Oct 31 - Happy Halloween

Classwork

Today we finished up our Odyssey Research Project Presentations and dove into major notes on creating proper Works Cited and Bibliography Pages.  Many students are still making major formatting errors, so most of today focused on setting up the Works Cited page.  See below for today's powerpoint.

Homework

1. Due Monday - Read The Odyssey books 1-2 (pgs 1-38)
2. Due Monday - Complete Books 1-2 Comprehension Check Worksheet
3. Due Wednesday - Revised Individual and Group Works Cited pages (make sure to staple your first draft behind your final draft)
4. Study Unit 5 Vocabulary - Test next Friday!

Resources to Use When Reading The Odyssey

1. Odyssey Terms and Characters List
2. Map of Character Relationships from the Odyssey

Today's powerpoint

October 23

Classwork

Today many of my classes got a visit from the most amazing librarian - Regina Townsend, from the Forest Park Public Library.  Regina, is an Illinois Library Association Young Adult Librarian of the Year Award Winner.  She shared sooooooo much information about the amazing things going on in the Young Adults Department at the Forest Park Library.  Including (but not limited to) the clubs and events listed below.  Want to know more?  Check out www.teenterritory.org or fppl.org.

• Physics Tutoring and Help every Tuesday and Thursday
• Service Club meets every Tuesday
• Young Women's Council - next meeting on November 13
• Recently Returned (Guys' book club) meets last Monday of each Month
• Writer's Group meets every Wednesday
• Humans vs. Zombies on Halloween, October 31 starting at 6pm

We also took notes on MLA citations for Works Cited pages and created some of our own citations by hand.  We also got another handout with information about how to create citations, called "MLA Citation Style Guide Sheets."  You can also check out today's powerpoint at the bottom of this post!

Homework

1. Complete the "Practice Creating Source Cards for Books and Online Sources" Worksheet. Due tomorrow.
2. Create a HANDWRITTEN works cited page using the sources from the worksheet. Due tomorrow.
3. Study for tomorrow's vocabulary test
4. Visual Aid for presentation due MONDAY
5. Group Works Cited page due MONDAY

Today's Powerpoint Presentation

MLA Citation Style Guide Sheets

October 16 Classwork and Homework

Today was a shortened day and I only taught 2 of my 5 classes.  No additional homework was given.  We focused on creating MLA style citations and went over the Odyssey Research Project Calendar.  See the power point below for more information.