3/19/2013

Hey guys heres what we did in class today!

• SSR
• LC discussion
• Source Integration Examples

During the new lesson Ortega gave us an example of source integration which is where we find a citation in the story we are reading for LC, you explain what the citation shows evidence of, and also the type of source. We were then given a couple of minutes to work with our group to find 5 more citations and told to find 2 on our own before next class.

ex.

Citation: According to the book Early History...mucus-secreting glad. (55) <-page number

Evidence of: Historical understanding of human body.

Type of source: Book

A tip that Ortega gave us was that the type of source was not always going to be clear or given and so you must figure out on your own.

Thats all! I hope everyone has a nice day!

3/18/2013

Hey everyone, I hope we all had a good weekend. Here's what we did in class today.

• SSR  (20 minutes)
• LC discussion   
• Share Out  (Formal/ Informal passage) 
• LC Discussion prep 7 (have it done by next discussion)

3/7/13

Sup guys! Sorry for the lateness, but today in class we started of with SSR. Right after that we went to the presentations on our Literature Discussion books. We had to present things in our book that related to Ethos, Pathos, Logos, and how the book caught our interest. Not every group went but the ones that did, did a great job.

Homework:

• Read LC book

3/5/13

Hey guys! Today in class we had a substitute were we had an easy day. We started of with SSR, then the sub checked if we brought our peer review and literal analysis, after for the rest of the block we workde on our LA. The sub also said that our LA is going to be due tomorrow and that we will be having our Literal Discussion on Thursday.

Homework:

• LA is due tomorrow
• Read book for Thursday 

3/04/13

What's up guys! Well today was not a hard day at all. We started of with the usual SSR, discussed our Reading Calender with our Literature Discussion group, and had our first Literature Discussion. In our first LC we had to do a poster that must include: how our book caught our attention, Ethos, Pathos, Logos, and which one was included the most in the book so far. We also had to include some kind of symbols and a quote for each one. We will be presenting them next time we see Ortega.

Homework:

• Bring LA essay to work on tomorrow
• Keep reading your book
• Also Ortega may be checking notebooks

2-28-13

Hey ya'll! So today was an introduction to Non Fiction books. Class started off with SSR for 20 min followed by Mrs. Ortega checking the original literary analysis paper and the revised one. After that, she introduced several Non fiction book to us. The remainder of the block was dedicated into getting new literature circle groups. It was also mentioned that this will be our last literature circle for the year because after spring break, all of English will be devoted to our i-Search papers.

HW:

• Complete a peer review by Sunday on turnitin.
• Read 10% of your literature circle book and be ready for discussion on Monday.
• Have your notebooks ready for a surprise notebook check.

2-26-13

Hey guys! So today was pretty packed with reading. Today we did the normal 20 minutes of SSR, then swapped our typed Literary Analysis papers for peer reviews. Mrs. Ortega taught us how to review the papers and what to do on them exactly. At the end of the class, we received our mid February progress reports.

Hw due 2-28-13

• Printed copy of your Literary Analysis papers with the revisions you received from today made. Make sure that on your new copy it is clear what you added and what you took out of your previous paper. 
• Have your Notebooks ready for a notebook check. This is "surprise notebook check" week and with Thursday as the only day left for English in the week, it is likely that they will be checked on Thursday. 

2-20-2013

Sup guys

Well today we started with SSR. Then we did our timed writing and that's about it.

• Don't forget to update your journals and get ready for them to be checked soon
• Bring your lit circle book every time we have ortega

2-19-3013

Hello guys!
So today we started with SSR as usual. Then we talked about the Literary analysis Rubric paper Ms. Ortega handed out and began our last Lit circle.

• timed writing tomorrow
• Get notebook ready to be checked tomorrow

1/23/13

Hola cholas!
Today we started off with the ever so present SSR. Then we went into our new assignment, Save the Last Word. (See Mrs. Ortega for the handout) we answered questions from the passage that Mrs. Ortega asked but we didn't write the answers down. Then, for our warm up, we asked our group members what we would make our favorite person if they came to our house. We finished off the day with the LC discussion.
Homework

• Read and LC disc 6
• Keep up your journal
• Don't forget to be awesome!

1/22/13

Ello Gov'nah! Top of the morning to you!

I hope that you aren't too groggy from the three day weekend, but if you are then you better get a good night of sleep tonight.

We started off the day with a SSR as usual, but then we went into a new assignment. Our new assignment is titled "Follow Up Questions."
This assignment was all about how to make good follow-up questions after your "good question."
The assignment table looks like this:

Split the paper into four quadrants (the top two are for the examples that Mrs. Ortega gave us.)
Name the left column as Questions and the right column as Follow-ups. Sorry that the picture came out backwards.
After this, we proceeded to have Literature Circle Discussions.

Homework:

• Read your book
• Lit Circle Prep 5
• Be Awesome and come to talent show!
• seriously, support your fellow North Housians.

1/17/13

Today was a fairly simple day!

We  Had
- SSR
- went over what questions would help the group disc move on
- We had a membership grid to see if we had a Yacht, what would we name it?
-  And last we had the group disc about the assigned pages

Remember there is no school Monday!  Read the next set of pages for the LC Disc and it has to be 5-7 questions, and last don't forget about the rubric and essaying grading.

That's all, have a great day!

1/15/13

Today was in to the CSU EPT, English placement Test

we  had
-  SSR
- Got back our Exit Interviews
- Started with the EPT, Info, Rubric, Samples
- and well use the rubric to grade the samples giving (3 reasons why)

next class be sure that you have you book read to the assigned page!
Have a great day!

1/14/13

Okay North House to day was a simple day we

- Had SSR
-Watched the Olympics opening
- Continued the contract and had all team members sign it
-  Set up a reading schedule 
- And of course on a Monday we had the LD Circle

For homework be sure to read up to the next assigned pages for the Lit Circle Books for Thursday! 
Have a Great Day!

Monday 1/07/13

Hello North house and welcome to the New Year at I-Poly High School!

So today in Ortega's classroom we did SSR in the beginning of class, as usual.

Once that was out of the way, Ortega wasted no time in giving us brief summaries on all three of the books we could choose from in our new Literature Circles. Here were our three choices:

-Catcher in the Rye
-The Other Wes Moore
-The Glass Castle

The Other Wes Moore and The Glass Castle were both memoirs of parts of the author's lives and the Catcher in the Rye was a story about a boy that drops out of school and spends a few days in NYC. Once the books and literature circles were assigned, we began to create our reading schedule with our literature circle groups.

Well, that's it for today! Good Luck with the rest of the week my senioritus buddies!


~Audri