The last thing I see before I sleep

This is the last thing I do before going to sleep every night of the school week. I took this picture after I turned off the lights, just before sleeping to make the point how necessary it is to make charging your electronic devices a part of your normal routine.   I make sure to plug in my laptop and iPad in the evening and remove the charge in the morning before heading off to school.

Gentlemen, I have stressed throughout the school year the importance of coming to class with your electronic equipment we use in class fully charged at the beginning of the day; moreover, I have made G210 available during both breaks to allow students to recharge their devices securely if necessary in order to be prepared for their classes. Please make sure to follow IAT's rules and regulations regarding the use of your electronic equipment, secure it during the school day and keep it charged for use during classes.

Reading Summaries

One of  our daily tasks is to spend 20 minutes reading books from ATHS' Learning Resource Center, more commonly known as the "library" and to write a report about the text we read during that time.  The summary of the daily reading should focus on the main idea that you read, and condensed or shortened to be approximately 3-5 sentences focusing on the setting, main characters, and the main action that occurred.  However, the summary that you write after you've read the entire book must be written with these minimum length requirements in mind; if your story was

20-100 pages long -10 sentences
100-150 pages long- 15 sentences
150-above- 20 sentences

Change in plans

 

There's been a slight change in plans. G10-02 on Thursday, please finish the mind mapping exercise on the author's information that  you started during your library session with librarian Ms. Smallpeice.  Enter the account you made the map with complete it then go to the settings menu, click on "export-pdf" and note where the pdf version was placed on your laptop. Go to your Schoology account's assignment and submit the mind mapped .pdf at the assignment tab labelled, 'Mind Map Screen Shot'.  This must be turned in by closing time Thursday. If you have any questions, please ask.  See you in class.

The Desert Ecosystem

Today we will be looking at the desert ecosystem. Here is a short video that explains what the desert is like.

G10-02 & 10-06 News here!

We've just finished week 4 of school, taken our first English quiz and still there's a lot more work to do.  Our oral vocabulary exercises will continue on Sunday with those students who were given vocabulary words on Wednesday coming back then to dictate spelling, pronunciation, meaning, part of speech and usage of their vocab words.  The next recorded reading homework assignment will be due on Monday and has been loaded into your Schoology accounts.  Finally, there's an important notice for those of you who cannot access your ebooks because of login error.   Information  appears on the home page of your Schoology accounts about what you must  provide if you are one of the students with login problems for your English ebook.  If you have any questions, drop me a line at Schoology.....otherwise, see you in class!

First Impression research project

Each class has been assigned five things most humans use to form a first impression of someone they meet for the first time.  Now each group in the class has to describe the role primacy effect, schemata, self-fulfilling prophecy and prediction play when we judge someone based on their body shape, clothes, hair, manner of speaking and expressions.

Each group has to summarize in 250 words the role one of the five things we judge people plays in making a first impression.  That means you must get your information online, edit, summarize it and present the important points in any program you and your group decide. Before you start writing you have to show me the sources you will use to write your summary.  You may use as many sources as you like but you and I have to agree the sources you have contain the information you need.  Along with the text you have to have at least five illustrations that show how your item can have a positive or negative effect on a first impression.

You will have time to do all of this project in class, but it must be completed by the end of this week; i.e. September 27, 2012.  If you have any questions please ask them in class. 

Catch up time!

I am aware there are new students who do not have their laptops and even others with mechanical problems which make it impossible for them to do the homework assignment that was given last Thursday for you to have turned in on Sunday, so everyone who has not turned in that assignment has until Thursday, September 20 to turn in the recorded reading task. The file you have to work on is on the home page of Schoology's English class.  Save the file like this:  yourname-ddmmyy then go to the assignment  folder to the "submit assignment" tab on the right side of the page. Don't forget this homework must be done in Word.

On Monday we will begin our daily reading task.  Please choose a book from the box at your group's table and send me an email with the name of the book you  have chosen.  You can only choose from the five books in the box at your table.  You cannot swap books with other tables or groups and once you have selected a book you must read it until you complete it, so choose carefully.  I will have detailed instructions on what you  have to write together with the daily writing, that is to say what questions you will answer or what words you will need to look up.  Everyone will be required to read from your selection  20 minutes each day while in English class so that even students who haven't received their laptops should be busy with this class task.

Finally, please make sure your laptops are fully charged when you come to school in the morning. Any student can charge his laptop in my class during either break.  I apologize for the late response to the Schoology questions some students sent me; God willing I will answer your questions more quickly in the future.  See you in class!

Laptops and ATHS

Gentlemen, this is something we posted for G10 students last year and it is still relevant today. The post is what I think should be your attitude about your laptops and how they fit in the English classroom.

  
We have discussed this before in your class; you cannot charge your laptops during class but I do allow charging during breaks.  Starting September 23 you will not be allowed to go to the IT staff during class to fix laptop issues because your laptop problems should have already been resolved; in other words all repairs will have to be made outside of class.

Please don't let anyone play with your laptop or don't carelessly leave it unattended.  Your laptops are a valuable learning tool that if taken care of will last you for many years.  Please respect it and respect and honor the reason for which it was given to you.

First Spelling Competition will be held on Thursday

G10-02 and G10-06 will have their first little friendly spelling competition on Thursday and it should be fun.  The words you will have to spell are the 28 adjectives we've been working on all week which are in your Schoology account files, PLUS the five vocab words found on page 2 of your ebook, Academic Connections used to describe the four faces of people in the table on that page. It would also be a good idea for  you to know the meaning of each of the spelling words just in case you're asked.  

The rules are quite simple.  In order to participate you must have finished the adverb-adjective exercise and show a completed paper to your teacher and that's it. There can be no talking while your opponents try to spell a word. After the second warning given to a team because a team member has been talking, that team will be excused from the competition.  There will be a prize given to the winners but that's to be announced later.

Also, your first ever homework assignment will be uploaded to your Schoology accounts by Thursday morning and due on Sunday, which means you'll have all weekend to do it.  The assignment must be turned in in a certain manner; you will receive instructions on how to do that on Thursday. I think that's all for now.  If you've got any questions don't forget to ask them in class........God wiling see you there!

10-02 & 10-06 Monday's work

If you have accessed your e textbook, we will begin to use it to do some writing exercises.  Look at pages 2 & 4 and get acquainted with the vocabulary on those two pages.  I will post a very brief writing exercise in your Schoology accounts for you to do in class that will focus on the material on those pages as well as get you to write using the adjectives and adverbs of the previous exercises.  So, look at pages 2 and 4 in your e-book and prepare yourself to work from those pages in class.  There is no written homework due on Monday.  Also, we will begin our daily reading on Monday with a visit to the library where we will collect the books we'll read in class.  More about that in classs.  God willing, see you then!

10-02 & 10-06....... here we go!

We're starting our first full week of school for the 2012-2013 academic school year and there's a lot to do so let's get started.  Last week we came up with adjectives to describe our first impression of several people we saw on the video, Without Prejudice.  Because these were adjectives that you, the student gave me, most likely you know what they mean; you could identify with them.  Now, I am going to introduce some more adjectives to you that you may or may not know.  Please go to your schoology accounts and download the file 1stImpression Adjectives and become familiar with them.  You can find the file in the files/link folder of your course in Schoology.  You are asked to write a synonym for the adjectives in the file.  We will do this much of the work in class and I'll tell you how and where to find the synonyms if you don't already know.  You will need to use these words (consider them vocabulary words) for a writing assignment we will do later in the week.  I will give you plenty of time to look up, know the definition of these adjectives in class, so don't worry this is NOT a homework assignment.  See you in class.

Heads up G10-02 & G10-06

This is a reminder to all students in sections 10-02 and 10-06 to bring your laptops with you to class on Thursday.  Your laptop should be fully charged and ready to be put to use.  Both sections will have at least two classes back to back on Thursday so you should have enough charge to see you through your class.  If you need to charge your laptop before coming to class, please do so during the first break after period one in the morning.  God willing, see you in class!

Welcome Back to the 2012-2013 school year at ATHS Dubai

Grade 10 students welcome to the 2012-2013 school year here at ATHS' Dubai campus.  I am happy to see you back here and am looking forward to a productive yet exciting year in Abdulkarim's Chaos Free Zone. 

The grade 10 blog will be your source for news and information concerning your English courses and my classes.  That means you will be expected to check this source daily for any news about homework or other assignments or about work done in class.  Bookmark this site in your laptops.  Any information that you need to know will be posted here by 4pm on any given day, God willing.  Because ATHS is now a fully online e-learning institute you can know about any of your classes at anytime of the day or night, no matter where you are.  That means you will never have an excuse not to know what it is you have to do or when it is due.  Keep your laptops charged and brains in gear and ready to work this year. 

We will have fun, learn a lot and work hard.  God willing at the end of it all, you will be smarter and better citizens of your country and we all will be better locals of the global community.  I look forward to working with you all.  Now, let's get this show on the road.

The Obesity Poll

We all know what obesity is; excess body fat that  may have a negative effect on health and lead to a reduced life expectancy.  Some grade 10 students want to see what  you know about why people become obese and what you can do to fight it.  Take a look at the Obese Survey here and contribute your knowledge on the subject.

Non Verbal Communication as seen through the eyes of G10-08

Relaxed

Thinking

Surprised

Explaining

Angry

Not in the mood

Types of Advertising (G10-02 Obaid Rashid)

In these days companies that are producing video games want to attract asmany  people as they can to get their games but they are using a special type of advertisement. There is one type of advertising these companies can use that is adver gaming. It means to use an existed popular game or a game that is played by many people to market their brand product by reviewing it before the game runs or as a part of the game. Moreover, this type of advertisement is used or targeted for gamers because they are addicted video games. Also they want to try new games if they saw it in the video game that they play.  Finally, Adver gaming is a good way of advertising but if it not chosen to advertise in the right game the companies will not benefit from it.

Kinds of Advertising (G10-05 Abdulrahman AlMazrooie)

I will advertise my product on radio stations and it will be in afternoons the people who like to listen radio stations in night times they might listen to this advertisement and think about buying it or at least they will tell other people about this. The product advertisement will include prices and the model number with the company name. The radio station that I will advertise will be the most popular radio station that people listen to. They may listen to songs and after it the advertisement will show up.

Kinds of Advertising-(Khalifa AlHammadi-G10-08)

Today I would like to talk about a way of advertising sport shoes and clothes. The companies can advertise their merchandise by letting famous soccer players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi wear their clothes when training before any match. Also they can let famous players wear the company’s shoes. Unfortunately, not all the soccer spectators are going to buy your merchandise because everyone supports his favorite team, so the company must choose the most popular players to let them advertise their shoes and clothes.

Types of Advertising-(Nasir Khalid-G10-05)

I chose TV as my advertising tool.  We can make a channel or advertisement abut our product the motorcycle.  We must make a nice advertisement for getting more people to watch it. We need more people we need a famous channel to put our advertisement to broadcast all over the world. Ok when we broadcast the advertisement like a soccer match or wrestling show or football game these some examples so that’s it.

Types of Advertising-Abdulla Khalid (G10-02)

There are many ways to advertise your product. Blogging is a method  just like  article writing. You write what you want in a good content for your audience in blogs. The better you get, the larger your audience. You can also submit the same contents that you wrote in blogs in article directories. You get instant viewers if your article is in top ten within your niche. In conclusion advertisers should advertise in a good way for children.