ENGLISH 7

Graded mugshots quiz

Read paragraphs anticipation guide

Handed in annotated Jack London biography.

The Big Read on The Call of the Wild.

Listen to a discussion of the book from The National Endowment for the Arts. Take notes; write down at least three important points you learn from the audio. Finish Tuesday.

HW: Thurs--Mugs

Fri: Chapter 1, Group work.

ENGLISH 8

1. Oskar Schindler--Know him. Who he is? What he did How he did that. Where it happened. How many people did he rescue/save.

2. Do that for the stories of at least two others: who, what, when, where, how. Especially what they did, how they did it numbers of people affected. Not sentences. Just the four Ws and H, for how.

There will be a quiz. It will not be open book. This is really a repeat of the work in class you did on Thursday and Friday and some of Monday.

Checked in PART 7, (while watching movie)

Began watching “Into the Arms of Strangers,” an Oscar-winning documentary  about the Kindertransport, the British rescue operation, which saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia by transporting them via train to England. Lots of real footage from the time about events you read and we talked about in The Book Thief.

HW: Tues-- Read PART 8, Complete WS

Rescuers/ Two of them. Who, what, where when how many saved

And a quiz.

Thurs -- Read PART 9, Complete WS

Friday -- FINISH BOOK -- Read PART 10 & Epilogue, Complete WS

(Parts 9, 10 & Epilogue not collected until after spring break. )