Tuesday, August 21st

Greetings everyone!

I hope that you had a great day today.  Everyone worked very hard today with learning the new grammar.  For those of you that need to review what we learned today, please click here to see the grammar 8-1.

As for your homework, please click HERE.  This will open the grammar exercise 8-2.  Please do part one and two and either email it to me or bring it to the start of class tomorrow. 

Thanks again everyone for all the hard work.  See you tomorrow.

Test Day - 8/20

Greetings everyone!

Thank you for working hard on your tests today.  Good job!

Today, we started unit 8 - Environment, as well as went over the vocabulary in class.  I have emailed the vocab slides to all of you, so please check your USA emails for additional study.

HOMEWORK:

You have two homework assignments:

1.  Make 5 vocabulary sentence questions.

Example for your homework:

                You can find a lot of _________ on Mt. Spokane. (wildlife)

 
Please make 5 sentences similar to the one above. Please email these to me by the start of class tomorrow. 

2.  Please email me your essay you want to edit on Wednesday.  This will be the essay you will turn in on Sunday for your final.

Thank you very much everyone, and I hope you have a great day.

August 14th - Reading

Greetings everyone!

Good job today with the reading and its activity.  I hope that you enjoyed learning about two of the most famous bands in recent history.

If you did not make it to class today, the reading can be found here.  Remember, expect to see some questions about the reading on the test next Monday.

Tomorrow, we will have a peer editing session from your essays from last week.

Thanks again!

Monday, August 13th

Greetings everyone!

It is good to be back.  I missed everyone.  Today, we had our test, and I hope everyone did well on it.  I know that you worked hard.

We also introduced the vocabulary for unit 7 - Art and Music.  For your homework today, please do the vocabulary exercise.  Answer all 20 questions and then email your work to me.  The assignment can be found here.

Thanks again everyone for all of your hard work.  See you tomorrow.

Writing for This Week

Greetings everyone!

For this week's writing, you will have to write about this topic:

"How important is fashion to you in your life? Why is it or why is it not important?"

You will need to write five paragraphs; no more and no less.  Please try to write exactly five.   The essay is due on Sunday, August 5th by midnight.

Good luck and I will see you in a week!

Articles!

Greetings everyone!

Let's talk about articles. There are two types of articles in the English language; indirect and direct.  Indirect articles are "a" and "an," and direct articles are "the."

Remember, indirect articles are used with nouns that are:

• General,
• Singular,
• And a count noun.

Direct articles are used with:

• Specific nouns
• Can be used with singular or plural nouns
• And can be used with count and uncount nouns.
• As long as it is specific.

We looked at three different parts of how to use articles.  First was with known and unknown nouns.  The first time you introduce a noun, you use an indirect article.  The second time the noun is mentioned (and every other time after that), you use a direct article.

The second one was unique nouns.  When a noun is unique because it is one of a kind (the sun), or we know that we are talking about something specific (I bought a new computer. The computer is amazing.), we use a direct article.

Lastly, we talked about plural count nouns in general.  When we are talking about a group of things in general, we use NO article. (I really hate sweets.    OR      Turtles make wonderful pets.)

Look over what we studied, and try to use it in your next writing.

Cheers!