ENGLISH 8

Completed Spelling Unit 3. Exercises & quiz

TTH Insanity trial. I heard the arguments from the teams of prosecutors and defenders, and will render my verdict tomorrow on whether the narrator is not guilty by reason of insanity, or guilty. You handed in your worksheets for a grade.

Returned and filed Benchmark Facebook Essays. On yours, comments are what you need to work on. Please know that you are already better at it than you were two weeks ago. Most of us need to work on thesis statements and organization/structure, much of what we will be doing in class. 
Overall Comments

• Don’t use “I” or “me” or “my”. We know it’s your opinion because you are the writer. Save for personal essays.
• Missing from many papers: the parental access to Facebook. It was in the prompt.
• Thesis statement. Your opinion on the topic in one neat sentence.
• Organization. A topic sentence each paragraph that represents each of the points you are trying to make.
• Mechanics: Grammar and spelling and punctuation
• Read the prompt. Underline key words.

HW: Fri: Section 1
Christie: Read and complete questions for Chapters 1-5* (Qs 1-4 in Ch. 5)
Hardcover: pgs. 1 through 59; paper: pgs 1 through 89
Hound: Read and complete questions for Chapters 1 through 6

ENGLISH 7

Checked in and reviewed Mugshot, week 3
Shared character drawings, Two Sides of Me.

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

HW: Fri: Spelling Unit 3, exercises p. 23, 1-20, misspelled word 3X each; novel check-- one-fourth through novel.