Wednesday, Feb. 1--After School Update
Today we took the Unit 9 vocab quiz. Students received the all-important second-semester hall passes as well as a hand-out with procedure reminders/scheduling info. Information on it is not repeated here; be sure you've gotten, read it, and kept it. After the vocab quiz, we talked about the origins of the eight parts of speech as well as some anomalies that have resulted from applying grammatical analysis that worked for Greek to the very different structure of English.
Homework: Study pp. 1021-1022 and pp. 1038-1039 and use the information to correct your own answers to 1-30 of the diagnostic quiz. Due Thursday.

February 1,2006: New Month, New Semester
What we've done on the first two days of the new semester:

Monday--went over Unit 9 vocabulary, took a diagnostic grammar quiz (parts of speech; subjects and predicates), started filling out an error worksheet connecting the "20 Most Common Errors" with relevant sections in the Language Handbook part of your Elements text.
Homework Monday night: finish the sheet, including looking up the 20 errors online and checking exactly what each one means.

Tuesday--Overview of next few weeks leading up to the WASL dates for Writing and Reading: March 13-16. Received copies of _All Quiet on the Western Front_, and had about 30 minutes of reading time. (BTW, this blog format apparently lacks underlining. I will use a standard electronic alternative for texts which should actually be underlined. Please don't adopt this in your own written work!)
Homework: study for vocab unit 9 quiz

Reading Schedule for _All Quiet on the Western Front_:
Ch. 1-3 by Friday, 2/3
Ch. 4-6 by Thursday, 2/9
Ch. 7-9 by Friday, 2/17
Ch. 10-end by Thursday, 3/2