Have a great break everyone!

One Last Message!

Hello Everyone! I have a few more things to tell you:

• Look in your writing folder and compare your first inclass writing with your last inclass writing! You will see that you have made big improvement from the beginning until the last one! Congratulations!
• Good News about Focus on Grammar! You can use your website for one year! I encourage you to go back to the website and practice all the grammar and take the review tests! If you do that, you will be a stronger student! Good for you!
• Also, choose a book to read from the Seattle Public Library or the list that I am going to post tomorrow!

Party Day Tomorrow!

• Meet at the classroom at 12:00 sharp with your food.
• We will vote for the top blog!
• Then, I will give you your evaluations.
• Then, we will go over to the park.
• If you took your evaluation for the class home, please bring it back tomorrow, too.
• Thanks so much!
• Bring your camera!

See you tomorrow!

Post Restaurant Review with picture on your blog!

Reading Proficiency Test tomorrow!

Wednesday:

• Last day in class
• Bring food! International Food if you can!
• Final Evaluations!

Thursday: Registration and School Certificate Ceremony!

Rewrite your Practice Test for Monday!

• Bring the hard copy to class
• Email the e-copy to me

Bring your summer fun books to class on Monday.

Test Schedule:

Monday: Final Writing Proficiency

Tuesday: Final Reading Proficiency

Wednesday: Party and your scores!

Thursday: Register for next quarter and school party!

Review your Personal Vocabulary Words for Tomorrow's Test

Focus on Grammar Interactive: Do Review Test for Adjective Clauses - Part VI Review Test

In Class Writing Tomorrow!

Focus on Grammar Interactive:

• Write Draft 2 of Most Significant Person
• Save and Submit

Vocabulary Study Sheets are due tomorrow:

• Review Words for Final Vocabulary Test on Thursday!

Greetings from Wichita, Kansas!

Hello Everyone, I am so sorry that I didn't get to tell you that I was going to be gone on Thursday and Monday! Everything was happening so fast that there was no time! Anyway, I am glad that Liese is able to teach you. I will take pictures and tell you all about my time with my husband's family.

I hope that you have fun preparing for the restaurant review! Enjoy!

Be sure to do the homework that Liese asked you to do!

More later! Gail

Vocabulary Test #3 tomorrow!

Review both your own Personal Words and The Building on Basics words!

• Personal Words - Minimum 25 words
• Building on Basics - Review Unit 3, Selections 1,2, and 3

Focus on Grammar Interactive: Part IV Unit 14

Whoops! Forgot to remind you about Thinking and Learning Style due on your blogs tomorrow!

SLEP test on Wednesday! That is tomorrow! Don't be late!

Focus on Grammar Interactive:

• Begin Adjective Clauses Part 5 - Unit 13
• Finish the practices and reading

Vocabulary Test on Thursday!

• Review Personal Words
• Review Building on Basics for Unit 3 - Sel 1,2, and 3

Remember to bring your vocabulary study sheets and test list tomorrow!

Read your novels!

Building on Basics!

• Windows of Opportrunity: Page 94 - 99 up to sharing your thoughts.
• Page 93 - Writing Task #1 Thinking and Learning Style - Due on blog Thursday, July 31st!

Focus on Grammar Online - Most Significant Influence - Save and submit tonight!

Academic Writing - Page 93 - Come up with as many details as you can to explain your favorite restaurant!

Remember to finish Newspaper Report #2 on blog for tomorrow!

Summer Book Club Book Report #4 on Monday!

Extensive Comment on Classmates Blog - 100 words due Monday!

Newspaper Blog Assignment - Follow the guidelines below:

• Title of Article & Date of Newspaper
• Main Idea - about 40 words
• Opinion - about 30 words
• 2 new vocabulary words and their meanings
• Due on Tuesday, July 29th

Focus on Grammar - Part I: From Grammar to Writing: Writing Due: Save and Submit Wed, July 30th!

Decide your favorite restaurant!

Newspaper Article!

• Find and article that is interesting to you.
• Read it and be ready to tell the main idea about it.
• Tell your opinion.

Writing: Page 91 Exercise 1

Focus on Grammar Interactive: Part 1 Review Test

Vocabulary: Personal Word Study Sheet

Meet in Lab Room #3165

Building on Basics

• Styles of Thinking and Learning Pages 85-91
• Work up to Sharing Your Thoughts

Writing: Transitions

• Review Pages 76-85
• Do Practice 3 page 85 & 86

Finish your Midterm Draft 2

• Bring your folder with Hard copy and Draft 1
• Email your e-copy to Gail

Do Self - Evaluation and bring to class tomorrow!

Building on Basics!

Multiple Intelligences P. 76-81

• Second Reading Page 79
• Do A. Vocabulary Building, B Word Analysis Page 79 -81

Writing - Refer to the Writing Book on pages 87 and 88 and work on 2nd draft of MidTerm

• Write Second Draft for Wednesday.
• Write on Computer and turn in hard copy 2nd draft with 1st draft in folder
• Remember to send e-copy to Gail

Blog Journal Extensive Comment for Monday

Follow the guidelines that I gave you:

• read another classmates question and answer
• think carefully and thoughtfully about it
• Make an extenseive comment - your thoughts and opinion (about 100 words)

Summer Fun Book club Report #3 for Monday

Vocabulary Test Tomorrow!

• Review Unit 2, Selections 1,2, and 3 in Building on Basics.
• Review your own Personal Words: Remember the word form and a sentence that shows you know how to use the word.

Blog Question is due tomorrow! Remember, to post your entire question in the Title section and then write 200 words. Follow the directions on the purple handout sheet. Check out Dung's, Lucy's, and Phuongs! Good job guys!

Get some sleep tonight! We will also have another midterm proficiency test tomorrow!

Remember to read in your Summer Fun Book!

Vocabulary Study

Building on Basics - Review the vocabulary for Unit 2
Review Personal Word Vocabulary
Bring Personal Word Study Sheet and Test sheet

Focus on Grammar - Unit 4 Past Perfect - Do the practices....however, we will not have a test on this tomorrow.

Writing: We will write a paragraph in class tomorrow! I didn't mention this in class today, but I had mentioned it yesterday. Anyway, before we take the writing test, we will talk about the things that I am asking you to review below. Feel free to email tonight, if you need to. Check your email for comments on your last paragraph.

• Read Page 47 and do Practice 6 abut Concluding Sentences
• Review compound senteces on page 30
• Review time order words on page 25
• Review p. 7, 12, 33

MidTerm Exam Week

Building on Basics:

• Selection Three - Getting Married Young, Page 53
• Do Comprehension Check A and B Page 55
• Do Vocabulary A, B, and C Page 57-59

Writing:

• Part C on Page 42 - Write a topic sentence. #1 and #3
• Practice 3 on Page 44 - Write Supporting Sentences Even #'s 2, 4, 6

Newspaper Assignment due tomorrow on blog.

Blog Journal:

• Answer your own quesation by Thursday, July 17th

Write about your Newspaper article on your blog!

• Title of Article - Date of Newspaper
• Main Idea - about 40 words
• Opinion - about 30 words
• 2 new vocabulary words and their meanings
• Due on Tuesday, July 16th

Summer Fun Book Club Report #2 on Monday, July 15th! Follow guidesheet Gail gave you!

Writing

• Finish Draft 2 - Earliest Memory
• Send e-copy to Gail at gclaas@sccd.ctc.edu
• Give hard copy with Draft 1 in folder to Gail
• Due no later than Monday!

Writing: Preview Topic Sentences P. 38 & 39

Focus On Grammar Interactive (FOGI):

• Unit 3 Simple Past, Present Perfect, and Present Perfect Progressive
• We will have a test on Monday, July 14th
• You should finish all exercises
• Review Unit 1 and 2 if your scores are low!

Newspaper Article

Find a newspaper article that you like. Read it. Understand it as well as you can. Be ready to tell about in class tomorrow. Also, choose 2 new vocabulary words to tell about.

Building on Basics: Page 51

Focus on Grammar: Unit 3 Do the Practices.

Vocabulary Personal Word Sheet

Building on Basics!

Unit 2 - Selection 2 Students Think Love Conquers All

• Page 44-48 up to Sharing your thoughts

Blog Questions - Be sure to write your 3 questions that you want to ask your classmates! You will give your paper to Gail tomorrow in class. Follow the instructions on the yellow handout. :)

Focus on Grammar Interactive

• Do Unit 2 Simple Past and Past Progressive - on line.
• Log In and do as well as you can!
• Focus on the Practices and Reading. As you hav time, do the Listening and Speaking sections!
• We will talk about your questions in class!

Bring your Self Study Words to class tomorrow! We will copy them onto the study sheet in class. :)

Building on Basics!

Unit 2 - Selection 1 - Untitled

• Second Reading - Page 36 -39
• Comprehension Check and Vocaulary Building

Read your Summer Fun Book!

Study Unit 2 in Focus on Grammar Interactive on line or on photocopy handout!

Important! If you haven't purchased the Focus on Grammar Interactive access code, be sure you do before tomorrow's class or else bring $30 to purchase from Laura, The Publishing Representative tomorrow! She will join our class at 1pm!

Don't forget to check the Blog Assignments!

Two new posts on your blog!

1. Summer Book Club #1 - Don't forget to bring your book to class on Monday!
2. July 4th
3. Also, post a comment of about 15 words or more on 3 or more of your classmates blogs.

Focus on Grammar Interactive Unit 1 and 2 on line

For those of you who have not purchased your Focus on Grammar Interactive textbook on line, please email me at gclaas@sccd.ctc.edu and let me know when you have purchased your book! The bookstore is not open on Friday or the weekend. It opens on Monday at 8 am. I hope you can solve your problem by having your FOGI book by Monday! If you are buying at the bookstore be sure to go to the bookstore early on Monday before you come to class. If you are buying on line, please buy today!!

NOTE: Someone left their Building on Basics textbook in the lab today. There is no name, so I don't know who it belongs to. If you cannot find yours, please come by my office in SA 201 and pick it up. I will not be able to bring it to class, so you should come to the office on Monday before class to get it.

Newspaper Article!

Find a newspaper article that you like in the newspaper that I gave you in class today!
Read it, and be ready to tell your classmates about it.

Vocabulary Test tomorrow!

• Personal Words
• Building on Basics Selection 1, 2, and 3

Bring your Focus on Grammar Interactive to class tomorrow!

Go to the computer lab first! BE 3165

Building on Basics

Read "It's Ok to Be Different" P. 16-19

• Comprehension Check A and B
• Vocabulary Building A

Finish introduction on your blog!

Personal Word Vocabulary Study Sheet is due!

Read in your Summer Fun Book

• Your Focus on Grammar Books are in!
• Bring your receipts and course syllabus and all your books.
• Take them to the bookstore and exchange them before class if you can.
• If you have written in your books ask to see the manager and she will help you.
• If you have not written in your book, the regular store cashier can help you.

Building on Basics

Page 9-13 A&B and A&B

Writing: Subject Verb Agreement
Page 14, Practice B in the textbook

Summer Fun Book Club: Read as much as you can!

Be sure to send your blog address to Gail at gclaas@sccd.ctc.edu!
Also, finish your introduction of yourself!

Focus on Grammar: Page 6, Ex. 3, Page 15 & 16, Ex. 3 & 4

Building on Basics!

• Review Selection 1 - My Early Memories
• Review the vocabulary. Monday, I will tell you about the tests that we will be taking!
• Sharing Your Thoughts 5, page 7 - Interview 3 people. Be ready to explain what you found out on Monday!
• Do Writing Task #2 on page 8 and bring your composition to class on Monday!

Finish writing Draft 2 of the Sample Essay

• Put a hard copy and Draft 1 in your writing folder and give to Gail
• Attach a word document to an e-mail and send to Gail at gclaas@sccd.ctc.edu

Read at least 10 pages of your Summer Fun Book. Bring your book to class again on Monday and be ready to talk about what you read!

Bring your Summer Fun Book to class on Thursday!

Be sure to either go to the library or go shopping to buy your Summer Fun Book (outside reading book) to class tomorrow!

Building on Basics - Unit 1 Growing Up Pages 2 - 6

• Comprehension Check B. Second Reading
• Vocabulary A. Vocabulary Building

Set up your Blog using the information that I gave you in class today. :)

Start thinking about how you want to introduce yourself on your blog!

We will meet in our regular classroom first.

Welcome to my blog!

It was great to meet all of you today!

Homework for tomorrow:

• Buy books for Wednesday
• Fill out the Needs Assessment
• Start looking for your Summer Fun Book. You need to have a decision by Thursday!