Mr. Hine's BLOG

Weekly Sight Word list 34 quizzed Thursday.

Honors:  Quiz on the plot of Macbeth focusing on the sleepwalking scene.  There is also a Chapter 6 journal entry due Wednesday.Jacob Have I Loved ch 6 click to print.

Standard:  Test on Sadlier-Oxford Unit 7 words. Click on this link.  You have to spell and use each word correctly.

Enj0y your three-day weekend and thank you to all the students who are marching in the parade.

Weekly Sight Word list 34 for Friday – short week.

Over the long weekend, work on your Book project due June 15 2011

Weekly Sight Word list 33 quizzed tomorrow, Friday.

Celebrate spring!

Book report June 15

Honors:  Jake chapters 4-5 study guides for Friday. 

Start learning your Macbeth role for Thurs. June 2.  Time to get crazy!

Lady Macbeth

Period 5:  Hunger Games Chapter 10- Hunger Games ch 11.  Check out the movie website.

Period 2, 8:  Study guide for The Giver ch11-12

Weekly Sight Word list 33 due Friday.

Honors:  Finish Jake chs 4-5 for Friday.  Jake chapters 4-5 study guides.

Periods 2, 8:  The Giver ch 9-10 with literature circle roles.

Literature Circle roles — You have only one assigned role.  Prepare well to take your part of the class.  Print these as you need them:

Questioner

Summarizer

Connector

Literature Lover

Period 5:  Hunger Games ch7-9 with literature circle roles.  See above.

Weekly Sight Word list 33 for Friday.

Literature Circle roles — Print these as you need them:

Questioner

Summarizer

Connector

Literature Lover

Standard:  Finish Sadlier-Oxford Unit 7 for Wednesday.

Honors:  Jacob chapters 1-2 with study guides.Jacob ch 1 and Jacob ch 2.  Click on Katherine Paterson’s web site.

Weekly Sight Word list 33 for Friday.

Honors periods 1 and 7:  Jacob study guide for chapter 1 and chapter 2.

Period 5:  Hunger Games study guide for chapters 4-6

Periods 2 and 8:  the Giver study guide for chapters 5-8

Correct every red pen mistake on your Create-a-Myth.  Cross them out as you correct.  I will need to see all drafts on Monday.  If you do not fix every error, or leave your d. 3 at home, you will drop a grade.  Honors print three copies; standard print two.  Spell-check again before printing.

Common correction symbols used:

• R/S (run-on sentence)
• K (awkward structure – rewrite)
• W/C (weak word choice)
• sp (spelling)
• T (tense shift)
• SUM (writer is summarizing, telling)
• P (start a new paragraph)
• letter double underlines (changed upper/lower case)

Weekly Sight Word list 32 quizzes Friday.

Standard:  Finish adjective/adverb packets. Plus The Giver chs 1-4 (period 2, The Giver ch1-4doc.  Period 5 finish The Hunger Games with study guide for Hunger Games ch 1-3

Honors:  Work on upcoming book report.

Standard - Finish adjective/adverb packet.  You have all day in class and Wednesday evening.  It’s long.

Honors - If I’m back on Thursday, we’ll correct the Sadlier Oxford Unit 7.  Having neck problems, so not sure.  Work on Jacob in class with the books you have.  I ordered more awhile ago and they should be in.  I gave the sub the worksheet for Jacob ch. 4 but all the copiers are broken.  You might have to have it transcribed on the board and do it from there.

Miss everybody.  Take care of Veronica and the dolphin.

Mr. Hine

Sight word and spelling quizzes Friday.

Honors:  Sadlier-Oxford Unit 6 for tomorrow.

Students are reading their novels in class today.  I am out with a neck strain because of which I didn’t get any sleep last night.  You don’t want me to get ugly, now, so I went back to bed.