Friday 6/17

Today was our last day of regular class. Thank you for a great year! I have enjoyed working and getting to know you all.

Enjoy high school! Have fun. Work hard. Ask a lot of questions. Come back to Gunston and let us know what you are up to.

Monday 6/13- Wednesday 6/15

In Class: we will be presenting final speeches!

Homework: prepare if necessary, turn in your library books, make sure your independent reading is done.

Friday 6/10

In Class: we had one final speech practice.

Homework: speeches next week!

Thursday 6/8

Computer Lab

1. Tell me about your Classic Novel

2. Take the end of year survey
Please do this by the end of the weekend. You comments are invaluable to me and you can remain anonymous.

3. Work on your speech
Here's the format. Copy it into Microsoft Word or Google Docs.

"Hello/Good Morning"

Hook/ Shock/ Story/ Statistic

"My rule for life is " . . . . ""

"That means" / "That is to say"/ "Let me explain"

"For example, once, a few months ago, . . . "

"That is why my rule for life is "

"Thank you."

Wednesday 6/8

In Class: we worked on our speeches and chose our promotion poem.

Homework: prepare your speech and bring your classic novel

Tuesday 6/7

In Class: finish detective stories and practiced eye contact with a three word speech.

Homework: Classic on 6/9 and Speech on 6/13

June 6/6

Accckkkk - I got behind on my blog and no one gave me a hard time about it. Does this mean that you have stopped checking? :(


In Class: Geography SOL for the morning, speech writing 4, 5, and 7th

Homework: work on your speech!
Due dates: be done with your classic book by Thursday (report in class), final speeches will be done on 6/13- 15 (thats one week until speeches!)

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