Friday, March 22, 2013.
Periods 1 - 3
Synonyms (from Absolute Language handout) vocabulary quiz.
Write Essays over prompt given yesterday. Only those who brought completed drafts will receive a 100 for their effort. Everyone else needs to sit in class and write their compositions.
Periods 5 - 7
Vocabulary Quiz 22. Turn in essays.
Thursday, March 21, 2013.
Periods 1 - 3
1. Sentence Types: Lesson 2: Compound and Lesson 3: Complex sentences
2. Essay assignment: "Do We Have Real Progress or Is It Just An Illusion?"
PERSUASIVE ESSAY
“Do We Have Real Progress or Is It Just An Illusion?”
READ
A wise man once said, “There is no such thing as progress. There is only change and the illusion of progress.”
THINK:
Are we better off as a human race now than we were ten, twenty, thirty, one hundred years ago, or are we just living differently? Think in terms of life expectancy, the quality of life, health, disease, nutrition, time, quality of time spent with loved ones, and the overall lifestyles people live in this day and age.
WRITE:
Write an essay stating your position on whether man has had real progress or only change and the illusion of progress.
3. Study synonyms for Good, bad, important, and unimportant on Absolute Language handout.
Periods 5 - 7 1. STAAR Poetry Terms: Define and review alliteration, onomatopoeia, approximate rhyme, exact rhyme, and couplet. 2. Check Vocabulary Lesson 22: Identify words that can be used in essay writing. 3. Students turned in final drafts of "A Different Kind of Holocaust" (One day late). 4.. Begin on Rules for Commas and Semicolons: Use clause information reviewed yesterday to complete this handout for homework. 3.
