Thursday, February 28, 2019

A4HW7: adding colors with adjectives

For this Class Date:  02/24/2019, Following homework is due on 03/3/2019 

Your homework is same as last week except ...

Write following NEW sentences
  1. This is the big blue bag
  2. This new green heavy bag
  3. That is a beautiful red book.
  4. That is my white heavy book.
  5. Where is this big heavy red and black bag?

A3HW19

For the Class Date: 2/24/2019, Following homework is due on 3/2/2019

We worked on translating verses and next week we will work on understanding them

We will continue on the sentences we have been working on.  Class was instructed to come prepared for sentences using the Noun (Saabir) ... such

  1. This is a patience person
  2. That is a (female) patient person
  3. Those are the patient people

A3focused-HW5: New set of sentences

For the Class Date: 2/24/2019, Following homework is due on 3/2/2019

We will continue working on verbs but also start adding Nouns to this mix and you were shown example of some sentences.  Based on the verb charts, please write following sentences


  1. I left the masjid
  2. my book is in the Masjid
  3. They made sajdah to God
  4. We leave them in the Masjid
  5. I left it in the Masjid 

A3HW4: Unit 2 started for Grammar

For the Class Date: 2/24/2019, Following homework is due on 3/2/2019


  1. We worked on Unit 2 for the grammar.  Please memorize the pronouns chart from this Unit
  2. Complete the Quran lessons worksheet (covered in the class)
  3. Practice reading the madinah book pages Sr Tricia worked on with you
  4. We read upto Quran verse 25 and starting next Sunday, we will go back to verses 1 to 25 for Grammar Analysis

A2HW4: long vowel letters and tashkeelaat

For the Class Date: 2/24/2019, Following homework is due on 3/2/2019

We reviewed the long vowel letters and words using them in the white book.  Please answer following questions


  1. What is the role of a long vowel letter for the letter before it?
  2. Does a long vowel letter need a harakah?
  3. Does the letter before it need a harakah?
  4. How do we treat letter Alif if it has a sukHow do we treat letter Alif if it has a sukoon on it
  5. How do we treat other long vowel letters if a sukoon shows up on them
  6. How do we treat letter Alif if it has a short vowel on it
  7. How do we treat other long vowel letters if short vowel shows up on them


Sunday, February 24, 2019

A1HW4: Next 4 letters

For the Class Date: 2/24/2019, Following homework is due on 3/2/2019

We started on next 4 letters.  These letters do not join on left side, Watch this video & this video to review this lesson

Be sure to watch Letters video from Sheikh Mamdouh to pronounce them correctly

Please write following words in Arabic.  be sure to write the English word as well
Each word should be written once only NEATLY, on a separate piece of paper so you can hand it to me immediately when I am ready to collect them.

You all have the access to the video list
  1. Jizazirati
  2. TujrazubaH
  3. tubidazi(zh)ari
  4. bujjah
  5. Hujibat
  6. tadabbur
  7. badar
  8. (kh)abar
  9. zubat
  10. RubiHa(kh)i
  11. Zarartu 
  12. Bidarjat
  13. rubijara(kh)
  14. Jiztabarat
  15. (zh)abiH

Thursday, February 21, 2019

HW6-2019: New sentences

Assalaam-u-Alaikum Dear Students

For this Class Date:  02/17/2019, Following homework is due on 02/24/2019 

Our goal - Start and finish Full Surah Baqarah before Ramadan (May 2019).  Surah Faatihah as well, Surah Mulk and possibly Surah Kahf

Advanced Students (See Student list here) - Attendees - Anisa and Moxobo
Our goal - finish and review Juz 1 as much as possible

Darwrah 1 - Means this is word to word writing in the notebook and going through the categories and translation for the new aayah.
Dawrah 2 - Means going through the Arabic phrases for both Arabic 5 and 6.
Dawrah 4 - Means can only look at Arabic text from Quran for Arabic 5 and for Arabic 6 (Dawrah 5) - cannot look at Arabic text.

Class summary:

Quran - 

Teacher: Sister Sadaf

Dawrah 4/5: Did ayaat in seventies without looking in order (Dawrah 5) for Arabic 5 and 6.
Dawrah 1: NEW Ayaat done for (writing in notebook Dawrah 1) aayah 223 & 224. Finished word by word analysis and Categories eloquent.

Teacher Sr. Khadijah:
  • Reading rules practice : Worked on new ayaat of the day

Grammar 
  • Please read Unit 7 (first 4 pages) from "Easy Arabic Grammar" book and think about following sentences
    • This is the bag
    • This new bag
    • This is a beautiful bag
    • That is my heavy bag
    • Where is that big heavy bag?

NEW -- Quran Study practice with Surah Al-Baqarah @11:30 and then Al-Mulk @12 PM (Teacher Brother Mashood)
  • NOTE: Did not work on Surah Mulk but did finish Ayaat 25 to 29 for Surah Baqarah.

A4HW6-2019 - Grammar (review of Al & Start on Adjectives)

Assalaam-u-Alaikum Dear Arabic 4 Students (NEW and SENIORS)

For this Class Date: 02/10/2019, Following homework is due on 2/17/2019

GRAMMAR --- Using Unit 6 and 1st 4 pages of Unit 7, we looked at more phrases & sentences

Write following sentences
  1. This is the bag
  2. This new bag
  3. This is a beautiful bag
  4. That is my heavy bag
  5. Where is that big heavy bag?

please be aware of these terms

Dawrah 1 - Means this is word to word writing in the notebook and going through the categories and translation for the new aayah.

Dawrah 2 - Means making the phrases of the ayah and translating them for tafheem (what do we learn from segments of aayah).

Dawrah 3 - Means going through the Grammar of each word of ayah (oral).

Dawrah 4 - Means can only look at Arabic text from Quran and translate.
Dawrah 5 -  This is the last dawrah, your class is NOT working on this yet.  This dawrah means, you listen and translate to English.  You CANNOT look at the ayaat.


Classwork & Homework [Arabic 4 NEW]
Dawrah 1: We reviewed 68 while worked on new ayah 69 to 71. 
Dawrah 2: Stickies project starts again, Please prepare verses 31 to 39
Dawrah 4: Please prepare verses 29 to 34 for this week


Classwork & Homework [Arabic 4 SENIORS]
Dawrah 1: We  worked on the verses 108.  
Dawrah 2 & 4: Stickies project starts again, Please prepare verses 41 to 49

NEW Dawrah 4 --- Surah Al-Baqarah @ 11:30 PMPlease prepare verses 29 to 34 for this week
NEW --- Quran study practice with Surah Al-Mulk @ 12 PM (Teacher Brother Mashood)

  • We didn't do it

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

A3HW18: Wokrsheets and Quran Translation


For the Class Date: 2/17/2019, Following homework is due on 2/24/2019


We finished as much of the 2 worksheets as we could, using the Nouns.

Next week, we will work on verbs along with these Nouns inshaa-Allah.  Please show up by 9 am so we can work on Quran verses.  There will be no Quran reading class coming Sunday (Feb 24th) because we are behind in Quran

Please write following 5 sentences
  1. This is for my Rab
  2. These are my Worshippers
  3. Those are (female) Worshippers
  4. Who is that Worshipper?
  5. This is the Worshipper who entered the Masjid




A3focused-HW4: Verbs and their Subjects

For the Class Date: 2/17/2019, Following homework is due on 2/24/2019
    Students (Halima, Nura, Jay, Hikmah, Sayid, Chaltu)
    • We continued working on Past and Present Tenses.  We also discussed the concept of Subject with student
    • Be sure to read the verses you read with Sr. Anisa and apply the reading rules
    • Please write following sentences using verb taraka ( ØªَرَÙƒَ ) and other 3 verbs you already have been working with
      1. He left
      2. They left
      3. We left
      4. You two exited
      5. I entered
      6. They two make sajdah
      7. you all enter
      8. We exit
      9. He exists
      10. I make sajdah

    A3HW3: Unit 1 of grammar is completed

    For the Class Date: 2/17/2019, Following homework is due on 2/24/2019


    Quran Lessons
    Start working on the 3rd sheet introduced to you in the class, mentioning all important themes and keywords you have learnt.  We will review it in the class before collecting for corrections

    Quran Reading (and Reading Rules)
    Apply all reading rules on verses you covered in the class and prepare next 3 verses


    Arabic Reading
    Sr Tricia will be covering next page with you.  She will be teaching two weeks in a row

    Arabic Grammar
    We finished Unit 1 completely and all students should be on same page now.  Please review Unit 2 and memorize the table with words (I, You, We, you 2, They 2, They All, He)



    A2HW3: long vowels and 4 situations

    For the Class Date: 2/17/2019, Following homework is due on 2/24/2019


    • Please be sure to name and label your homework.  Label is mentioned in the post (A2HW3)
    • We started with reviewing many words from White book using Long Vowel letters

    Homework for you is to ...

    • Write the last column from page 27 of Green book. Please write each word on a line and spell it as shown in this sample
    • Answer following questions
      1. How do we tell when long vowel letters act as long vowel?
      2. What tashkeel do we put on the letter before long vowel letter?
      3. How are long vowel letters treated if they have short vowel on them?
      4. How are long vowel letters treated if they have sukoon on them?
      5. What are the other two situations we need to learn?

    A1HW3: Making words using first 6 letters

    For the Class Date: 2/17/2019, Following homework is due on 2/24/2019

    We had discussion about the width of letters and fixing them.  Student caught up and did great work in the class

    Answer following Questions
    1. What are Harakaat and Tashkeelaat?
    2. What is the Arabic term for symbol?
    3. How do you define sukoon?
    4. Mention the names of all 4 tashkeelat we learnt in the class so far?

    Write following words - write each word 3 times neatly with correct widths.  there should not be any width mistakes!

    1. (th)u(kh)itbaH
    2. Hubtija
    3. ta(th)ibbaj
    4. bata(kh)u
    5. (kh)abi(th)

    Wednesday, February 13, 2019

    A2HW2: The next Rule - Long vowels


    For the Class Date: 2/10/2019, Following homework is due on 2/17/2019


    Your Syllabus is not ready yet.  But you download following files now.  I did handout two of these PDFs in the class (#4 the Ten rules sheet & #10 vocab sheet) yesterday
    1. Syllabus has not been printed yet for distribution

    Bookmark Your homework site


    • Please be sure to name and label your homework.  Label is mentioned in the post (A2HW2)
    • We started with reviewing many words from White book and finally REVIEWED Rule of Tanween again before getting into Long Vowel letters

    Homework for you is to ...

    • Write the last column from page 37 of Green book. It is 10 words, you read them in the class, the column starts with the word.  Please write each word on a line and spell it as shown in this sample
    • Read the long vowels on Page 17, 18, 19 in Green book, just to stay familiar with them
    • Answer following questions (some of them are repeated from last week)

      1. What is the Goal for Arabic 2 class?
      2. Is the exception about two fathah Tanween only limited to two Fathah?
      3. What are more exceptions to this TWO FATHAH rule?
      4. What are the Arabic terms for two Fathah?
      5. How many long vowels do we have?
      6. What is the rule discussed about the long vowels in the class? What did you learn about long vowels in this past class?


    HW5-2019: New sentences

    Assalaam-u-Alaikum Dear Students

    For this Class Date:  02/10/2019, Following homework is due on 02/17/2019 

    Our goal - Start and finish Full Surah Baqarah before Ramadan (May 2019).  Surah Faatihah as well, Surah Mulk and possibly Surah Kahf

    Advanced Students (See Student list here) - Attendees - Anisa and Moxobo
    Our goal - finish and review Juz 1 as much as possible

    Darwrah 1 - Means this is word to word writing in the notebook and going through the categories and translation for the new aayah.
    Dawrah 2 - Means going through the Arabic phrases for both Arabic 5 and 6.
    Dawrah 4 - Means can only look at Arabic text from Quran for Arabic 5 and for Arabic 6 (Dawrah 5) - cannot look at Arabic text.

    Class summary:

    Quran - 

    Teacher: Sister Sadaf

    Dawrah 4/5: Did ayaat 69-74 without looking in order (Dawrah 5) for Arabic 5 and 6.
    Dawrah 1: NEW Ayaat done for (writing in notebook Dawrah 1) aayah 221 & 222. Finished word by word analysis and Categories eloquent.

    Teacher Sr. Khadijah:
    • Reading rules practice : We didn't have this class

    Grammar 
    Teacher Sr. Trisha 
    • Worked on Mubtadaa and Khabr
    • Please read Unit 7 (first 4 pages) from "Easy Arabic Grammar" book and think about following sentences
      • This is the book
      • This book
      • This new book
      • This is the beautiful book
      • that is my book
      • that is a heavy book
      • Where is the heavy book?
      • Where is my heavy book?
      • Where is that heavy book?
      • Where is that big heavy bag?

    NEW -- Quran Study practice with Surah Al-Baqarah @11:30 and then Al-Mulk @12 PM (Teacher Brother Mashood)
    • NOTE: Did not work on Surah Mulk but did finish Ayaat 25 to 29 for Surah Baqarah.


    Homework for next week on February 17th 2019
    Just get next ayaat ready for dawraat for review and Dawrah 1

    A4HW5-2019 - Grammar (review of Al & Start on Adjectives)

    Assalaam-u-Alaikum Dear Arabic 4 Students (NEW and SENIORS)

    For this Class Date: 02/10/2019, Following homework is due on 2/17/2019

    GRAMMAR --- Using Unit 6 and 1st 4 pages of Unit 7, we looked at more phrases & sentences

    Write following sentences
    1. This is the book
    2. This book
    3. This new book
    4. This is the beautiful book
    5. that is my book
    6. that is a heavy book
    7. Where is the heavy book?
    8. Where is my heavy book?
    9. Where is that heavy book?
    10. Where is that big heavy bag?

    please be aware of these terms

    Dawrah 1 - Means this is word to word writing in the notebook and going through the categories and translation for the new aayah.

    Dawrah 2 - Means making the phrases of the ayah and translating them for tafheem (what do we learn from segments of aayah).

    Dawrah 3 - Means going through the Grammar of each word of ayah (oral).

    Dawrah 4 - Means can only look at Arabic text from Quran and translate.
    Dawrah 5 -  This is the last dawrah, your class is NOT working on this yet.  This dawrah means, you listen and translate to English.  You CANNOT look at the ayaat.


    Classwork & Homework [Arabic 4 NEW]
    Dawrah 1: We reviewed 68 while worked on new ayah 69 & 70.  We also worked on Tafheem
    Dawrah 2: Stickies project starts again, Please prepare verses 31 to 39
    Dawrah 4: We have started on this by working on verses 1 to 24 (for past 2 weeks and for next 2 weeks)


    Classwork & Homework [Arabic 4 SENIORS]
    Dawrah 1: We  worked on the verses 106 to 107.  We also worked on its Tafheem
    Dawrah 2 & 4: Stickies project starts again, Please prepare verses 41 to 49

    NEW Dawrah 4 --- Surah Al-Baqarah @ 11:30 PMWe have started on this by working on verses 1 to 24 (for past 3 weeks and for next 1 weeks). Please prepare verses 29 to 34 for this week

    NEW --- Quran study practice with Surah Al-Mulk @ 12 PM (Teacher Brother Mashood)

    • We didn't do it


    A3focused-HW3: used more verbs for Past and Present Charts



      For the Class Date: 2/10/2019, Following homework is due on 2/17/2019

      Students (Halima, Nura, Jay, Hikmah, Sayid, Chaltu)
      • We worked on Past and Present Tense both. Students worked with 3 different verbs and practiced among themselves using the verb charts
      • We sure to read the verses you read with Sr. Anisa and apply the reading rules
      • Please write following sentences using 3 verbs
        1. He entered
        2. They left
        3. We made sajdah
        4. You two exited
        5. I entered
        6. They two make sajdah
        7. you all enter
        8. We exit
        9. He exists
        10. I make sajdah

                      A3HW17: Finish reviewing all homework and wrap up the Worksheets

                      For the Class Date: 2/10/2019, Following homework is due on 2/17/2019


                      I sent an email and posted a worksheet in WhatsApp for you to work on.  Since all of you missed the class last weekend, be sure to read the email and follow the instructions.  We will catch up on everything coming Sunday Feb 17th inshaa-Allah!



                      A3HW2: Full Deck of homework ready for you

                      For the Class Date: 2/10/2019, Following homework is due on 2/17/2019


                      Goals
                      1. Reading certain portion of Quran and tell all the reading rules being applied (with Sr Anisa)
                      2. Learn the grammar and start analyzing translating the same areas of Quran
                      3. Arabic reading from the grammar book applying the rules of composition
                      4. Learning from the Quran lessons at the end of the book (with Br Rumed)

                      I have emailed you the class timings, Arabic 2 reading rules info for review and some other important material.  be sure to check your email


                      Quran Lessons
                      Complete the 2nd homework sheet introduced to you in the class, mentioning all important themes and keywords you have learnt.  We will review it in the class before collecting for corrections

                      Quran Reading (and Reading Rules)
                      Be sure to practice reading the verses you worked on with Sr Anisa. 
                      Be sure to prepare answers for following 3 questions in the class for READING RULES

                      1 - Describe the two points of Hamza tul Wasl which confirm to the reader to apply this rule
                      2 - Describe the two points of Unnamed Rule which confirm to the reader to apply this rule
                      3 - Describe the two points of "little meem"  which confirm to the reader to apply this rule


                      Arabic Reading
                      Please review what was covered in the class with Sr Tricua last week.  Br Mashood will review this with you coming Sunday (Feb 17th)

                      Arabic Grammar
                      We reviewed our first Unit again answering several questions.  We will start with review inshaa-Allah