Monday January 5, 2015

Honors 9- Today we discussed the available To Kill a Mockingbird texts. Students then worked on the vocab words for this week. Vocab for the next few weeks will be taken directly from TKaM. Here are the words for this week:

•Piety

•Brethren

•Dictum

•Chattels

•Taciturn

•Tyrannical

•Vapid

•Predilection

•Domiciled

•Entailment 

English 10- Today we reviewed class expectations and prepared for quarter 3. Please note that there is now a participation portion for all students grades. Here is the information: 

For this semester, I will be giving a participation grade that will amount to 25% of your grade. It will be based on the following factors:

-Willingness to participate

-Focus during individual work

-Focus and participation during group work

-Turning work in on time

-Being disruptive, socializing etc.

-Notebooks

-Issues with cellphones, tech etc.

I will be constantly and consistently monitoring and making notes on these things and evaluating your participation. Everyone has bad days, but if you are a constant nuisance in any of these areas, it will dramatically impact your grade.

 Please bring your notebooks tomorrow so I can check them off.