Friday, August 8, 2014

If Today Was Friday, Why Did It Feel Like a Tuesday?

Hello!

Today, students accomplished the following objectives:

  • They found their new seats for Q1 (after attendance. Spoiler alert: it's alphabetical order. It helps me learn names.)
  • Students took their first Summer Reading Assessment, over both Speak and Enrique's Journey.
    • If you missed this, see me to make it up ASAP!
  • Freshmen, both familiar to MLK and new-to-the-school, got a brief meet-n-greet window of time in which to "break the ice."
    • "Break the ice" is an idiom. Literally, there was no ice that was broken. They just talked to each other and introduced each other to each other.
    • Idiom is a Literature Term. BOOM! Learning.
While students took the SRA, I tried to learn everyone's names. We'll see how well that went on Monday. (Right, Fernando?)

HW for the Weekend:
  • Bring in a current-event piece of media that concerns itself with the main topic of Enrique's Journey: children immigrating to the U.S.
    • By "current" I mean that this piece of media must have been published in 2014.
    • By "piece of media", I of course mean news articles. But I also mean interviews, TV specials, propaganda, songs, editorials, YouTube clips...pretty much any media.
    • How to submit:
      • Print it and bring it to class!
      • Save it on to a thumb drive and bring it in!
      • E-mail me a link! (Include your full name and class period, plz.)
    • Questions about the assignment? E-mail me, or ask it here by posting a response to this post.
  • Don't forget about your First Day packets! They're due BY Tuesday, 8/12.
  • If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Finish your Summer Reading.
  • Get an agenda/assignment book. Srsly.
  • If you haven't yet -- e-mail me. 
"But Tidymaaaaan, I can't do these things! I'm going to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 'cause it opens tonight!!"

Good. Fine. Go see it. But before you do: #getonmylevel.


See y'all Lunes.

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