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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Making Judgments - Susan Boyle



What important 'life' lesson did you learn today related to inference and making judgments.
TQ for deep, thoughtful opinions

Inference Picture

Use inference to explain what happened inthe photo.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Field Trip

What did you learn during today's field trip?

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Bill of Rights Song

Your table team will have to create your own Bill of Rights song. Bring ideas for tomorrow's class.
e.g. What to put in a chorus, tune, style etc

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Tesnes Sentence Construction H/W

This is for your tenses sentences: At least 8 words per sentence.

1. do - simple past
2. forget - past progressive
3. read - present progressive
4. be -future will
5. grow - simple present
6. break - future perfect
7. go- past perfect
8. give- past perfect
9. drink - future perfect
10. know- present perfect
11. wake - past progressive
12 work - future going to

Don't forget the back of the H/W sheet.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Chains - An Introduction

" If a whole nation could seek freedom...why not a little girl?"

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Propaganda - Test Review and Practice

Propaganda Questions
http://www.quia.com/jq/16219.html

http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/previewtest?TQYF8792
(answers at the bottom of the page)

These use some types of propaganda that we haven’t studied and that will not be on the test. It will still be good practice for the techniques we did study.
http://www.quia.com/quiz/458050.html?AP_rand=2035609847 http://school.discoveryeducation.com/quizzes31/artentz/PropagandaQuiz.html

Monday, April 12, 2010

Coming Next Week

  • Past Tenses
  • Past, Present and Future Tenses Review
  • Propaganda Techniques review and Test
  • Ch. 10 Social Studies - Forming the New Nation
  • From...Articles of Confederation to the U.S.Constitution and Bill of Rights
  • Watching the movie - 'Amazing Grace'
                                     "... I was blind, but now I see"

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Future Tenses - Review

This is just a recap of what we learned about tenses in class today.

Future - GOING TO
The future verb tense "going to" is used in the following situation:

Planned Events - When a future event that has been planned before the time of speaking.
■I am going to visit Mexico in a few days.
■We are not going to work next week.
■They are going to attend university next year.
 
Future - WILL.

We use the future- WILL tense when there is no plan or decision to do something before we speak. We make the decision spontaneously at the time of speaking. Look at these examples:
•Hold on. I'll get a pen.
•We will see what we can do to help you.
•Maybe we'll stay in and watch television tonight.


In these examples, we had no firm plan before speaking. The decision is made at the time of speaking.

Future PERFECT (needs 1,2,3 things) will/won't +have+participle
The future perfect tense designates action that will have been completed at a specified time in the future.
see  the difference???
Saturday I will finish my housework. (simple future)
By Saturday noon, I will have finished my housework. (future perfect)

Further Examples - Look how all these events will have finished by a time in the future... BY is normally used with the future perfect

3. She'll have read the book by the time you arrive.

4. I'm afraid we won't have finished by the end of tomorrow afternoon.
5. What will you have studied by the time you finish college?

Use blog to ask any questions about these tenses.  What do you think about the 'future' now !!!

These videos recap my lesson almost exactly!!!






Monday, April 5, 2010

Coming Next Week

  • Social Studies Chapter 9 Review and Test (Fri)
  • Visual Association Study Skill
  • Tenses (Future and Past)
  • Creating Porpaganda  Ads
  • Chains -Directed Personal Reading 'Historical Non-fiction'