Friday, 12 December 2014 Time will pass; will

you? 4 days remain in the fall semester.

Learning Goals: Portfolio Update To celebrate

community and Holidays

To begin reviews for the history final.

Lydia’s birthday is today!

Tax Credit form distribution—please take home to your family and consider—they get all the money back on their tax return

Are you monitoring your grades? Alert us immediately to any discrepancies.

The Course Calendar is up-to-date. The Class Website

Next week is history review week—we’ll take the history final on Thursday.

Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus.American Studies Club Holiday Activity – Officers will deliver gifts. (15 minutes) Portfolio updates – Rubric on desk (30 minutes)Poem Selection – Review all seven and choose two by name, put on sheet of paper and give to Salim and Andrew for tally.

Place the purple check-off sheet behind the purple card stock sheet (write you name on this one). These are the front title pages.

Transfer what your brought in to the point sheet—total the points, and turn the white sheet in.

Arrange your work behind the title pages, in the order on the purple sheet. Remove staples when practical—this will help “flatten” your pages.

Set up Team Holiday Names – Choose a Captain, and choose the “batting order” for your team with the Captain being the first batter. Give info to the Great Elf scorekeeper , Mr. Whorton, for Great Tournament Elf Excel Scoresheet. On games requiring batting order, you must go in batting order or face a “bad list” penalty.

Practice-Practice-Practice Game – 30 minutes – Rules: Take the test silently and individually on sheet with your name, You can then compare and change any you choose, within the time frame. Give to your team captain who will then exchange with captain of another team for grading. Give back to team captain who will calculate team’s average score and report to the Great Elf scorekeeper .