ENGLISH 7

Peer- graded Jonas character sketches. Anonymously.  CB next to your grade. 

Spelling Unit 20 pretest

Handed out new Grammar Packet.

Euphemisms/ Follow up on euphemisms from The Giver.

 HW: Weds: Planner check

Thurs Mugshots 20/21, grammar packet 

Fri: Spelling, Unit 20, exercises p. 97, 1-20 and Post-test ; review quiz on mug shot 20/21


Please return The Giver: Matthew, Eli, Moses, Keaton, Max, Maddie

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  ENGLISH 8 

Quiz Section 1.

QW: Choose one or more of the following as a starter for free writing in your writer’s notebook about adventure, poverty and/or friendship:

       1.  Adventure

Whe      1. When   going on an adventure, it is better to be lucky.
2. The ocean is the one place where adventure is always a certainty.
3. It is better to risk failure in an adventure rather than never to venture out at all.
4. An adventure is like peering into deep darkness with the light of the imagination.
Poverty
1. There is nothing worse than being poor.
2. There is more than one kind of poverty.
3. Newspapers make a better mattress than dishonesty.
Friendship
1. Finding a real friend is like catching the fish that no one else has ever been able to catch.
2. Age is unimportant in a true friendship.
3. A friend is someone who often knows what you’re thinking before you do.
4. One friend is worth a thousand acquaintances. 

             Listen and read: Old Man and the Sea: p. 40-50.  Handout, Section 2 questions on Tuesday. 

HW:                          HW: Mon Jan 31 Women’s Author book choice