Writing Assignment (Maroon Day): 1. Today we will take the punctuation quiz over comma, semicolon, and colon usage. This is a Google Forms item. If you are working from home, please contact me, and I will open the quiz for you during class time. 2. We will begin drafting a short essay for Catholic Schools Week. Please use the link below to access the assignment and rubric. This is due at the end of class, Friday, January 22. 2021. We will have all of the class period on Friday to complete the draft, revise, proofread, and share the completed document. Reminders: 1. IXL OO.1, OO.2, and PP.2 are due Friday, 1-22-21, by 7:00 PM. Please work to a score of 100. 2. Questions over the short story "The Interlopers" are due Thursday, 1-21-21, at the beginning of class. This assignment is at Actively Learn. 3. There will be a vocabulary quiz and a poetry test on Thursday, 1-21-21. See earlier blog posts for details. Comments are closed.
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A Classroom Prayer
Holy Spirit, Giver of all good gifts, enter into my mind and heart. Give me the gift of knowledge and the grace to use it wisely. Help me in all my endeavors. Give me perseverance and fortitude. Help my memory, that I may remember what I learn and recall it when necessary. Guide me in the classroom.
O Jesus, You who are the Way, the Truth, and the Life, let me not be deceived by false teaching. Our Lady of Good Studies, pray for me. Amen. Mary, Undoer of Knots,
Pray for Us! A Prayer to Christ, the Divine Teacher
O source of all Wisdom, Christ the Teacher,
You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Teach us to embrace the truths You have revealed to Your Church. Fill our souls with Your Grace that we may love God above all and our neighbors as ourselves. Christ Jesus, friend and Teacher most patient, bless us and teach us. O Light of the world, teach us always to follow You that we should not walk in darkness, but have forever the Light of Life! Amen. Archives
August 2023
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