1 December

Memory awakens hope.

~Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Seek That Which is Above, 1986

Mission 1

• Write a paragraph responding to the quote above. What does this mean to you? Has there been a time when a memory has given you hope? Tell me about it.

Mission 2

• Daily Language Review

Mission 3

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 4

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 5

• Spelling

Mission 6

• Complete Capitalization Practice 3.

Mission 7

• Complete Subject-Verb Agreement Test 1.

Mission 8

• Complete Accuplacer Practice Day 1.

30 November

Mission 1

• Complete Combined Skills Test 4.

Mission 2

• Read "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton, Langan pp. 395-397.
• Answer the Vocabulary Questions, Langan pp. 398-399 in your book.
• Answer the Reading Comprehension Questions, Langan pp. 400-402 in your book.
• Complete the Summary, Langan pp. 402-403, Langan pp. 402-403 in your book.
• Complete the writing tasks here.

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling
• Dictation
• Lesson

27 November

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling Lesson

Mission 5

• Complete Capital Letters Practice 2.

Mission 6

• Complete Subject-Verb Agreement Practice 2.

Mission 7

• Practice Presentations

Mission 8

• Revise your essay.
• Make sure: 
• ALL words are spelled correctly.
• ONLY words that need to be capitalized are capitalized.
• ALL verbs are in present tense.
• ALL subjects and verbs agree with each other.
• Make sure your WHOLE paper, including your header and heading (yes, you need these), is in Times New Roman 12pt font.
• See our post from 18 November if you don't know how to make a header or heading and/or if you don't know how to change your font.
• ALL ESSAYS will be graded based on what is completed by 11:59 p.m. today!

26 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Review

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling

Mission 5

• Complete Capital Letters 1.

Mission 6

• Complete Subject-Verb Agreement 1.

Mission 7

• Make a reference page for your essay.
• This must include the book, the movie, the page for the theme you chose, and the imdb page for the cast and crew.
• Here's how.

25 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Review

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness (yesterday & today)

Mission 4

• Spelling Lesson (yesterday & today)

Mission 5

• Complete Signal Words II Mastery 5.

Mission 6

• Complete Inferences Mastery 5.

Mission 7

• Complete Argument Mastery Test 2.

Mission 8

• Revise your essay and/or your presentation.
• Tomorrow, we will have practice presentations and we will create a reference page for our essays!
• Presentations will be on Sunday at 8am!

24 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Review

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing
• Go to Moodle.
• Click on "Courses."
• Click on "ENGL09713."
• Go down to the last assignment in "Classwork," which says 6+1 Writing November 24.
• Complete the graphic organizer diagram.
• Organization: Use a graphic organizer to group similar details and to plan the order of your sentences.
  Think of a problem in your school or community. How would you solve it? Use the problem-and-solution diagram here to organize your ideas. Send this completed diagram to bruce.p@gust.edu.kw as an attachment.

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling Lesson

Mission 5

• Complete Vocabulary in Context Mastery 6.

Mission 6

• Complete Argument Review 2.

Mission 7

• Complete Combined Skills Test 3.

Mission 8

• Use your answers from the form yesterday (in your gmail) and this template to compose your presentation.

23 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Review

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling
• Dictation
• Lesson

Mission 5

• Select a review of "Persuasion" from imdb.com.
• Read the review.
• Use this form to complete this mission.
• Identify any unknown words and look them up.
• Paraphrase the review - what is it saying?
• Do you agree with the reviewer's opinion, or do you disagree?
• Give three reasons why you agree or disagree.

Mission 5

• Read Langan pp. 310-311.
• Complete Argument Practice 4.

Mission 6

• Read "Rosa: A Success Story" by Edward Patrick in Langan pp. 385-388
• Answer the questions here.

20 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Review

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Complete Signal Words I Mastery Test 6.

Mission 4

• Complete Combined Skills Test 2.

Mission 5

• Phonological Awareness - Counting Syllables

Mission 6

• Spelling Lesson - Doubling Rule

Mission 7

• Peer Evaluations
• Review checklist for body paragraph
• Access assigned classmates' essays (gmail)
• Read assigned classmates' body paragraph
• Score assigned classmates' body paragraph using the checklist. 
• Explain why she got that score!

Mission 8

• Review checklist for conclusion (Course Book p. 324)
• What theme did you pick?
• Do you have a story from your life or your observations that connects to this theme?
• Write the story using the 5 Ws and the 5 senses.
• Make sure you organize the story with a beginning, middle, and ending.

19 November

Reminder: 

Tomorrow after break, 

Dr. Ilene will be observing me teaching you. PLEASE do not use mobile phones, 

speak in Arabic, 

or visit web pages (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) 

that are not part of the class during the 

30-45 minutes that she will be here.

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness catch up

Mission 4

• Spelling catch up

Mission 5

• Review of the body paragraph check list (Course Book p. 324).

Mission 6

• Review Comparison/Contrast paragraphs explanation (CB pp. 357-359

Mission 7 

• Comparison/Contrast mini-lesson

Mission 6

• Complete the Literary Analysis Common Elements: Comparison/Contrast Paragraph worksheet (CB pp. 354-355).

Mission 7

• Complete the Literary Analysis Common Elements: Comparison/Contrast Paragraph worksheet (CB p. 356).

18 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness (yesterday & today)

Mission 4

• Spelling Lesson (yesterday & today)

Mission 5

• Create a gmail account.
• If you don't already have one, go here and follow the steps to make one.
• SAVE YOUR PASSWORD IN A SAFE SPOT!!!
• Write it down and put it in your wallet.
• Save it into the "notes" section on your phone.

Mission 6

• Go to Google Drive.
• Click "New."
• Select "Folder"
• Name this folder "ENGL09713."
• Click on your ENGL09713 folder.
• Click "New."
• Select "Google Docs."
• When the new doc pops up, click on "Untitled Document."
• Name this doc "IDNumberENGL09713Essay2."
• Example: 12345ENGL09713Essay2
• Click "OK."
• Click the blue "Share" button on the top right of the page.
• Type my email - bruce.p@gust.edu.kw - and make sure "Can edit" is showing.
• Click "Done."

Mission 7

• Create your Header and Heading for your essay.
• Click "Insert."
• Click "Heading."
• Right align by clicking the right align button.

• Change your font to "Times New Roman" and 12

• Type your student ID number. No zeroes. No name.
• Example: 12345
• Press the space bar.
• Insert a page number.
• Click "Insert."
• Click "Page Number."
• Click "Top of Page."
• Click once under the grey line.
• The grey line should disappear.
• Change your font to "Times New Roman" and 12
• Yes, you have to do this a second time.

• Change your spacing to "Double."
  
  
  
• Make sure you have left alignment.

• Type your student ID number. No zeroes. No name.
• Example: 12345
• Click "Enter" or "Return" or "New Line" (or whatever else your keyboard might say).
• Type my last name.
• Example: Bruce
• Click "Enter."
• Type the class and section.
• Example: ENGL09713
• Click "Enter."
• Type the semester and year.
• Example: Fall 2014
• Click "Enter."

Mission 8

• Create an introductory paragraph for Persuasion and "Persuasion."
• Look at the introductory paragraph on Course Book p. 368 for guidance.
• Don't forget to indent the paragraph by pressing the "Tab" button on your keyboard!

17 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 4

• Complete Signal Words II Mastery Test 4.

Mission 5

• Complete Inferences Mastery Test 4.

Mission 6

• Read "A Brother's Lesson" by Christopher de Vinck in Langan pp. 365-367.
• Answer the questions here.

16 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Complete Vocabulary in Context Mastery Test 5.

Mission 4

• Complete the writing assignments for "Dare to Think Big" in Langan, p. 480. 
• E-mail these to me as an attachment no later than 7:300pm today.

Mission 5

• Complete the Combined Skills Test 1.

11 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling

Mission 5

• Complete Signal Words II Mastery Test 3.

Mission 6

• Read Langan pp. 310-311.
• Complete Argument Practice 4.

Mission 7

• Read "The Fist, the Clay, and the Rock" by Donald Holland in Langan pp. 357-359.
• Answer the questions here.
• Complete the writing assignments pp. 482-483.

13 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling
• We will have a dictation assessment on Sunday.

Mission 5

• Complete Signal Words I Mastery Test 5.

Mission 6

• Complete Argument Mastery Test 1.

Mission 7

• Read "Tickets to Nowhere" by Andy Rooney in Langan pp. 349-350.
• Answer the questions here.
• Complete the writing assignments, p. 482.

Mission 8

• Progress Listening Test 2: Outlining

12 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling

Mission 5

• Complete Argument Review Test 2.

Mission 6

• Read "Joe Davis" by Beth Johnson in Langan pp. 373-378.
• Answer the questions here.
• Complete the writing assignments, pp. 483-484.

Mission 7

• Progress Reading Test 2: Outlining

10 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing
• Go to Moodle to access the document "6+1 Writing November 10."

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling

Mission 5

• Complete Vocabulary in Context Mastery 4.

Mission 6

• Complete Signal Words II Review Test 3.

Mission 7

• Complete the "Life Over Death" writing assignments, Langan pp. 479-480.

Mission 8

• Complete Inference Mastery Test 3.
• The cartoon is on p. 295 in Langan.

9 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling
• Dictation
• Lesson

Mission 5

• Complete Inferences Review Test 3.

Mission 6

• Complete the "Dare to Think Big" writing assignments, Langan p. 480.
• This will be done as HOMEWORK!! Please bring in your paper to class tomorrow OR email your two paragraphs to me before 8am tomorrow!

Mission 7

• Read Langan p. 309.
• Complete Argument Practice 3.

6 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling Lesson
• We will have a dictation assessment on Sunday.

Mission 5

• Complete Signal Words I Mastery Test 4.

Mission 6

• Read Langan pp. 306-307.
• Complete Argument Practice 2.

Mission 7

• Main Idea Quiz

5 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness - catch up from the past two days

Mission 4

• Spelling Lesson - catch up from the past two days

Mission 5

• Complete Finding Main Idea Mastery Test 6.

Mission 6

• Complete Inferences Mastery 2.

Mission 7

• Read Langan pp. 303-305.
• Complete Argument Practice 1.

Mission 8

• "Persuasion."

4 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Complete Supporting Details Mastery 4. 

Mission 5

• Complete Signal Words II Mastery 2.

Mission 6

• Complete Finding Main Idea Mastery 5.

Mission 7

• Complete Inferences Review 2.

3 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonological Awareness

Mission 4

• Spelling Lesson

Mission 5

• Complete Vocabulary in Context Mastery 3.

Mission 6

• Complete Signal Words II Review 2.

Mission 7

• Complete Inferences Mastery Test 1.

Mission 8

• Complete Finding Main Idea Mastery 4.

2 November

Mission 1

• Daily Language Practice

Mission 2

• 6+1 Writing

Mission 3

• Phonology Lesson

Mission 4

• Spelling
• Dictation
• Lesson

Mission 5

• Complete Main Idea Mastery Test 6.

Mission 6

• Complete Finding Main Idea Review 3.
• Sunday we will complete Finding Main Idea Mastery Test 2.

Mission 7

• Complete Signal Words I Mastery Test 3.

Mission 8

• Complete Inferences Review 1.

Mission 9

• Persuasion Themes (Course Book).
• Choose 5 themes from Shmoop.
• Complete "Literary Analysis Essay Summary Adapted Novel - Theme" worksheet, Course Book p. 343.
• MAKE SURE you put the date you visited Shmoop on the top of this worksheet!