Enjoy your weekend.
Today in class we discussed how to start your journal on Monday (bring your composition book then) and did some review classwork on “Cask…” on page 65 of the lit book.
We also did a 
worksheet together on irony and foreshadowing.
PS: Remember the journals I shared from 87-88? This pic was from 88. I was about 15 or 16…
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No homework. If you were absent today, we had a quiz on “Cask”, homework was taken up, we got our writing portfolios (the extra binder) somewhat organized, and organized our table of contents in our everyday binder/folder. We also saw two wonderful videos. 🙂 (See above!)
Third period will start “Cask” tomorrow.
You will need your composition book on Monday!
It’s Wednesday, August 24. Homework is to finish reading “The Cask of Amontillado.” Also do the questions at the end. 1 through 9. Write q and a.
Quiz tomorrow. Code word for bonus points:thunder
I hope you all enjoyed your learning styles quiz! Maybe it will help you this year as you study for tests.
Finish your map of the setting of “Most Dangerous Game” tonight. Third period—questions after “Most Dangerous Game” 1-9, question and answer please. Due tomorrow.
No homework tonight, unless you want to work on that map a little bit from class.
Tomorrow we’ll start a new short story, Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado.”
On your calendar, it says that your test is Friday. It’s been moved to next Wednesday, August 31st. Your table of contents (and what you should have on it) is due the same day.
Start bringing your lit book to class…
Thank you for the supplies, Moms and Dads!
Finish reading “The Most Dangerous Game” if your class didn’t finish. Then do questions 1-9 after the story. Write questions and answers. Third period—no homework.
If you haven’t yet, please bring in your photo for the class wall.
Only homework is for third period—finish the filmstrip worksheet for “Lady or the Tiger?”
Today in class we read the first half of “The Most Dangerous Game” (classes 1, 4,5, and 6) and we’ll finish it tomorrow.
Today in class we read Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or the Tiger?” Homework is to write the questions as well as the answers on page 20 of your literature book. Third period did not finish the reading in class, so we will finish together tomorrow and do the questions then.
Hello! Your homework for the weekend is…
1. Make sure your parents sign the Class Expectations form. Bring it on Monday. 10 pts.
2. Bring a small photo of yourself. Please make it a recent picture. Some people have already turned in baby pics and that doesn’t help me put names to faces! 🙂
3. Finish the diagnostic essay if you didn’t in class.
One other thing…bring your extra binder to class Monday so we can start putting together your writing portfolio that will stay in the room all year.
I’m excited about this year and I hope you are too. See you on Monday!
If you will be in my 9th grade Advanced or Regular English class, please purchase the following:
composition book (any color/style)
highlighters
index cards (any size, any color, lined or unlined)
1 box of tissue
1 hand sanitizer or cleaning product
1 folder/notebook/3 ring binder for every day work—something heavy duty ***IT CAN BE PART OF ONE BIG BINDER THAT YOU USE FOR OTHER CLASSES AS LONG AS IT IS ORGANIZED.
1 binder and plastic page protectors for portfolio that will remain in room all year (you take home in May). Please get cheapest page protectors you can find—Walmart has best price. Have at least 25 of these page protectors at the beginning of school. *I have some used 3 ring binders if anyone would like one. Just let me know and I will reserve one for you.
1 red or green pen for peer editing
Books you may want to go ahead and get—don’t forget to check used book stores or to ask friends if they have a copy!
Harper Lee—To Kill a Mockingbird (September/October)
No Fear Shakespeare–Romeo and Juliet (we have the play in our anthology,but this will help you understand it) (November)
George Orwell—Animal Farm (February)
Susan Beth Pheffer—Life as We Knew It (March/April)
