Week 1 of school: Welcome to your

Senior year!

Week 1 of school: Welcome to your

Senior year!Mrs. Christ, teaching since 1988 and

celebrating 24 years at this wonderful and deeply satisfying career!

Day oneperfect attendance=100%

on big test.• Introduction• Policies: shared another day!• Now for the good stuff!!!• Birth date line up• One item you can’t live without or

best app.• Two lies and a truth

Day 2People don’t care how much you know until

they know how much you care.• Syllabus given.• 1. Never Absent incentive/ex.credit/• Bathroom passes/type all written work done at home.• Printer in pod not for student use!• Print at home or in lib. Before my class. No email copies.• Pair-share interview• Write 2 paragraphs about what you learned about your partner. It

can be an obituary, song, poem, fairy tale, etc. Show me your writing ability! Type at home by Tuesday. If absent today or added class later, do this on yourself!

• Homework:• Due Tuesday: Finish writing assgn. Type if possible!!• Supplies for class needed(notebook, highlighter, pens)• get parent signature on syllabus. Due by Friday

• ID, schedule, and backpack needed Monday when we get your textbooks for all classes.

I loveSemicolons!

(Like a period)

"The difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a man's

determination." Tommy Lasorda

• What is your worst habit?• What’s your ethnicity?• What are your plans post h.s?• How do you picture your adult life/career, etc?• If you were a car, which one would you be and why?• What would you rather be doing than going to school?• Name one place you want to visit before you die and

why.• What’s your favorite food?• What comforts you?• What goals do you want to achieve?

• Who’s your fav. artist/group?

• Where have you traveled to?• Do you work? Have a car?

Day 320% of population count a teacher as person who

most affected their life in positive way.

• Signed Syllabus due• Nametags out.• Stand up/sit down• Finish writing

• HOMEWORK!!!• Get books Monday.• Type up interview by Tuesday; it’s your first

grade!!!!

Interview questions• What’s your fav.sport/hobby?• What is something only your bf knows?• If you could change your name, what would it

be?• If you could be someone else, who would you

be?• Where will you be in your life in 5 years?• Who’s your role model?• Tell your fondest memory.

STAND UP/SIT DOWN!• BEEN IN DISTRICT WHOLE LIFE• MOVED MORE THAN 3 TIMES SINCE AGE 6• READ MAGS OVER SUMMER• LIVE WITH 2 PARENTS• LIVE WITH PARENT(S) PLUS OTHER RELATIVE(S)• HAVE 4 OR MORE SIBBLINGS• PLAN TO GO TO CSU OR UC IMMEDIATELY AFTER HS.• PLAN ON GETTING GOOD GRADES THIS YEAR• PLAN ON GOING TO TECHNICAL/VOCATION/TRADE COLLEGE• SPEAK ANOTHER LANG AT HOME• LIKE TO LEARN NEW THINGS• WILL BE FIRST IN FAMILY TO GRAD. COLLEGE• PARENTS OWN THEIR OWN BUSINESS• HAVE A SIBBLING IN COLLEGE• ARE VERY MESSY• READ A BOOK OVER SUMMER• LIKE TO WRITE SONGS, ETC.• SPEND MORE THAN 2 HRS DAILY ON INTERNET• IN ATHLETICS ON CAMPUS• WERE IN A SCHOOL CLUB LAST YEAR• CAN’T WAIT TO GET OUT OF HS! COUNT A TEACHER AS A PERSON WHO MADE A DIFF. IN

» YOUR LIFE

Seniors: week 2: Textbook day

• Get textbooks• Ever lied to a teacher before?• “The dog ate my disc…”pg.471•

• Homework: • Typed interview due tomorrow; first grade!• Remember, no emailing copies or not having

it printed BEFORE CLASS!

11th grade:WEEK 2

• Get textsRoots list of 50 introducedMake cards for 4 of them.

• Homework:• TYPED INTERVIEW DUE TOMORROW• Start studying roots! First quiz next week on

1-25!• Create 4 cards if you didn’t.

• Enjoy a wonderful• Three-day weekend

and get lots of rest from your first week at school.

• On avg. , teens need 10-12 hours of sleep per day!!!

11th grade: TUESDAY• Show me 4 roots flash cards• Create 4 more!!• Enjoy a long, restful weekend!!