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Friday, April 24, 2015

Friday, April 24th, 2015

Today we completed the Practice Guide for our Simple Solutions Test on Lessons 69-72; we corrected it together.
We completed an "inferencing activity" to prepare for the PARCC test on Monday.
We continued our notes on Poetry, focusing on Sound.
We discussed Parallel Journeys, chapters 9 & 10; students turned in their Think and Notes.
Current events was collected.

Yale & Princeton finished an "exit ticket" to assess their initial knowledge of poetry.

Homework:
Read Chapters 11 & 12, complete a Think and Note
Read Chapters 13 & 14, complete a Think and Note  (both are due Wednesday, April 29th)

Write your own poems:
1.    "If I was in charge of the world..."
2.    write an 8 line poem using rhythm and rhyme describing a noun (pattern like "A Germ" by Ogden Nash)

Study for first grammar test of quarter on Wednesday April 29th.  Lessons 69-72 (you have the study guide).

Red binders will be collected on Monday for grading.

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