Period 3 Immediately after the bell rang, Mr. Eldridge asked us to take out our copies of the rubric for class discussion. It was time for the first group to go up and lead the rest of the class through Diction: lesson 17. About the lesson, one must realize what grinding a sword into another’s [...]
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Period 1 Today we started off the day with some scholarship information (which for many of us was great). Mr. Eldridge one where you can win 5,000 dollars for making prom attire out of duct tape. Remember that there many types of scholarship that are available, all you have to do is not be lazy [...]
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Period 1 7:55 AM Students are expected to come into class and take out their Syntax Packets. 8:00 AM Pop Quiz 8:03 AM Quiz over Corrected Quiz. It was open note and on the grammar lesson he gave Tuesday. Out of 5. Khoa thought an appositive was a type sentence. It is not. Appositive (n): [...]
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School Reform: Public Schools that work. The case of Finland. By Diane Ravitch [Diane Ravitch won the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences in 2011 for her “careful use of social science research for the public good.” (March 2012)] http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/08/schools-we-can-envy/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=February+14+2012&utm_content=February+14+2012+CID_df0a036fbf79555ea6739ad90deab4b9&utm_source=Email+marketing+software&utm_term=Schools+We+Can+Envy
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Period 3 Scribe: Leslie Cojulun Happy Valentines Everybody and Mr. Eldridge! So today we started off with a game that involved background information of things we have learned in the past. The game was like scribbling a word given + another letter to make a new word for example, ahoy + o= yahoo. We could [...]
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Good Magazine is a great source for ideas that are worth sharing. Linked in this post is an argument for the value of a positive school environment. How important is it to you? What if your school environment is hostile? Would you be able to succeed there? http://www.good.is/post/a-city-education-a-positive-school-environment-can-keep-students-motivated/ -BE
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Period 3 Today in Mr. Eldridge’s class was an infected day filled with diseased people. Since the copy machine was broken, again we had to copy Imagery 13 from the projector. It was a slow process because of the constant distractions that happen about every five to ten seconds. Before we finished a nameless volunteer, [...]
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Period 1 AGENDA: Turned in Detail packet 13-16 Turned in the Rough Draft for the Imitation Bacon essay Had a guest speaker, Ms. Flores, talk to us about EAP (Early Assessment Program) Planned for writing the Virtue Essay Finish Test Corrections DUE DATES: Test Corrections 2/7 Imitation Bacon 2/9 Thoreau (pg. 1-8) 2/9 Virtue Essay [...]
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Period 1 Today was a fresh day and most people were in class before the bell rang. The class started with Mr. Eldridge showing a video on America`s amazing casting tactics. The video was basically about a boring, regular-day court case on bribery (not uncommon in America), but what was interesting was that it showed [...]
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