Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Oct. 5

Prayer Intentions:

- for those under stress or ill that God may be with them
- for Dean's cousin who is missing that he may be safe and found soon
- for the grade 8 football team that it may be successful today
- for the candidates for Student Council that they may not be too competitive

Today's prayer leaders were Analisa and Tyson.

CE

- You had time to review your notes again. Those who received 7/10 or better could choose whether to take the retest or not.
- You received your new seats.
- You took the retest and did silent reading.
- I gave the handouts for next class. You may review them before next class (but are not obligated to do so).
- We read from the text, and you took notes as needed: pp. 13- 21.

Homework:

Read pages 22-24 in your textbook and take notes using the Cornell Note-taking system.


ENGLISH

- group work: You had time to work on your Grammar Fun projects.
- grammar: We went over the answers to the noun booklet. We handed out the pronoun booklet and went over the exercises that are for homework.

Homework:
- pronoun booklet exercise 9, 10, and 11 (omit the last column for ex. 11)
- reading: Read the short story, "The White Pony" on page 111 in your Focus book.


Social Studies


- finished going over 6-11
- hw check (Computing Distances/Telling Time)
- Devastating Floods in Pakistan: reading, discussion, questions, map

Homework:

- re-do Computing Distances questions 1 and 2
- complete the questions for Pakistan
- work on your map (due Oct. 12)


Reminder: prayer leaders next class are Sofia and Ria