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!