FINAL EXAM ONLINE

PERIODS 1, 3 & 6:
Click on the link below to take your FINAL EXAM:
http://www.quia.com/quiz/1839656.html

Period 4:
Click on the link below to take you FINAL EXAM:
http://www.quia.com/quiz/1843414.html

Type in your user name (first and last name, then 455. There are no spaces OR punctuation. For example, my user name would be: christinerodriguez455). Then you need to enter the password I gave you when you turned in your three pages of notes! Your password, by the way, is case sensitive.

You have 2.5 hours to complete the test from the time you start! You CANNOT save the test then go back. It has to be done in one sitting, which should take about 30 minutes. Once you complete the test, you will know your score, even the ones you got wrong. Remember, you still have the essay portion on 6/3, for 1st & 3rd; and on 6/4, for 6th).

The test will be available from this Thursday at 3 p.m. until Monday, June 1, at 11:59 p.m. By Tuesday morning, all of your scores will have been e-mailed to me. HOW COOL!

Do not wait until the last minute, please. Love you all!

ARTWORK & POEMS

Hey, guys and gals. Some of you missed the deadline to submit your poems for our literary magazine. I will give you partial credit if you email it to me by THIS Sunday at 5 p.m. I am also requesting art work. I have already received some nice pieces. If you would like to submit artwork, please do so by Sunday as well. Scan and email your art to me in JPEG or GIF format. Azharea from third period had a fabulous name for our magazine: Nostalgia. Extra credit for her! Looking forward to your poetry! Submit your items to: Ourlitmagazine@gmail.com (follow the guidelines that I gave you)

SMILE!

It was CELEBRATION WEEK FOR MY STELLAR WRITERS !

May 14th - It was dinner for the top dogs at Buca di Beppo's! YUM!

May 15th - The 100 students who passed from my class had a SUNDAE social during lunch. Though you all got rained on, you still came in droves for ice cream and the fixings!

May 19th - All you level 4's and up were treated to doughnuts and juice (that's 90 of you)! What is better is each of the 5's, 5'5's and 6's received "five for a five." There were 15 writers in total to get $5 for getting a five or higher.

To see all of the FCAT Writing stats, scroll down a couple posts in the middle column!

I wish I could do more for all of your efforts! I am so proud of you. Just remember the real reward (and motivation) should be that AWESOME feeling you had when you heard you passed! That is PRICELESS!

FINAL EXAM INFO

BRING YOUR HANDOUTS THIS WEEK, as we'll be working in class on getting your notes done. During exam time, you will prepare your notes, then take the exam online by 6/2 (as long as you do ALL of your notes). If not, the exam is on paper, guys!

It's time to get ready for FINAL EXAMS! Woohoo! You may be afraid, but IT WILL BE OK!

Click here for Lit Tools list - periods 1, 2, 3, & 6
Click here for the Vocab List - periods 1, 3, 4, & 6

You will also need:
~ The Greek god vocab list for periods 1, 3, 4, and 6
~ Night and Julius Caesar, periods 1, 3 & 4
~ The Secret Life of Bees, periods 1, 3 & 6
~ The sixteen types of poetry for periods 1 & 3
~ Greek gods/goddesses, Romeo & Juliet, and The Odyssey for period 6
~ Period 2, all the novels we read in class (Speak, Necessary Roughness, Two Badges, Metamorphosis, Stuck in Neutral, and Farewell to Manzanar)
~ Period 4, yours will be on the novels we read in class (Crank, The Secret Life of Bees, The Host, and The Lovely Bones)

Volunteers Needed

I need help! (But we all knew that, right?) Anyway, I am looking for volunteers to assist me with our Student Showcase Spectacular on 5/28. I have already purchased a bunch of items (and plan to buy more), but I could also use the following:

Bottles of soda, homemade desserts (Sylvia, brownies; Jeanette, cookies ~haha!), coolers of ice, help with the door on that night, help with setting up that day/night, help with cleaning up, help with setting up the technology (William/John, that's you~haha!), help getting the displays ready, some kids to read/recite their poem(s), help with assembling our literary magazine, and anything else you can think of.

Please comment to this post if you can help me on that night, or if you can assist me in the days before by preparing the room.

Invitations will go out tomorrow! LOVE YOU!