On your index card …First and last nameAddress Phone number Parent/Guardian name(s)Your emailParent/Guardian emailYour birthday

Summer Reading Test…? Friday-LOTF DiscussionMonday-LOTF DiscussionTuesday-Malcolm X DiscussionWednesday-Malcolm X DiscussionThursday-Great Expectations Day—

Shortened HourFriday-Review Essays/Writing about

LiteratureMonday-MCTuesday-Essay

Selfie Challenge Introduce yourself to your group members. Tell

them your name, where you went to elementary school and something interesting about yourself.

After all group members have introduced themselves, try to find something everyone in the group has in common.

Write that on one whiteboard with a hashtag (example #cavalierpride).

On the second whiteboard, write the names of all group members

Hold up the signs and have someone from another group take a picture of your group.

Email the picture to Ms. Hamadeh◦ khamadeh@carmanainsworth.org

Use your syllabus to complete the scavenger huntScavenger Hunt—Due tomorrowHave a notebook and binder in class as

soon as possibleSign up with Remind 101

◦Accel English 11 Text @mskjh to 81010

◦English 9 Text @d3515 to 81010

◦English 11 Text @mshama to 81010

“Like” Room 118 on Facebook◦https://www.facebook.com/hamadehroom118

WednesdayPut signed syllabus in box“Like” Room 118 on Facebook

◦https://www.facebook.com/hamadehroom118

Hold on to Scavenger Hunt◦Sign up with Remind 101

Accel English 11 Text @mskjh to 81010

English 9 Text @d3515 to 81010

English 11 Text @mshama to 81010

Journal WritingWhat it is

◦ About you and your experiences

◦ A chance for your to express yourself

◦ An opportunity to take chances in your writing

◦ As descriptive and powerful as you can be

◦ Possibly private◦ Your best work

What it is not◦ A list or bullet

points◦ Trying to give the

“right answers”◦ Something you rush

through so you can get your math homework that is due next hour done

◦ Boring◦ Busy work

Journal: Best Class/Worst ClassSeptember 9, 2014Think about the best class you ever had.

Maybe it was the teacher that made the class special. Maybe it was a special group of students in that class. Maybe you learned an important lesson in that class, about life or about academics. Write about this class and what made it special.

Think about the worst class you ever had. Maybe the teacher was evil. Maybe a certain person in your class drove you crazy. Maybe you felt like the class was a waste of time because you didn’t learn anything. Write about this class and what made it horrible.

ThursdayAs You Enter ClassStart to fill out your questionnaireBe ready to share at least one

item from the list (besides your name)

If you have your signed syllabus or scavenger hunt paper, turn that in

Ms. HamadehBorn—December 13, 1979 in

FlintMoved to Owosso when I was 3

Ms. Hamadeh’s Family• 2 brothers, 33 and 13• 2 sisters, 30 and 21

Very Strange ChildhoodNo movie theaters, dances, pierced earsNo cable TVNo movies unless PG or G

◦ Got in trouble for secretly renting TitanicNo computer—typewriter is fineChurch about 4 times a week on a regular

basis (this does not count special events, guest speakers, etc.)

Junior Bible QuizIn advanced classes in elementary schoolIt was Owosso …

CollegeUniversity of Michigan—Ann

ArborEastern Michigan University

Life Now…At CAHS since 2002

Life Now … Salim (5 years old), Navid (3 years old), Georgina (due January 17th)

More Pictures …

Favorite TV Shows: Breaking Bad , Mad Men, Walking Dead, Orange is the New Black

Favorite movies: The Godfather movies, Gone With the Wind, The Sound of Music, Old School, Anchorman,

Favorite Music: So many, so random … Fitz and the Tantrums, Diane Birch, Miguel, Alabama Shakes, Kings of Leon, Motown/70s soul

Random Stuff

Good LettersStart with a salutationThinks about the audienceHas a purposeInvites a response (asks the

reader questions)Is legible

LetterSeptember 10, 2015 In order for a classroom to function and for you to learn as

much as you can, it is important for me, as a teacher, to know who you are and for you, as a student, to know your teacher.

You have read my letter to all of you as students. Now, write a letter to me letting me know anything you think I should know about you.

You may want to consider telling me about:◦ Your background, history and experiences that have shaped

you as a person◦ Your family◦ Your learning strengths and weaknesses◦ What you like about school, don’t like about school◦ Questions you have about me, about this class, or about junior

year/CAHS◦ Anything else you think would be important for me to know

about you

Best and WorstSeptember 11, 2015What has been the best part of

your first week of high school? Is there any particular memory you will never be able to forget?

What has been the worst part of your first week of high school? How are you dealing (or going to deal) with it?