The White Room 9B English: February 2011

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?

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