Mr. Walker's Blog

The vote wasn’t nearly as close as I’d thought just by stacking them together. Blue for Guys and White for Gals won by a pretty healthy majority. Next, however, I need to find out if there are any girls who were planning to use robes of previous graduates. If there are a significant number of them, we’ll probably stick with the usual. If there are only a couple, or none at all, I’m sure we can make arrangements. I’ll go into more detail on Monday, but I said I’d put up the vote results today so here they are. Feel free to e-mail me if you want, though I may not get back to you right away:

cwalker@putnamschools.org

Go to the Book Fair.  After that, retake the compare / contrast section of the CT test.  You HAVE to retake it, and it will probably have to be after school.

KWL about Shakespeare. Also a PowerPoint.

Make-up: Bell work. There will be a handout next week.

Wednesday

Finished up MLA Practice.  Went over Outline format for thesis.  There is a handout for that.  No make-up unless you missed the entire MLA Practice.

Thursday – Friday

Work on Outside Reading / Thesis.  Friday begin voting for graduation robe colors.

Friday 11/13/09

Test on The Canterbury Tales.  If you missed it, you’ll have to come after school to make it up.

Monday 11/16/09

Begin MLA Works Cited Page info.  Practice putting stuff into the proper format.

Tuesday 11/17/09

Finish up yesterday’s work.

Make-up: As long as you were here one day, you’re fine.  If you missed both days, you’ll have to do the work on your own.

I’ve mentioned the book in class a few times now, and the previous blog post about it got deleted in the Great Deletion of the Blog (stupid FrontPage…) so I figured I’d post something again.

7th Son: Descent is a sci-fi thriller novel about a group of 7 clones who have to hunt down their original, nicknamed Alpha.  Although the 7 men are clones, they all have very different lives, and each of their specialties is needed to stop Alpha before he can wreak any more havoc than he already has.  It’s a non-stop rollercoaster ride that begins with the death of the president.  I truly enjoyed the original, podcast version of the story, and I’m very much looking forward to delving into the new print edition which has new scenes and some other changes as well.  This novel is the first of a trilogy and needs to sell well in order to justify printing the other two.  So far it looks good, but it’s hard to say for sure.  I plan to have a full review once I’ve finished the book, but for now you can go here for more info:

Review for CT test tomorrow. No make-up, but you’ll still have to take the test tomorrow.

Introduce new vocabulary, but the quiz will be NEXT Friday, the 20th. Went over requirements for thesis paper. You can get the handout when you get back, and I’ll be around after school if you want to ask me questions about it. You ARE responsible for knowing the requirements!

Make-up: Get the new vocab, get the handout.

Take vocabulary quiz.  Finish up discussion of The Canterbury Tales in some classes.  Previewed the list of topics for the thesis.  I will allow people to reserve topics starting Monday.  I’ve included a list on my Handouts page.

Make-up: Take the vocab. quiz.  We also turned in Bell Work from 10/19, 11/2-4.