Friday, November 20
November 20, 2009 |
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Students had the context clues QUIZ today.
We read pages 24-40 of the novel. Students are responsible for questions 1-21 in Fahrenheit packet. (See class down laods if you still need one.)
Students worked on a comparison of Mildred and Clarisse (Character Foils). See attached. |
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Thursday, November 19
November 19, 2009 |
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Students practiced vocabulary in context (see attached) to prepare for tomorrow's QUIZ.
We read Fahrenheit 451 up to page 24. Students should be able to answer questions 1-15 (See Fahrenheit 451 PACKET in Class Downloads below) at this point. Be prepared if you have questions tomorrow. |
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Context Clues Practice 4 (25.6 KB)
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Wednesday, November 18
November 18, 2009 |
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Vocabulary Practice 3 on context clues. (See attached.)
Students completed the background novel information POSTTEST today and read up to page 16 in the novel. Questions 1-10 shuld be compleeted by tomorrow. |
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Context Clues Practice 3 (25.6 KB)
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Tuesday, November 17
November 17, 2009 |
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Students practiced with context clues today.
We started Fahrenheit 451 reading pages 3-10. Students should answer questions 1-6 in their packet for tomorrow as well as reading response entry 1.
DON'T FORGET POSTTEST tomorrow Bradbury and background information of novel. |
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Monday, November 16
November 16, 2009 |
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Students were introduced to the vocabulary concept of context clues. (See attached.)
As an introductin to Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 students read ONE of FOUR articles (see attached) and shared information in groups. POSTTEST coming soon!!! |
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Vocabualry Practice 1 (24.06 KB)
Background Articles (52.74 KB)
PRETEST/POSTTEST (27.14 KB)
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Tuesday, November 10
November 10, 2009 |
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Students practiced using foreign words and phrases in context. (See yesterday's PowerPoint slide 2).
We watched part 1 of I,Robot in an effort to prepare for a discussion of themes in our new SCI FI unit. (See attached.) |
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I, Robot Questions (33.28 KB)
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Monday, November 9
November 9, 2009 |
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Students were introduced to vocabualry:Foreign Words and Phrases 2 (last set!)
We also took our END OF UNIT Persuasive EXAM. Overall, students did pretty well. |
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 Foreign Words & Phrases PowerPoint (97.79 KB)
Vocabulary Practice (26.11 KB)
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Friday, November 6
November 6, 2009 |
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Whew!!!! This has been a long week. Today students turned in reading logs, vocabulary practices, and commericial and print ad projects.
Students completed the weekly vocabualry quiz.
We then had a date with the library where students browsed americanrhetoric.com website for speeches for analysis. (See attached.) Final work due on Monday.
Have a great weekend!! |
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Analyze a Persuasive Speech (47.62 KB)
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Thursday, November 5
November 5, 2009 |
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Students completed the final vocabulary practice. (See Monday's PowerPoint slide 4.) QUIZ tomorrow.
Students practiced identifying and analyzing rhetorical devices (questioning, parallelism, repetition, analogies, and hyperbole) See yesterday's PowerPoint.
Students read speeches, identified rhetoric and analyzed its use. (See attached.)
Be sure to review organizational structures for EXAM. (See attached.) |
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Speech 2 (23.04 KB)
Speech 1 (22.02 KB)
Organizational Structures (98.3 KB)
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Wednesday, November 4
November 4, 2009 |
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Today students completed the vocabulary practice. (See Monday's PowerPoint slide 3.)
Students took notes on Rhetorical Devices (see PowerPoint). They also completed a practice sheet to help apply definitions.
TEST on Friday covering all elements of persuasion. See your previous pretest. |
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Rhetorical Devices Notes (87.04 KB)
Rhetorical Devices Note Taker (29.7 KB)
Rhetorical Devices Practice (39.94 KB)
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Tuesday, November 3
November 3, 2009 |
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Today students in 2nd period completed a Writing Assessment. They wrote a persuasive essay on having a 4-day school week.
Students practiced using foreign words and phrases. (See Monday's PowerPoint slide 2.)
The remainder of class time was used for the project. |
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Monday, November 2
November 2, 2009 |
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Students will be introduced to new vocabulary (foreign words and phrases) see attached.
Today is the final day for working in class on group projects. |
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Foreign Words and Phrases PowerPoint (89.09 KB)
Monday Vocab Practice (27.65 KB)
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Thursday, October 29
October 29, 2009 |
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Students completed the weekly vocabuarly QUIZ and turned in completed SSR logs today.
Students worked in groups on the Commercial and Print Ad. Final in class working day is Monday. Be prepared. Due date is November 7th. |
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Wednesday, October 28
October 28, 2009 |
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Students completed practice #3 on weekly vocabulary. (See Monday's PowerPoint.)
Students worked in groups today to complete project. Groups were responsible for scripting and story boarding commerical and coming up with ideas for the print ad. Project due date is November 7. (See project guidelines on Monday's date.)
Remember Vocabuarly QUIZ tomorrow over last two weeks worth of words. Study!!! |
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Tuesday, October 27
October 27, 2009 |
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Students practiced vocabulary by choosing the appropriate word for the sentence.
Students worked in groups to complete the story board for the project. |
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Monday, October 26
October 26, 2009 |
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Today students were introduced to a new set of Commonly Confused Words. See attached.
Students were also formally given information on Commercial and Print Ad Group Project. (see attached) |
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Project Rubric (44.03 KB)
Vocabulary Practice (26.62 KB)
Vocabulary PowerPoint Practices (90.62 KB)
Project Information (34.3 KB)
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Friday, October 23
October 23, 2009 |
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Today students completed a QUIZ on our first set of vocabulary for this nine weeks.
Students took notes from a PowerPoint presentation on Logical Fallacies. After going through the PowerPoint (see attached) and discussing several examples students worked with a partner or small group identifying logical fallacies (see attached).
We will revisit this idea on Monday as it is a difficult concept to wrap your brain around. |
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Logical Fallacies Practice (24.58 KB)
Logical Fallacies PowerPoint (735.23 KB)
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Monday, October 19
October 19, 2009 |
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| Welcome back!!! We are embarking on a new unit, Persuasion. Today students took a PRETEST on the 22 state required vocabualry for this unit. We revisited and reviewed the expectations for the class. Just in case anyone forgot. |
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Persuasion PRETEST (30.72 KB)
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Monday, October 5
October 5, 2009 |
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Students read Act 3 Scene 1 of Julius Caesar. Please see attached for Act 3 questions.
Students are responsible for Act 3 Scene 1 Questions and Scene Summary Sheet.
Act 3 QUIZ on Wednesday. |
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Act 3 Questions (24.58 KB)
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Thursday, October 1 (homework)
Due Date: October 2, 2009 |
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Today we reviewed some major quotes from Act 2.(See attached.)
We will have Act 2 quiz tomorrow as well as an opportunity to improve scores on Act 1 QUIZ. Study up!!!!
Students are responsible for Act 2 questions and Scene Summary Sheets. |
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Significant Quotes (37.38 KB)
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Friday, October 2
October 2, 2009 |
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Today students turned in all work for Julius Caesar Act 2 after we reivewed and discussed.
Students took a quiz on Act 2 and elements of Act 1 missed on the Act 1 QUIZ.
Be prepared to begin Act 3 Monday and examine elements of persuasion. |
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Monday, September 28 (homework)
Due Date: September 29, 2009 |
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Today we reviewed Act 1 Scenes 1 & 2 of Julius Caesar. We were introduced to the soliloquy by analyzing a brief clip from Gone with the Wind.
We "read" Act 1 Scene 3. Students are responsible for Scene Summary Sheets and Scene questions.
QUIZ on Act 1 tomorrow. |
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Tuesday, September 29
September 29, 2009 |
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Today students took a QUIZ on Julilus Caesar Act 1. We will be looking very closely at mistakes tomorrow, so students have an opportunity to make improvements.
We began reading Act 2 with Scene 1 today. Students should have finished the 5 questions for that scene in class. If not, that is homework. Students are also responsible for a Scene Summary sheet for this one scene.
We will finish the Act tomorrow. |
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Friday, September 25
September 25, 2009 |
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Students reviewed the events of Act 1 by studying the final FOUR lines (72-75)of the play and responding to FOUR questions. (See attached sheet for details.)
Today students completed reading Act 1 Scene 2 of Julius Caesar. Students are responsible for questions 4-7 for this act and for completing scene summary sheets. BOTH documents have been added to the Class Downloads portion of this webpage.
We will have a QUIZ on Act 1 on Tuesday. Students should be familiar with characters (Flavius, Marullus, Antony, Brutus, Cassius, and Caesar) and literary elements (exposition, monologue, soliloquy, pun, and tragedy). |
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Lines 72-75 of Act 1.1 (24.58 KB)
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Wednesday, September 23
September 23, 2009 |
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GLAD TO BE BACK!!!!!! If you didn't know, I was out sick both Monday and Tuesday. Feeling much better today. Hopefully 100% tomorrow and so forth and so on...
Today, students viewed the final portion of the Julius Caesar video with 3 while you watch questions we discussed as a class.
Please be prepared to jump into the reading tomorrow.
Due to my absence I will be updating the calendar/schedule for Julius Caesar. So check back for the update. |
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Friday, September 18
September 18, 2009 |
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Students completed the Grammar POSTTEST: Punctuating Dialogue.
Please see yesterday's agenda as it was basically a repeat today.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!! |
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Thursday, September 17
September 17, 2009 |
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Today students completed a Punctuating Dialogue practice to prepare for tomorrow's POSTTEST.
Several students did presentations on the TKAM Soundtrack Project. We voted for TOP 3 songs.
Finally, students watched some scenes from Julius Caesar to familiarize them with major characters and events before we jump into the reading of the play on Monday. Students were responsible for responding to 5 questions based on what was seen and discussed in today's lesson. |
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Julius Caesar Viewing Questions (20.99 KB)
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Monday, September 16 (homework)
Due Date: September 16, 2009 |
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Today students took the end of novel EXAM on To Kill a Mockingbird.
We also spent a few minutes discussing any final questions or concerns about the Soundtrack Project which is due Wednesday. Good luck!! Be creative!! |
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Soundtrack Guidelines (51.2 KB)
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Tuesday, September 16 (homework)
Due Date: September 16, 2009 |
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Students took notes on Punctuating Dialogue. Each had an individualized practice to work on during class. (See attached for PowerPoint notes)
Students were encouraged to use any remaining class time to work on the TKAM Soundtrack Project which is due tomorrow. |
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Powerpoint: Punctuating Dialogue (127.49 KB)
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Wednesday, September 16
September 16, 2009 |
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Students completed a Grammar QUICK review on Punctuating Dialogue.
Students turned in their TKAM Soundtrack Projects today.
Finally, we took a field trip down to the Guidance Office for students to meet their counselors and get soem info on graduation.
We will be moving to a Shakespeare Unit on Julius Caesar. I have attached a schedule/calendar in the Class Downloads at the bottom the page. (If you click on the underlined hyperline Julius Caesar you will automatically be taken to a website that has the entire text of the play online.) |
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Friday, September 11
September 11, 2009 |
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Today students took a Grammar POSTTEST on Punctuating Titles with a little review from previous lessons as well.
Students watched the second half of To Kill a Mockingbird and compared and contrasted the movie to the novel.
Students should be prepared for the end of unit/novel EXAM on Monday. |
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Wednesday, September 9 (homework)
Due Date: September 10, 2009 |
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We are nearing the end of our novel TKAM!!! Students are responsible for reading anthing left that was not covered in class. Students are responsible for comprehension questions chapters 28-31.
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Wednesday, September 2 (homework)
Due Date: September 3, 2009 |
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Students practiced grammar in preparation for Friday's POSTTEST.
Students watched and analyzed portions of Atticus's speech from To Kill a Mockingbird.
We read chapter 21 in class. Students are responsible for reading chapter 22 with comprehension questions. |
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Thursday, August 27
August 27, 2009 |
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Students took a TEST today on book one of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Students are responsible for reading chapters 12-14 for tomorrow. |
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Tuesday, August 25 (homework)
Due Date: August 26, 2009 |
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Students had a QUICK GRAMMAR review on phrases and clause fragments. (POSTTEST on Friday.)
We read chapter 10 and part of 11 in TKAM. Students are responsible for completing chapter 11 which will end book one with questions. We will review events tomorrow in preparation for a TEST on book one Thursday. |
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TKAM Book One Study Guide (39.42 KB)
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Monday, August 24 (homework)
Due Date: August 25, 2009 |
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Students were introduced to Sentence Fragments taking notes using PowerPoint presentation. (See below.)
Students are responsible for reading To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 7,8, and 9 as well as the questions. This assignment was actually given on Friday. |
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Grammar Notes PowerPoint (87.55 KB)
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Friday, August 21 (homework)
Due Date: August 24, 2009 |
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Students had the grammar POSTTEST today.
We also completed the Mapping Maycomb assignment.
Students are responsible for reading chapters 7,8,& 9 by Monday with comprehension questions. |
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Wednesday, August 19 (homework)
Due Date: August 20, 2009 |
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Students reviewed the comma and coordinating conjunctins. POSTTEST on Friday.
Today, we began Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. We read most of chapter 1. Students are responsible for chapters 1,2, and 3 and questions.
Please see attached calendar for reading schedule. |
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Reading Calendar (34.82 KB)
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Tuesday, August 18
August 18, 2009 |
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Students will briefly practice the comma and coordinating conjunction.
Students will be reading one of four articles on: Scottsboro trials, Harper Lee, Jim Crow as a way to introduce To Kill a Mockingbird.
Be prepared for a QUIZ on all FOUR articles tomorrow. |
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Background on Harper Lee (35.33 KB)
Jim Crow Article (26.11 KB)
Scottsboro Trials Article (28.67 KB)
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Monday, August 17
August 17, 2009 |
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Students discussed Carver's short story "Little Things" and made literary connections.
We had PowerPoint notes on using commas with coordinating conjunctions. Students were given individual assignments for practice. |
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Monday, August 17
August 17, 2009 |
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Students will have a brief discussion on Carver's "Little Things"
Grammar: Students will practice joining independent clauses.
See PowerPoint below for notes. |
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Literary Terms/Definitions (homework)
Due Date: August 12, 2009 |
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| Students will define each of the terms in preparation of using them to talk about and write about literature. |
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Monday: RRR Test and Grammar Practice
August 10, 2009 |
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After the RRR test, students were assigned individual Grammar assignments on the Comma.
See Comma PowerPoint below. |
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Friday: RRR Activity Review
August 7, 2009 |
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| Students analyzed a variety of scenarios and their relationship to the RRR. |
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Rules, Rituals, and Routines
August 6, 2009 |
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| Students were introduced to the class. We read and discussed the Rules, Rituals, and Routines. Students will have an assignment and a test soon. |
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