Week #7 - Time to Kick Cahsee!

Hello Awesome and Smart Person of the Sophomoric Persuasion,

I hope this finds you in the right frame of mind - ready to wrestle with this test and tackle the remaining few months of your Sophomore year of high school.  You will never have this year again - so make the most out of it and our time together.  Everything is illuminated....everything disappears.

Grades.  I have to turn them in on Tuesday.  You get your progress report on Friday.  I am still working on this as I currently inform you.  As always, your concerns are my concerns (at the appropriate time of course).  If you have a specific question, please come and speak with me.  I appreciate your patience.  The truth is that many of us know exactly how we are performing in most of our classes.

Good luck for the Cahsee this week.  Please be present both days.  Use all the skills and strategy we discussed at length.  You are smarter than this test.  Please give it your all.  Have your ID's with you both days.  Eat well.  Sleep well.  Have your independent reading with you.  You can have time to read if you finish early...if not...you will be bored.

Monday
* Last day of Cahsee review.  Discuss and review essay prompts, thesis statements, proofs, and evidence.  Be ready to destroy any essay/subject that comes your way! We will also review answers to the online practice Cahsee.
* HW - Revisit/Review the Cahsee website. See the last blog update for the link.

Tuesday/Wednesday
*  Cahsee Testing. Please go to your designated room assignment.  It is time to kick Cahsee!

Thursday/Friday
* Film/Discussion - Thinking ahead toward our Argument/Debate Unit which begins on Monday next week.

* HOMEWORK - Read indpendently.  Use this week to really get ahead in your book
* Hunger Games anyone?  If you are reading this awesome book - let me know.  I encourage any of you who have not read it to do so immediately..and then go see the movie on 3/23.  We all know the book will be better. 
* Poetry Club is on Wednesday
* Have your book with you on Monday 3/19
* There are THREE weeks until Spring Break.  There are 12 weeks remaining in the semester.
* Office Hours are on Tuesday.  Please come by with any concerns.  I have until Wednesday morning to officially change any grades...just saying.

Peace on you,

Samakosky