ENGLISH 7

Planners check. New check-in sheet handed out.

Handed out and discuss  final Giver writing assignment.

Began literary circle discussions.

HW: Thurs. Mugshot and new grammar packet, Unit 3, parts of speech. You do not have to do the flashcards assignments in Exercise 12. We will do in class at a later date.
Fri: Spelling exercises, Unit 19, p. 93, 1-20;  The Giver, Unit test, multiple choice.

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ENGLISH 8

Handed in Personal Oasis work, stapled, with final draft, peer edit and self-reflection rubric and picture attached.

Ernest Hemingway biography on film. A comment on him: 

"Some consider Hemingway's writing simple. Hemingway is not simple. The simplicity has to evoke an emotion. From the moment he was born, he was going to be a great writer."

 Hemingway, one of America's greatest writers, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature,  joins the ranks of those writers --- John Steinbeck. F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner - who we admire and study for their insights into people and writing. We will start reading Hemingway's  Old Man and The Sea  in class. It is the novel he wrote just before winning the Nobel Prize.