Coming Up: The CAHSEE (Practice) Essay! UPDATED

All 10th grade students at our school will be taking a CAHSEE practice essay in English class on THURSDAY, December 8th. (Originally it was scheduled for Tuesday, but it has been moved to Thursday).

We will be going over the CAHSEE essay in class this week.

In the meantime, here is a helpful study guide with information about the CAHSEE essay.

And here is some more information about how to write a business letter (our assignment).

Finally, here is a copy of the CAHSEE Essay Practice Sheet we filled out in class, if you need an extra.

More details to follow.

November, December, and January Class Calendars

Here are the November, December, and January pdf versions of our class calendars. I will copy and pass them out each month, but you can also download them here:

November 2011

December 2011

January 2012

Print each calendar and keep a copy in your binder. Use it to add and keep track of tests and other major assignment due dates, etc.

You can also see the AHS online calendar here:

AHS Calendar

Grammar: Phrases and Clauses

Get it? CLAUSES??

Phrases and clauses will show up for sure on the English Benchmark (December 15th). They can be kind of complicated.

If you would like to get a head start on this grammar point, try this website about clauses (there is even a power point and two practice quizzes):


http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm


And this one on phrases (there is a helpful practice quiz):


http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm


We will start studying this in class after Thanksgiving Break. Enjoy your Tofurky!

Welcome to Ms. Naylor's Class!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break and are ready to begin our last two units of the semester! Here is a brief summary of what's coming up:

• We will be learning about clauses and phrases to prepare for the English Benchmark on Thursday, December 15th.
• We will be reading the classic Greek Drama Antigone (see the picture, above).
• We will be working on literary terms, drama terms, and poetry terms.
• After winter break, we will study poetry.
• We will be preparing a poetry reading.

The first semester ends on January 27th - after that it will be time to prepare for the CAHSEE. Let's work together to have a great end of the first semester!