ENGLISH 7

Completed Spelling Week 12. Exercises and quiz. 55 points.

New lit circle groups. Met briefly to assign roles. One person HAS to do the discussion questions job.

1-Jasmin, Amy, Logan, Fiona; 2-Hannah, Adrian, Laurel, Hazel; 3-Roan, Kylie, Mikaylee, Max; 4-Nina, Cade, Cassidy, Lily; 5-Joey, Cooper, Tatiana, Daphne

Inanimate writing perspective. For today, write at least one page in prose. Same perspective. Do not skip every other line or write in gigantic letters. Writing from the perspective of an Inanimate Object in The Circuit, telling what you see migrant families encounter (i.e. the wire fence as they cross the border, Francisco’s blue/black notebook, the hole in the wall of the buildings they stay in, etc.). Legibly  handwritten PROSE not poetry, on separate piece of paper.

Quiet Work time for Monday homework.

HW:  Mon-- Read Chapters  8, 9 & 10 (Cotton Sack, The Circuit, Learning the Game), pgs 61-95. Complete Reading Journal and Lit Circle Role.

ENGLISH 8

Handed in IOA essay. Stapled ahead. In the basket.

On a separate piece of paper to give to Ms. Bosch and Ms. LaLonde,

Wrote one paragraph, a minimum of six sentences, recalling the main points of what you learned yesterday in your digital citizenship class. And yes, these will be graded. Be mindful of proper punctuation, grammar, specifics.

Biography Work

Go to the class website and copy all three  templates to your folder and complete the following in this order:

1. Biography Check #3 (the last one) in your English google doc folder.
2. Biopoem. Copy and complete it.
3. Biography Panel Discussion questions. Begin working on these. Your written responses will form the basis of a panel discussion that will begin on Monday. Get done as many as you can. What you don’t finish today in class will be due for homework

HW: Mon-- Finish Biography Panel Discussion. File in English folder.