E9+-+February+1+-+5

=Monday, February 1= = = =Tuesday, February 2= = = =Wednesday, February 3= = = =Thursday, February 4= = = =Friday, February 5=
 * ===grammar warm-up:===
 * ===there, their, they're!===
 * ===pink sheet===
 * ===turn in!===
 * ===Is your essay in?===
 * ===Last day to work on it in class===
 * ===look at one example of a good essay===
 * ===Get essays back===
 * ===return them today or by Wednesday===
 * ===to be filed - or make arrangements with me===
 * ===they get filed with all of your essays===
 * How about your Maus notebook?
 * ===Look at table of contents===
 * ===Have you got it all?===
 * ===fill in blanks===
 * Turn in Maus notebook!
 * This is worth lots and lots and lots of points!
 * ===Homelessness in Oregon===
 * ===What do you think?===
 * ===Is it different when kids are homeless?===
 * Homelessness assignment
 * answer all four questions and turn in
 * ===Tomorrow: Bring your ID to check out //The Glass Castle//===
 * vocab warm-up:
 * 1) parched, adj. – thirsty, dried out
 * 2) ruddy, adj. – reddish, usually about skin
 * 3) elements, n. – basic building blocks; the outdoor environment
 * 4) atomizer, n. – something that sprays liquid into a mist, usually perfume
 * ===Poster on families===
 * ===Point of view writing===
 * ===Vocab warm-up:===
 * ===5. retrospective, n. and adj. – a backwards look at something, usually a life or a body of work.===
 * ===6. convulsions – n. – muscular responses to brain seizures===
 * ===7. triumphant, adj. – celebrating victory, sense of winning===
 * ===8. essential – adj. – about the basic core of something, indispensible===
 * ===Check out Glass Castle===
 * Get GC reading schedule
 * reading assignments start tomorrow
 * but you might want to get a head start
 * reading schedule is also in the class notes online
 * ===Story time - Ms. B reads the first section===
 * ===what do we know now?===
 * ===Finish Point of View writing===
 * ===Start reading the book===
 * ===Start reading the book===
 * ===vocab warm-up:===
 * ===9. desolate, adj. – separate from other things, lonely; without inhabitants===
 * ===10. rendition, n. – a version of something, often a song or a story.===
 * ===11. shiftless, adj. – good-for-nothing, having no valuable abilities or resources.===
 * ===12. arroyo, n. – a gully cut by a stream; a dry streambed.===
 * ===reading schedules===
 * ===Time to finish Point of View Fairy Tale writing===
 * Study questions for first two nights of Glass Castle reading
 * pp. 9 - 38
 * ===Work on study questions===
 * ===Have you turned in your Maus notebook?===
 * Have you turned in your Maus essay?
 * ===If not, come see me!===
 * ===Have you turned in your Poverty in Oregon questions?===
 * =vocab warm-up:=
 * =13. saguaro, n. – a big cactus, characteristic of the southwest U.S.=
 * =14. prospector, n. – a miner, a person searching for minerals=
 * =15. immunize, v. – to make immune, to render impervious to something=
 * =16. topple, v. – to totter and fall; to push over=
 * =Check your reading schedule=
 * =tonight's reading is up through page 38=
 * =Reading quiz on Tuesday=
 * =It will be open note=
 * =It will be closed book!=
 * =Time to read and work on study questions=