ELA Stuff: Notebook Management

Here is a sample of how I expect everyone of you to do so you can maximize the pages of your ELA notebook (mine but yours to use, remember?)

Journal Entry Format (Class Reading Log Ntbk.)

Use this entry format for your Reading Log Notebook in class.

801 ELA

COURSE FRAMEWORK

SY 2009-2010

 

1. SCHEDULE

    FOR A DAY

• DO NOW/COPY HOMEWORK (10 MINS.)
  
• AGENDA (10-15MINUTES)
  
  • READ ALOUD
    
  • MINI-LESSON
    
  • GUIDED PRACTICE
    
  • INDEPENDENT WORK
    
  • INSTRUCTIONAL READING (A DAY) OR COMFORT READING (B DAY) AND BOTH ARE REQUIREMENTS
    
  • JOURNAL WRITING ( CLASS NOTEBOOK)/PERSONAL NOTEBOOK
    

    LABEL: SAME ENTRY FOR NEW MOON FOR THE FIRST MARKING PERIOD
    

    
     

FOR B DAY:

• COMFORT READING
  
• WRITING AND GRAMMAR
  

 

• CLASS NORMS AS SET UP BY THE WHOLE CLASS
  
  • BE ON TIME ESPECIALLY ON A DAY. ELA STARTS AT 8.00
    
  • COME TO CLASS PREPARED INCLUDING MATERIALS.
    
  • BAGS TO THE FRONT. ELA MATERIALS ARE THE ONLY ONES ALLOWED ON DESKS.
    
  • NO EATING, GUM CHEWING AND SODA OR ENERGY DRINKING.
    
  • PAY ATTENTION. NO SIDE DISCUSSION DURING WHOLE CLASS ACTIVITY.
    
  • NO LEAVING OF SEATS WITHOUT PERMISSION. RAISE YOUR HAND FOR ANY ASSISTANC. WAIT FOR YOUR TURN.
    

  * There is a Friday after school detention for the whole class when warranted. 3 warnings will be given before this measure is taken.
  

 

1. GRADING
   
   1. DO NOW AND READING JOURNAL NOTEBOOK – 40%
      
   2. QUIZZES AND /OR UNIT TEST- 10%
      
   3. ELA PORTFOLIO IN WRITING – 20%
      
   4. PROJECT= EXIT PROJECT (GRADUATE REQUIREMENTS)
      
   5. BEHAVIOR (15%)
      

 

1V.
EDUCATIONAL TRIPS
are privileges that must be earned by displaying appropriate behavior in class and completing work in class. Participants of the trip are based on teacher's discretion after evaluation of student's class performance.

 

V. ELA MATERIALS (REQUIRED)

    FLASH DRIVE

NOTEBOOK

PENS/PENCILS

FOLDERS (2)

 

 

STUDENT NAME:________________________        

SIGNATURE: ___________________________

 

    By signing this, you make yourself accountable to meet the requirements for ELA. This becomes our contract of agreement for ELA for the SY 2009-2010.

 

Sidebar #7 : Movie Date

Thanksgiving Class Date

Movie Date: November 25, 2009 New Moon in Imax Theater.





Clearance for requirements are needed in order to join.








See Ms. Acedo for more details.

My Thoughts Per Se on Chapter 20: Volterrra

" Death that had sucked the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."

Romeo and Juliet

This chapter was heart pounding because of the vivid description and account of the author to the readers as she tried to paint a picture of the hurdles that Bella would have to overcome in saving the love of her life. It was a minute by minute account of Bella making a run despite her klutziness to save her lover on time. Can you imagine how she tried to navigate her way around that throng of people why focusing on Edward's location at the same time?

How sweet when they finally embraced again and Edward once again showed how he really felt for Bella. He had lost sense of reality thinking that he just died and came to heaven with Bella waiting for him in her warmth embrace. This chapter was just mushy! Awwww......true love is quite intoxicating! That goes for the picture as well :)

On a serious note:

Other vampire royalty was also introduced into this chapter which makes it more interesting.

Will they escape the verdict of the royal vampire leaders? Aro, Caius and Marcus....

Toodles,

Ms. Acedo

My Thoughts Per Se on Chapter 19 Race

I'm back y' all! I will be blogging about this chapter which I refer to as Bella and Alice sealing the bonds of their friendship for good. It's really strange that when a loved one is in great danger, people who truly care for them will not have any second thoughts of saving them. This is really the power of love and exactly what our heroine, Bella, is about to do even if she will be grounded by Charlie for the rest of her life by leaving ( the second time around) the country without any permission and torturing Jacob's feelings for leaving him behind, literally and figuratively.

The plane conversation was hilarious and it only goes to show how girlfriends, who are true to their friendship, can open up to each other and comfort one another in time of need. When I read this chapter again for the nth time after spending time in Seattle, I felt a connection. The flight they took from Seattle to Georgia to New York can really make a traveler weary and 'suspended' in time when in transit up in the air.

The chapter also opened up a lot of relationships that were cared for and nurtured by the characters involved. Alice with Jasper and for all her other 'vampire siblings'; Bella with Edward

as well. It also showed the readers how powerful Alice's sixth sense was as she took us to every decision that Edward made in sealing his doom.

Lastly, woven into this chapter was the story of who and what the Volturi are to the vampires in the world. I think that part was very cool. The author was a genius in concocting that stylish lifestyle despite their means of surviving. However, I was thinking, with all the money that they have in the world, why don't they just set up a fake blood bank and have their "exotic juice" in stylish wine bottles as well? :p

Just a thought.

Toodles,

Ms. Maria Acedo