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Glad to see you made it to this site. (Specifics for each grade are below the daily prompt)
Seventh and eighth-graders--
Just for fun, how about writing to this prompt. Use your notebooks if you have them, use paper, use a computer, use your tablet. Just write. Oh, and yeah, pencils are good, too! (Times change)

The prompt:

Now we will all count to twelve

and we will all keep still.

This one time upon the earth,

let’s not speak any language,

let’s stop for one second,

and not move our arms so much.

It would be a delicious moment,

without hurry, without locomotives,

all of us would be together

in a sudden uneasiness.

From the first two stanzas of Keeping Quiet by poet Pablo Neruda.

Read it out loud once or twice. Then respond, write for however long you want. Five minutes, 10 minutes or more. It's yours. Share with your parents.

SEVENTH-GRADE LONG DISTANCE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THIS WEEK:

Can finish your novel, The Call of the Wild. If you can find any version of the movie online, watch that.
Consider writing a book/movie comparison, like you  did for The Giver.

If you can find other books by Jack London, in particular, White Fang, consider reading that book, too. 

Other possibilities:  

* Read your SSR novel, or any novel. Summarize it in five paragraphs,  taking note of the five stops
on the plot line. 

1- In literature textbooks, which students should have at home, the following are options that will keep students
keeping up with 7th grade ELA (English Language Arts) curriculum.

 2- - Comparing literary works, memoirs and autobiographies. Read the introduction on p. 552-553
and then the story, No Gumption by Russell Baker on p. 555. Answer the questions at the end of the story,
p. 561.

3- Next Read An American Childhood by Annie Dillard. Answer the questions at the end of the story, p. 566.
Next comparing the two stories, on p. 567, answer questions 1 through 9. Complete vocabulary and grammar work, p. 568.
Next, compare the two pieces of writing, completing the comparison and contrast essay work on p. 569,
under the heading Writing Lesson.


EIGHTH-GRADE LONG DISTANCE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THIS WEEK:

* Read your SSR novel, or any novel. Summarize it in five paragraphs,  taking note of the five stops on the plot line.  Consider putting on a plot diagram before you summarize it.

In literature textbooks:

1- Read the teleplay, “Flowers For Algernon,” pgs. 180-210. Respond to all the questions on p. 210.

For vocabulary and grammar development, complete the grammar and vocabulary work on  p. 212.

Next, complete the writing lesson on p. 213.  A movie version will be posted at the end of the week so you
can compare the two. Wait for it!

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