2nd Quarter, Week 1: October 30-November 3.

Every assignment we do for class and homework will now be posted on the website labeled "Assignments: 2nd Term."  I am starting over the count at week one.
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Monday, October 29

Language Arts
Bell Work:
New seating chart.  No bell work.

Objectives:
Finish the Short Story PPT.
Vocabulary
Spelling Words

"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," from Realms of Gold.  Full text posted in Week 1 of 2nd term assignments.
Read the short story while thinking about the following questions: (I have a PPT with all the answers in week 1.)

1.  What is the plot?  (Think about what the exposition is, the complication, the climax, and the denouement.
2.  Who are the characters and what type of characters are they (round, flat, dynamic, etc)?
3.  What is the point of view?
4.  What is the setting?
5.  What type of conflict is there and why? (man v man, man v nature, man v society, man v himself, man v fate)
6.  What symbols are there in the story and what do they mean?
7.  What is a theme of the story?
8.  Is there any irony?  If so, what kind? (situation, verbal, dramatic)
9.  What is the mood of the story?
10.  What is the tone of the story?
11.  Does the author use suspense?  How?
12.  Does the story contain any foreshadowing?
13.  What dialect does the character speak in? (refers to the time period/setting)
14.  Is there a frame story in this story?
15.  Is there any allusion?  Where?

In a class discussion, answer these questions.  We may not finish this until Tuesday.

Homework:
Read for 20 minutes.  Continue working on short story.
Spelling (all 40) and Vocabulary (13 words) test Thursday, November 8th.

History
Bell Work:
New seating chart.  No Bell Work.

Objectives:
Finish Persian War.
Textbook: Supplier, get textbooks for your table.
1. Open to page 52.
2. Read 52 and 53 out loud (quietly).
3. Person 1 reads a paragraph and asks a question.
Person 2 answers the question and then reads the
next paragraph.

As a class, write down the timeline of events in the Persian Wars.  Finish Tuesday.

Homework:  No homework.
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Tuesday, October 30

Language Arts
Bell Work:
"Remembrance of a Friend" Poetry Packet p. 5-6 (Assignments: 2nd term).

Objectives:
Finish "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Homework:
Read for 20 minutes.  Continue working on Short Story.

History
Bell Work:
Describe what happened at the battle of Thermopylae.  Who won?  What happened to the Spartans? (Remember the 300!)

Objectives:
Finish writing notes about Persian Wars.  I have these notes written in the History Handbook.
Start Peloponnesian War: Sparta defeats Athens.

Homework:
Write some examples of cause and effect.  There is an effect to every action.  What are some natural consequences to our every day actions?  (100 points)
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Wednesday, October 31
Language Arts
Bell Work:
Assembly 1st period.  4th period studied vocabulary and spelling.

Objectives:
None

Homework:
Read 20 minutes.  Fill out weekly word study. Continue working on short story.

History
Bell Work:
None.  

Objectives:
Continue Peloponnesian War.

Homework:
No Homework
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Thursday, November 1
Language Arts
Bell Work:

Get a Realms of Gold book and read the poem on page 9.
Watch a video adaptation of the poem.


Objectives:

"I Dwell in Possibility" poem by Emily Dickenson
Apostrophes


Homework:
Read 20 minutes.
Work on Short Story.
Turn in reader's journal with a letter to Mrs. Martin

History
Bell Work: 

Get out your white paper we folded yesterday.  In the appropriate box, write each cause and effect at the bottom of the box in small writing.

Objectives:
Create a comic strip of the main events that occurred during the Peloponnesian War.  There needs to be 7 boxes with the cause and effect written on each box, and then a picture depicting that event.  Due Friday if you don't finish it in class.

Homework:
Finish your comic strip if you didn't finish it in class.
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Friday, November 2

Language Arts
Bell Work:
No bell work.

Objectives:
Explain Writing Finished Portfolio.

Homework:
Read 40 minutes.
30 minutes of writing (short story or sonnet)
Study for Spelling and Vocabulary test next Thursday.

History
Bell Work:
No bell work.

Objectives:
Start Ancient Greece philosophy.
Read pages 62 to 68 as a class.
Fill in facts about the following three Greek philosophers:  Socrates, Aristotle, Plato.

Homework:
If you had to pick one of the Greek philosophers we studied, which one would you agree with MOST and why.  One paragraph.