Wed. Sept. 8^th:  Register with pen-pal website for snail mail pen-pal and begin to communicate with online penpal(s).  Please don’t take on more correspondents than you can realistically keep up with on a regular basis.  In addition to making some exciting new friends, our main purpose is to learn as much as possible about the rest of the world, and you should aim for long-term correspondences with a select number of people (preferably one or two.)  Think quality and not quantity!  Also, skim the BBC website as described above

Thursday Sept. 9^th  Go to the BBC website and skim world news.  Choose one topic for further enquiry, and take notes so that you can present it orally in a knowledgeable way tomorrow.  Please be prepared to speak to the group from memory without reading from your chosen article.  Also, please Google additional information online for supporting information to round out you talk.  Remember: even though the BBC is known for its impartiality, it is always a good idea to research multiple sources to insure that your information will be just that and not opinion.

Bring in notebook organized to sections required with dividers.

Grammar workbook  Lesson 1  pages 47-48 all

Due Thursday September 9, 2010

Lesson 2 pages 49-50 even

Due Friday

Ideas for Governor Crist’s essay contest.

Grammar workbook pages 51-52 all

Purchase a small sketch book min size 5X8 but no larger than 8.5X11 for next week September 14, 2010 Put name on it

Sketch a picture of one piece of fruit using cross hatching technique in pencil.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Due: Thursday September 9th,

Grammar  Workbook: Kinds of sentences exercise pages 47-48

Due Friday September 10th

Grammar Workbook pages Kinds of Sentences 49-50.

 Read and annotate Chapte 1 pages 1-4 in “An Intro to Reading and Writing” Pay close attention to the vocabulary

Review vocabulary from” The Ring of McAllister ” for quiz.

Wednesday Night’s Homework Due: Thursday, September 9th

Read and annotate Chapter 26 pages 1265-1362.

Assignment: Type  in MLA Format a no more than 500 word essay on: Recognizing Florida’s Hispanic Heritage: Past, Present and Future. You are to interview and describe a Hispanic-American whom you know who has devoted his or her life to the service of others. How has this person’s life strengthened his or her community and Florida as a state? Have ideas of people to interview to share for Friday.

Essay Final Copy Due  September 15

Thursday Nights’ Homework: Due Friday, September 10th

Review  pronouns

Prepare ideas to share about interview candidates.

HEADS UP TO SUCCESS: Quiz on terms of types of Genre, drama as literature terms, tragedy terms from reading Tuesday.Type out your notes that were taken in class and the vocabulary from the reading.

US Government:  Read Chapter 1 Section 1 pages 4-11

 Outline Do Assessment 1-3 Prepare for vocab. quiz on Wednesday.

Outlines will be checked.

Bring notebook or computer

US Government Due September 9th

Read Chapter 1 Section 2 pages 12-17 Section 2  Write out  Assessment 1-4

Prepare for Quiz on Thursday of vocabulary

Home work:

 American Government Due Friday September 10,2010

Read Chapter 1 Section 3 pages 18-25 Outline

 Scholars to write out answers to questions 2-4.

Be prepared for a vocab. quiz.

In your spare time, study something in Math for the final on Tuesday.  Look at problems

that give you trouble solving.

Social Studies.    Current Events article due.

Year End Math test will be Tuesday- June 1st