Advisory – College Adventure

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Greetings, my lovelies!

Is it just me, or is SPRING BREAK in the air?  Ah – don’t quit on me now.  Things are just starting to pick up pace.  The test-that-shall-not-be-named is behind us, and wonderful challenges lay before us! 
Tangerine by Edward Bloor is by far one of my favorite novels to teach, primarily because students LOVE it [...]

Murder on the Orient Express

Welcome to a new semester!    Everything feels all crisp and fresh – new vocabulary, new grammar skills, new literature!  Breathe it all in!
My Pre-AP classes will start things off with an author study of Agatha Christie.  We’ll read “The Mousetrap”, which is a lot of fun!  Who’s got what it takes to figure out who [...]

Semester Finals are upon us!!!

To get you started on your mad review skills, here are a couple of links to the online vocabulary review(s):
Fall Semester Review – Definitions
Fall Semester Review – Parts of Speech
Have fun, and may the vocab be with you.

Mrs. S
 

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Did someone say…ADVENTURE?

Greetings & Salutations, my fellow Middle Earthlings! 
While your fellow classmates are slaving away in their other classes, you will be embarking on an incredible adventure – a Hobbit adventure, that is.
Over the next two days, your quest will be to fulfill four Hobbit tasks.  I’ve even set up a special place at which to begin [...]

Third Six Weeks Vocabulary Review Game – ONLINE

Here’s the link!  Keep up with it, book mark it, add it to your favorites. 
3rd Six Weeks Vocabulary Review Online
 

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Poe Video Project – Day 1

Welcome to your first day of video production!  Since we’re still in the early stages, we won’t officially begin filming until tomorrow.  Today, your goal will be to produce an outline for me of exactly what to expect from your group’s production company.    Remember that everything needs to be approved by your master producer (that [...]

“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe

Attention, 1st/5th block PreAPeeps!  I forgot to hand out a copy of “Annabel Lee” after today’s activity!  You will need it to complete your homework assignment!
All it takes is a quick Google search to find the poem, but I’ve also got a copy right here:
“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
Shoot me an email if you [...]

Knowing Poe, Day 2

Welcome back to Knowing Poe! 
Today in the computer lab, you must finish the remainder of your Interactive Website Exploration Assignment.    When you have printed out your “Tell-Tale Heart” annotations, you can consider yourself done with Part 1.  There is also a Part 2!    
The last item on your Technology To-Do List is to join our new [...]

Eating Cookies in Language Arts

Ok, so you all know I’m talking FIGURATIVELY eating cookies, right?
This week we’ll be PIGGING OUT on those figurative cookies.  Hopefully, Pre-APeeps, you filled your bellies with a little “Most Dangerous Game” this weekend while you worked on your analysis.   I acknowledge that this is a challenging assignement – please send me an email if you [...]