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