Second Quarter, Week 2: November 5 to November 9

Monday, November 5

Language Arts
Bell Work:

Substitute:  I will grade your reader's journals and check your 30 minutes of writing tomorrow.

Objectives:

1.  Read short story: "An Honest Thief"  I cannot post this on my website because there is no free version online.  If you are absent, you need to come in and read it during lunch and before school.

The substitute will read out loud with the class.  Focus for this story is setting:  How does the author describe or show the reader where this story takes place?

Homework:

Read for 20 minutes
Vocabulary and spelling test on Thursday
Short story due November 27th
Sonnet due December 4th

History
Bell Work:
None.  Substitute will continue with last Friday's assignment.  Notebook check on Friday.

Objectives:
Finish Greek philosophers

Homework:
If you had to agree with one of the following three philosophers, which one would you agree with most and why.  One paragraph (not a list).  20 points for name and period.  30 points for grammar.  50 points for answering the question.

Tuesday, November 6


Language Arts
Bell Work:


Objectives:

1.  Dangling modifiers activity.

Homework:
Read 20 minutes.
Weekly word study due Thursday.
Reader's journal due on Friday.

History
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Wednesday, November 7

Language Arts
Bell Work:
1.  What is a modifier?
2.  What is a dangling modifier?
3.  How do you fix a dangling modifier?
4.  Fix this sentence:  Running for the bus, my book fell in the mud.

Was the book running for the school bus? It's the only nearby noun beside mud

Objectives:

"Apparently with no surprise" Emily Dickinson

Homework:
Read 20 minutes.
Weekly Word Study due tomorrow.


History
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Thursday, November 8

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Friday, November 9


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