For the week of November 16:
Progress reports went out Thursday, November 12.
We finished Flowers for Algernon and had a test last week; we wrote a second time as well. This week we'll begin our first five-paragraph essay; it will be about what you would put in your time capsule.
For grammar, we may start chapter four in the Holt Handbook, or we may continue working with the parts of speech and working with punctuation and spelling.
Makeup work includes the following:for grammar, in the Holt Handbook exercises review d and review f (pages 73-4) and exercises 13 and 14 (pages 66-7).
SPELLING THREE WORDS:fifteen sentences
1. to too two
2. feel fill
3. burst
4. lose loose loosen
5. pass past passed
6. since sense
7. twelfth
8. embarrass
9. privilege
10.exaggerate
11. bear bare barely
VOCABULARY THREE WORDS (Flowers for Algernon vocab)
define and use 8 in sentences for makeup
mislead
tangible
refute
invariably
regress
verify
obscure
deteriorate
hypothesis
introspective
LITERARY TERMS:
CHARACTER
CHARACTERIZATION
CONFLICT
two kinds of conflict:
PROTAGONIST
ANTAGONIST
MOTIVATION
(their definitions can be found at dictionary.com)
Students are encouraged to read their AR books!(And take quizzes!)
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