Beautiful day!
Ninth graders practiced writing short answers and embedding quotes. We then read Tony Hawk's "This I Believe" essay.
Test Monday on the following 15 words: evanesce; flare; glisten; huddle; linger; lug; mar; mourn; prod; roam; scowl; shrivel; squawk; thud; wither. You will also write short answers with embedded quotes on your test.
Homework for Monday: sentences for words 6-15 from your list. Each sentence must be a compound sentence, either with a semicolon, or with a comma and one of the fanboys (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
Juniors read Tony Hawk's "This I Believe" essay as well as Steve Jobs's Stanford 2005 commencement speech. Bring to class tomorrow: Hawk; Jobs; and Gulliver's Travels.
Juniors, please note the following dates:
Monday, October 17th - vocabulary test on ALL sheets;
Tuesday, October 18th - please bring to class two typed copies of your draft of your persuasive argument
Thursday, October 20th - Part Four of Gulliver's Travels read and annotated
Monday, October 24th - Quote test on Gulliver's Travels
Tuesday, October 25th - Two articles "What Steve Jobs Teaches Us about Failure" and "What if the Secret to Success is Failure?" read and annotated
Be good tomorrow!!
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