"In the event of my absence, you are to conduct yourselves with integrity, respect and discipline. Do not embarrass me, yourself, the substitute, the school, the district or your upbringing. You are to complete all assigned tasks the day I am out, assist and respect the sub and look after one another. After all, I don't give grades, I write down what you earn." ~ms. d
1/23/19: Brown Teens Blog!
2nd, 6th, 8th Periods: In at least five (5) paragraphs or more, respond to the following prompt: Define success and achievement. What is your greatest success or achievement?
1st, 3rd Periods: Make sure you are working on your ICEv Modules. I will check at the end of the day.
5th Period: Check out the same book you had yesterday and read, just like you did yesterday. Stop within about 15 minutes of the bell to complete your reading log. Leave your reading logs with the substitute.
Do NOT use the time to talk/socialize/bond. This is INDEPENDENT work.
2nd, 6th, 8th Periods: In at least five (5) paragraphs or more, respond to the following prompt: Define success and achievement. What is your greatest success or achievement?
1st, 3rd Periods: Make sure you are working on your ICEv Modules. I will check at the end of the day.
5th Period: Check out the same book you had yesterday and read, just like you did yesterday. Stop within about 15 minutes of the bell to complete your reading log. Leave your reading logs with the substitute.
Do NOT use the time to talk/socialize/bond. This is INDEPENDENT work.
Due: TODAY, January 23, 2019 at the END of class. Leave the essays in your composition notebooks. LATE WORK, HALF-DONE WORK AND WORK ATTACHED TO EXCUSES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
1/16/19: Brown Teens Blog!
2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th Periods: Complete Mixed Ink. Make sure you post, then reply to two other posts. Otherwise, you will not get credit. The rules apply. Read and follow them.
You also have the option to do Membean. Either way, be productive and see the message in red, below.
Do NOT use the time to talk/socialize/bond. This is INDEPENDENT work.
2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th Periods: Complete Mixed Ink. Make sure you post, then reply to two other posts. Otherwise, you will not get credit. The rules apply. Read and follow them.
You also have the option to do Membean. Either way, be productive and see the message in red, below.
Do NOT use the time to talk/socialize/bond. This is INDEPENDENT work.
1/14/19: Happy New Year!
2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th Periods: Last week, you completed a worksheet where you had to complete sentence stems like, "I want to learn," "I want to go,"I want to imagine," etc. Considering what you wrote, think of ONE word that sums up everything you wrote. Write that word in your journal, then write why you chose that word.
Afterwards, draft a written vision board. This is a new year. It's an opportunity for renewal, redemption or repetition. In essay form, using your ONE word as the basis for developing your draft, write a paragraph about how you want the rest of this school year to be: consider mistakes you made and how you'll improve. Do the same for the following categories: Lifestyle, Home, Social Life, Spending Habits, Relationships with people (family, friends, teachers, coworkers, etc.). Each category has to be a paragraph long and rooted in your ONE word premise. Your essay should be one to two pages long.
Do NOT use the time to talk/socialize/bond. This is INDEPENDENT work.
2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th Periods: Last week, you completed a worksheet where you had to complete sentence stems like, "I want to learn," "I want to go,"I want to imagine," etc. Considering what you wrote, think of ONE word that sums up everything you wrote. Write that word in your journal, then write why you chose that word.
Afterwards, draft a written vision board. This is a new year. It's an opportunity for renewal, redemption or repetition. In essay form, using your ONE word as the basis for developing your draft, write a paragraph about how you want the rest of this school year to be: consider mistakes you made and how you'll improve. Do the same for the following categories: Lifestyle, Home, Social Life, Spending Habits, Relationships with people (family, friends, teachers, coworkers, etc.). Each category has to be a paragraph long and rooted in your ONE word premise. Your essay should be one to two pages long.
Do NOT use the time to talk/socialize/bond. This is INDEPENDENT work.
Due: TODAY, January 14, 2019 at the END of class. Leave them in your composition notebooks. LATE WORK, HALF-DONE WORK AND WORK ATTACHED TO EXCUSES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
12/5/18: Novel Study!
1st and 3rd Periods: Read and annotate "The Rocking Horse Winner," then use the copy paper provided to complete three Dialectical Journal entries.
2nd, 6th, 8th Periods: Read and annotate chapters 16-17 (16 should be read already), then use the copy paper provided to complete three Dialectical Journals over each chapter (6 total).
7th Period: Use the entire class period to plan your TOK Oral Presentations. Do NOT use the time to talk/socialize/bond. This is INDEPENDENT work.
1st and 3rd Periods: Read and annotate "The Rocking Horse Winner," then use the copy paper provided to complete three Dialectical Journal entries.
2nd, 6th, 8th Periods: Read and annotate chapters 16-17 (16 should be read already), then use the copy paper provided to complete three Dialectical Journals over each chapter (6 total).
7th Period: Use the entire class period to plan your TOK Oral Presentations. Do NOT use the time to talk/socialize/bond. This is INDEPENDENT work.
Due: TODAY, December 5, 2018 at the END of class...IN THE TRAY. TODAY. LATE WORK, HALF-DONE WORK AND WORK ATTACHED TO EXCUSES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
11/14/18: Writing Wednesday!
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th Periods: On each side of the paper provided ONLY (no lined paper), develop a complete 3x3 ONLY (not an essay) that responds to each of the given prompts. Do not forget to put your heading in the top right hand corner on one side.
Click here for the prompts.
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th Periods: On each side of the paper provided ONLY (no lined paper), develop a complete 3x3 ONLY (not an essay) that responds to each of the given prompts. Do not forget to put your heading in the top right hand corner on one side.
Click here for the prompts.
Due: November 14, 2018 at the END of class...IN THE TRAY. TODAY. LATE WORK, HALF-DONE WORK AND WORK ATTACHED TO EXCUSES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
10/31/18: Writing Wednesday!!
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th Periods: On the lined paper provided, write a well-organized essay that responds to the given prompt. Make sure you use a blank sheet of copy paper to draft your 3x3. Both must be turned in.
Click here for the prompts.
7th Period (IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK)): You should be finished with your outlines (3x3 and college-level, and essay plans by the end of the class period.
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th Periods: On the lined paper provided, write a well-organized essay that responds to the given prompt. Make sure you use a blank sheet of copy paper to draft your 3x3. Both must be turned in.
Click here for the prompts.
7th Period (IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK)): You should be finished with your outlines (3x3 and college-level, and essay plans by the end of the class period.
Due: October 31, 2018 at the END of class...TODAY. LATE WORK, HALF-DONE WORK AND WORK ATTACHED TO EXCUSES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
10/17/18: Class Assignments
2nd, 6th & 8th Periods (AP/IB English Literature 4): Complete the worksheet entitled, “Close Reading Exercise.” The worksheet must be finished in its entirety by the end of the class hour. I will not accept it late.
3rd Period (Business English): Read and annotate “Just Walk on By” and work on your teen reading awareness campaign. You can turn the annotations in on Thursday.
2nd, 6th & 8th Periods (AP/IB English Literature 4): Complete the worksheet entitled, “Close Reading Exercise.” The worksheet must be finished in its entirety by the end of the class hour. I will not accept it late.
3rd Period (Business English): Read and annotate “Just Walk on By” and work on your teen reading awareness campaign. You can turn the annotations in on Thursday.
2nd, 6th and 8th Periods Due: October 17, 2018 at the END of class. Turn them in to the tray. LATE AND HALF-DONE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
10/11/18: Class Assignments
1st & 3rd Periods: Work on your teen reading awareness campaign. It's time for action. You should be posting on YOUR social media, images of yourself reading books. Do not send them to me!
2nd, 6th & 8th Periods (AP/IB English Literature 4): Follow the instructions to create a One-pager. Use the copy paper provided.
7th Period (IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK)): Work on your TOK essays the entire class period.
1st & 3rd Periods: Work on your teen reading awareness campaign. It's time for action. You should be posting on YOUR social media, images of yourself reading books. Do not send them to me!
2nd, 6th & 8th Periods (AP/IB English Literature 4): Follow the instructions to create a One-pager. Use the copy paper provided.
7th Period (IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK)): Work on your TOK essays the entire class period.
Due: October 12, 2018 at the END of class. Turn them in to the tray. LATE AND HALF-DONE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
10/10/18: Writing Wednesday!!
1st & 3rd Periods (Business English 4): In your Interactive Notebook, write a well-organized essay that responds to the following quote by Rutherford D. Rogers: “We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” Make sure you write in complete sentences; underline at least two appositives; put a square around an example of the magic three; and put an asterisk by either a compound sentence, complex sentence or compound-complex sentence.
2nd, 6th, 8th Periods (AP/IB English Lit & Composition 4): While much of the book, “Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, concerns fear and the haunting effects of violence, it also has moments where Coates explores moments of joy and his blossoming understanding of the meaning of love.
Considering such elements as imagery, form and tone, in your Interactive Notebooks, on the Writing Side, write a well-organized essay, in no less than five paragraphs, in which you analyze how Coates portrays notions of hard-won joy and love, then explain how these episodes function in counterpoint to the book’s darker passages. Make sure you write in complete sentences; underline at least two appositives; put a square around an example of the magic three; and put an asterisk by either a compound sentence, complex sentence or compound-complex sentence.
7th Period (IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK)): You should have at least your first three body paragraphs finished by the end of the class period.
1st & 3rd Periods (Business English 4): In your Interactive Notebook, write a well-organized essay that responds to the following quote by Rutherford D. Rogers: “We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” Make sure you write in complete sentences; underline at least two appositives; put a square around an example of the magic three; and put an asterisk by either a compound sentence, complex sentence or compound-complex sentence.
2nd, 6th, 8th Periods (AP/IB English Lit & Composition 4): While much of the book, “Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, concerns fear and the haunting effects of violence, it also has moments where Coates explores moments of joy and his blossoming understanding of the meaning of love.
Considering such elements as imagery, form and tone, in your Interactive Notebooks, on the Writing Side, write a well-organized essay, in no less than five paragraphs, in which you analyze how Coates portrays notions of hard-won joy and love, then explain how these episodes function in counterpoint to the book’s darker passages. Make sure you write in complete sentences; underline at least two appositives; put a square around an example of the magic three; and put an asterisk by either a compound sentence, complex sentence or compound-complex sentence.
7th Period (IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK)): You should have at least your first three body paragraphs finished by the end of the class period.
Due: October 10, 2018 at the END of class...TODAY. Make sure that your Interactive Notebook is in the correct bin for your class hour. LATE AND HALF-DONE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
10/9/18: Class Assignments
1st & 3rd Periods: Work on your teen reading awareness campaign. It's time for action. Everyone needs to be posting on their social media, images of themselves reading books. All the twerking and lip-puckering is time to stop.
2nd, 6th & 8th Periods (AP/IB English Literature 4): This is your last opportunity to finish reading and completing your meeting tracker worksheet. Catch up on all of your Book Study assignments. Consider yourself fortunate to have this opportunity because you know you're not finished everything, notebooks included. I will not accept any of it late.
7th Period (IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK)): Work on your TOK essays the entire class period.
1st & 3rd Periods: Work on your teen reading awareness campaign. It's time for action. Everyone needs to be posting on their social media, images of themselves reading books. All the twerking and lip-puckering is time to stop.
2nd, 6th & 8th Periods (AP/IB English Literature 4): This is your last opportunity to finish reading and completing your meeting tracker worksheet. Catch up on all of your Book Study assignments. Consider yourself fortunate to have this opportunity because you know you're not finished everything, notebooks included. I will not accept any of it late.
7th Period (IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK)): Work on your TOK essays the entire class period.
Due: Today, October 9, 2018 at the END of class...TODAY. Turn in, in the tray for your class hour. LATE AND HALF-DONE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
10/5/18: Class Assignments
1st & 3rd Periods: Work on your teen reading awareness campaign.
2nd, 6th & 8th Periods (AP/IB English Literature 4): Complete the meeting tracker worksheet underneath the Lesson Plan that the sub has, then after, catch up on all of your Book Study assignments. The meeting tracker worksheet must be finished in its entirety by the end of the class period. I will not accept it late. Also, I might come up on the weekend to get your notebooks.
7th Period (IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK)): Work on writing your TOK essays the entire class period.
1st & 3rd Periods: Work on your teen reading awareness campaign.
2nd, 6th & 8th Periods (AP/IB English Literature 4): Complete the meeting tracker worksheet underneath the Lesson Plan that the sub has, then after, catch up on all of your Book Study assignments. The meeting tracker worksheet must be finished in its entirety by the end of the class period. I will not accept it late. Also, I might come up on the weekend to get your notebooks.
7th Period (IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK)): Work on writing your TOK essays the entire class period.
Due: Today, October 5, 2018 at the END of class...TODAY. Turn in, in the tray for your class hour. LATE AND HALF-DONE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
My teacher is missing!!
8/31/18: Assignments
1st & 3rd Periods: If you were given an unlimited amount of money to start a business, write a detailed description of what that business would look like, including, who runs the business, who works at the business, how the business will be run, who runs it, where its located, day-to-day operations, advertising, where its located, what you'll sell, who you'll sell to, etc. ALL details. (3rd Period, turn your work in, in the 1st period tray by the door.)
2nd & 6th: You will complete poetry analysis and concentric squares:
1. Using TPCASTT, you are going to analyze the poem you already have, "The Art of Drowning," by Billy Collins. Complete this to the right of the poem.
2. At the bottom of the poem, you will briefly answer the following question and provide text evidence to support your answer: What is the meaning of life and does that shape our beliefs regarding how/when we die?
3. On the back of the poem, you will complete Concentric Circles. (See instructions and example here.)
7th Period: Take out your timeline and get started on your Extended Essays. Work the entire period. You should turn in at least half the work.
8th Period: See 2nd & 6th above, except your #2 is as follows:
2. How much evidence do we need to reach convincing conclusions about the evolution of life in the human sciences?
1st & 3rd Periods: If you were given an unlimited amount of money to start a business, write a detailed description of what that business would look like, including, who runs the business, who works at the business, how the business will be run, who runs it, where its located, day-to-day operations, advertising, where its located, what you'll sell, who you'll sell to, etc. ALL details. (3rd Period, turn your work in, in the 1st period tray by the door.)
2nd & 6th: You will complete poetry analysis and concentric squares:
1. Using TPCASTT, you are going to analyze the poem you already have, "The Art of Drowning," by Billy Collins. Complete this to the right of the poem.
2. At the bottom of the poem, you will briefly answer the following question and provide text evidence to support your answer: What is the meaning of life and does that shape our beliefs regarding how/when we die?
3. On the back of the poem, you will complete Concentric Circles. (See instructions and example here.)
7th Period: Take out your timeline and get started on your Extended Essays. Work the entire period. You should turn in at least half the work.
8th Period: See 2nd & 6th above, except your #2 is as follows:
2. How much evidence do we need to reach convincing conclusions about the evolution of life in the human sciences?
Due: Today, August 31, 2018 at the END of class...TODAY. Turn in, in the tray for your class hour. LATE AND HALF-DONE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
My teacher is missing!!
5/23/18: Assignments
1st Period: Prepare and turn in an IOP worksheet on “So Long a Letter.”
6th & 7th Periods: Write a 2-page letter to your next-year self about your expectations, what you will do differently, what you will keep the same, what mistakes you made that you shouldn’t repeat, etc.
1st Period: Prepare and turn in an IOP worksheet on “So Long a Letter.”
6th & 7th Periods: Write a 2-page letter to your next-year self about your expectations, what you will do differently, what you will keep the same, what mistakes you made that you shouldn’t repeat, etc.
Due: May 23, 2018 at the END of class TODAY. Turn in, in the tray for your class hour. LATE AND HALF-DONE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
My teacher is missing!!
5/2/18: Assignments
6th & 7th Periods:
Use the paper provided to respond to the following prompt. (Make sure you complete the top portion of the prompt strip.)
PROMPT: Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between second chances and last chances. Explain a time when you were given a second chance. Explain a time when you were given a last chance. Explain some ways to tell the difference.
6th & 7th Periods:
Use the paper provided to respond to the following prompt. (Make sure you complete the top portion of the prompt strip.)
PROMPT: Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between second chances and last chances. Explain a time when you were given a second chance. Explain a time when you were given a last chance. Explain some ways to tell the difference.
Due: May 2, 2018 at the END of class. Turn in, in the tray for your class hour. LATE AND HALF-DONE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
DO NOT SIT IN CLASS AND SOCIALIZE!
DO YOUR WORK! YOUR GRADE DEPENDS ON IT!
My teacher is missing!!
4/27/18: Assignments
6th & 7th Periods:
1. Complete Mixed Ink. If you have a Student Assignments Teacher Report, complete the ones you need to make up.
2. Work on Membean. If you have a Student Assignments Teacher Report, complete the ones you need to make up by completing 90 hours eaxh week for the ones you need to make up.
EVERYONE should be working on Mixed Ink or Membean the entire period.
My teacher is missing!!
3/2/18: Assignments
1st Period: In your composition notebook, rewrite the essay for the prompt: “Explain how the tone influences the mood of the story and how that mood reveals the interpretation.”
4th Period: Work on your Extended Essay, TOK Essay, World Lit Paper, or TOK Presentation.
5th Period: Work on your Extended Essays.
6th & 7th Periods:
1. Ask the substitute for your Student Assignments Teacher Report if you were absent. If you have yours, work on it over the weekend.
2. Using your Mock Exam, annotate every paragraph, making INFERENCES, and define vocabulary in the margins. If you do not have your Mock exam, see number 1. and complete it in class.
3. When (if) you finish the above, switch papers with someone and put a check mark if they made an inference or an X if they wrote a summary.
My teacher is missing!!
2/23/18: Assignments
1st Period: Read and annotate chapters 5-6 of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” then complete 3 dialectical journal entries for each chapter.
4th Period: Work on your Extended Essays.
5th Period: Work on your Extended Essays.
6th & 7th Periods: Read and annotate chapters 11-12 of “The Other Wes Moore.” Then, complete 2 dialectical journal entries for each chapter.
My teacher is missing!!
2/22/18: Assignments
1st Period: Read and annotate chapters 3-4 of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” then complete 3 dialectical journal entries each for the Intro through chapter 4.
5th Period: Work on your Extended Essays.
6th & 7th Periods: Read and annotate chapters 9-10 from “The Other Wes Moore.” Then, they are to complete 2 dialectical journal entries for each chapter.
My teacher is missing!!
2/7/18: Writing Wednesday, Year 1
Prompt: On the lined paper provided, respond to the following prompt: How far does the work, though rooted in a clear context and cultural environment, reflect universal, timeless issues?
**Make sure that you use the Supervised Writing formatted paper. If you need more than one sheet, there are extra single copies on my desk. Get one from the substitute.
Due TODAY at the END of class.
Late assignments will not be accepted. No exceptions.
Late assignments will not be accepted. No exceptions.
My teacher is missing!!
2/7/18: Writing Wednesday, Year 2
Prompt: Identify and define some of the central tenets of transcendentalism. Link these key ideas and beliefs to passages in Thoreau’s Walden and support the claim that Thoreau was a transcendentalist. Then, explore the ways in which Thoreau deviates from some of the central ideas and modes of transcendentalism.
**Make sure that you use the Supervised Writing formatted paper. If you need more than one sheet, there are extra single copies on my desk. Get one from the substitute.
Due TODAY at the END of class.
Late assignments will not be accepted. No exceptions.
Late assignments will not be accepted. No exceptions.
My teacher is missing!!
2/7/18: Writing Wednesday, TOK
Prompt: To what extent does reason and imagination influence ideologies about our beliefs?
**Make sure that you use the 26-lined paper. Also, make sure you develop TOK concepts that you identify within the prompt. You may have to "unpack" it. Up to now, we have developed the KQ from an RLS. Now, you may have to unpack the KQ down to an RLS. Fun, right? I can hear K. Brown now.
Due TODAY at the END of class.
Late assignments will not be accepted. No exceptions.
Late assignments will not be accepted. No exceptions.
My teacher is missing!!
2/7/18: Writing Wednesday, English 1
Develop your essay in a 3x2 in your composition notebook.
Read: He who opens a school door, opens a prison.
Think: Education creates socially and culturally responsible citizens.
Write: an essay explaining the purpose and value of education.
The substitute will pass out the orange packets for you to use while you are writing to help with hooks, thesis statements, 3x2, transition words, etc. They are yours to keep. Keep up with them!! YOU GOT THIS!
You must write bell to bell, so you shouldn't get finished before then. If you do, proofread your essay, making sure that you have at least four solid, complete sentences in each paragraph, that your thoughts are developed and your paper is formatted. Check your hook, commentary and thesis. In the event that you do finish ALL that, read and annotate, “The Other Wes Moore.”
Due TODAY at the END of class.
Late assignments will not be accepted. No exceptions.
Late assignments will not be accepted. No exceptions.