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English 9 & 10 Ms. Jeffery

English 9 & 10 Ms. Jeffery. Today’s agenda: Get to know each other through (sometimes embarrassing but valuable) games Find the online textbook Find Ms. Jeffery’s blog (calendar of due dates! Assignment instructions! Handouts! Pithy insights! Cute pet pictures!)

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English 9 & 10 Ms. Jeffery

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  1. English 9 & 10Ms. Jeffery Today’s agenda: • Get to know each other through (sometimes embarrassing but valuable) games • Find the online textbook • Find Ms. Jeffery’s blog (calendar of due dates! Assignment instructions! Handouts! Pithy insights! Cute pet pictures!) • Start first assignment: memorizing “If” by Rudyard Kipling

  2. WRITE THIS DOWN:Sites to bookmark • dhsmsjeffery.wordpress.com • Classzone.com • NEW STUDENTS! • Your username is the first five letters of your last name+the first three letters of your first name@usd260.com (Peter Parker = parkepet@usd260.net) • Your password is “password”

  3. MS. JEFFERY’S BLOGdhsmsjeffery.wordpress.com • BOOKMARK THIS PAGE: dhsmsjeffery.wordpress.com • Read the homepage • Go to your grade level page • Copy the url for the blog, paste it into an email to one or both of your parents • *If you don’t know your parents’ emails, text the urlto them *If you are concerned that they might not get the email, or if you do not have easy access to the Internet at home, click on the PRINTABLE VERSION at the top of the page

  4. Add your class’ calendar to your personal gmail calendar • Click on the “How to Add YOUR Calendar” page at dhsmsjeffery.wordpress.com and follow the instructions

  5. Accessing your online copy of the FRESHMAN text for English 1.Go to the McDougal-Littell Publisher’s website at: www.classzone.com 2.Select Language Arts. 3.Select the State of Kansas on the map. 4.Click “Find Your Book” at the right. 5.Find the orange text book and click on it. 6.Select the book link at the lower left. 7.The first time you log in, you will need to create a student account. 8.This will require an ACTIVATION CODE For Ninth Grade = 2590977-200 9.Reclick “Create a Student Account.” 10.Fill in the required information. 11.Keep this log-in information some-place where you can access it. I will not have it. 12.Once you have created an account, access your book by following the same procedure in points 1-4 above.

  6. Accessing your online copy of the SOPHOMORE text for English 1.Go to the McDougal-Littell Publisher’s website at: www.classzone.com 2.Select Language Arts. 3.Select the State of Kansas on the map. 4.Click “Find Your Book” at the right. 5.Find the BLUE text book and click on it. 6.Select the book link at the lower left. 7.The first time you log in, you will need to create a student account. 8.This will require an ACTIVATION CODE SOPHOMORES’ ACTIVATION CODE: 2163374-400 9.Reclick “Create a Student Account.” 10.Fill in the required information. 11.Keep this log-in information some-place where you can access it. I will not have it. 12.Once you have created an account, access your book by following the same procedure in points 1-4 above.

  7. At dhsmsjeffery.wordpress.com • Click on the link to “If” by Rudyard Kipling. • Read the first stanza, using the Merriam-Webster online dictionary (m-w.com) to look up any words or phrases you don’t know • Start memorizing the first 8 lines of the poem!

  8. IF...Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

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