Note to All Students Returning in January

Happy Holidays Students:

The following are notes regarding "Holiday Homework:"  All homework due on Tuesday, January 3, 2012--the day you return to class.

1.  *Continue to read your ibook, that is your "independent reading book," and use the given book report sheet previously issue the last week of class.  If you were absent, see notes below number 2.

2.  *For each vocabulary, find the definition, parts of speech, a synonym, and a sentence.

a.  suited to
b.  wholesome
c.  acquire
d.  compensation
e.  devotion
f.  paramount
g.  witty
h.  overwhelm
i.  impose
j.  presided over
k.  vulgarity
l.  inconceivable
m.  afford
n.  desolation
o.  frantic
p.  poverty
q.  severe

Notes for students who were absent and do not have the report sheet.  Use your Literary Elements Reference Sheet to analyze your book.  Use at least 10 + post 10 new vocabulary using format above + write a summary based on the moral lesson you learned from reading that book).

All students, if you finished your first ibook, you must seek a new source and have it available when you return in January.

***Upon returning to class, we will start a new unit in the NorthStar Reading and Writing Section:
(Note:  The following is not holiday homework, yet it is a forecast of what the agenda is when students return to class.)

Theme:  A Season in Utopia (Brook Farm)

Unit Topics include:

A)  Reading complex sentences and using the context clues to help in determining the meaning of the word.
B)  Background Reading in preparing to read article about Brook Farm.
C)  Focus on Reading for Comprehension (Reading One:  Early Life at Brook Farm and Concord.
D)  Chart--Reading for Main Ideas
E)  Reading for Details and Finding the Evidence

F)  Agreement and/or disagreement Chart and Strong Opinion
G)  Focus on Reading for Comprehension (Reading Two:  Making Ends Meet)
H)  Answer Multiple Choice based on reading two.

I)  Linking reading one and two:  With a partner, design a community (different and/or improved from initial idea) to solve the problems of the working teenagers in high school and/or in college. 

You must have these categories in your recommendations:

Directions:  Imagine you and your partner are in high school and are making a living on your own.  You must budget your salary to include all of the following to succeed.  Remember, you are getting experience from your first job, and are working toward your degrees, but are not yet there; hence, your salaries will be close to minimum wage.  How will you budget the list below and where will you live?
 
-Work and Salaries
-Food
-Housing
-Utilities
-Transportation
-Health Care
-Education
-Child Care
-Entertainment
-Clothes and Toiletries

In the end, you and your partner will present your findings in on a Chart to be presented to class.
(Chart must include your names, your roles, your budget, and the laundry list of recommendations above +
where will you live and how you will live).

J)  Focus on Vocabulary
K)  Focus on Parts of Speech
L)  Focus on Writing and Noun Clauses

Theme of New Unit of NorthStar:  Road to Success

A)  Hope-Survey Scale
B)  Self-Discovery Quiz
C)  Focus on Vocabulary for Comprehension
D)  Focus on Reading (Reading One:  Gotta Dance)
E)  Reading for Details -- multiple choice
F)  Reacting to the Reading
G)  Focus on Reading (Reading Two:  Keeping your Confidence Up)
H)  Focus on Hyphens
I)  Focus on Vocabulary in Context
J)  Focus on Adjective Clauses

K)  Career Ladder

Theme of New Unit (Short Stories):

"Baddest Dog,"  by Richard Dean Myers

**Comprehensive Reward Day (To be Announced)

Note to students out until January 2012 --  Continue to check this blog in an ongoing manner.

Today, Tuesday, December 20th--Test Review of Unit 2, Northstar listening and speaking.

Be sure to include the following in your update packet when you return in January.

*Contextual Unit Vocabulary in sentences.

access
assess
boardroom
burn out
callous
civic
dictate
engineer
envision
evolve
idealistic
landscape
laudable

live by
make ends meet

nurture

play out

scrutiny
self-selecting
small-town America
spirituality
sprawling
thwart
town planning
unscripted
vibrant

Write:

Imagine you are thinking about moving into a new community that is being built.  The developer has has asked you for advice about what to include in the new community.

Write a paragraph (audience is friends who may also be thinking of moving into this community.
Be sure to tell your audience the advice you would give the developer.  Use verbs of urgency such as demand and insist.  For example, you might want to say, "I insist that my house have a porch."


*Finish packet work from Northstar, Listening and speaking Unit 2
*Finish noun clause formatting, page 40 and 41.

Helpful Websites for Punctuation Reminders:

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