Ms. Bridges' ERWC Class

Student Excused List for Field trip to the Ahmanson September 26, 2017 Sofia Aburto  Josue Abarca  Jacqueline Arana  Jefferson Barrera Katherine Carpio Leslie Caballero  Manuel Campos  Shobhana Castillo  Elizabeth Chan Allison Chirino  Carter Demus  Dunya Duarte Precious Duran  Gabrielle Elvir  Emily Estrada  Katherine Garcia  Ivonne Gonzalez  Christina Games Oscar Gutierrez Chandler Johnson Wendy Hernandez Ty Howze Beverly Huerta   Grace Jones  Aliyah Joseph  Hakob Kachanyan Roland Kalo Stephanie McGhee Andrea Morales  Alejandra Martinez Alexis Martinez Luis Mauricio Brandy Mendoza  Stephanie Misassian Alice Moure Kayla Parades Noelia Reyes  Sydney Ross  Emily Salazar Yaslynn Thomas  Vladislav Vahiagin Angel Velasquez

September 26, 2017  Dear Guest Teacher:  I hope you have a very pleasant day with us. We are taking a large number of students on a field trip so many classes may be fairly empty.  1st Period:  Senior ERWC  Allow students to work on either their senior research project or their ERWC homework.  2nd Period:  Conference 3rd Period:  9th Grade Introduction to Theatre Allow the students to play theatre games. If you have a theatre background please feel free to share with them - they are newbies. This is the second day these students have been in my class so I don’t know many of them. I didn’t have time to make a seating chart for them. Sorry.  4th Period:  9th Grade English  Please make sure they sit in their correct seats. Please give them “The Most Dangerous Game” test. Make sure they don’t use their phones - many of them took photos of the class notes. I do have a seating chart. There is an aide...

Monday, September 25th:  8:00 - 8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom Tedtalks 8:15 - 9:13 Clean up Go to library Continue research Find at least three more sources for your research paper Please format the sources in correct bibliography format Submit to schoology Tuesday, September 26th:  Field Trip For those who are not attending the ballet, please work on your research paper Wednesday, September 27th:  8:00 - 8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom Clean-up 8:15 - 9:13 Go over the grammar assignment: Pages 4, 5, and 6, “What Makes a Sentence Complete?”, write out the sentences and write why it is incomplete. Activity 5, “Identifying Complete and Incomplete Sentences”, write out sentences and mark them either “C” for complete or “I” for incomplete. Grammar due period has been extended to Friday, September 29 th . Vocabulary Unit 2, #11 – 20 is due today: Word, part of speech, definition, etymology, three synonyms, two antonyms, two original...

Monday, September 18th: In the library all this week. Areas of concern: Run-ons Sentence Fragments Pronouns and antecedent agreement Article: "a" vs "an" Monday, September 18th: In the library Lectures/videos with Ms. Whitham over library resources, data bases, access to gale.edu Remember, students have to go through the LAUSD portal to access gale.edu Assignment: send a link or article you found today that is relevant to your topic to lms.lausd. Tuesday, September 19th:  8:00 - 8:20:  Please bring your vocabulary workshop book today. Go over Vocabulary Unit 2, #11 - 20.   This will be due on Wednesday, September 27th. 8:20 - 9:13: In the library to do research. Video: "How Should I Search in a Data Base?" Advanced search in a database EBSCO Publishing  - Explora High School Research Boolean Search (And/Or/Not) Abstract: Summary of article Limit by date and source type Email or download to google drive (Cite button MLA) Look f...

September 11, 2017 - September 15, 2017 ERWC Agenda  Monday, September 11th:  Senior Project Speak: A Vocabulary List Some of the following terms may be new; some you may already be familiar with. Let’s take a look. Annotated Work Cited Page : a list of sources you used, and how you used them. ( How you used them makes it an annotated Work Cited Page) Citation: shows the reader where you got your information Evidence of Research: notes taken from your sources on note cards, to be available any time your English teacher requires Fifth-year Senior: what you will be if you don’t complete your project! Letter of Intent: a business format letter that describes your Senior Project Mentor: an adult with expertise in your area of research who helps you through the rough patches ( this does not include friends or relatives) MLA Style: Modern Language Association is the style used in college English papers Plagiarism: intentionally or uni...