Agenda, October 29

Essay due at the end of class Monday
Read 30 minutes tonight, Saturday, and Sunday

1. Let's get quizzical!
2. Writing time

Agenda, October 28

Quiz Tomorrow!
Due Monday at the end of class: Argument for a Measure

1. Reading
2. Logical Fallacies Quick Review
3. Argument for a Measure Grammar Decoder Practice
4. Writing Time

Agenda, October 27

Quiz on Logical Fallacies Friday
Read 30 minutes tonight

1. Logical Fallacies Review
2. Ads in groups
3. Persuasive essays introduction

Agenda, October 26

Due Now: Bookmark 6
Bookmark 7: 10/26 - 11/1
Quiz Postponed until Friday

1. Reading
2. Comma Practice
3. Finish A Measured Evaluation. Due today!
4. Logical Fallacies with ads, in groups

Due Now: Oregon Voter's Guide Handout
Due Tomorrow: Bookmark 6
Due Wednesday: Fallacies Quiz

1. Personal Reading
2. Fallacies Notes Do-over
3. A Measured Evaluation

Agenda, October 20

Read 30 minutes on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Due Now: Logical Fallacies Pink Sheet

1. Reading / Finish Essays
2. Compound Sentences
   
3. Review Fallacies - Quiz next Wednesday
4. The Online Voter's Guide

Agenda, October 20

Read for 15 minutes tonight!

1. Reading Time
2. Introductory Clauses
   
3. Write Your Own Logical Fallacies
4. Fact-Checking Political Ads
5. Decoding Ads in Groups

Agenda, October 19

Due Now: BM 5
Bookmark 6: 10/19 - 10/25

1. Reading / Writing
2. Bookmark EC
3. Logical Fallacies Video 1
4. Logical Fallacies Video 2
5. Write your own logical fallacies!

Agenda, October 18

Due Now: Bookmark Check. If you are filling out your bookmark now, it is late.
Due Tomorrow: Bookmark 5
Due Last Thursday: Rough draft and peer review

Today's Goals:

1. If you're still working on your rough draft, hurry up!
2. Peer review.
   
3. Finish final draft. If you type slowly, you may write neatly, in pen, skipping lines.
4. Work on personal reading when you're done.
5. Explore The Oregonian e-edition (if I can get the tech to work)

Agenda, October 14

This weekend: Read 30 minutes Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Fill out your bookmark as you finish. Be prepared for a bookmark check on Monday.

1. Personal Reading
2. Extra Credit Help
3. Drafting Time
4. Peer Review

Agenda, October 12

Due Now: Bookmark 4
Bookmark 5: 10/12 - 10/18

Last chance for extra credit!

1. Personal reading
2. Show, Don't Tell
3. Narrative Assignment
4. Brainstorming / Drafting time

Agenda, October 11

Due Tomorrow: Bookmark 4, front and back. Finish the front tonight at home: add your minutes, your pages, and fill in next week's goal. P.S. There's an extra extra credit point in the extra credit question.

Due Tomorrow: Register to vote (if you're 18, that is)

1. Personal Reading: while you are reading, complete at least one wondrous word entry.
   
2. Wondrous Words
   
3. The first time I ...
4. The last time I ...
5. Drafting time

Agenda, October 7

This weekend: Read 30 minutes Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Don't forget the back of your bookmark!

Finish Reading Work Sample

• Many of you need to meet a reading work sample to graduate.
• Use of cell phones in a testing environment is an automatic referral.
• Grades are based on the thoroughness of your answers as well as your ability to follow the class rules.

Mr. Kline Boggles your mind
Sheep?

Agenda, October 6

Any extra credit today?

No reading tonight! Give yourself 30 minutes for class today. (If you read for fun, be sure to note it).

It's a reading work sample party!
Reminders:

• Many of you need to meet a reading work sample to graduate.
• Use of cell phones in a testing environment is an automatic referral.
• Grades are based on the thoroughness of your answers as well as your ability to follow the class rules.

Agenda, October 5

Don't forget the extra credit opportunity!

Bookmark 3 due now. Bookmark 4 due 10/12.
Week 4: 10/5 - 10/11

1. Collect Bookmarks
2. Personal Reading
3. Partner Chat: What additions would you like to see made to to a box of animal crackers? Why?What three jobs would you give to a robotic teacher's helper? Why? Plan a dinner menu for a foe.
   
4. Open Mind Practice
5. Partner Chat Quiz

What does participation look like?

1. I show up on time.
2. I get my absences excused.
3. I do not use my phone during class.
4. I read when I am supposed to be reading.
5. I listen when I am supposed to be listening.
6. I speak when I am supposed to be speaking.

If this describes your behavior in class, your participation grade will be excellent.

Agenda, October 4

Extra Credit! Read all about it!
Bring me political ads that come to your house, please.

Due Tues: Bookmark 3, front and back
Do your math at home: add up the minutes and your pages. Walk in the door ready to turn in your bookmark.

Today's Learning Goals
"I can use a grammar decoder to improve my conventions."
"I can help my classmates improve their own writing."
"I can monitor my own participation."

1. Reading time
2. Participation Points Self-Check
3. "Traveling Through the Dark," by William Stafford.
4. "Mint" Paragraph Revision