8TH-GRADERS WATCHING 

THE HUNGER GAMES!

ENGLISH 7

End of Stave 1 and Stave 2 --Cratchett wants to go home early, Scrooge is
Bah-Humbug-ing. Then he meets Marley’s gnarly ghost> Next, off to Stave 2,
and the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Read Stave Three for homework.  

HW--Thurs: Read Stave 3--The Ghost of Christmas Present --
A majestic giant clad in green fur robe takes Scrooge on a journey through London.
The Cratchitt family and  parties he is not invited to.

ENGLISH 8

4th Period got a visit from Laurence Jackson Hyman, son of Shirley Jackson, who wrote “Charles” and “The Lottery,” among many other short stories and novels.

Mr. Hyman told us how his mother wrote every day, he grew up hearing the
sounds of clacking typewriter keys, that she always looked for the hidden
evil in the every day and that he is most proud that his mother's works are
still read, highly regarded and turned in to movies, TV shows and theater
over half-a century after she wrote them.

Laurence Jackson Hyman

“...A writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by unnoticed” --Shirley Jackson

Handed in/review/discuss homework on Charles.

Got second worksheet on “Charles.” With one partner. Due at the end of class.

Leave homework and worksheet, whatever is done, in class basket. (2nd and 5th only)