Have A Great Thanksgiving week.

ENGLISH 7

Notebook check. Filled out sheet. Hand in for grade!
Absent must make up and turn in notebook on day we return from
vacation, 11/29.)

Completed Spelling Test Unit 7

Refugee. A few chapters--Finished Mahmoud; Josef, p. 270, Ch. 46;
and Isabel, p. 275, Ch. 47. (Absent please come in @break on 11/29 to read catch up)

Abs: Caleb, Shayla, Brooke, Caitlyn, Chris -- Notebooks and chapters.
Come in at break to catch up!

ENGLISH 8

If you were absent on 11/16, you can easily stay current.
Do the Biography Check #3, linked below and the quick write below. Then you are right with us. I will print out your IOA essays that should be in your google drives.

Thank you for those of you who got your work in even though you were not in school on Friday. Terrific!
If you were at the 6th period candy party, you did need to hand in work. Thanks to those of you who did.

What we did on Friday -- *Handed in IOA, stapled with peer and self edit forms.

If absent on 11/16, please hand in as soon as return on 11/29.

Completed Biography Check #3

And, responded:

QW: A different kind of writing, in your notebooks: Create one list -- what you are thankful or grateful for. Create a second list --  a list of your own personal needs.

Create a third list -- a list of your own personal wants.

Now, pretend you are someone else. Pretend you live in a foreign country, that your family is poor, that girls are not allowed to go to school past the age of 7, and that your village is under siege by warring factions.  What then are you grateful for. What are your needs? What are your wants?

Respond --Are people’s needs really much different? Why might people’s needs be different? Fill at least one page in your notebooks, NOT skipping every other line and NOT writing in huge letters.

Your ideas will be shared in a list for the 8th grade so everyone can see it. In connection with reading John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, we will explore these ideas.

HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING BREAK! We will finish up with biography work on your return and then be ready to start John Steinbeck and The Pearl.