General announcements:
1. Only 7 days remain to turn in late work!
2. Book Reports due next Friday for sophomores.
3. Spelling quizzes for week 8 words for all three grade levels tomorrow (Thursday!)
4. Quarter 1 spelling test next Thursday. Study!
5. Current Events Reading this Friday. Get in line early, or you won't have a chance to go.
Also, to our students suffering from infections this week, we wish you luck, and hope you can come back soon!
7th Grade: Review of DOL with Direct Objects, Indirect objects, and Prepositional Phrases. Then, begin reading Aschenputtel in the textbook, which is one of the many versions of Cinderella. Our study for this series of stories is about Motifs - or repetition of main ideas/themes in literature.
8th Grade: Library day to work on Essays, which are due tomorrow.
10th Grade: Read the Kite Runner (p 171) and Escape From Afghanistan (p 179). Then answer these questions:
1. What are the conflicts the main characters face in these stories?
2. What is the tone/mood of the stories? (How does the Author want you to feel after reading them?)
3. What is the Author's purpose? (What does the Author want you to think about after reading?)
Answer these questions using examples from the text to support your arguments. Use your best writing.
History: Discussion of govt. shutdown, political cartoons, and political correctness. Homework: Read History book chapter 3, section 3 about the middle colonies. Also read M.B.S. chapters 12 and 13. There will be a quiz on these sections tomorrow.
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