MAY

“ This very moment is the seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.”
Margaret Lindsey "

 

Quote of the Day
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey

1 9th & 10th Grade TAKS

What are we doing today? Wednesday - NO TAKS.

Survey - (this is not mandatory and please keep it anonymous.) Fill it out, print and turn in.

What are we doing Today?
The Day I was Born Project:
This project contains links where students will discover:
1. How many days they've lived.
2. What the moon looked like the night of their birth.
3. Which Literary figures share their birhdays.
4. The cost of various items
5. Popular music & musicians
6 The New York Times headlines
7. The History Channel info
8. Popular T.V. programs
9. Toys popular at that time
10. Hit movies
11. The meaning of their name
12. Their name in Viking Runes (alphabet)

Website
Outline
Worksheet Record your Answers - handout
Can't Find It?

Finish filling out the worksheet, turn in, and work on:
Fun Educational Games

Good Stuff!!!

2 10th Grade TAKS

What are we doing today? 10th grade Social Studies TAKS. 9th graders will finish Freedom Writers

Survey - (this is not mandatory and please keep it anonymous.) Fill it out, print and turn in.

If you didn't finish Tuesday's assignment:

The Day I was Born Project:
This project contains links where students will discover:
1. How many days they've lived.
2. What the moon looked like the night of their birth.
3. Which Literary figures share their birhdays.
4. The cost of various items
5. Popular music & musicians
6 The New York Times headlines
7. The History Channel info
8. Popular T.V. programs
9. Toys popular at that time
10. Hit movies
11. The meaning of their name
12. Their name in Viking Runes (alphabet)

Website
Outline
Worksheet Record your Answers - handout
Can't Find It?

Finish filling out the worksheet, turn in, and work on:
Fun Educational Games

Good Stuff!!!

5 Learning about Microsoft FrontPage

Quote of the day: "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." Gen. George S. Patton

Journal - week 34 - document

What are we doing this week? We will be learning about the basics of Microsoft FrontPage. We will then work on a project of creating a website using FrongPage.

What are we doing today? Getting to know Microsoft FrontPage.

Objectives: Students will be able to understand vocabulary and learn the basics of Microsoft FrontPage.

Activity: Learn vocabulary words - definitions (all bolded words) Getting Started
Page Properties
Text
Hyperlinks
Tables
Graphics & Pictures
Miscellaneous
Keyboard Shortcuts
Tips

If you finish, do lesson 1 About FrontPage.
[The Basics] [Formatting Toolbar] [Alignment] [Style] [Font Adjustment
[Bullets and Numbering] [Previewing Your Page] [Spell Check] [Tables] [Links]

Good Stuff!!!

6 Learning about Microsoft FrontPage

Quote of the day: "To remain yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else; that is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Journal - week 34 - document

What are we doing today? Create a 6th Six Weeks Folder. Working on lessons on Microsoft Frontpage.

Objectives: Students will be able to understand vocabulary and learn the basics of Microsoft FrontPage.

Activity: Do lesson 2 About FrontPage.Creating hyperlinks and bookmarks (aka. anchors) using Microsoft FrontPage
[Hyperlinking to Another of Our Pages] [Hyperlinking to the Outside World] [Hyperlinking Within a  Page]

Then work on lesson 3: Getting Those Graphics to Work Using Microsoft FrontPage for Windows
(this actually says lesson 4 at the top, the it's the 3rd lesson you will do as a grade)
[Copying Images into FrontPage] [Inserting an Image from a gr Folder] [Inserting Clip Art]
[Image Transparency] [Linking an Image]  [Creating an Image Map] [Inserting a Horizontal Line]

If you get all three lessons done, you may work on the Summer Vacation Assignment.

Good Stuff!!!

7/8 Summer Vacation Assignment - FrontPage

Quote of the day: " Academic success is not about the ability of our students.  It's about our ability to teach them." Carol Guensburg

Journal

What are we doing today? Finish Getting Started and learning all vocab words (all bolded words) and About Microsoft FrontPage, then finish lessons 1, 2, 3 & 4.

Objective/Activity: Students will learn how to create webpages using Microsoft Frontpage. When you finish lessons 1, 2, 3 & 4. Start on the Summer Vacation Assignment.


FYI - check these out to help spice up your web designs!

Check out the how tos!: learn how to do various things in FrontPage. (ie: learn how to add sound to a frontpage webpage.)

Advanced Front Page Tutorials

More ideas for your webpages
10 Tips for Good Web Writing
How to Drive Away Your Readers

Related Articles
See More about:

Website providers

Good Stuff!!!

9 Summer Vacation Assignment - FrontPage

Quote of the day: "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Mahatma Gandhi

Journal- please print and turn in.

What are we doing today? Finish Getting Started and learning all vocab words (all bolded words) and About Microsoft FrontPage, then finish lessons 1, 2, 3 & 4. All 4 lessons due today at end of class.

Start on the Summer Vacation Assignment.

Check out the how tos!: learn how to do various things in FrontPage. (ie: learn how to add sound to a frontpage webpage.)

Quiz on Microsoft FrontPage on Monday!

Objective/Activity: Students will finish lessons 1, 2, 3 & 4.

Puzzles if you get done with lessons.

Good Stuff!!!

 

 

12 Summer Vacation Assignment - FrontPage

Quote of the day:"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. " Princess Diana

Journal- week 35 - document to use

What are we doing this week? We will be working on a project of creating a website using FrongPage. Make sure you have created a 6th Six Weeks Folder.

What are we doing today? Taking a QUIZ on Microsoft FrontPage! Then create a webpage using Microsoft FrontPage.

Objectives: Students will be able to create a webpage using Microsoft FrontPage.

Activity: When you finish the quiz, work on the Summer Vacation Assignment.

Due at the end of class TODAY - 1 thru 3, in a typed word document, please.

Good Stuff!!!

13 Summer Vacation Assignment - FrontPage

Quote of the day: "Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." George W. Crane

Journal

What are we doing today? Creating a webpage using Microsoft FrontPage.

Objectives: Students will be able to create a webpage using Microsoft FrontPage.

Activity: Work on Summer Vacation Assignment.

Due at the end of class TODAY - 1 thru 3, in a typed word document, please.

You may want to start on your banner, that needs to be an original banner.

Good Stuff!!!

14/15 Summer Vacation Assignment - FrontPage

Quote of the day: "You never know when you're making a memory." Rickie Lee Jones

Journal

What are we doing today? Creating a webpage using Microsoft FrontPage.

Objectives: Students will be able to create a webpage using Microsoft FrontPage.

Activity: Work on Summer Vacation Assignment. See student examples of what yours "could" look like! example1 example2

There will be no more printing from my room for projects/papers for other classes, so please do not even ask!

Good Stuff!!!

 

16 Summer Vacation Assignment - FrontPage

Quote of the day: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)

Journal

What are we doing today? Creating a webpage using Microsoft FrontPage.

Objectives: Students will be able to create a webpage using Microsoft FrontPage.

Activity: Work on Summer Vacation Assignment. See student examples of what yours "could" look like! example1 example2

Good Stuff!!!

19 Finishing Summer Vacation Assignment

Quote of the day: "It is not length of life, but depth of life." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Journal - week 36 - document to use

What are we doing this week? We will finish our Summer Vacation Assignment Webpage. If you are finished work on WYSIWYG project, then the Webquest Research project.

What are we doing today? Finishing up the Summer Vacation Webpages.

Good Stuff!!!

20 Finishing Summer Vacation Assignment - Due TODAY!

Quote of the day: "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” Anonymous

Journal

What are we doing today? Finishing up the Summer Vacation Webpages.

If you are finished work on WYSIWYG project, then the Webquest Research project. ABSOLUTELY NO GAMES!!!!!

Good Stuff!!!

 

21/22 Finishing Summer Vacation Assignment - Due TODAY!

Quote of the day: "Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." Shari R. Barr

Journal

What are we doing today? Finishing the Summer Vacation Webpages! I must get a screen grade today! Please make sure your files are in a folder called Summer Vacation.

If you are finished work on WYSIWYG project.

Good Stuff!!!

23 Catsup Day! or Review

Quote of the day: "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” Anonymous

Journal - last journal entry!!!!

What are we doing today? Finishing the Summer Vacation Webpages! I must get a screen grade today! Please make sure your files are in a folder called Summer Vacation.

If you are finished, you must work on WYSIWYG project - this must be turned in for a grade.

If you are finished, you may review for finals. If you are not working on an assignment for this class, you should log off and sit at a desk and use this time wisely to review for FINALS!!! If you have any "Z's" you can use this time to turn those Z's into a grade!!!

Good Stuff!!!

26 Holiday - No School

 

27 Review

Quote of the day: "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” Danny Kaye

No Journals this week!

What are we doing today? Review sheets

Good Stuff!!!

 

28/29 Review

Quote of the day: "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln

No Journals this week!

What are we doing today? WEB BINGO

You can review: Typography PPT -

No Late Arrival

7:25 - 8:45 2nd Period
8:45-8:50 Passing
8:50 - 10:10 4th Period
10:10 - 10:15 Passing
10:15 - 11:35 6th Period

Good Stuff!!!

30 Final Exams

Quote of the day: "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein

No Journals this week!

7:25 - 8:45 5th Hour Exam
8:45-8:50 Break
8:50 - 10:10 6th Hour Exam
10:10 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:35 7th Hour Exam

2 Final Exams

Quote of the day:" If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. " H.G. Wells

7:25 - 8:45 1st Hour Exam
8:45 - 8:50 Break
8:50 - 10:10 2nd Hour Exam

3 Final Exams - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

Quote of the day: "In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed." Sid Caesar

7:25 - 8:45 3rd Hour Exam
8:45-8:50 Break
8:45 - 10:10 4th Hour Exam

4 Teacher Workday!