to reading about your experiences during finals week.

Good luck!

Happy Eid al Adha!

Enjoy your day off tomorrow! Be safe and come back to school on Friday, ready to practice your presentations.

I found out when Eid al Adha is by going to this website.

FINAL ESSAY DUE TOMORROW!

For tomorrow, you have to have an essay turned in. If you do not have a final draft of an essay turned in, I will take off 10% per day that it is late. We have to move on to the Prezis. Please click on the link to set up an account if you do not have one yet. Please come to class with your complete essay, ready to start making a prezi. If you do not complete the essay, you cannot present with the class.

Thursday: 17September2015

Today we reviewed our outlines, and worked on rough drafts for the final essay. Rough Drafts are Due Tomorrow before 8:00 am. Final drafts will be due before 8:00 am on Monday, September 21st.

Read:

http://spokanehistorical.org/items/show/565?tour=19&index=5

Essay Outline

You must have your outline completed by tomorrow morning at 8 am. Come to class tomorrow prepared to write a rough draft of your essay. As you know, when you have completed an outline, making a rough draft is a lot easier than making a rough draft without an outline.

For your outline:

 - make sure that you have 1 - 2 sentences for each point that says Support 1 or Support 2. Support 1 is your topic sentence for the paragraph and Support 2 is a second idea or statement that reinforces Support 1.

- make sure that you have 1 - 2 sentences for each point that says Details. This is where you use quotations or information from your sources.

- make sure that you have 2-4 sentences for each point that says Analysis. This is where you discuss why your quotations or information are important to the Support sentence that you wrote previously.  

At this point, the Introduction and the Summary aren't critical. If you come up with something before tomorrow, good. If not, don't worry about it, we'll work on it together in class.

Also, read this article:
https://blog.bufferapp.com/6-of-the-most-important-aspects-of-successful-writing

Homework

Now that you have completed some research, you should begin to put that information into an order resembling your essay structure. For those of you who were here today, you have a strong understanding of what I mean.

Please, watch this video.

Here are some tips on presentation skills.

You might want to take notes on this.

Study Tips

This video is full of great information for you. Watch it, learn it, know it.

It's Friday!

Happy Friday, everyone. Hopefully, you enjoyed the week as much as I did. On Monday we are going to start on our Final Essay / Presentation project. Over the weekend, I want you to think about your major and what people are doing today who have the same degree that you want to get. I will help you choose a topic and we will begin writing Monday.

Homework: Read the following article and be prepared to journal about it on Monday. http://www.iflscience.com/environment/el-ni-o-what-it-will-bring-year-and-how-it-could-change-global-warming

Homework for Thursday 09/10/2015

For homework, please read the following article and be prepared to journal about it in the morning.  http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/newly-discovered-human-ancestor-likely-ritualistically-disposed-its-dead

Also, please complete exercise #5 and exercise #2 for homework. We will have a quiz tomorrow covering the topic of Deforestation.

For Thursday, 9/10/15

For homework, please take this very short survey and be prepared to write about your results tomorrow in your journal.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/18/this-easy-test-will-tell-you-what-career-you-should-choose-based-on-your-skills/


Also, I want you to finish your essay about where you see yourself in 10 years.

Tuesday, September 8th

We have a short week this week, which is cool. For homework, please read the following article, and be prepared to journal about it tomorrow. 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/30/436125678/obama-renaming-continents-highest-peak-from-mt-mckinley-to-denali


Tomorrow, we are going to start our discussion about topics for our final essays and presentations. We are getting close to the end of the quarter!

Homework for Wednesday Night

HW: Read pages 31-50 of The Old Man and The Sea and answer the questions on the worksheets that I have emailed to you.

First Day of September!

Today: We covered some of the main themes and ideas of The Old Man and The Sea. Remember, we are going to focus on the relationships between Santiago and Manolin and between Santiago and the fish.

As you read, write notes for each relationship when you read some words that strongly discuss each relationship.

Homework: Read pages 11-30 for tomorrow, complete all of the questions on the worksheet for pages 1-24 and answer as many as you can on the other document. 

https://drive.google.com/a/usa-english.com/file/d/0B8xlAVmXr2uLbXJWRWstZ1hndE0/edit

AUDIO BOOK