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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Language Arts 10-24-13

All:
Today we completed a grammar review to prepare for tomorrow's Simple Solutions Test in our Black & White Grammar Notebook, took notes in our Red Reading Notebook on the literary element of Theme, and created two flashcards on theme.
Author study on Suzanne Collins was collected; portfolio signatures of parents checked.

Princeton:
We read in our Literature Text pages 390-391 about Robert Frost and his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", while searching for the theme and inferences that could be made from text evidence.  We began writing poems that address a theme from The Hunger Games.

Yale:
We peer-edited our second draft of our essays comparing the movie and the book of The Hunger Games.  We examined it for content and conventions.

Harvard:
We read in our Literature Text pages 390-391 about Robert Frost and his poem "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening", while searching for the theme and inferences that could be made from text evidence.  We began writing poems that address a theme from The Hunger Games.
We peer-edited our second draft of our essays comparing the movie and the book of The Hunger Games. We examined it for content and conventions

Homework (ALL):
Study for Simple Solutions Test on Lessons 21, 22, 23, 24; prepare packet
Study for Final on the Hunger Games (don't forget to study the vocabulary from Part III)
Find and begin reading a Science Fiction novel of your choice.

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