Welcome To All My Students, 9/6/11

I'm wishing you a successful and rigorous year of learning. Freshmen English and Fundamental classes can expect to set goals and measure their progress toward achieving them. Sophomores, you know how time flies and must seriously address your freshmen accomplishments and fortify the goals you set.

We reviewed classroom rules and procedures, and now you must have your papers signed. It is your first homework assignment. Here's to great beginnings !!!!!

Sophomore's reading OF MICE AND MEN

I've tried to simplify your research by placing a web address which will bring you to good, reliable information. Learn about the time period in which our novel was set.

http://msdadmin.scican.net/mhs/mhs_area_imc/webquests/Mice%20and%20Men/index.htm

To Kill A Mockingbird

You will need the websites listed in this blog to do your research for our novel. You will be assigned different sites to visit and report back to the class on.

In addition to the handouts, about the time period, we should also examine Remembering Jim Crow from the Edsitement approved History Matters website History Matters. Particularly good sections from this site include those entitled "Bitter Times," "Danger Violence and Exploitation," "Whites Remember Jim Crow," and "Jim Crow Laws." Each of these sections is a link that leads to vivid descriptions of the south during the time of Jim Crow. Each site makes use of audio clip interviews as well as slide shows featuring people who remember and experienced life in the South when segregation was the norm and the color barrier seemed insurmountable. Of especial interest is the link to "Jim Crow Laws" which lists and describes by state and topic (education, housing, entertainment, etc.) the ways in which blacks and whites were to be separated. When browsing this site, students should consider what the slide pictures and the audio clips tell them about life for African Americans under Jim Crow laws—what do they learn from looking at the slides and hearing the voices?

Both Remembering Jim Crow and We Shall Overcome will help students get a sense of the world Harper Lee describes in To Kill A Mockingbird.

Grammar site

Freshman,

Here's the source I promised you. Remember to study for Wednesday's test. Congratulation to those of you who came to the extra help session. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/powerpoint.htm

Freshmen Short Story Unit

I always get very excited about our short story unit because it has such variety, something for everyone. We've learned the structure and literary terms and now we we'll be reading, viewing and listening to short stories. The feature piece for today is "The Lady or The Tyger" by Richard Stockton. If you are not able to finish in class, go to the comprehensive short story site, www.classicshorts.com . Search it by title. Have fun.

Freshman, thanks! And here is the grammar study site.

Hello to my freshmen. We are now in the second half of the first quater. Please check your grades on homelogic to get an idea of how you are doing. Share that information with your parents and please thank them for attending "back to school night" if they were able.

As you know, your Power Point presentations are to be sent via an attachment to your email before Oct. 15th when we will down load them to my share drive. Keep reading and keep creating. I'm looking forward to your finished project.

Now for a website that we'll be looking at in class but that you will need to access regularly throughout the year to study. You may want to save it to "favorites" so that you don't have to keep going to the blog in order to get the address. We be looking at this site tomorrow in class. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ppt/parts.pps See you tomorrow !

Turnitin Directions

I will be handing out directions to the plagiarism website tomorrow during Media Center Orientation Also a reminder that summer reading and book selections are also due Monday.