Saturday, August 23, 2008

First Week of School!

Well, I know that the first week of school was a little hectic, but it's over; we conquered it! Here is an overview of what we did the first week:
-I handed out a Disclosure Document and Syllabus. You needed to go over these with your parent/guardian and were supposed to hand the last page of each document to me by the end of the week. If you did, great! If you have not, I need them as soon as possible. You will not receive full points for the assignment, but I still need them.
-We did a Directions Quiz and I hope each of you learned that your ability to listen and adhere (VOCAB WORD) to class instructions is vital to your success in my class.
-We started our DOL (Daily Oral Language). We did 3 sentences the first day and 4 sentences the second day. You also handed these in for points.
-We helped each other write stories starting with, "It was a perfect day . . . " We talked about the concept of utopia. For homework you were to define perfect and hand in your definition.
-We played the Name Game, which hopefully helped us learn each others names. I will have complete satisfaction when everyone will be able to name everyone else. I am anxious (VOCAB WORD) for us to be acquainted.
-We also did our first vocab lesson which is due this next week (A day=Tuesday, B day=Monday). The test will be on Thursday for A day and on Friday for B day. You should be continually studying these words throughout the week. The words are: coordination, appropriate, adhere, acquire, complicated, prominent, vague, apprehensive, intrigued, anxious.

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