Grades

Come to the office SA210 tomorrow at the normal class time to get your grades.

Russ

Tuesday...Are we done yet?

Students!!!

There will be no class tomorrow. I repeat, there will be no class tomorrow (Wednesday). Sleep in or go have some coffee. I will see you on Thursday. We will not be meeting in class on Thursday; we'll be meeting in my office. I will let you know when tomorrow.

See you Thursday!

Final Writing

Not much to say, just prepare for tomorrow's final writing. Goodluck.

Long long lost Weekend.....is over?

We'll have the final writing on Tuesday. I will pass back proficency papers tomorrow, and we'll go over them. Yes, vocabulary notebooks ar due tomorrow.

I hope everyone had a good weekend. There's one final push! Let's Go!

Russ

Proficiency Writing

We had our make up class this afternoon. Some of you showed up and worked on grammar and on yur third drafts, which is good.

Tomorrow, we'll have an in class proficiency writing assignment. I nedd to see examples of new grammatical structures learned in class, especially since the midterm, in these papers.

Tomorrow would not be a good class to miss or be late for.
Goodnight.

Russell

Tuesday

Tomorrow will be some practice writing-just paragraphs in preparation for the final.

That's right. That's all.

Russell

Sunday

Hello Students!

Tomorrow, we'll work on your second drafts and will do in class corrections. We'll also correct the book homework.

Goodnight.

Russ

Thursday

Read up until p. 165 in HOLES for tomorrow. We'll also do some review for the final tomorrow.

How was the SLEP? I know I know. Too easy, right?

Bring your grammar questions in tomorrow.

Russell

Thursday

So, second drafts are due tomorrow. Other homework includes pp.419-423. Do as much of it as you can.

We need to have a make-up class. Is Monday morning from 10-11 in the computer lab be ok? If not, we could have it Monday from 3-4. Let me know tomorrow.

Russell

Thursday

I think I have about 3 more students to look at their papers.
Do the homework on pp. 490-...
Yes, well...goodnight.

Russell

Tuesday's Lesson

I will urge everbody in class to consult the essay example on page 218 "Winning" when writing your paper. I think it contains everything I'm looking for in a paper. You need to make appointments to see me if you haven't already done so already.
I'm pretty busy tomorrow, but I have some time in the morning and from 3-4pm.

Russell

TGIF

OK, Draft #1 will be due on Tuesday, and draft #2 will be due on Friday. Draft #3 will be due the following Monday.
Work hard on it, and I will have your in-class essays ready on Tuesday.

Don't forget to submit your vocabulary lists on Tuesday.

Russ

The main point of tomorrow's writing will be to use new sentence types like in today's lesson.
It will be an Effects paper more than likely. I don't think it would be fair to give a Narration paper.
We'll do 3 kinds of papers this quarter, but Cause and Effects will be the underlining theme that we'll come back to for testing.

OK. Goodnight.

Wednesday

OK, so the first draft is due on Friday, and we also have an in-class proficiency writing this Friday.

Goodnight.

Russell

Tuesday

Students!!!

Tomorrow, we're going to meet in the computer lab. We'll work on free-writing there. You don't have to make your outline tonight, brainstorming or clustering tonight.
Look up that website from the board today and look at some example Defenition papers. If you don't do that tomorrow, we'll do it tomorrow in the lab.

Have a good night.

Russ

Monday

The quiz will be tomorrow. I'll be in the office tomorrow morning, so I'll have "some" time if you have any questions.
Do the homework in the book.

Russell

Monday

Start the new paper tomorrow-have a quiz on Tuesday-what else...?Have I given back your bluebooks?...not yet?...I'll give them back tomorrow...I'll hand back your papers tomorrow, too...

That's a cute goat.

It's almost Friday!

Class,

We practiced more Fragment fixing today and Restricted vs Non Restrictive sentences.
We might have a quiz tomorrow.

Russell

Tuesday

We'll work more on revisions tomorrow and topic and conclusion sentences.
Yea!

Goodnight.

Russ

Monday

Go ahead and finish the worksheet I handed out today. Yes, I know it's difficult.
Remember to meet in the computer lab tomorrow in SA#304.
We'll be starting our new paper soon, but we must practice grammar and also topic sentences and thesis statements more.

Goodnight.

Russ

Saturday

3rd drafts are due on Monday.

I met with 5 of you today to go over your drafts and any questions you had.

That's it.

Russell

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz

Some pretty good comments there. Not everyone left one. Hmm.

I have so many of your papers to correct this weekend. Tonight, I'm simply too exhausted to do any more correcting.

Tomorrow, we'll look at some grammar in the book, and I'll answer any questions you might have.

Russell

It's Almost Friday! Hang in there!

Tomorrow is the Midterm. Are you preparing? Practice your outline writing, your Thesis Statement writing, your Parallel Structure writing and so on.

Russ

I want to watch the "Boob Tube!"

Students!

Similies and Metaphors. So fun, huh?
We'll go over them tomorrow.
I hope to have your papers corrected by class time tomorrow.

Russell

Tomorrow

Tomorrow we'll work on Similies and Metaphors.

It should be exciting.

Russell

Weekend Blog

So, second drafts of your paper are due tomorrow with a pre-written typed outline.
Also, find a narration online that you like and bring it to class. I would like everyone to bring it to me in my office before class if possible (before 10:40) if possible, so I can make photocopies of them.
We'll review for midterms this week.

Russell

Thursday

Whoops!!! I posted the wrong class' blog on this site again. Why do I always do this? Maybe I'm getting old.
Anyway, the homework is to find a narration paper that you find interesting and bring it to class tomorrow. Also, write on it. Circle the parts that you like and write why you like them. Be prepared to discuss it with me. We'll meet in SA304 tomorrow.

Russ

Articles

Articles and more Articles. Was it painful. Some of you looked like you were in so much pain. Sorry. I know it was a lot.
Homework: Grammar Book pp. 56-57, and then write a (short) story (2-3 sentences are OK) about a mistake you've made. Talk about a time when you gave someone your phone number, and that person stalked you. "I shouldn't have given my phone number." or "I should've given him a fake number."

Midterms will be on Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
I'll give you more detail on it tomorrow!

Please study that vocabulary and use it. We have a paper due tomorrow, don't we?
Do you need more time on it? Would you like more time with it? Please let me know by leaving a comment on the blog or emailing me.

Goodnight

Russ

Narration

OK, so the first draft is due tomorrow of your narration papers.

Make sure you have a typed Outline as well. I do not take first drafts home; I will look at them and you need to make appointments to come meet with me as well. Friday morning and Friday afternoon are good times for me.

Russell

Tainted Textbooks

It has come to my attention that several students have books that have answers written in them. This is against school rules and is "Plagiarism". If you have a book with answers written in it or if you have the TEACHERS' VERSION of a textbook, please buy a new book and return the teachers verson ASAP.
Thank you.

Russ

Dictionary

Did anyone leave a dictionary in the computer lab? It's in the teachers room.

Dictionary

Who left a dictionary in the computer lab? It's in the teachers room.

Dictionary

Who left a dictionary in the computer lab? It's in the teachers room.

Russ

Tuesday

OK, tonight you need to think of a topic and start your free-writing. Also, produce an outline (typed) by tomorrow. We'll continue then.

Goodnight

Russell

Sunday Night

Students,

Hello. I hope all of you have had nice weekends. I did. I picked some pumkins from a pumkin patch in Puyallup which was a lot of fun.
Today, I went to Costco and did some shopping. I'm pretty sure it's going to be rainy and cold for a while now.
Anyway. Tomorrow third drafts are due. Please also hand in your second drafts and outlines. Make sure you have each set of drafts stapled to each other. We will also have a quiz tomorrow and start on the topic of our next paper.
I'll be in the office from 8:15-10:55.

Have a good night.

Russell

Thursday

OK, so your job now is to explore further possiblities for your paper. This will involve a lot of rewriting and conculting your book and notes for ideas. Like I said, you should be spending 45 minutes to an hour on each sub topic (body paragraph) and intro and conclusion paragraphs.
I'll be in the office Fri. 8-11 and 3-7 so come and get help. Please come with good questions.

Russ

Wednesday

OK, this is the correct blog for the correct class (Thank you, Maki). What is homework for tonight? pp. 366-367; #2 (consequently), #3 (although), #4 (furthermore, and #5 (nevertheless). pp. 368-370 (All).

Remember to finish re-writing the second paragraph for the ditto to turn in tomorrow if you didn't have it finished today. They will be counted as late, though.

That's it.

Russell

Tuesday

Homework: Grammar Book pp.29-31 (Past Perfect Tense)

Continue with the pre-writing and the free-writing of the Transportation idea. Beprepared to show me your "new" ideas tomorrow.

Read pp. 26-47 in "Holes" this week. Do not watch the movie; it will ruin the book - believe me.

Have a good night.

Russell

Monday

OK, I will try to correct your papers tonight. Plese finsih the ditto I gave you today. Take notes of possible changes/ improvements you can make to it and prepared to share them witht e class tomorrow.
Also, complete the "Comma" ditto and do pp.445-449 (Prepositions).

Whew! That's all.

Russ

Homework

Today was a grammar day.
The average score from Friday's quiz was 68%. That's not very good, so make sure that you actually study your new vocabulary and grammar.

Homework tonight:

Finish the preposition sheet
Complete pp. 26-29
Finish reading pp.1-25 in Holes and answer the questions on the worksheet.
Turn in your article summary tomorrow (if you didn't turn it in today) and also turn in your vocabulary notebook tommorow.

Tomorrow, we will discuss Holes.

Any questions?

Russell

Wednesday

OK, make thos appointments with me to go over your first drafts. Second drafts are due on Monday. Do pp. 294-299 in your book and we'll go over them tomorrow. Also, do your 3rd conditional homework. Tomorrow, we will begin work on semicolons.

Russ

Cancelled Class

Class,

I'm sorry that I cancelled today's class, but I did not feel well enough to teach today.

I should be better tomorrow. Turn in your first draft papers on Wednesday.

See you tomorrow.

Russell

Monday Monday

I feel sick..so sick...I've just taken some medicine which will make me sleepy and then I will go to bed...
Anyway, what did we do today? We went over Friday's quiz. We also went over your outlines.
The first draft (typed) of your paper is due on Wednesday. Please do either cause or effect (probably not both, though). If you want to meet me to discuss some ideas, please come to see me either tomorrow morning from 8:30-11 or Wednesday morning at the same time.
I will help you out.

Homework: pp.294-299 Try to read and complete this. If you can't finish it all, it's not the end of the world.

Goodnight.

Russell

And...

My email is working at: rajohnson@sccd.ctc.edu

Hooray!!!

TGIF

Students!!!

I've just finished correcting your quizzes and most of you did pretty well. Don't worry; it's only the first quiz of the quarter.

Please remember to read pp.225-227 (top) and complete the exercises.

Choose a topic from the board today and start your pre-writing (which you will bring in to show the class on Monday).

Also, type your outline for it.

Have a good weekend!

Russell

Mistake

Whoops! That last blog entry was for my Reading/ Writing/ Grammar 3 class. Please disregard it.

Russ

Thursday

Students!!!

OK, we have a quiz tomorrow on present perfect tense. Also, re write your paper from Tuesday. Those are the main things you need to work on tonght. Finally, finish the chapter in you reading book, p.16.

Remember to have your vocabulary notebook updated and ready to hand in on Monday.

Next week, the tutor list should be up so you can get help from teachers.

Russell

Thursday

This morning's class seems like a long time ago. What did we do?

Look at Chapter 15 pp.213-215 to prepare for the first essay.
Also, complete the coordinate conjunctions worksheet I handed out today. Look over the correction symbols, Parallel Structures sheet, and the Thesis Statement sheet to prepare for tomorrow's quiz. Everyone did well today.

Russ

Wednesday

What was homework today? Make an outline with you paper from Tuesday and do the Parallel Structures sheet and the Subordinate clauses sheet.

We worked on thesis statements and pre-writing today. Please work on this tonight and the rest of this week.

Goodnight.

New Blog Address

I had to change the address. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I'm writing this on Tuesday night, but I believe that Wednesday we will work on pre-writing basics and correction symbols. I will update this blog ASAP.

Russell