Welcome Hale Eighth Graders and Parents!

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Reminders for the Class of 2015 will also be posted.


Saturday, October 12, 2013

Language Arts 10-11-13 and weekend assignments

Princeton:
Today....we added a flash card on Connotation and Denotation
Checked our purple journals so that all entries are labeled, dated & numbered (with highlighting).
Completed a journal entry on The Hunger Games -- Comprehension Questions for Chapters 17 & 18
Literature Circle meetings to discuss and share jobs; assigned jobs for 19 & 20
Corrected Simple Solutions 19
Watched part of the movie and wrote down differences with book

Yale:
Today....
Checked our purple journals so that all entries are labeled, dated & numbered (with highlighting).
Completed a journal entry on The Hunger Games -- Comprehension Questions for Chapters 17 & 18
Literature Circle meetings to discuss and share jobs; assigned jobs for 19 & 20
Corrected Simple Solutions 19
Watched part of the movie and wrote down differences with book

HOMEWORK (Princeton & Yale):
Read The Hunger Games Chapters 19 & 20; complete a job for each on separate pieces of paper.
Complete Simple Solutions 20
Study for Test on Part II of the Hunger Games.  Test is on Tuesday, October 15. (don't forget to study your vocabulary words -- serrated, rendezvous, etc.)
Your character tables should be completed and ready to hand in.

Current events will be due on Wednesday, October 16th (weekends are a good time to get an article from a Sunday paper if your family has one delivered.)

Harvard:
Today....
Completed a journal entry:   Create a sequence of events for chapters 19 & 20 bullet pointing 10 events to take the reader from start to finish.
Corrected Simple Solutions 19
Literature Circle meetings to share "Three steps."
Completed movie up to Part III of the book.

Homework:
Read chapters 21 & 22; complete a Three step for each.
Simple Solutions #20
Current events due Wednesday
Character tables should be complete by Tuesday.

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