Woodside's Jr MBA - BUILD class 2010-11

SANTA CLARA University Field Trip

2011-05-31T22:41:00.000-07:00

Timeline for Field trip (FINAL)

7:55am meet in front of PAC
8:05 depart for EPAPA / pick them up / leave for SCU

-Arrive @ Santa Clara Univ.
-Student performance
-10am snack / free-time [30 min]

-11:45 Depart for Hometown Buffet
-lunch, Jr MBA Ceremony & Yearbook presentation

-1:30 Leave for EPAPA & student drop in EPA

-2:10 Arrive & drop off @ WHS

Questions / comments - contact Ms. Uptegraft afleur@seq.org

Academic Awards Night - 2/10

2011-02-11T00:44:00.000-08:00

BUILD‘s Academic Awards Night
The following students have earned a BUILD Academic Award during the Fall 2010 semester. Please congratulat them:

Bennett Ashley
Kaufman Savvy
Ortiz Flo
Rodriguez Marifur

BUILD‘s Academic Awards Night
Thursday February 10
6:00pm-7:00pm

Fair Oaks Community Center
2600 Middlefield Rd.
Redwood City, CA 94063

BUILD SHOWCASE #2 - - SAVE the DATE

2011-02-11T00:31:00.000-08:00

March 8, 2011, Showcase #2 5:30 - 7:30
Woodside HS Library

Winners from Showcase #1: Team The End: a team offering fun spirit wear designed by teens and soon to be sold in the Woodside Student Store.

Close 2nd place winners:
Team Yummy: Portable cake bites because everyone likes a little bit of cake!
Team Bomb: Confetti expelling candles for your most exciting birthday parties!
Team Guthix: "Brewed Awakening", Woodside's answer to morning grumbly stomachs!
Team Shade: Customizable hoodies - a fun way to express yourself with your favorite colored hoodie w/ your very own slogan! Does your hoodie have ears or paws?

2011 JrMBA Business - SHOWCASE #1 5:30-7;30 pm in WHS Library

2011-01-18T02:35:00.000-08:00

Please Join us in the Woodside Library for an evening of presentations from our 5 teams with prototypes:

Team Guthix, a Breakfast alternative on campus
Team Beauty Hustle, On campus make-over w/ hair & on-line beauty tips
Team Yummy, cake snack bites
Team End, WILD Woodside Wildcat gear
Team Bomm, Bomb shaped candles for special occasions

Good luck to all!
*Students need to be in B2 dressed no later than 4:30 pm [no tutoring on 1/18]

Welcome Back! New schedules ...January 5, 2011

2011-01-04T23:23:00.000-08:00

Hello,

The first day of the second semester is January 5, 2011 (A day)

ALL students are required to pick up their quarter 3
class schedule starting at 7:30 a.m.

Grades 9 and 11 pick up your schedule in the Old Gym
Grades 10 and 12 pick up your schedule in the MUR

Come early...

Marketing 101

2010-11-01T00:49:00.000-07:00

Day 1-4
1. Complete Market research on Burgers, Shoes, Pizza, Soda, &
Calculate percents of product favor.
2. CREATE excel spreadsheet & activate WHS email account
3. Email Ms.U -> afleur@seq/org w/ Market survey attachment
4. Target Market - define & create TEAM's TM

2010 JrMBA Business Challenge - Nov 2, 2010 5:30-7pm

2010-11-01T00:40:00.000-07:00

WELCOME New WHS Teams for 2010-2011

Team Guthix
Team **** <- surprise [formerly Bacon Hawks]
Team Yummy
Team Bommm
Team Beauty Hustle

Please JOIN us in the library for an evening of fun competition!
Contact Ms. Uptegraft if you will have any team member missing- afleur@seq.org.

BPC Winners & Summer E2 Incubator ORIENTATION - 6/9 5:30

2010-06-11T12:52:00.000-07:00

4th Place Winners: WHS Team BaBay, Congrats!

E2 Orientation on Wednesday, 5:30. Contact Ms. Uptegraft w/ questions, afleur@seq.org

Tuesday May 3, 2010 - Final prep BPC

2010-05-03T01:18:00.000-07:00

This week teams will be practicing their presentations and creating strategies to deliver the most convincing, POWERFUL presentations of all 4 schools!

I am hopeful we will have more than two winners from Woodside HS - we have great teams & by using the students' innovative ideas, we will take home the prizes.

The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost
[Thanks Tim!]

Teams and Business ideas

2009-10-12T21:43:00.000-07:00

Tues 10-13 create Brainstorm books
Wed 10-14 College day - No BUILD Class [Minimum Day]
**Mentor session happening
Thur 10-15 continue work on Books, SWOT product ideas and discuss products vs. services
Friday 10-15 -Computer research on feasible business ideas
-TEAM name selection

Have a restful weekend and be ready for FINAL product decisions.

..........HOMECOMING WEEK...............
Tuesday 10-20 Begin Marketing
Wed 10-21 Marketing
Mentor session 5:30-7pm- attendance required
Thur 10-22 Marketing
Friday 10-23 Marketing

9-22 through 9-25

2009-09-24T00:17:00.000-07:00

9-22
Complete Invention presentations

9-23
Complete SWOT
Strengths: the entrepreneur’s abilities and contacts
Weaknesses: problems the entrepreneur faces from lack of money, training, time or experience.
Opportunities: advantages the entrepreneur can use to get ahead of the competition
Threats: anything that could be bad for business, from competitors to legal problems

9-24
Logo & quiz on SWOT [make sure your colored papers are returned!]
**Sign-up for After School program - see Ms. Uptegraft for details

9-25
*Visitor - Ray Faustino, BUILD Director
Complete Unit2, review Business plans to see how SWOT worked

Unit 2 - Monday BizOpps

2009-09-10T22:27:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 9/15 What do you think Biz Opps means? COLLECT Paperwork...

*Debrief in groups from carrier / or game. Write up results.
Individually:
-Complete BUILD score [personal performance]
and Personal Preference Assessment

Wednesday 9/16 brainstorming - list all the things you use in your kitchen that solve problems...PROBLEMS are opportunities.

Review inventions others have made as solutions to problems...NEW GROUPS
Case Study, SWOT [Strengths, Opportunities, Weaknesses, Threats].

Thursday 9/17 Warm-up: List two ideas of brainstorming and tell why it is important.
-Review Kiara's Business plan, create SWOT

Friday 9/18 External BizOpps- Decide what logo Kiara will use.
-Continue External business opportunities

Tuesday, September 22 Passions as Opportunities

Welcome back BUILD from 3-day Labor day weekend

2009-09-07T21:03:00.000-07:00

This week @ WHS BUILD 9-8 thru 9-11:

Tuesday 9/8:
Warm-up: INVENTIONS quiz....I always wished I had _____ to do _____.
1) *Groups will be voting on most creative, best actor, best actress for their for products.
2) Complete debrief for Products-in-a-Bag
3) Teams fill-out TEAMWORK debrief sheet [assessment/test]

Wednesday 9/9:
WARM-up: Share within teams the importance of "debriefing" - get SCRIBE!
1) Teams discuss inventions
2) Team agrees on "1" invention to create proto poster & commercial for

Thursday 9/10:
WARM-UP team brings in the most IMPORTANT invention ever!
1) Describe 2 options for last product - Harmless Holder, Small place Game
2) Teams begin creating last 'design'

Friday 9/11:
WARM-UP: review Design Squad episode
1) Teams continue work on final design project. [QTR grades- discuss free PSAT]
2) Teams assign poster/commercial assignments to people.

5/7 Macbeth homework reminder - pick-up the questions

2009-05-05T23:48:00.000-07:00

Homework reminder: DUE 5/7/09:

Lesson #11 - Humour vocabulary packet pp. 67-69

Act III, Scene ii-v: review the questions & answer sc ii-V. [Our class discussion covered 95% of this material] COPIES of questions attached / also in Room E2 / A4

****Read Act IV, Scene i and answer questions [apparitions with witches].

-Grades will be posted on Thursday, vocab tests will be returned.

Writing Tutorials will be held Wednesday 5/6 & Thursday 5/7 during 7th period [2:20-3:30]in E9, Ms. Camera's room.

If you did not turn in an essay, or need additional writing assistance - please come get help.
-Outlines for essays will be available, we will break down the essay prompts & find evidence!

Questions located on Communicado @ https://communicado.seq.org/index.php?action=classpage_view&site=004&districtid=001&subpage=homework&user=afleur§ionid=052089-07

April 27 - May 1

2009-04-27T01:18:00.000-07:00

___April 27__________
review Act III quiz
review antonyms / synonyms Lesson #10 - prepare for vocab test 4/29
Review Act III quiz,
Complete ActIII [read what we do not complete in class]
HW: Complete Postreading Activity - questions #1-6
Write up focus question as 4-29 Journal:
"To what extent do you think Macbeth's corruption is due to his weaknesses within his character and to what extent do you think his corruption is due to external forces"
Study for Vocabulary test #6 on 4/29

___April 29__________
Vocabulary test #6 4/29
Hand-in Journal 4/29: Discuss exploration questions
Start Act IV - complete Close read on Act IV
Review essays: in-class writing editing [writing tutorial sign-up]
HW: Complete at home close read in Act IV [15-20 min]

___May 1__________
Review vocab test
Final essay assignment
Complete Act IV, start Act V

HW: Complete close read in Act V [15-20 min]

Macbeth agenda 4-16, 4-17

2009-04-15T23:59:00.000-07:00

4/16___________Act3 Macbeth _____
=Read& perform ACT III: review questions #1-5
=Cornell notes reviewing characterization
=what is a foil?
=in-class essay - sentence outline required.

HW: Proofread essay and rewrite if necessary /
vocabulary lesson completed

4/17___________Act3 Macbeth _____
=Complete ActIII: review questions #6-end
=class discussion in topics of essays
=groups to sign-up to perform scene from play

HW: Outside reading - decide on assessment [ppt, poster]
BRING OUTSIDE READING BOOK TO CLASS 4/21-4/23

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2009-04-02T16:27:00.000-07:00

Macbeth Agenda 3-23, 3-25, 3-27

2009-03-24T00:59:00.000-07:00

Agenda:
-Read Act2, sc i-ii in-class: discuss quotes on 4 page hand-out.
-Group work to translate the quotes in groups of 9.
-Quiz - Lesson#6 Great Source vocabulary [review same]

HW: Complete reading Act2, sc iii-iv, describe #18 quote "what is he saying about sleep?" <-what does sleep do for us? What has Macbeth imagined he heard about his sleep?

Agenda 3-25:
-Review/Complete Act2 - quiz over Macbeth's hallucination over sleep #18
-Review 4 parts of Macbeth's Guilt soliloquy, LadyM's reason for not killing the King herself.
-Assign character posters
**Return any ESLR you have not turned in.
HW: Make sure to come to class with your selected novel

Agenda 3-27:
-Group work on character sheets
-Vocabulary Lesson #12
-Select Outside reading.
HW:

3-18 agenda

2009-03-18T22:37:00.000-07:00

__________Macbeth Act II_________________
-Review ActII, sc 1-2 in class.
-In-class journal #4 [writing 20 min]
-Review & collect ESLRs
-Quotes & themes: Group work

**Bring your journals to class!

HW: Complete Act2, take notes on
STUDY- Lesson#6 vocabulary quiz Monday

Agenda 3/13 reminder CAHSEE Tuesday 3/17 & Wednesday 3/18

2009-03-11T20:02:00.000-07:00

Agenda 3/13/09
I. Quiz #1 Macbeth [38 questions] See sample Q's below. No vocabulary.
II. Review Vocabulary packet- commonly mistaken words
III. Review ESLR assignment

HW: None this weekend.
p.s.
In preparation for CAHSEE, you will turn in your homework #2 sentence outline and complete one more in class.

________Macbeth themes & lit terms__________
**keep track of paradoxes: they foretell the future
Nothing is / But what is not... <- have we seen this theme? where, when? KEEP TRACK.
Themes:
the corruption of power,
blind ambition,
superstition and its effects on human behavior.

Sample quiz Questions's:
-What do the witches predict for Banquo? (they give him three predictions …give at least two)
-Macbeth gives four reasons for not killing Duncan. Name at least three of them.
-What happened to the first Thane of Cawdor? Why?
-What is Lady Macbeth’s plan for killing Duncan? Explain in as much detail as you can.
-Explain dramatic irony. Define it and give one example from Act I.

Agenda 3-9-09 Macbeth I, i-v

2009-03-04T23:05:00.000-08:00

HW due 3/9: 1) Complete Lesson #6 vocabulary [entire packet]

Agenda: 3/9 Discuss ActI, sci-v [please note the scene summaries in the book for each scene as well as particular "word" explanations under the summaries]

Act1, sciii: Banquo describes the "instruments of darkness"...to what is he referring and what does he say?

Act1, sciii: The Witches are creating a supernatural, dark tone & appear to be powerful...but are they? Fear is only as powerful as the scared person gives the fear power. As Elanor Roosevelt said, "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Be prepared to discuss this in class.

HW due 3/11: (Act1, sc 5 - sc7) Read completely through scene 7 - be prepared to discuss. QUIZ on Act 1 Wednesday 3/11 after completing the reading in class.

Lesson 5 vocabulary QUIZ

2009-03-04T22:33:00.000-08:00

CONGRATS to the top (2) scoring students. Please make sure you are prepared for the "tie breaker" vocabulary question to win the PRIZE!

S. Ochoa
G. Ruiz
**E. Martinson came in 3rd!

Journal #4

2009-02-25T23:49:00.000-08:00

Homework Blog [due on-line before 3/2/09 11pm]:
Journal #4 “Is Lady Macbeth evil or just a very ambitious person?”
Describe what constitutes an evil person before answering this question...are really ambitious people often misunderstood as evil? Feel free to support your Journal with quotations. [no shorter than 8 sentences - this may be a future essay prompt]

Week 2-23 through 2-27-09

2009-02-22T22:40:00.000-08:00

Agenda 2/23:
**edited essays DUE BACK
-Lesson #5 prepare for Vocabulary quiz [review mini lesson 3 & 4]
-Macbeth /Shakespeare INTRO
-Review characters, Macbeth Vocabulary & Groupwork quotes #1-8
[Valley Girl, Rap, Teen speak, Jive/Slang, Nerdy-square, preppy, Jock-talk]
HW:___ActI Quote translation and post to Journal #3: Your reflection on AQWF

Agenda 2/25:
-View documentary "Invisible Children" - write reflection
HW:_Complete quotes assigned [group work], post to AQWF reflection to blog
*Ambitious students can study for lesson #5 vocabulary + Macbeth vocab#1 quiz 3/3/09

Blog: [A] Do you believe AQWF was beneficial to your study of WW1 in MEH and what was something specifically useful/enjoyable about the novel. Post your thoughts to others' posts. DUE 2/27/09 [B] Film viewing, "Invisible Children": write personal reflection.

2-19-09 agenda - homework due 2/23

2009-02-20T13:02:00.000-08:00

Class agenda 2-19:
-Review Vocabulary Lesson#5 [brief]
-Review edits of paper #1-2 [complete 3 &4 on Monday]
-Review recent AQWF essays and

HW:
1) edit your last essay -bring clean copy + edits on MONDAY 2/23/09
2) Respond to Macbeth Journal #2
"What is something you have wanted so bad that you may have been willing to do harm to others if you didn't get it?" Ask your family if you can't recall anything. Explain the situation [no shorter than 5 sentences].

Week of 2/18- 2/20 Shakespeare's Macbeth Intro

2009-02-10T23:54:00.000-08:00

2-18 **BRING BACK Parent Permission Slips
Agenda:
-Google Account letters due - sign-up for your email nickname
-CAHSEE practice exam /-practice essay
-[IF TIME] pick-up Macbeth textbook

HW:1. Edit papers #1-3 [2 +comments, make edits]
2. Post on BLOG to answer Macbeth Journal #1:
"Have you ever done something ON PURPOSE that could be considered 'evil' and you enjoyed it?" What was it and how did you feel?

Directions on HOW to post: Go down to the comment box and write your response and POST it. It should work, otherwise, email me asap [afleur@seq.org].

Post your response and review others' posts for a discussion. [Use your nickname]. Be ready for a discussion on "being evil".

Writing tutorial notes...2/9/09

2009-02-10T13:59:00.000-08:00

During 7th period and after school a few of us met and here are the NOTES::

Thesis Essay prompt#2
CHANGE: Paul and the other soldiers change throughout the novel. [While these are incomplete notes, they are a draft of Topic sentences & potential quotes you can use for a strong essay]. Remember, you must have 2 quotes per body.

BODY #1 - TS Young soldiers believe propaganda & enlist
1. War will make them heroes - Kantorek quote
2. Soldiers are naive about the war [Kat quote-he teaches them to survive] Transition sentence could be about "learning how to" survive...]

BODY #2 - TS: Paul & others are becoming wise about the ways of killing, possibly pessimistic, as well as alienated...
1. Thoughts on how they could die everyday [change quote - use journal]
2. war is futile [they are learning skills to become keen killers, sense of self- preservation...but what does this do other than help them STAY alive?] How does it make them feel -it this different than how they feel in the beginning?
**Tie transitional sentence back into thesis.

BODY #3 - TS: Paul develops empathy, moves away from self-preservation (although this skill is ingrained]
1. Russian soldiers
2. General Duval

Week 2-09 through 2-11

2009-02-09T02:41:00.000-08:00

We will complete AQWF this week. Your novel is DUE BACK on 2/11 - Your essay due date.

Monday 2-9:
Review vocabulary quiz. Discuss grades & upcoming essays.
Review CAHSEE homework, lessons 35, 36
Take mini CAHSEE Writing Conventions quiz
-Discuss Contrast groupwork - peer edits. Essays due 2/11, no late papers accepted

Wednesday 2-11:
-Laptop cart available
-Peer editing available
-Discuss expository writing prompts
*Lesson 30, p 112 in CAHSEE books

Have a great Valentines/President's weekend!

AQWF Final Essay - CONTRAST

2009-02-08T16:14:00.000-08:00

Essay Drafts/Outlines due 2/9 [25 pts]
In order to complete a peer review/ask editing questions - you will need to show a draft of your paper on MONDAY 2/9.

Qtr grades go in on 2/9; grades will be posted in E2 / A4.
The following is a list of journal assignments:

Journal 2: 1/13/09 [p. 110] Paul's discussion of Chance
Journal 3: 1/15/09 "War is Futile"
Journal 4: 1/21/09 How do the soldiers change, what makes Paul angry when he goes home? [you may chose mention Post-war Trauma]
Journal 5: 2/3/09 quotes from Ch4,7,9: Vocabulary & AQWF quiz

LINK TO PODCAST for Journal 4:
http://www-tc.pbs.org/newshour/rss/media/2009/01/29/20090129_suicide.mp3

Check here for the Final essay assignment/rubric tomorrow.

AQWF Week 1-26 through 1-30-09

2009-01-25T14:08:00.000-08:00

1-26
-CAHSEE prep/Cornell notes + practice - Diction + Alliteration
-Review Lesson #4 vocabulary
-Discuss chapter 9/10

1-28
-Subject-verb notes + worksheet [practice quiz - how much do you know?]
-CAHSEE prep/Cornell notes + practice
-Poem, "The Dreamers"
Does this poem explain the way the men felt? At what point?

1-30
-Listen to NPR PODCAST on Veteran suicide rate doubling
-CAHSEE quiz
-Write AQWF Journal #3
-Discuss Chapter 10

AQWF Week 1-20 through 1-22-09

2009-01-21T22:21:00.000-08:00

Tuesday 1-20-09:
-review CAHSEE Literary Analysis all week - quiz Thursday 1/22.
Agenda:
-BIG Reading quiz Ch 1-8,
-Journal #3 "War is Futile"
-Chance journal #2 returned,
NOTES: if directions ask you to use quotes, REMEMBER to do so.
HW: Complete lesson 4 "vocabulary" card
-ALL QUIET: Complete reading through chapter 9 [DO summaries!]
-CAHSEE essay: Lesson #_27_, Pg,__
compare newspapers to on-line news [pros/cons of each]

Thursday 1-22-09
EXPOSITORY essay: a point you are trying to make using evidence
-Hand-in CAHSEE prep essay _and_ we will check Vocabulary Lesson 4.
Agenda:
1) Take CAHSEE Lit. Analysis quiz / review Cornell notes of lessons.
2) Review portions of AQWF chapters 6, 7, 8, 9 [watch movie]
HW: Complete Ch 9-11 [take notes on: "how have the men have changed?"

Imagery POEM - Meet in A4, E2 closed, no electricity

2008-12-17T23:40:00.000-08:00

Have fun creating your POEMS; after our classwork - you should already have a draft.
This assignment is due as soon as you walk into class. I will exhibit poems.
Folks who finish early can type their poems. [see you in A4]

Fall Final 2008 AQWF - review questions...

2008-12-17T17:30:00.000-08:00

-Most of the German soldier's food is made out of
-Why did Tjaden hate Himmelstoss?
-Who was the best at finding food?
-The weapon of choice in a charge is a
-Why is Paul willing to forgive Himmelstoss?
-What is wrong with Paul's mom?
-What is Paul's favorite food?
-What happens to Kantorek (the boy's high school teacher)?
-Paul guards and befriends some Prisoners of War. They are from
-Who was Gerard Duval?
-What animals do the soldiers not eat?
-When Katczinsky produces four boxes of lobsters, what kind of food would the soldiers have preferred?
-Kat suggests to Paul that they kill the young recruit because ...

Due 12/10/08 ___Quiz for Ch 5 & 6

2008-12-08T17:10:00.000-08:00

CH 5&6: STUDY QUESTIONS/Quiz Due Wednesday 12/10/08

Be prepared for a discussion on these and for a Think Write on 12/10

Chap 5: Life after War and Himmelstoss returns_______________________
1) Describe the relationship between Tjaden and Himmelstoss.
Explain what happens between them (Tjaden and Himmelstoss) at the front. Make sure you include why Himmelstoss was at the front. What specifically did Trajden do to get "open arrest"?

2) Discuss the differences between the soldiers (young/old) as they ponder their return to their lives after the war. What are some of the differences between the soldiers – what is Paul’s insight on the generation gap?
** Haie Westhus: minor character, the peat farmer

Chap 6: Experiencing the Battle____________________________________________________
1) How did the soldiers know the Germans were planning an “offensive”? Define “offensive” .
2) What was the effect of ‘suffering’ on the men?

3) What is the purpose of describing in detail the deficiencies [problems] of the recruits?

4) Which of Paul’s friends is taken away with a fatal wound?
How does an earlier scene add to the sadness of that moment?

Week2: AQWF Ch 1-3 quiz ...[timed]

2008-12-05T23:38:00.000-08:00

1) Give a one sentence summarizing name for chapters 1-3
[use your summary packets -6 pts]
Ch1 _____, Ch2____, & Ch3_____
2) Give one character trait about Trajden: _________ /2 pts
3) Who gets Kemmerich's boots after he dies? ______ /2 pts
4) The hospital allows the men to stay as long as they wish to say their good-byes T/F
5) The new recruits are 15 yrs old. T /F [Ch2]
6) Kat knows nothing about food. T /F
7) Most of the German food has a common ingredient. T /F
8) All the men appreciated Himmelstoss' patience. T /F

Week of 12/2 through 12/ 4 - All Quiet on the Western Front

2008-11-28T22:15:00.000-08:00

Welcome back 12/2, Tuesday
Bring your binders, planners, & Outside Reading project!
Agenda
-homework check [Lesson 3 vocabulary - completed packet]
-Propaganda lesson "what does it take to have an elder talk you into something"
*review BT FINAL exam

COLLECT OUTSIDE READING project
********AQWF Introduction********
-discuss WWI fact sheet and continue discussion on PROPAGANDAbegin character review[how does author use characterization?]
-Monthly reading calendar + watch blog

HW: Read thru Ch.3: take notes
-Find 5 examples & write-up your found propaganda [what kind of persuasion is it]
Did you know? Remarque wrote novel in poetic form...some entire chapters are written in prose.

12/4 Agenda
-AQWF reading quiz over Ch3
-CAHSEE Cornell notes: imagery & more figurative language
-Discuss characterization, setting, & complete in-class journal
**Last day for Outside reading project
-Binder check [Index/checklist of stamped material - clean-out binder]

All Quiet On The Western Front - the video

2008-11-26T23:47:00.000-08:00

The copyright was lost on this video, so its in the public domain now. Lucky for you guys!

In the first 20 minutes of the film...look at:
-the class differences [who is working class? who has gone to school?]
-the age differences between Kat and the younger boys who just enlisted,
**this B&W film follows the book best.

Recall the author uses "en media res" --when something starts in the middle of an event. Your mind is expected to catch up to fill-in what happened before we are brought in...the author also uses the literary device "flashback".

Alexie Sherman Interview

2008-11-17T23:21:00.000-08:00

Here's a link to an interview with Sherman Alexie.

Week 11-18 through 11-20

2008-11-17T01:07:00.000-08:00

Nov 18 - Look at deadlines below - don't procratinate....
**Grades will be posted in E2 & A4 on Tuesday morning.
1) Discuss recent vocabulary tests & Qtr grades.
2) Presentations 11-14
3) Quiz Ch 12-14 bonus questions ...coming here [tomorrow 11/17 eve].
4) Take questions on Outside Reading projects.
5) Review Literary terms for BT test / review themes

**Bean Trees essays are due Thursday / complete novel if you have not already.
Reminder: NO LATE WORK IS ACCEPTED - not essays, not Outside Reading projects...

Nov 20 - **Bean Trees Essay are due / hand-in novels
1) Review for BT Test [test on Monday 11/24] / return packets to students to use for studying
2) Review vocabulary BT#1, Lessons 1-2 & prefixes
3) Review Jeopardy game...
4) Check out novels - All Quiet on Western Front
***Book reports extended - due 11/26 [turn in early if you are leaving town]

Reminder: NO LATE WORK IS ACCEPTED - not essays, not Outside Reading projects... Most of you are doing a great job - keep it up!

Outside Reading: One True Media password...

2008-11-17T01:01:00.000-08:00

Email if you want to use this app. I DO NOT want to post our special password on a public BLOG. amyfleur@gmail.com OR afleur@seq.org Our account has special options - the highest level of options.
check out samples...http://www.onetruemedia.com/gallery/funny?mode=viewed&period=week

Week 11-10 through 11-14

2008-11-11T22:26:00.000-08:00

Wednesday 11/12
1) We will review CAHSEE Word Analysis & take a CAHSEE quiz
2) We will review VOCABULARY words / voting on favorite cards
3) Presentations of Ch 10, 11 (2) and 12 will take place.
HW: Complete Journal #4 - Character/Concept Comparison chart &
Study for Vocabulary test#2 *Make sure you have completed your reading!

We will finish the Bean Trees on Tuesday next week, please continue to read ahead.
NOTE: CHANGE in Outside Reading Book - new Due Date __11/24/08______

Friday 11/14
1) Take vocabulary #2 quiz
2) Take Bean Trees chapter 11-14 reading quiz
3) Complete prefixes worksheet & review
4) Free Time to work on OR presentations / outstanding writing [Ch #13-16 next week].

Week 10-20 through 10-24

2008-10-19T23:32:00.000-07:00

Monday: 10/20 through Friday 10/24:
Review Vocabulary quiz -> postponed until absentees take make-up

**Please bring your Outside Reading books back..._Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian_. We'll need to make some dialetical journals

Monday:
1) Take notes & review CA Standard Read.Comp 2.4 and be ready for another CAHSEE quiz on Tuesday Oct 28.
2) Ch9 presentation: Bring your BT novels, we will be reviewing the novel while chapters are presented.
HW: Complete all of "What is a refugee" & take notes on Ch 9-11 be prepared to review/discuss BT Chapters 9 through 11.

Wednesday: 1) "On-time to graduate?" Counseling presentation.
2) Review more CA Standard - Reading Comp.
3) Fragment & Pronoun replacement strategy [HW -> worksheets]
HW: Complete the grammar strategy with pronouns & fragment worksheet.

Friday: new seating chart
1) BRING OR novel - S.Alexie's _Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian_
2) CAHSEE review: more Reading Comp practice & notes
3) Review grammar worksheets / start vocab unit #2
HW: Take dialectical journal notes on _Part-Time Indian_ & create timeline [need quotes] Note: OR assignment DATE change - new Due date 11/14/08.

Week 10-14 through 10-16

2008-10-13T22:26:00.000-07:00

Tuesday - 10/14: Vocabulary quiz -> postponed until Thursday

We will review CA Standard Writing Strategy 1.9 and by doing so will understand the necessity and importance of revising our writing. Good writing is a process - learning that process is what we will embark upon after our short CAHSEE quiz.

Please bring your BT novels, vocabulary packets [quick review for Thursday] AND you what is a refugee sheet?

Thursday - 10/16: Vocabulary quiz [over WORD packet1 including 4 affixes]

HW: Please read & be prepared to review/discuss BT Chapters 9 through 11.

Week 10-6 through 10-10

2008-10-06T01:21:00.000-07:00

10-6________Writing Strategies & Grammar____________________
Your _Strong Family_ essay is due in class.
We will also consider these question[s}, how does our weekend essay tie into our semester theme? Our semester theme is how young adults transition into becoming adults, consider the essay you wrote over the weekend when you answer:

How does having a strong family contribute or take away from becoming an adult?
What if someone does not have a 'strong' family - are they doomed to fail?

In class: Read Damon & Pythias and discuss BT chart [p.5] Climax & Building Action. If you COME TO CLASS W/O your essay, please make sure your parents sign your LATE paper on Wed - noting they know you did not complete your homework. [Presentation on Ch 7 Wed].

HW: Complete your vocabulary packet up to page 6. Also please be prepared for a quiz on Ch6-8 on Wed, revisit our BLOG for BONUS quiz questions. Reminder NOTE: vocabulary quiz: WORD Unit1 & prefixes [10/14]

10-8 more BT themes, Grammar & Vocabulary review
Character sheets in packet should be complete, fill-in notes on people while considering the theme of "relationships".

WORD Unit 1 will be reviewed - VISUAL vocabulary will be created. We will have voting...winners of the most votes will get double points [make sure you have a showing sentence that explains your WORD].
HW: If I can create your accounts in time - we will have an Outside Reading BLOG discussion...for a grade.

10-10 ________Ch 7 & 8 presentations, review "what is a Refugee?"
Literary terms - discuss Symbols & Ch7-8 questions.

HW: _______________and redraft family essay over the weekend.

Outside Reading...coming soon!

2008-10-05T22:00:00.000-07:00

Please create a question you think most of your colleagues are thinking while they read _The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian_. Write down your question & hand-it to me...the first 10 people to hand it to me will get BONUS passes.

I will select the 2 best ACTIVE READING questions and once I complete creating your accounts, I will ask you to reply online...

Week 9-29 through 10-3

2008-09-29T02:16:00.000-07:00

In preparation for our CAHSEE review, we will need to take a quick practice assessment. This will guide the 10th grade teachers to the area(s) where you all need specific CAHSEE focus [sorry for yet another assessment]. We have not forgotten the _Bean Trees_, please keep on reading - or go back & reread. A quiz on Ch 6-7 is pending...

Please make sure you have completed your prefix sentences & vocabulary questions [pp 1-2]... Remember I find the "complete w/ the corrected word" on page 3, one of the most valuable sections because it allows you to create a 2-4 word definition / and oftentimes it gives you a synonym.

Please bring your completed grammar sheets 1-2...you may have a quiz.

We will go to the library to check-out _the Diary of a Part-Time Indian_ by Sherman Alexie.

Class this week 9-16, 9-19

2008-09-14T22:19:00.000-07:00

9-16 Agenda: Bean Trees: 3 presentations [make-up ch3, Ch4 and Ch5]

Be prepared to discuss the theme you see introduced in Chapter3 dealing with botany.

We will finish Monday preparation with a quiz over ch3-4...visiting winners get **Quiz Bonus question(s): 1) Does Taylor hate the weird garden in Mattie’s yard - no! she loves it. 2) LouAnn named her son _Dwayne Ray_ and he was born on January 1. _Homework: see BT Journal #3 below - due 9/18/08_:

Your journal#3 due on 9/18 Thursday:

"In The Bean Trees, all of the major characters are involved with quests or personal goals. The author, Barbara Kingsolver, seems to suggest that a journey (whether physical, emotional, or intellectual) is necessary for any chance of happiness or satisfaction."

What is your opinion of: we are strongly motivated by the need to prove ourselves or find ourselves?

Your challenge will be to write a 1 page opinion without using any “I” phrases. Please write at least a page to this response. Also, date your journal, _DO NOT_ skip lines and TRY to write in present tense as much as possible. If you do not have your journals, you may use binder paper / or just post here [must be 2 paragraphs on-line]. For example, your position may be, "People are never motivated by the need to prove themselves, but they are often looking for themselves." -or- "People are very motivated to prove themselves - this is shown by ..."

Thursday 9/18: Agenda: vocabulary list #1 quiz & Introduction to Grammar [review parts of speech] Homework: given in-class
______A sample vocabulary test will appear here on Wed eve____

Week of 9-08 through 9-12-08

2008-09-07T15:17:00.000-07:00

Hi all-
Monday's classwork expectations were your summer reading assessment - sorry about the key issue. Since only a few of you completed your in-class essay, you will have 45 min on Wednesday to complete/edit/type. No outside notes, aside from 1 page of quotes you selected to use can to brought from home [that's why I stamped where you were.] Bring *your own summer reading novel for quotes, and a blue/black pen.

We will have the laptop LAB w/ printer again in class.

We will have _ONLY_ the chapter 3 Bean Trees presentation on Wednesday. Please make sure you remember what our goal/theme for the semester is ...that may be on your quiz. On a 3x5 card, please complete your vocabulary CARD project [example on Communicado/or I'll email it; come get a 3x5 card in E-2 or A-4 if you need one.

Email me if you have questions. best, Ms. Uptegraft afleur@seq.org

BT Ch2 quiz ...one of the questions...

2008-09-04T00:55:00.000-07:00

Ch2:______
This chapter introduces a few new characters (and supports old themes). While reading, don't get discouraged if the story doesn't make sense...keep reading. Taylor will be introduced to LouAnn in a few days.
Why does the author include this character? ..why would she be interested in being friends w/ Taylor [Missy].

here's your freebie for visiting: [a free quiz question]
#4 Lou Ann comes home and thinks she has been robbed. What really happened?

BT summaries - partner project

2008-09-01T20:14:00.000-07:00

Use this form for your Chapter (partner) presentation - you can type it if you'd like.
I will assign your partners. Hope you had a great long weekend.

A reminder of other homework is on Communicado. [email me if you cannot access that yet].

along the lines of our semester theme...

2008-08-26T16:50:00.000-07:00

I hope most of you enjoyed the intro to the semester...perhaps thought provoking? or maybe just fun to get out of your seats!?

So here's a fellow, Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D., author of _Stranger in your Living Room: How Media Hurts Children_. While I cannot endorse the book [I haven't read it] he seems fairly knowledgeable about how media may benefit when teens don't think for themselves. *thank you Claude.

Note: Your parents may even be interested. ;o
Click here for the flier

p.s. ask me about XC if you attend this...

Classes have begun

2008-08-25T23:35:00.000-07:00

Welcome Uptegraft classes for 2008-09

We will hold homework assignments on this site as well as journal entries over weekends. Are you ready? Come see me if technology scares you...

You all sound excited to be back - by the way, your letters were excellent! Thank you for taking such time & care as you told me a little about yourself. In turn, I will share information with you - and best of all, we will share ideas about the novels we explore.

How was chapter 1 of the Bean Trees? You will have a quiz over the Chapter. Welcome back again - I am delighted to be your Eng2 teacher. See you in A-4 on Thursday - we will be moving to E-2 next week.

best, Fleur Uptegraft
afleur@seq.org

p.s.
Please mark your calendars AGAIN for the summer reading assessment [test] on 9/8 - A day. If you haven't completed your novel, please do so this weekend. Have a restful Labor day weekend.