ENGLISH 7

Returned and filed “Me In 7th Grade” Overall comments: you folks write well and know your grammar! Please: capitalize “I”, always. Read and respond to your peer edits. Many of you got some good ones but did not make any additions or changes after.

Shared character drawings, Two Sides of Me. Points for creativity, effort and following assignment guidelines.

Discussed Plot -- The organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story. Every plot is made up of a series of incidents that are related to one another.

In literature textbooks, begin reading, A Boy And A Man, pgs. 180-189. If not done in class, we will continue to work on Wednesday, when we will also do a plot summary response .

HW: Planner Check. Finish reading A Boy And A Man. Begin working on a five-paragraph summary of the story,  following the five stops along the plot line.

Thurs: Mugshot Week 3; Written plot summary of A Boy And A Man. Use charts to help

Fri: Spelling Unit 4, test and exercises, p. 27, 1-20. Write misspelled word five times. Show for credit on exercises.

Novel Check #2, halfway through novel

ENGLISH 8

QW: “The world is full of obvious things which nobody…ever observes.”—(Sherlock Holmes).Write. Let your imagination take over.

2) Handed TTH paragraph to a buddy. Got a response. Handed in.

3.)Completed a quiz on The Tell Tale Heart.

4.) Read  “Raymond’s Run” in literature textbook, p.286, a story about respect and the many ways you can earn it. Look for idioms in the story. Look for character or personality traits of Squeaky. (Finish reading for homework).

Idiom--an expression, word, or phrase that has a meaning different from the literal meaning. In other words, idioms don't mean exactly what the words say. They have, however, hidden meaning, usually understood by a particular group of people.  

Example: I was dying of hunger. The speaker is not literally dying, but the expression is understood to mean that she/he is really quite hungry.  

For homework Thursday, write the rough draft of a one-paragraph character study of the main character, Squeaky. Look for traits--aspects of her personality--that show what kind of person she is.

Handout help for character study paragraph.  

HW: Weds: Finish reading “Raymond’s Run.”

Thurs: Write a rough draft of a character study of Squeaky, the main character in “Raymond’s Run,” p. 288 in lit text.

NOTEBOOKS CHECKED THIS WEEK

Fri 9/21 Section 2 of your mystery novel   

Hound: Read and complete questions for Chapters 7, 8, & 9; Chapter 8 has its own questions. It’s an important chapter.

Christie: Read and complete questions for Chapters 6-10* Hardcover, 60-121; paper, 90-180

**Get help and missed assignments at appropriate and posted times:

During break. Sometimes during lunch if arrangement is made ahead of time.

If you need to print something out, come in at break and ask. Look at the class website when you are out so you don’t get behind. 

Talk to a friend if you are absent. See what you missed. Stay current. Seek help at the appropriate times. If all else fails, use a late slip for your work. You have three of them.