Tuesday, November 27, 2012
7th grade: We continued working with the Bubonic Plague stories we are reading in the Text book on pages 207-214. More to come tomorrow. No homework on this as of yet. Journals are due tomorrow.
8th grade: Close Reading of Information Skills Review. We read pages 241-245 together in class and went through the questions at the end of the selection "Nincompoop" by Anton Checkov. Homework: Read pages 245 - 250. Answer the questions after the next two selections from the text book. Due Wednesday.
10th Grade: We discussed the 5 types of conflict in literature. They are:
1. Person vs. Person
2. Person vs Self
3. Person vs Nature
4. Person vs Society
5. Person vs Supernatural/Aliens/robots/gods, etc. (Kind of the "Everything else" category"
Homework: Read the story Demeter on pg 270. Discuss 3 kind of conflict found in the story. One paragraph each. Due Wednesday. Also due Wednesday are Food Journals.
History: Discussion of world events and politics with political cartoons. Then we spent about 1/2 the period in the library looking for possible History Day topics. Homework: Have a topic picked out by Friday.
Mr. Hawley. Burlington School - Daily Class Instructions.
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