Lesson Learned

From the day we are born, we are constantly learning lessons from those around us. Sometimes these lessons are learned by seeing someone do something wrong, and learning we don't want to the do the same.

Sometimes, the lesson is learned from an adult telling us what we should/shouldn't be doing.

And sometimes the lesson is learned from watching someone in our lives do something right, or something positive, and when we witness the positive outcome, we learn a valuable lesson.

Whatever the case may be, we are always learning lessons in our lives.

Today, I want you to think of a time when you were taught a lesson of some sort. Tell about the situation and what you learned from it.

When you are finished, use the title of this post as your title and publish it.

February 26, 2010

If you were absent today, make sure you get the following taken care of:

1.) Print off test scores for the online practice test and turn them in to me. Make sure your name is on them.

2.) Complete the practice OER (Justine Gallagher: Childhood Obsession).

3.) Teenbiz (if you were absent or didn't complete your Teenbiz yesterday, this pertains to you)! Do only the Activity Questions.

a. Dressed-Up Junk Food
b. Stunt School: A Leap of Faith

February 24, 2010

AGENDA:

1.) If you aren't finished with your personal narrative writing in MyAccess, the final submission is due TODAY by the end of class.


2.) Today you will be taking a practice TAKS test online.

Before you begin, you should know:

-Use the answer sheet provided before you begin entering the answers online. If you do not finish in the class period, this will keep you from losing information. (If you are absent, the answer sheet will be in the makeup work box when you return).

-When you are ready to enter your answers online, you MUST put your name at the top of the page so it will print out on your answer sheet.

-When you are finished entering your answers, you will hit SCORE TEST at the bottom of the page.

-After your score appears, you MUST PRINT IT OUT TO MY PRINTER (CJenkins Phaser 6280N) and leave the paper in the printer.

This assignment is due at the end of the period tomorrow, so you have no time to waste.

Click HERE to begin.

Makeup: February 18, 2010

If you were gone today, the following is what you missed. Please check the makeup work box for any papers you will need.

1.) Benchmark Analysis (purple sheet). You will use the Scantron from your benchmark test and figure out which objectives you are strongest and weakest in.

2.) Quicklist: This is the last form of brainstorming we will do for your personal narrative essays. In the makeup box you will find a sheet of instructions for the Quicklist Topics. If you have questions, come see me. You will need to open a blank Word or Pages document and make a table with 3 columns and 30 rows (you can add more if you need it, and you do not have to use all of them). The first two columns should be named as seen below.

Use the Quicklist Topics sheet to guide you in getting the first column, Names, completed. Once you have all the Names column completed, you can begin on the Descriptions column. Stay away from only describing someone's physical appearance. Your description should tell me more about the person's personality and who they are, than what they look like. Look at the example below for what I mean.

Here's an example:

If You Were Absent 2/17/10

Attention Students:

Here is the information you missed in class today. Please understand, this work is due NO LATER than Friday, February 19.

1.) Use the sentence stubs from Tuesday's in-class writing. Choose ONE of the stubs and write more about it. Change the color of the writing you are adding to it today. When you finish, save it again. If you need a copy of the Sentence Stubs from Monday, go to my Public Folder and grab it.

2.) Trigger Word lists. If you are in 4th or 5th period classes, you did not begin Trigger Words Tuesday, so you will start from the beginning. If you are in any other class, you know what Trigger Words are, you just have to begin where we left off on Tuesday. YOU MUST HAVE SEVERAL TRIGGER WORD LISTS TO MEET REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT. Go to my Public Folder in CISD Homes, and find Trigger Words (it is a Powerpoint). Read the instructions and look at my examples and then make your own lists.

3.) When you have made your Trigger Word lists, I want you to choose ONE thing from your lists (not from each one, just one total), and go to the bottom of the page of lists and write a paragraph about that one idea/thought/memory.

4.) When you finish, save it in your English 2 folder.

Instructions While Mrs. Jenkins is Gone

Put your headphones in and listen...if you don't have any, either borrow some when a neighbor is finished, or turn down your volume and listen quietly. Listen to both videos for IMPORTANT instructions!

If for some reason either of the videos will NOT play, I have also put them in my teacher Public folder on the CISD Homes server. Go to my Public Folder and then Handouts and you will find both videos there (the .m4v files). Please don't think you can get away with saying you didn't know how to find it. Work as a team...at least one person in your class can lead you to the video clips. No excuses! Figure it out!





Now, watch the video below for information about the benchmark test you will be working on for the next 3 days.

Comma What?

Today we are going to REVIEW your knowledge of commas and semicolons.  After going over our Revising and Editing practice sheet together yesterday, I realized you MIGHT need some more practice before your TAKS test.  So, here we are. 

The first thing I want you to do is take this little Pre-Test.  Don't worry, it's not a TEST, test, just a PRE-Test...I want to know what you know, so I know what to review and what you already know!  :) 

Look at the paragraph below.  It is an excerpt from The Lovely Bones.  I have taken out the commas where they should be.  I want YOU to replace as many as you can!  Copy and paste the paragraph from this blog to YOUR blog, and then add commas where you see necessary.  When you add them, CHANGE THE COLOR, so I can see them easily when I'm looking over it! 

Got it?  GOOD!  Now, get to work! 

HINT:  There are SIX commas missing that need to be replaced.  Good luck!

My father had left our house in the midst of a fight between Lindsey and my mother.  My mother was trying to get Lindsey to go with her to the Y to swim.  Without thinking Lindsey had blared "I'd rather die!" at the top of her lungs.  My father watched as my mother froze then burst fleeing to their bedroom to wail behind the door.  He quietly tucked his notebook in his jacket pocket took the car keys off the hook by the back door and snuck out.