More Bedford Reader Exercises

That's right. Your assigment is to complete the online grammar exercises for chapter 7 Focus on Paragraph Coherence (three exercises) and chapter 8 Focus on Consistency (many exercises). For chapter 8, start with Level 1 and when you get 100% on an exercise you can switch to Level 2. Due date: Tuesday, March 25. THIS IS ALSO THE DEADLINE FOR REGISTERING FOR THE AP EXAM!!!

Class does not meet on Monday, March 24 due to testing.

Junior Project Presentation

Here's the lineup:
Thursday, March 13, Period 1 Room 426
David Adamyan, Steven Velasquez, Jocelyn Flores, Viviana Fonseca, Wendy Gonzales, Joshua Marroquin, Rykiel Morales, Carlos Ponce, Marine Yesaryan, Cesar Zelaya
Period 2 Room 204
Elizabeth Perez, Melina Perez, Graciela Contreras, Julie Augustin, Jose Delgado
Period 4 Room 213
Kathy Aragon, Diana Berberian, Megan Salazar, Fernando Espanta, Lillit Manukyan, Dora Chavez, Jajaira Mayorga, Chris Castro, Cynthia Gonzales, Diane Tan, Roxana Hernandez, Kimberly Magana
Period 6 Room 426
Mary Shamlyan, Narek Chukuryan, Jessica Figueroa, Alejandra Mendez, Bryan Mendez, Natashia Mercado, Diana Recinos, Sheryl Relente, Harut Septejyan, Briseida Valencia, Jonathan Valverde

Friday March 14, Period 4 Room 213
Ana Munguia, Rebecca Martinez, Adrian Toledo, Diego Hernandez, Shalls Jacome, Suzanna Kyzolyan, Sandy Merida, Michael Rosales, Nancy Sanchez, Claudia Cardenas, Lizette Lepe

SOME TIPS
Don't chew gum, play with your hair, fidget like you have to go to the bathroom, or laugh inappropriately.
Remember to stand up straight, speak slowly, make eye contact and breathe.

Focus on Sentence Variety

As we are reading chapter 6 (Example), in The Bedford Reader, your homework this week is chapter 6 Exercise Central, Focus on Sentence Variety. You can do the exercises as many times as necessary to get a good score. Also this week we will be reading and discussing Chet Raymo's "A Measure of Restraint."

Online Exercises for The Bedford Reader

Ah, time to update the old blog...
For those of you who have not tried to log on and do the online exercises on The Bedford Reader website, here is the scoop:

From here, click on The Bedford Reader link on the left. The first time, you will be asked to register as a student. Simply fill in your name and email address. It will then ask you for an instructor link. This is so I can view your results online, thereby saving reams of notebook paper, and hopefully, my eyesight. You will type in:kcusolit@lausd.net. That's right. My first initial and my last name without the last letter.

Then go to Exercise Central and click on chapter 5: Concrete and Specific Language. Two of the exercises just ask you to pick the correct sentence. The third exercise asks you to rewrite the sentence in the blank box. You can see your results immediately, and you can redo the exercises until you are satisfied with the results. We will be doing these for each chapter as we work our way through the book.

Happy Holidays

Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. Apparently, you all have your Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven essays and vocabulary work well underway, judging from the number who showed up for the tutorials. (That would be one person.) The first day of school you will correct your vocabulary work and turn it in. If there's time, you will exchange papers and read each other's essays. For homework, you will choose any five words from the vocabulary sections you did over the break and use them in your Sherman Alexie essay. That's right, a rewrite. Vocabulary work is pretty useless unless you use it in your writing. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See you on Jan. 2.

Last Week for Tutorials

If you want to discuss the book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven prior to writing your essay, if you want feedback on a rough draft, if you want to check your vocabulary work, then come to the last two tutorials, tomorrow and Wednesday. I don't think I will be available in December because I am scheduled for jury duty in the beginning of the month and I'm going to Oregon in the second half of the month.

Oops!

I didn't realize it was a school holiday. I thought Veteran's Day was one of those bank/post office holidays. I waited in the quad for 20 minutes, but no one showed up (since you knew better). Anyway, we will discuss those four stories, and take notes on the significant moments on WEDNESDAY. Be sure to take a look at the discussion questions at the back of the book. We may only have five more meetings, so if you think it would be helpful in writing your essay, please come between 9 and 11 a.m.