Mr. Arturo Pozos

March 26nd is a special day; all junior high school students will have the opportunity to prove their skills in oral communication through a great event called English Fair. In this event, students (by teams) will create, prepare and develop a speech about Tourism! They will decide on materials, outfit, and accessories and stand decoration. The day of the event, they will show their work to the audience. Each student will be evaluated in two parts: 70% about work in class and 30% about work in the event. This one includes the participation of parents through a special passport they will get and fill up with their visit to the stands. It's important to mention that the grade they receive in the event will be valid to all four English subjects: Use of English, Literature, Science and Social Studies. And that grade will be respected by every teacher. Aspects to be considered: In the class: * Contents research * Sp...

Hello guys!! sorry for the delay, this week was bananas!! Here you have the topics that you must check for your semester exams: 1st grade Sections II and III Social * Names and activities of jobs in the early English history (examples milkmaid, clothier) * Advances in medicine * Materials that England had and traded (example: wood, wool, cotton) * Important inventions in the clothes industry (example: shuttle) * Steam engine, parts (!) * Working in the early years * Child labour * Minning (deaths and jobs) * Working ACTS (example: trade union act) * Roads in England (examples: toll, highwaymen) * Back-to-back houses * Killer diseases. Sections IV and V Use of English * Adverbs of frequency (example: always, often) * Present continuous * House vocabulary * Quantifiers (example: a lot) * Adjectives (example: big, dirty) * Prepositions of time IN, ON, AT * Comparatives and superlatives * Pronouns * Obligation Second Grade: Sections II and III ...

First grade Sections II and III National awards for inventions and design Industrial revolution Sheffield Population 1801 Sections IV and V Student's life school subjects The classroom Education verbs Have to Second grade Sections II and III Light Reflection Refraction The eye Colour Sections IV and V Life Poetry As you like it O me! O life! Lexical accuracy Actions and linking verbs Analogies Third grade Sections II and III Rochester castle A siege What's in castle Rooms in a castle Selections IV and V Study time Reading part 5 and 2 Writing part 2 listening part 1 Speaking part 1 Phrasal verbs

1st grade Use of English Vocabulary food Vocabulary countable and uncountable nouns Present simple  Present continuous Too and enough Comparatives and superlatives  Social Iron Mining Roads Iron horse Train reactions Factory acts 2nd grade Physics Waves Sound waves Parts of a wave states of matter combination of waves Literature  Count and mass nouns Etymology Main sentence  Supportive sentence  Examples Main and subordinate sentences 3rd grade Use of english  Past simple  Paste continuous Used to Past perfect Past perfect continuous Evading and use of English part 3 and 2 Too Such Enough So Vocabulary food Social Soldiers (British and norman) Battle of Hastings  William problems Feudal system Parts of a castle

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Ok guys! sorry for the delay, but the internet is back!! The homework is going to be for all my groups the same... We've all been working our calligraphy (yes, even me) so, all you have to do is read the following text and write a paragraph (in your most beautiful calligraphy) with your opinion on the text. The Importance of Handwriting in the Digital Age ​By: Yolanda (Linda) Reid Chassiakos, MD, FAAP Improving children's penmanship, legibility, pencil grasp, and working on problem areas are all important things that need to be addressed—especially in the digital age when most of our written communication is done through texting on mobile devices or typing on a keyboard. Voice recognition software has even evolved to the point that commands can now be verbal—making even keystrokes obsolete! So, are handwriting skills critical to your child's success? What's lost as tech-savvy young children learn to tap, swipe and touch screens before they have e...