Students were asked to submit their body diagrams for a grade. Some students are not finished. Although there will be no penalty for late work, zeros were entered in the grade book until the work is submitted for a grade.

Today in class, students took the test for the root words covering body parts. Although a few students got near perfect scores, most got less than 50%. Student will be offered the opportunity to retake this test tomorrow and I will give the best of the two scores.

Once students submitted their tests, they obtained a grided sheet of number word in order to help them learn the root words for numbers. There will be a test on the root word for numbers on Wednesday.

During the middle of the class, students were asked to journal the day's activities in their Js. They also drew a diagram of the Theory of Communication in their Js. Students were informed that their first written composition will be about this theory of communication.

Students should become familiar with: noise, field of experience, encoder, decoder, sender, receiver, and feedback.


Students were asked to write five journal entries that will eventually be used in their first compositions. Each student was asked to describe five time when he or she had the urge to communciate with someone.