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Last week

Monday: DRP Week 27, Rewrote the persuasive essay and peer edited

Tuesday:  Spent time in computer lab typing the persuasive essay

Wednesday and Thursday: reviewed the MLA powerpoint. It can be found off the link on my blog—Owl at Purdue/MLA.  Click on that and there is a powerpoint that can be watched.

Friday: Watched DVD of unsolved mysteries/unexplained mysteries

 This week we are:

Monday: DRP Week 28 , Anticipation Guide to The Odyssey, discussion, hand out table of contents page, notes—Epic and Myth worksheet—do together

Tuesday:  What makes a hero? Pages 954 to 955  Meet Homer: Pg. 958 to 959. Building Background and write down vocab for The Odyssey, part one. (Four vocab words). Put in folder as number 3. Go over characters on 962, passing out papers/portfolios

Wednesday: Begin reading Part One, An Invocation. Read aloud/listen to CD and discuss.  Read as much as possible in Part One

Thursday:  Same as yesterday—part one

Friday:  Questions on page 979 1-8 Write questions and answers. Underline or highlight answers.

Don’t forget: finish Ex. 1,2,3 tonight, pgs 689-693. We will work on persuasive essays in class tomorrow unless you want to type tonight. 🙂

Here are some pics from a few weeks ago when they were either finding examples of propaganda (during Animal Farm study) in magazines or writing a quick short story using photos on the Elmo/overhead.

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Table of Contents:

1. Anticipation Guide AF

2. Powerpoint Notes

3. Character List

4. The Commandments

5. Questions for chapters 1-4

6. Propaganda Notes

7. Questions for chapters 5-7

8.  Active Reading: What the Words Really Mean

9. Questions for chapters 8-10

10. Active Reading: Life for Pigs Vs. Other Animals

Today (Monday) in class, we read chapter 8 in Animal Farm and went over the vocabulary matching homework.  I instructed students to change date for test from this Friday to next Wednesday.  (First period had to read chapter 7 as they were behind.)

Tomorrow (Tuesday) we will do some review of who/whom, pronoun cases, and will review questions from chapters five through 7. 

We will also do a little bit of fun creative writing for a break, using photographs in a series.

Wednesday we will read chapter 9 in Animal Farm.

Thursday we will review propaganda again, this time as a group activity. Then we will write a story in the same groups, using different photos in a series.

Friday we will read chapter 10 in Animal Farm, finishing the book.

Test and folder on Wednesday, February 27.  Be ready! Will cover facts about Animal Farm, Pronoun Case/Who and Whom, propaganda types, and vocabulary.