August&Sept.

__ English1Agenda August/September __ Disclosure, computer use, seats, class materials: flash drive, notebook, pen and pencil Silent Reading/Independent Reading (IR)-current novels, newspapers, magazines, other materials assigned, your choice Working email required (hotmail or gmail the easiest) Explain my and student Wikispaces-write down my address: **www.wikiarna.wikispaces.com ** Student Wikis-set up accounts (at one computer) and Handout Wiki How-To Guide on Aug. 31, Sept. 2 and 4 My Wiki-agendas, assignments, extra credit, and student wikispaces posted Introduce NIght, supplemental readings, and how to do abstracts, annotations, and contextual connections/check out Night books Sept. 2. Start reading! Vocabulary lessons 1 & 2 ** Magazine assignment Tolerance Unit with the Holocaust memoir Night by Elie Wiesel __** Vocabulary **__ o Lesson 1 and 5 pictionaries—50 points minus errors and missing pictionaries--due Sept. 4 o Lesson 2 and 5 pictionaries—50 points minus errors and missing pictionaries--due Sept. 11 o  2 Flashcards—20 points (10 points each-words assigned by Mrs. Clark)-- due Sept. 11 __** CUP Quizzes on LCD **__ CUP 1 and 2 quizzes—points TBA-CUP 1 quiz Sept. 15 and CUP 2 quiz Sept. 28 ** __Tolerance unit__ ** __: **//Night//**__ Magazine assignment--25 points-due Sept. 4 Study guide—100 points--1/2 due Sept. 11 and finished by Sept. 30 Discussion notes—50 points Quizzes— Two //Night// quizzes covering pages 1-65 and 66-end. First quiz Sept. 11 ; second quiz Sept. 30.-- 100 points (50 points each) 7 Supplemental readings on Intolerance In America--first 3 AACC due Sept. 11 and last 4 AACC due Sept. 23 __Wiki Blog__-Open August/Sept Agenda link and click on the Discussion Tab (top of screen). Under Subject, click on SeptBlog. Post your comments on the questions Mrs. Clark posted.—20 points-posted by Sept. 23
 * A.  **** Course Introduction **
 * B.  ** ** Common Usage Problems ** **(CUP)**- Study words linked on my wiki
 * C.  ** ** Vocabulary Books
 * D.  **** Literature **
 * Grade Breakdown **
 * Annotations—70 points (10 points each)
 * Abstracts—70 points (10 points each)
 * Contextual Connections—70 points (10 points each)

o (20 points) Home Page done: 2 photos of you, 10 “favorites,” Bio info: full name, nickname, family info, birthday, hobbies/extracurricular activities, and three adjectives that describe your personality/character--home page done by Sept. 30 o  ( 50 points) Links your best abstract __and__ best CC from the Intolerance in America readings no later than Sept. 30. Call them "Best AACC"
 * __WIKI__**—70 points total:

Visit the school newspaper website: **[|**www.tinyurl.com/altahki**]**. Read any two stories and submit a comment on each one. Comments can be to suggest improvements, suggest story ideas, disagree with the article, etc. Comments should be roughly 3-5 sentences long.--50 points-posted by Sept. 23 ** __Other Assignments__ Disclosure and Flash Drive due Sept. 4 for 25 points each (50 points total)
 * __HKI Online__

__Calendar __ o No school Sept. 7, 25 o Parent Teacher Conferences Sept. 22, 23