tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39983404377485463802024-03-04T20:54:55.066-08:00Smith English 9 10-11anneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00573450327737964454noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-74536415684743840272011-05-10T15:56:00.000-07:002011-05-10T15:56:01.863-07:00PLN 2Dear Mr. Warlick,<br />
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I found this article to be extremely fascinating and strange as well. The concept that a video game that requires no obvious language arts application has me confused. If the brain can increase it's knowledge of language arts through simple video games wouldn't more schools and even districts have these games as a part of the curriculum? and what science defends this theory because I have always heard, "video games kill brain cells!". So which is it, just curious?Eli S 2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/03775886902078334531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-31363393298576231132011-05-10T13:23:00.001-07:002011-05-10T13:23:09.219-07:00PLN 1Dear Mr. Warlick,<br />
I agree with your article "Are we wasting Children?", because I believe that some educators and maybe even administrators might encourage less fortunate students to drop out. Your article really opened my eyes to the seriousness of the number of dropouts in high school. If this many teenagers are dropping out how many college students will dropout too? What is the limit and when will we as a society stand up for a fair education without being put down by the teachers and staff? I hope that teachers and staff will realize that hurting the students hurts them because less students leads to the need for less teachers forcing the schools to lay off more highly qualified instructors.Eli S 2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/03775886902078334531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-30869295976044129802011-05-08T16:35:00.000-07:002011-05-08T16:35:32.951-07:00RyanL2010 April 29, 2011Today in Mrs. Smith's English we started off with the usual Tuesday grammar activity on the board. After Mrs. Smith went over an assignment that had to do with our book The Lord of the Flies. We picked groups, and together we made posters that were covered with all kinds of plots we had encountered from the book. On the poster we put pictures, and of course good old quotes that took us forever to find in the book. Our homework is to finish our Lord of the Flies soundtrack, and any make up work we have left.RyanL2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/15859358805202799794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-55450237175222348762011-05-08T12:47:00.000-07:002011-05-08T12:47:09.017-07:00PLN 5Dear Mr. Fisch,<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This video that you posted brought very strong emotions to me; it made me think of how I can change my lifestyle to help protect myself from melanoma, because from what I took from the video is how those people said that it is a young person disease and that it is one of the fastest spreading cancers. I think that every teenager should watch this so that they can stop it before it happens to them and possibly takes their life. After you posted this to your blog it made me change some of my lifestyles to protect my skin and to look for signs of melanoma on my skin. I fear that melanoma is going to take many lives if young people like me don’t take the small precautions to help protect ourselves. I think that after you posting this that someone will make this known to everyone and tell them the small precautions to help save themselves. Again I thank you for posting.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Btemple <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-7479889954141909092011-05-04T08:56:00.000-07:002011-05-04T08:56:35.790-07:00Scribe March 28 2011Today in Mrs. Smith's class we didn't do much. In class we did the daily grammar activity, and then moved on to our Lord of the Flies chapter quiz on chapters six and seven. After the quiz we spent the rest of the hour reading chapter eight. The homework we were assigned, and have been working on is The Lord of the Flies soundtrack assignment which is worth quite a bit of our grade. Remember to make up any of your work that you have not already turned in.RyanL2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/15859358805202799794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-84675238541381279212011-05-04T08:41:00.000-07:002011-05-04T08:41:36.473-07:00Scribe:Date-5/2/11<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Today we walked in with Mrs. Smith at the door saying hello. After the greeting, we got right into taking a quiz 3. Then we started reading Romeo and Juliet and finished the book. Homework tonight, is redo work such as quiz's, projects, or PLN redo's. </div>JoshL2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/14771571455539109372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-31441206170999463032011-05-03T17:44:00.000-07:002011-05-03T17:44:41.249-07:00SCRIBEToday, April 15, 2011 was a good day. It was a friday and everyone was excited to get out and enjoy the weekend! But before we could start the weekend we had to deal with first hour english. when we started we grabbed our grammar quizes and started on those. That took about 20 minutes at the maximum. After the grammar quiz we pulled out our Romeo and Juliet study guides and our books. But today was the day we did our Act 2 Prolouge. so for the remainder of class we did the prolouges and we have no homework, except some make up work if you have any.GabeP2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/10943223212949681671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-71403593295189383302011-04-30T10:50:00.000-07:002011-04-30T10:50:55.853-07:00RyanL2014Dear David Warlick,<br />
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I am a student and I have had some connections to your article. I think some school districts feel that they are wasting their resources on students, and that they would be better off without that student. What schools do not understand is that these students may not be smart or efficient, but they are at school to gain intelligence and efficiency. Most students who attend school start out all wanting to go to college and make a difference, but as the school year commences, some of these students are neglected and mistreated by parents, teachers, other students, and let's not forget the school system itself. These negative factors change the students minds, they no longer feel like they can make a difference, and they no longer feel the need to go to school anymore because they do not see the point. I feel that school districts do "waste" children, but they are not the only ones. Parents and other students also have an affect on the drop out rate f students.<br />
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From, Ryan LambRyanL2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/15859358805202799794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-29756821653070391942011-04-27T19:27:00.000-07:002011-04-27T19:27:06.651-07:00Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Nick Farmen<div style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Thanks to the ACT, we had a late start at school today and were given a few more hours to sleep at home. Students noisily entered the beautiful Mrs. Smith's class at 11:30, and Mrs. Smith told us the homework for tonight right away. <span style="background: yellow;">Tonight's homework is: PLN4, and any missing work that you have not turned in yet.</span> After discussing tonight's homework, Mrs. Smith showed the class the rest of the Act 3, Scene 5 Romeo and Juliet video. Act 3, Scene 5, is the scene where Juliet finds out that Romeo has killed Tybalt and is banished from Verona. Juliet and Romeo meet each other in Juliet's room during the night, but Romeo must leave for Mantua by daylight in order for people to not see him. After leaving, Juliet gets into a fight with her parents because Juliet's parents are trying to force her to marry Paris. Once Juliet is threatened by her father and told to go die by her mother, she converses with the Nurse who tells her that she should marry Paris. Juliet acts like she agrees, then goes to see the Friar. This is where the video ended, and where we then began to start into the 4th Act. While with the Friar, Juliet and he came up with a plan to fake her death, so that she can escape from marrying Paris and runaway with Romeo when he returns. We ended the reading near the end of Act 4, Scene 1, as a result of reduced class time. Tomorrow we will most likely finish this scene and another one or so, so not only should you be prepared to read, but also be ready for a quiz. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-7115573787380427792011-04-22T07:06:00.000-07:002011-04-22T07:06:33.560-07:00Friday April 22 2011 Connor BanksHello today is April 22, 2011 and it is Good Friday, which is a religious holiday if you didn’t know. We started off in Mrs. Smith’s class by her saying hello and us not responding as usual because it is too early. The homework for this weekend is to do all make-up work that you haven’t done or have to redo. This includes PLN’s 1, 2, 3 and maybe even 4 if you feel like getting ahead in your work. We then worked in our groups and recited our tableaux viviant performances over act 3 scene 1 in Romeo and Juliet. After that everyone did them in front of the class. Last, we ended the class by watching the scene we all recited which is the fight scene between Mercutio, Tybalt and Romeo. We then left class and went on with our day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-15897794936213378032011-04-19T17:40:00.000-07:002011-04-19T17:40:00.378-07:00Monday, April 18th, 2011 - Nick Farmen<div style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Today started differently, compared to most days in English class. This morning we were not greeted by the beautiful Mrs. Smith, but rather the substitute Mr. Rosenberg. Mr. Rosenberg greeted students at the door, and then started straight into the homework. You only had homework on Monday night if you needed to redo any missing work, or had forgotten to complete PLN's one and two. After talking about homework, students Monday all shared the lines from Friday that students were supposed to memorize and add some creative aspects to, in order to present Monday. Mr. Rosenberg seemed very pleased with the groups, and most of the class scored very well on their presentations. Once the presentations were completed, Mr. Rosenberg started into the reading of Romeo and Juliet. However, in the midst of reading, the bell rang loudly over the sound of the class reading Shakespeare. We ended the reading from Monday on page 74 in my book, but that may vary for the different styles of the book. Mr. Rosenberg told the class that we would attempt to read through Act 2, Scene 3 Tuesday, so if you are going to be absent tomorrow you need to read all of that carefully.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-10592951267912354792011-04-14T12:46:00.000-07:002011-04-14T12:46:51.606-07:00SCRIBE April-11-2011<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today was the day we have been dreading all weekend… MONDAY! We came into class and everyone sat down and practically fell asleep on the spot. Then all of a sudden Mrs. Smith broke the silence and got us started on our day. We started off with the usual grammar and naming the subjects of the two sentences of the board. After we finished that awful, but necissary, assignment we started reading our Romeo and Juliet scenes, act 1, Scene 2. That whole shindig lasted us the rest of the hour. Since we read the whole hour we did not have any homework in Mrs. Smith’s (personally my favorite class) wonderful 1<sup>st</sup> hour class.</span></div>GabeP2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/10943223212949681671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-20359545487913942122011-04-07T07:16:00.000-07:002011-04-07T07:16:20.031-07:00Scribe 4-7-11<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today we started off talking about our homework, which is we have to study for our grammar quiz and make up any thing that you have not done yet this week, you can find it on <a href="http://arapahoe.littletonpublicschools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=1923">Smiths webpage.</a> After that we diagramed our sentences, which are “those are the other childrens toys but yours are in your room” and “karl likes reading whenever a topic is technological”. We have a grammar quiz tomorrow, Smith also told us to make sure we study gerund’s which are in our grammar packet. After we diagramed our sentence Smith passed out Romeo and Juliet books, if you were not here you will need to see Smith to get one. After Smith handed out books Smith asked us questions relating to Romeo and Juliet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we watched a video about Romeo and Juliet for the rest of the class.</span></div>paulc2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/00702971260520973100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-6488500569152546722011-04-06T08:38:00.000-07:002011-04-06T08:38:48.184-07:00Scribe 4/6/11<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today we walking in to the room on the late start day and right away we did grammar which went by fast due to the fact all we had to do today was clauses on our two sentences which are “those are the other childrens toys but yours are in your room” and “karl likes reading whenever the topic is technological”. We do not have any homework tonight unless you have not presented your LOF soundtrack or the first pln. If you need older homework you can look on <a href="http://arapahoe.littletonpublicschools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=1923">Smiths webpage.</a></span></div>paulc2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/00702971260520973100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-7412371569078214082011-04-05T20:05:00.001-07:002011-04-05T20:05:38.029-07:00PLN 1<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Dear Mr. Richardson, my name is Riley D. I am a freshman at Arapahoe High school. I am extremely impressed with your speech, and I completely agree with it. I believe that the learners and the students of this era are not using their skills of learning and performing to their full potential. This is due to the fact of how teachers and schools are cheating education in such a way for a beneficial salary. If we can teach these students correctly, and let them explore their imagination, these kids will sprout wings and fly. We will definitely see a more successful, fulfilled future ahead of us. I agree with the aspect of focusing on a different education with all of this new technology and budget cuts, instead of focusing on what is better. The best does not always fall on top.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thank you for your inspiration,</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Riley D.</span></div>RileyC2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/02074644130698812011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-46986409092719382672011-04-05T07:10:00.000-07:002011-04-05T07:10:09.294-07:00SCRIBE 4-4-11<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today was a beautiful Monday in our favorite teacher, Mrs. Smith’s class. :) We started off with the usually grammar in the morning, and then it all went wrong… She asked us for our soundtrack assignment for the book LOF, but only two people had theirs done, Justin and Riley. Mrs. Smith did not find this very funny at all (like Jack and K.J did) and she lectured us about our laziness and work ethic for a good five minutes. So for the rest of class we listened to Justin’s and Riley’s, might I add, amazing project for the rest of the class which was nearly half an hour. Once class ended our only homework was to TURN IN THE SOUNDTRACK ASSIGNMENT! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though Mrs. Smith was severely mad and disappointed, we still love her.</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></div>GabeP2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/10943223212949681671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-89209392454915479092011-04-05T07:05:00.000-07:002011-04-05T07:05:30.275-07:00Scribe 4/5/2011<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Today when the bell rang we started with grammar, the sentences for this week are, those are the other children’s toys but yours are in your room and karl likes reading whenever a topic is technological. After that we spent the rest of the period doing our LOF soundtrack presentations. Also the homework for today is to post our first PLN of this semester, we will have one a week and they will also be worth a lot more points than they were last semester. For any homework you have missing or absent you can go to <a href="http://arapahoe.littletonpublicschools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=1923">Smiths web page.</a></span>paulc2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/00702971260520973100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-80284619866377016102011-03-30T17:47:00.000-07:002011-03-30T17:47:05.148-07:00Scribe 3-18-11Today we walked into the classroom and the music was playing. The class then proceed to greet Mrs. Smith. The class then turned in the grammar worksheet and proceed to take the grammar quiz alone. Then we discussed chapters 1-5 in Lord of the Flies. We continued discussing until the bell rung. Our homework over spring break was the sound track assignment and our make-up work. Today was rather slow.MarcoZ2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/15903308175789062841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-20275848468723414202011-03-30T17:42:00.000-07:002011-03-30T17:42:26.148-07:00Scribe 3-17-11Today the class walked into the room with music playing and Mrs. Smith usual greeting. Then we went over our homework which was, the sound track assignment, reading, make-up work,our grammar quiz and worksheet and our 2 critical and interpretative think questions. We started our work with grammar, like always. We put punctuation in and made diagrams for both sentences. We also took a quiz over chapters 3-4 of LOF. You can make up any of the LOF Quizzes.We viewed images of war that were not to gory. Mrs. Smith asked if we had any questions on the Sound Track Assignment and nobody responded. We then proceed to read chapter 5 out of LOF and didn't get very far until the bell rung.MarcoZ2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/15903308175789062841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-71265111282690220732011-03-15T11:02:00.001-07:002011-03-15T11:02:52.864-07:00Scribe 3/15/11<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Today was a dreary day in Mrs. Smith’s class; we started out with grammar as usual, labeling the different phrases. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";">We then</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> worked with a partner t</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";">o</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> find facts about William Golding</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";">,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> the author of the book we are currently reading,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";"> </span><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lord of the Flies</span></u><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";">.</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";"> We</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> found facts that basically explain his take on humanity. Golding was in the Royal Navy during World War II, and believes that all men are evil</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";"> and savage</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, and society is the only thing that keeps man from killing each other. Golding also says when society is gone, man show</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";">s</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> who they really are, and this should be kept in mind while reading the book. Where there is a group of kids away from any society, our class came to the conclusion that the war was the inspiration for Golding’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nobel Prize winning novel. To have more insight on how war could do this to a person, Mrs. Smith shared a story about her dad while he was fighting Vietnam. What had happen </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";">to her dad changed his life for</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ever, and Golding’s life was definitely changed too </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";">as a result of war. Afterwards w</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">e watched a clip from the show <u>Band of Brothers</u> and that would be followed by questions</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";">, after we had nothing to say,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> and started off into space with our tired eyes, Mrs. Smith made us take a group qu</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";">iz on chapter one of</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <u>Lord of the Flies</u></span><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";">. </span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B";">We have a quiz on chapter two tomorrow. We also discussed our LOF soundtrack assignment, which can be a group project, and is to have at least six songs that capture the emotion and story of the book. Our songs should cover four different areas, critical events, character traits, themes/motifs, and symbols for information see the rubric that was handed out during class yesterday. Our homework is to read up to at least chapter three in Lord of the Flies, redo our “Change the World” paper, to thinking of songs for our soundtrack project for the book, and complete any late work. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kozuka Gothic Pro B"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>LouisH2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/05509766682392097381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-43733852948471432512011-03-15T06:56:00.000-07:002011-03-15T06:56:21.870-07:00Why did William Golding Write The "Lord of the Flies"William Golding wrote the book "Lord of the Flies" in the early years of the Cold War and the Atomic age. He wrote this book because he thinks that humans are natrually evil. He also wrote this book because he thinks that everyone is an evil savage and because the main theme is the conflicting impulses that individuals have towards civilization. He also wrote this book because he was in WW2 and it gives him ideas and themes of what to write about from the past.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-25912148299111574262011-03-14T20:28:00.001-07:002011-03-14T20:28:32.814-07:00March 14, 2011Today we walked into Smith’s classroom on a regular bell schedule after CSAP week. We sat down and wrote down our homework in our assignment notebooks which was read “Lord of the Flies”, chapters one and two and there will be a test on it tomorrow. We then did our grammar for Monday identifying parts of speech. The class then watched the last of the pop up poetry groups present which by the way were awesome. Then we finished off class by going over the “Lord of the Flies”, soundtrack project using six songs to describe critical events, character traits, themes and motifs, and symbols. You will also need quotes from the book so pay attention to them.Justin M 2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/07509487832185885292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-5835818311684064632011-03-14T06:00:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:00:32.665-07:00Who knows more about Golding?Today, we are going to learn about what made William Golding write Lord of the Flies. I want you and a partner to find as many relevant facts as you can about Golding's life and post both the facts and the source in the comment section. Make sure to find out about where he grew up, important experiences, and reasons behind his belief about the basic nature of man. Can you find out what he believes regarding humans?anneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00573450327737964454noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-14925998095358559992011-03-10T19:21:00.000-08:002011-03-10T19:21:04.907-08:00March 8 ScribeToday we came into Smith’s class after another day of CSAP. It was a long test but it is half way over. Once the bell rang and everyone was seated Smith told us to get out our day planners. In the planners everyone should have wrote read "Lord of the Flies" chapters 1 and 2 by Monday. We also should have written down finish the pop up poetry presentation for Friday. Include all the information on the rubric and remember to have your song on and Ipod. Bring the presentation on a flashdrive otherwise you will not be able to present. For the rest of class we just worked on the pop up poetry project.Justin M 2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/07509487832185885292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998340437748546380.post-77119332687591117492011-03-07T20:32:00.000-08:002011-03-07T20:32:16.351-08:00CSAP Week March 7, 2011When we walked into Smith’s classroom today we had already taken three hours of CSAP and we were all quite bored and tired from it. But the day carried on and we continued into our regular core classes. In Smith’s class we worked on our pop up poetry project. Be sure to include poetic devices, trivial tidbits, vocabulary terms, and poet information. When making the slide allow the poetic devices to pop up on the side and say what they pertain to. For homework in Smith’s get a copy of Lord of the Flies and work on your pop up poetry powerpoint. Rest and be prepared for another day of exciting CSAP tomorrow.Justin M 2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/07509487832185885292noreply@blogger.com0