Tuesday, 8/27/02
Welcome! Seating charts. Names.
I. Copy homework into assignment book. If you don't yet have an assignment book, use a sheet of paper in your binder, or notebook. Be sure to copy the assignments again into your assignment book when you get one.
II. Warm Up. +1/2 point for each correct. (Usually this would go into your English spiral notebook, with a date and title. Again, if you don't yet have a spiral notebook for English, use a sheet of paper in your binder for now.)
  1. Choose the one that is incorrectly spelled, and spell the word correctly. If all are correct, write "no mistake." a) equiptment  b) laboratory  c) multiply  d) parallel  e) no mistake
  2. Copy. 10% of 40 = _______
  3. "Uncle was skeptical that the plane would fly. He didn't see how it could work". Based on this context, what does the word skeptical mean?
  4. When the day after tomorrow is one day after yesterday, this day will be as far from Friday as this day was from Friday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What day is it?
  5. By when (day and date) must you have a spiral notebook exclusively for English?
  6. Which word in this exercise is mispelled?
Correct Warm Up. Go over. Be sure to save. You get the extra credit you earned on Friday.

Class Expectations. Get a spiral notebook!
Read and sign on the back. Due tomorrow. (Quiz!)
Parents read and sign by Friday.

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Newsletter.
What to do when you're absent.

Can You Be Perfekt?
Write 150 words about fun (in any way related to fun!).  No mechanical mistakes are allowed. Put name, date, and period in the upper right corner. Give the page a title. Ink. Not ripped. Due Friday. 20 points, -5 for each mechanical mistake I find. Get "everybody and his mom" to proofread it for you!
Bonus options: a) Go for three hundred words! b) Use a colon and a semi-colon correctly. c) Go for more than "It is fun to see Spot run."

Q and A.
Time? "Unpack..."