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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Language Arts:
Today we modeled and began discussing the components of a Socratic Seminar.  Harvard took notes;  Yale & Princeton took their Skill Assessment.
The Hunger Games summaries on Chapters 19 & 20 were handed in, as well as the four box graphic organizer.
Harvard checked Simple Solutions #16 and watched part of the movie leading up to the beginning of the Games.

Homework:
ALL:
Grammar review exercises
ONGOING ASSIGNMENT DUE 10/8/14 -- go online and complete these exercises;  on looseleaf write the website, list the # of the exercise and the name; list your score.
www.roadtogrammar.com
Subject of the Sentence #311
Predicates #239
Prepositions #241
Noun or verb #177
    Identify predicate
    Identify subject
     Preposition quiz
     Pronoun quiz

Read Chapters 21 & 22; complete your assigned Literature Circle Job

Harvard: study for the Skill Assessment

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