Welcome, freshmen, to our class blog!

This is the happenin' place to come and visit for updates, reminders, and assignments. Don't forget that you can email me anytime - nwhite@hpregional.org - and that you now have a Google account through High Point, which means you have a full access of Google apps. Go to the High Point website and click on the link to log into the student Google accounts, and make use of this valuable tool.

Below and to the right you will find some valuable links to helpful websites. Below this, you will find Posts that will be my notes to you on various topics, assignments, etc., throughout the year. Be sure to check the older posts, as there may only be one currently showing.

Now, you must remember what Coach Rex Ryan has promised, over and over, that next year is the year for the JETS!! J - E - T - S JETS JETS JETS!!!!

And Let's Go Mets!!!

**Please hold onto the literary terms list that was given to you a few weeks ago. KNOW THEM. We will be adding to this list.

**Be an active reader - use Post-its, and have conversations with the author! Always think about what message is being sent; what purpose is at play?



Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Happy Summer!




Keep on reading and writing...it's healthy. Stop by and visit The White Room any time!




Be sure to do at least one thing this summer: listen to some great ol' Bruce Springsteen and the E Streeters jam! You must check out the amazing Big Man, Clarence Clemons, and pay a tribute to him.
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

March Reminders, etc...read all about it !!


1) Personal Journal Entry "A Day in Auschwitz" should be typed up (MLA format :)) and handed in or sent to me via email by Tuesday, March 15th. (35 pts) Please hand in with the instruction sheet/rubric. Thanks.


2) Please bring in all of your Holocaust/Night PowerPoint notes, vocabulary, etc. and your Night book on Monday, March 14 for an open-note quiz.



3) Hopefully we will be viewing the very powerful film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas this coming week (3/15 - 3/18). Check out the interview with the director of the movie and the author of the book:



*** AND WE DO HAVE SCHOOL ON MONDAY, MARCH 21!!***





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Monday, February 28, 2011

Mon., 2/28/11 - Check it out!!




Just in case my email did not get through to all of you, here is the list of what I would like you to search for and define/explain IN YOUR NOTEBOOKS today :)...this will help with your reading of chapter 1 in NIGHT for tomorrow. This will be worth 24 points. (Remember, first get Friday's work done - the vocabulary, the visit to the Holocaust Museum, and the two paragraph response in an email to me).




1. Moishe the Beadle (he is a character in NIGHT, so Google search him...)


2. Judaism


3. Hasidic


4. shtibl


5. Talmud


6. synagogue


7. the ghettos (during WWII)


8. Passover


9. Zionism


10. Kabbalah


11. Rosh Hashana


12. Shavuot


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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Send a thank you card!

If you go to this website - http://www.letssaythanks.com/ , you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and send it to a soldier currently serving over in Iraq. You can't choose anyone in particular to receive it, but the card will go to a member of the armed forces. Wouldn't it be awesome to put a smile on a soldier's face? And the best part of it all - it is free!

Send yours today.
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