Ms. Sbeity and Miss Yandura’s Language Arts Class:

Agenda:

1. Bellwork (1st and 6th hours turned in today; 4th and 5th will turn in Wednesday) ** Grammar quiz Wednesday!
2. Finished the Journey of the Hero Vocabulary  ** Test Tuesday, Oct. 8
3. Prepared to read epics and legends (textbook p.1001-1005)
4. Paragraphs (constructed response to “My Left Foot”) were due today.  If you did not turn it in today, do so tomorrow for reduced credit.  It is a summative assignment!!!
5. Bring SSR book tomorrow.  We will renew the books that were checked out in our media center.

Ms. Sbeity’s Spanish Class:

Spanish 2:

• New vocabulary list today doc20130930134047
• worksheet on vocab (p.67) doc20130930134017

Spanish 3/4:

• Finished “Extra” Episode 3 and turned in listening comprehension questions
• New vocabulary list today doc20130930134158doc20130930134908

Ms. Sbeity and Miss Yandura’s Language Arts 3 Class:

• We started class with SSR.
• We edited the paragraphs that were due for homework.  See yesterday’s post.
• We began the vocabulary of the “Journey of the Hero” and will continue with it Monday.
• **** Rewrite the paragraph on “My Left Foot” and turn in Monday with the rough draft.

Ms. Sbeity’s Spanish Class:

• We completed the written portion of the test.
• We watched part of our series “Extra”
• No homework this weekend 🙂

Ms. Sbeity and Miss Yandura’s Language Arts 3 Class:

Our Agenda:

1. Bellwork
2. Finished the story “My Left Foot” and two-column notes
3. Group discussion on the story based on p. 174 #1; p. 175 #5, 9, 10
4. Assign writing:  constructed response to literature paragraph My Left Foot

Ms. Sbeity’s Spanish Class:

Spanish 2: 

• Test on vocabulary and when to use ser or estar
• Turn in bellwork

Spanish 3/4:

• Turn in bellwork and worksheets p.51-53
• Test on ch 6.1

It was a pleasure to meet those of you who were able to attend open house!

Ms. Sbeity and Miss Yandura’s Language Arts 3 Class:

Our Agenda:

• We added entries into our grammar glossaries. doc20130925092559
• We completed today’s bellwork (#3). doc20130925093948
• We finished our two-column notes with our story “My Left Foot”.

Ms. Sbeity’s Spanish Class:

Spanish 2: 

***Test tomorrow on vocabulary and the use of ser and estar.

• We completed our bellwork.
• We reviewed the vocabulary.
• We corrected yesterday’s homework (worksheet)
• We applied the use of ser and estar with activities

Spanish 3/4:

***Test tomorrow on chapter 6.1 (imperfect, reciprocal actions, vocabulary)

• We completed our bellwork.
• We corrected yesterday’s homework
• We reviewed the chapter with worksheets p. 51-53 doc20130925092718doc20130925092655doc20130925092631

We are looking forward to meeting you tonight at open house!

Ms. Sbeity and Ms. Yandura’s Language Arts 3 Class:

Our agenda:

1. Book Log Bingo Assignment #1 was collected today.  Next one is due October 8!
2. We read further with our SSR books.
3. We set our long term and short term goals for this card marking.Goals challenge[1]
4. We continued our two-column notes with the short story, “My Left Foot”.  Anyone who is absent will need to check out a textbook upon return.

Ms. Sbeity’s Spanish Class:

Spanish 2:

• Bellwork
• Practice vocabulary
• correct worksheet p. 201 Exercises #8,9,10
• Complete worksheet p.33-34; 52-53 doc20130924102022doc20130924102042doc20130924102104doc20130924102127
• Test Thursday on ser vs. estar and vocabulary 6.1

Spanish 3/4

• Bellwork
• Practice vocabulary
• correct p.214-215 #14,15,16
• complete for tomorrow worksheets p. 64-66doc20130924102615doc20130924102636doc20130924102700
• Test Thursday on chapter 6.1:  Vocabulary, imperfect tense, reciprocal actions with nos, os, se

OPEN HOUSE WILL BE HELD TOMORROW EVENING!!!
Ms. Sbeity and Miss Yandura’s Language Arts Class:

1. Copied entries into our grammar glossary
2. Completed our Daily Language Practice (bellwork)
3. Received our progress reports
4. Learned how to make short term and long term goals and wrote them in our goals packet which will be visited weekly

****  Book Log Bingo assignment due tomorrow!

Ms. Sbeity’s Spanish Class:

Spanish 2:

1. Bellwork
2. Chart the uses of ser and estar
3. Apply the uses to p. 200-201
4. *** Test Thursday on vocabulary and the uses of ser and estar

Spanish 3/4:

1. Collected the questions to “Extra”
2. Bellwork
3. Learned when to use ” nos, os, se” when talking about reciprocal actions
4. We applied the pronouns to activities on p. 214-215 doc20130923122809doc20130923122838

Ms. Sbeity and Miss Yandura’s Language Arts 3 Class:

Reminder:  Open House will be held Tuesday evening. 

Our Agenda:

• We started class with SSR.
• We read p. 169-171 of “My Left Foot”. While we read, we took two-column notes.  The left column shows citing the actual text, and the right side shows our response to that quote.
• ***Book Log Bingo Assignment #1 is due Tuesday at the beginning of class!doc20130920125334

Ms. Sbeity’s Spanish Class:

Spanish 2:

• After bellwork, we took a test on the verbs “ser” and “estar”. 
• Have worksheet p. 51 completed for Monday. doc20130920130101
• Study your vocabulary list since you will be tested Thursday.doc20130920130940

Spanish 3/4:

• Bellwork
• Watched “Extra” and answered questions for listening comprehension(Finish the questions this weekend.)
• Study vocabulary(doc20130920131459) and the notes on the imperfect tense. **Test Wednesday!

Ms. Sbeity and Miss Yandura’s Language Arts Class:

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We started set #2 of bellwork today.  We saw a video clip from the short story, “My Left Foot” and read the Prepare to Read on p. 166-167.  The author, Christy Brown, experiences an epiphany in his life so we discussed the meaning of “epiphany” and wrote a paragraph describing a time when we had one.

Ms. Sbeity’s Spanish Class:

Spanish 2:

The tenth graders attended the anti-bullying assembly.  Project due and quiz tomorrow!

Spanish 3/4:

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• Bellwork : Ask your partner if he/she liked to do 5 specific activities when he/she was little.
• Complete p. 212-213 #10,11,12
• Project due tomorrow!

Ms. Sbeity and Miss Yandura’s Language Arts 3 Class:

Today we took our first grammar test and we finished our stations from yesterday (please see yesterday’s blog).  We ended class with SSR. 

Ms. Sbeity’s Spanish 2/3/4 Class:

Spanish 2:

We reviewed vocabulary and took a pretest on “ser” and “estar” (The test is Friday).  We also worked on our mini-projects (due tomorrow at the end of class).

Spanish 3/4:  doc20130918090048doc20130918085831

We reviewed vocabulary in context, and we had conversations with three classmates.  Then we worked on p.209 #4,5 and p.211#7,8 along with our mini-projects (projects are due Friday).

Close & Critical Read(1)  Attachment

Ms. Sbeity and Miss Yandura’s Language Arts 3 Class:

We finished sharing as a class our “Talking to the Text” with our article on cerebral palsy.  We then split up into 4 stations according to the four “Close and Critical Reading” squares (attached).  We are using that strategy also with the article. 

**Tomorrow there will be a grammar test on the bellwork and grammar glossary. 

Ms. Sbeity’s Spanish Class:

Spanish 2: 

After bellwork, we used the verb “estar” to describe one’s feelings and location(Complete exercises A-D)

We are using our vocabulary to create and label a place setting with foods. *Due Thursday

It must include : all utensils, beverage, appetizer, main dish, 1 side dish, 1 dessert

** Friday there will be a quiz on applying “ser” and “estar”.

Spanish 3/4:

After bellwork, we completed a listening comprehension activity involving the vocabulary.

We started to create a poster that tells a visual story of our childhood activities. 

It must:

• include eight pictures or drawings with a caption using the imperfect tense and current vocabulary.
• be neat and colored.
• be prepared and ready to present on Friday.