Thursday, October 30, 2008

Tomorrow is Halloween!

Wear or bring a costume to class! You will get 10 extra points!

Facts and Figures: Do Word Study, page 133-136 Exercises a,b,c,d.

Get Ready to Write: Do Page 29 and 30 Finish #2 at the top of Page 29. Do Exercise A and B

Daily Dairy: Write about music from your country.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Week 6

Facts and Figures: Read about Latin Music and Salsa Page 128-132

Get Ready to Write: Page 27 & 28 Do exercise B

Daily Dairy: Write about your favorite music.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Week 6

Facts and Figures: Read about Country-Western Music Pages 123-127

Daily Dairy: Write about your activities. Choose from the Word Bank on Page 25 in Get Ready to Write.

More Grammar Practice: Practice 30 on Page 62 and 63

Monday, October 27, 2008

Week 6 - Monday!

More Grammar Practice - Review spelling of singular and plural - Memorize Practice 15

Facts and Figures: Read about Rock and Roll, Pages 118 - 122

Daily Dairy: Write about what you see and think about Halloween.

Friday, October 24, 2008

TGIF Day!

More Grammar Practice: Practice 15 Regular Noun Plurals Page 32-33

Book Club Report #1: Read your book and do the report. Bring both to class.

Practice Proununciation from my blog:

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Review for Grammar tomorrow!

Last Midterm Test tomorrow! Good luck! Study Hard!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Week 5 - Midterm Week

Facts and Figures: Finish Blues and Jazz Page 116 - 117

More Grammar Practice: Review all Practices from Practice 1 to 25 - pages 1-53

Test Schedule:
  • Reading Proficiency Test Tomorrow, Thursday
  • Grammar Test on Friday

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Facts and Figures

Finish Music and Behavior Exercise d, e, and f.
Start Blues and Jazz Pag 113- 115 Exercises a & b

Finish Paragraph 3 Draft 2 - My Family Send to Gail at gclaas@sccc.ctc.edu email or bring print to class!

Monday, October 20, 2008

Week 5 - Midterm Week!

Facts and Figures:
  • Start Unit 4 Lesson 1 Pages 108-111
  • Do Exercises a, b, d, and e

Sentence Corrections: Handout

Friday:

  • Reading Test - Midterm -Review Vocabulary and comprehension in Facts and Figures book. Also review grammar!

Friday, October 17, 2008

Read your small book!

  • Answer questions 2 and 3

Go to Good Exercises on this website.

  • Click on Bill Gates.
  • Read the story.
  • Answer questions 1-7

Get Ready to Write

  • Finish Prewriting exercies B, C, and D on Page 19 and 20 about My Best Friend
  • Write Draft 1 on paper or computer.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Facts and Figures Unit 2 Test tomorrow!

Daily Dairy - Write about your favorite restaurant in your country! Where is it? Why do you like it? What is good about the food? What is good about the service? I have your blue book, except for Somkiat, Dogan, Evan, Rachel, Yu Chen and Ruby, so you should practice writing about your favorite restaurant on another piece of paper. Then, tomorrow when I give you your Daily Dairy back to you, you can copy your story about your favorite restaurant into your Daily Dairy.

Facts and Figures Unit 2 - Review for test tomorrow! Make sure your understand everything in the Unit.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Wednesday is Hump Day!

Get Ready to Write: Page 18 and 19 Conjuntions Do Ex. A and C

More Grammar Practice: Practice 23 and 24 pages 48 - 51

Facts and Figures: Activity Page and Dictionary Page pages 66-68

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Vocabulary Test tomorrow!

Facts and Figures:

  • Review vocabulary Words in Unit 2
  • On Line review words in Glossary- Unit 2 and Flashcards Unit 2
  • Do Word Study on Pages 61 - 63

Daily Dairy: Write about your favorite teacher in your home country or Seattle. Tell why you like/liked him or her. How does or did he or she help you?

Monday, October 13, 2008

Welcome to Week 4

Grammar Test tomorrow! Review:


  • More Grammar Practice - Practices 6, 9-11
  • Get Ready to Write - subject Pronouns Page 13 and Possessive Adjectives Page 14

Facts and Figures:

  • Finish Lesson 5 How Do Many Hearing-Impaired People Talk? Page 56 - 60

Daily Dairy:

  • Write about your weekend. What did you do? Where did you go? How did you get there? When did you go? Try to use the past tense.

Bring USB for lab at 1pm.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Week 3 - TGIF Day!

Daily Dairy - Write about your best friend. Name? What do you like to do together? Fun? Instant Message? Live?

MOre Grammar Practice - Practice 22 page 46-47 Tuesday next week Test

Facts and Figures
  • Finish How Can a Plant Kill and do the exercies to page 55.
  • Review Vocabulary words in Unit 2

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Facts and Figures

Read "How Can a Plant Kill?" Pages 51-55

More Grammar Practice: Practice 21 Pages 44 and 45

Daily Dairy: Look for the mistakes in your writing and try to correct them.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Hump Day!

Get Ready to Write: Page 14 Write about your family.

Facts and Figures:
  • Finish Why Do People Laugh Exercise d,e, & f Pages 44-45
  • Start Why is the Sea Salty Read Pages 46-48 do Exercise a & b

More Grammar Practice: Practice 20 Pages 42-43

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Week 3 Day 2

Facts and Figures:
  • Finish "yawning" Exercise e & f Page 40
  • Begin " Why do People Laugh" Read Pages 41-44, Do Ex. a-c

Monday, October 6, 2008

Welcome to Week 3!

Daily Dairy - Write about your favorite sport! Tell me when you do it. How often? Equipment?

Ready to Write - Page 14 and 15 About your family.

Facts and Figures - Start Unit 2 - Read Lesson 1 page 36, 37 and do Exercise A and B.

Bring USB for lab at 1:00.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Decorate your paragraph folder!

Get Ready to Write: Page 11 and 12 Make a family tree. Understand the vocabulary!

More Grammar Practice: Practice 19 Page 40 and 41 Using Articles like a, an and the

Daily Dairy: My Hometown in my Country - Tell us about your hometown where you live. What is it like? Big? Small? Many factories? Beautiful trees? No trees? Different from Seattle? Similar to Seattle?

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Test day tomorrow!

Daily Dairy - Write about the ocean, fishing, something to do with water, lake, pond, swimming, anything that you want about water.....
Facts and Figures - Finish Unit 1 Review Sheet - Study vocabulary for test!
More Grammar Practice - Do Practice 17 and 18 Pages 34 - 37

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Everybody's here!

Practice Typing on line!

Daily Diary
- What do you think about animals? Pet? Zoo? Reading Book Camels, Dolphin?

More Grammar Practice - Practice 15 and 16 Pages 32 - 35.

Facts and Figures - Word Study Pages 25 -27