MLA formatting website

http://www.easybib.com

Extra Practice - Word Transformations

Here is the link to the online practice mentioned in class:

http://www.flo-joe.com/fce/students/strategy/p3pt3a.htm

Things to work on over the weekend...

• continue research for your group presentation (outline is due 5pm Tuesday September 27) (presentation will be on Friday September 30)
• Animal Farm - Chapters 1-4 Thursday September 29

Housekeeping...

Here are some links to Smrt pages that will help you with various punctuation issues:

• http://www.smrtenglish.com/ccel/lesson/6184 - commas
• http://www.smrtenglish.com/ccel/lesson/7108 - capitalization and end punctuation
• http://www.smrtenglish.com/ccel/lesson/7141 - spacing

Due date for Chapters 1-4 of "Animal Farm" is Friday September 30

• be prepared to discuss each chapter with your group
• make sure you've taken notes on as many as the points listed on http://www.smrtenglish.com/ccel/lesson/3914 as possible

Here are some links to help you practice your listening skills:

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/

http://www.esl-lab.com/

http://www.elllo.org/

http://www.listenaminute.com/

Documentary re: American health care system - Sicko

To be taken with a grain of salt :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thkBLpRwdSM

Homework for the weekend

- first draft of essay due Tuesday at the latest or Monday evening (so I can check it!)

Homework Thursday September 15

Ok...

• 2-3b Listening - Cloning and Stem Cells (if you haven't finished or completed it - will be checked tomorrow in class)
• outline for Essay 1

You can do this guys!!!! Remember we are in this together ;)

Homework Wednesday September 14

Here we go:

• TEDEd - How Do Nerves Work?
• http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-nerves-work#watch
• watch the video and take notes - either with paper and pen or google docs.
• if you use google docs, please share it with me
• if you use paper and pen - take a picture of it and send it to me :)
• Essay 1 Outline (due on Friday)
• please start researching websites...do not leave all of this until tomorrow night...

Any questions, please email me :)

Homework Tuesday September 13

Here we go:

• Listening 3-3b) (Nerve Cells)
• Exercises 4 & 6 only - please share with me when you have finished, but we will check the answers tomorrow in class.
• 3-2c) Short Story 3
• please finish questions and share with me when you have finished, but we will check the answers in class tomorrow.

Any questions, please email me :)

Homework for Monday September 12

Here is your teeny, tiny amount of homework for tonight ;)

• 3-1c) Listening number 3 only (Engines) - please use the document shared with you (do NOT share the document with me as we'll check it in class tomorrow)
• you can start 3-2c) Short Story if you want...it will be due on Wednesday and reviewed in class so please make sure it is done prior to class on Wednesday

Any questions, please email me :)

Homework for the weekend

Here's the homework for the weekend:

• 2-3b Listening - Cloning and Stem Cells
• 2-3d Listening Skills 7 - Note Taking
• 2-4a Listening Skills 8 - Note Taking

We may check some together on Monday morning, but I will be taking a look at everything this weekend!

Have a great weekend everybody :)

Homework for Thursday September 8

For tonight, technically, there is no homework, but you need to :

• prepare for your presentation
• outline?
• notes?
• 5 Qs (4 factual, 1 open)
• review vocabulary/concepts for quiz
• Reading - Cell phones  (10Qs)
• Listening - Cell phones (16Qs) (audio about 6 mins)
• Writing - summarize points from reading and listening (25 mins)

Homework Wednesday September 7

Here is your homework for tonight:

• outline for your presentation on Friday - 2-4c) Presentation 1
• 2-1c Listening Skills 5 - Note Taking

Please share both documents with me upon completion.

Happy Homework ;)

Homework for Tuesday September 6

Here is your homework:

• 2-2b Short Story 2 (reading and questions)
• 2-3a Reading (exercise 1 & 2 - ONLY)
• 2-3b Listening (exercise 1 & 2 - ONLY)
• Listening 2-1b (exercise 6 ONLY)

Please share ALL documents when you have finished them :)

Homework for the long weekend...

Here is your homework for the long weekend...sorry guys...:(

• 1-4a) Listening Skills - please share the document with me
• 1-2c) Short Story - please share the document with me
• finish 1-3c) if you haven't already - you don't need to share this with me as I already have it from this morning
• ...and try to have some fun :)

See you on Tuesday and thanks for a great first week!!!

Homework Thursday September 1

Here is your homework for tonight:

• finish Listening 1-3b) - excercise 4 & 6
• review vocabulary/concepts for quiz tomorrow 

Any questions, please email me :)