Welcome Back Eagles 2009-2010

Greetings Parents and Students,

I look forward to a wonderful year with each of you. I will

periodically post what I hope is helpful and informative

information about classroom assignments, school events and other

educational news. Please feel free to contact me if you have any

 questions or just leave a comment here on my blog.

Blessings!

Ms. Sanders

ELA - Advantage Academy - Grand Prairie

 Our mission is to "...inspire students to be productive, successful

champions by offering them a future and a hope."

English 4 Adventures in ELA

Parents and Students,

As the new year and semester begins, our graduating seniors are venturing into new territories of learning. As a class we will be using the model of a freshman college course to prepare for the first year of college English.

Senior goals are to:

Currently, we are learning APA formating including:

•  Appropriately format a Title Page
•  Demonstrate the proper page layout
•  Properly insert in-text citations
•  Demonstrate the proper layout for references
•  Correctly insert graphs and figures
•  Demonstrate how to use proper heading formats 

Student Response Assignment: (100pts.)

Write a brief statement about the new format of English 4.  

• What have you learned
• What are you looking forward to learning
• How do you believe this new format will help you with your first year of college English.

I look forward to your comments,

Ms. Sanders

ELA Teacher

Advantage Academy -Grand Prairie, Texas

What are you most thankful for this year?

"I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers."

Ephesians 1:16

There are so many things to be thankful for in my life, my Savior,

Jesus Christ, my son "Butterbean", my awesome friends and family

and of course the best job in the world with the best co-workers

and students that a teacher could ever ask for.

As our year comes closer to a wonderful end, I asked my students

what they were most thankful for?

Please click on the comment section to read their responses.

Ms. Sanders

Homework Assignment #2 Due November 10th

October is National …

October seems to be a really popular month for awareness. I have found a wonderful website that list all of the monthly and weekly observances of October.  Your homework assignment is to choose a topic, learn all about it and then tell others about it. How?

For this homework assignment the student will:

Step One: Go to http://www.brownielocks.com/october.html and choose an appropriate topic.

Step Two: Write a three paragraph essay about your topic including:

·         How it came about.

·         Founders- Who started it?

·         Public awareness- What is the message?

Step Three: Create a visual either by poster or PowerPoint to highlight your topic.

Assignment due November 10^th

^{Good Luck and have fun!}

^{Ms. Sanders}

Homework: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month -- Due September 30th

Assignment:

Step One: Student will select a notable Hispanic from Fact Monster.com  http://www.factmonster.com/spot/hhm1.html as the subject of an essay.

Step Two: Student will complete a five paragraph essay, citing three positive traits or contributions to society by their subject.

Step Three: Student will provide  visual interpretation(full or half poster or PowerPoint) of their chosen subject including:

• four images
• brief biography
• three positive traits

Step Three: Student will turn in assignment on  

Tuesday, September 30th    during class period.

Please see rubric for grading scale and post any questions in comment section.

Always do your best...

Ms Sanders

The Best First Six Weeks Ever!

Welcome, students and parents to Ms. Sanders blog. Here you will find helpful information, homework assignments and other useful tidbits of information.

Please feel free to contact me with any question you might have at psanders@eaisd.org I am here to help and answer any questions you may have.

Ms. Sanders

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