Scribe Notes Weds. 3/25/09

Agenda:
1- Guest Speaker: Br. Abdullah

HW:
1- vocab ex 4
2- Part III work (due Tues 3/31)

Today we had a guest speaker, Br. Abdullah. He shared with us the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost, and we discussed the themes present in the poem, and other points of analysis. For homework, we should do Vocabulary exercise 4, and work on the Part 3 work for Les Miserables due next Tuesday.

MONDAY march 23,2009

SCIBE NOTES
1) Vocabulary test:
Sister Salma wasn't here and the copy machine wasn't working so we weren't able to ork on our vocabulary tests.

2)Les Mis: Symbolism
We split into groups and looked into parts 1 and 2 for any symbolism used in les miserables. we made a chart in which we incuded the stmbol textual refrences, and the significance.

hmwk
work on final draft of myth paper due Wed.

Friday, March, 20th, 2009

Agenda

1- Spelling Test#23

2- Les Mis: Part 2 Quiz
--> discussion

HW: 1- work on final draft of myth paper

We took the spelling test, as always, and then we took our second Les Miserables quiz. We talked about it for a few minutes before the bell rang and we were then dismissed.

Agenda Tuesday 23, 2009

Agenda

Vocab test #23-24

-start lesson 25

Les mis: symbolism

Hw:vocab

-FINISH Final draft of English

We copied the agenda and quickly studied some of the words for our vocab test.

Then we took the test. After that we took the spelling pretest then did exercise 1

and corrected it. Then we put away the vocab book and took out our notes form the previous

day, about Symbolism in Les miserable. we went over them, and added some new ones.

the bell then rang and we left.

Scribe Notes Wednesday 3/18/09

Sister Salma wasn't here today, and we couldn't find the agenda that was supposed to be there, so we read Part two: Cosette of Les Miserables.

For Homework, we should finish the Part 2 work, due on Friday, and work on our vocab packets.

Agenda

Les mes:
-> charchter comparsion
-> Socratic Seminar
HW: Vocab ex 3
2. LM: Part 2 due Friday


we first copied the agenda then we took out our comparison that we did on Javert and Jean val-jean. Then we split up into groups and we did the big Character sketch of each man, one for Jalvert and one for Jean. Areeba and Nawal were in one group and Alia and Saliha were in another group. when we were done we moved on to a brain storm essay about Jalvert until the bell rang.

MONDAY March 16,2008

Scribe Notes
1) Spelling Test #23
Because we're a bit behind, we took last weeks spelling test today and then started on lesson 24. We took the pre-test, did exercise 1, and the analogies at teh end of the lesson.

2)Mini-Research PPts
Alia and Fadhelah presented their mini-research powerpoints on "The Reign of Terror" and "French Romanticism", respectively.

HW
1) Vocab ex 2
2)Create a chart comparing and contrasting Valjean and Jalvert in four specefic areas. It can be anything from childhood, to personality, to role n society.

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Agenda

1- Les Miserable Part one quiz
--> discussion

HW: Les Miserables Part II (due Thursday)

We didn't take a spelling test this week, so we took a short quiz on part one in Les Miserables to make sure we understood what we read in it so far. After that we discussed what we read in class and were dismissed.

Friday, March 7th, 2009

Agenda

1- Spelling Test #21

2- Mythological final guide

3- Les Miserables: compile power point

HW: 1- Les Miserables: Part one (reading response and essay due Friday)

We took our spelling test and worked on Mythological research. After that we worked on our powerpoint presentations and were dismissed.

MONDAY March 9,2009

Scribe Notess
1)Student Presentations
Salijha, Areeba, and Nawal presented their mini-research powerpoints in the computer lab.
2)Passage Commentaries:
We split into two groups, Fadhlah adn Areeba in one, Nawal and saliha in the other. (Alia was absent) we then read a passage in the book about the guilotine. We then had to write a commentary on it, referring to it's main points, it's representation of major themes, it's importance to the story, and any literary devices used in it. Because we didn;t finish it, we'll be given time to work on it tomorrow.

Homework:
review for vocab test
finish reading and asignments for part one of les miserables.

Scribe Notes Weds. 3/4/09

Agenda:
1- Les Mis: Mini-research work
--> Read Part I

HW:
1- vocab ex 4
2- work on myth paper (rough draft due friday)

We spent the first half of class in the computer lab working on our mini-research presentations. Then we went back to the class and read from Part I of Les Miserables for the rest of the period. For homework, we should do vocab exercise 4, as well as work on the rough draft of the myth paper.

Monday March 2, 2009

SCRIBE NOTES
1)Spelling PreTest 22
2)Research Project
3)Les Misrables: Reading Time

HW:
1)vocab ex 2
2)Work on research paper rough draft due friday

We stared off witht eh spelling pretest and exercise 1 for vocab. The hwe went to the computer lab to work on our mini-research power point projects. Finally, we moved into the classroom and read Les Misrables independantly. FOr homework, we need to work on our rough drafts for our research papers by Friday.

Thursday 2/26

Agenda:

1. Les Miserables
-->into novel unit
--->begin Part I
HW: 1- finish vocab
2- work on Task#4
--> rough draft (task5) due next friday.

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Sister Salma passed out 5 worksheets to us. The 1st three were the same thing. they were Internet Evaluation Sheets. the 2nd one was the Intro of Les Miserables and activities we will be doing for it. the 3rd one was due dates for responses and finish readings.
After explaining to us about the Les Miserables and the curriculum for it, Sister Salma had us start reading the novel.