Update for this week!
READING:
The Hunger Games
we are finishing chapters 17 and 18 due Friday 10/19; Complete a three step for each chapter but no job this time.; review vocabulary words.
You should have finished the character traits graphic organizer for Katniss, now you are creating her Facebook page for Friday.
Review flash cards and notes on the literary elements. Do you remember what an ellipsis is? What is an euphemism?
WRITING:
We created a new "muttation" as a gamemaker in the Hunger Games. You planned it and wrote a paragraph describing it. (If you didn't finish in class, you should finish it at home).
We researched the candidates running for election, were encouraged to watch the debate Tuesday evening. Choose the person you will endorse for president. We are writing a five-paragraph editorial for a newspaper trying to convince people to vote for your candidate (persuasive writing).
Harvard filled in a graphic organizer with their candidate's information and working on a draft for Tuesday.
Yale and Princeton are transferring research to the graphic organizer for Friday & will continue writing their rough draft for Tuesday.
We began planning for a persuasive prompt (in our writing notebook):
Stunt videos and pranks should be banned from You Tube.
You created a t-chart listing Pros (Yes they should be banned) and Cons (No they should not be banned). Generate arguments on both sides and next week we'll decide. You should have read during class the article "You Danger" in the latest Scope Magazine to gain some text evidence.
We completed a grammar review of nouns; saw an overview of the parts of speech and practiced picking out nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.
"Going West" final letters were collected Thursday, October 18th.
A Simple Solution Quiz was taken today as well and the four lessons were collected.
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