ENGLISH 7
Planners Check
Finished idiom presentations

In textbooks, began to read: pgs 32-35, pgs 234-237 and pgs 314-317, Informational materials, and started on worksheet. Will continue in class on Thursday. Not for homework.

HW: Thurs: Grammar Packet
Fri: 50-word spelling and definitions, review of Units 25-29. Exercises pgs. 138-141. Must know definitions, too.

Weds. 4/20 Fourth Response due

ENGLISH 8
100-point Civil War project handed in. Filled out form, indicating which project you did and how you would score yourself. Post-its to label your pieces. Make sure your name is somewhere on each part.

Writer's Notebooks checked. Seven entries were due.

Began watching Dead Poets Society, a film about an inspiring English teacher (!) in 1959 who challenges his students at an all-male prep school to change their lives of conformity through poetry and literature.

"We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are the noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” -- Dead Poets Society

Please use handout to help you through the movie. We will be seeing it over the course of a week. If you are absent, you still have to fill out part of the forms.

HW: Thurs. Grammar Packet. National Poem In Your Pocket Day – put one in your pocket if you have one. Find one here: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/409

Fri: Civil War Novel essay, in class. Make sure to have your novels with you. You will need it to do the essay.