Finals Days: Dec. 17, 18, 19

Wednesday: Periods 1,2
Thursday: Periods 4,5
Friday: Periods 3,6

Warmup: Looks over roots and prefixes
Roots Test
Caesar Acts IV and V

Tuesday, Dec. 16

Warmup: Roots jus, ,jur, jud (law, right), logy (study of)
Vocab quiz 6
Act III
Cast Acts IV and V
Idioms and other Shakespeare worksheets

Homework: Study prefixes and roots from #1 to #25, logy

Friday, Dec. 12

Assign Independent Reading Project #2
Subject and predicate quiz
Julius Caesar Act II
Word of the Day: diverse (5), fortuitous (4/6)
Cast Act III
Library???
Homework: Study for vocabulary quiz
4/6: ephemeral, enhance, evanescent, fortuitous, extenuating, exemplary
5: demonstrate, connote, denote, diverse, discreet, discrete, differentiate
Start studying prefixes and roots for final

Wednesday, Dec. 10

Warmup: Roots hydro (water), init (beginning), ject (throw)
Review homework
Word of the day: discrete/discreet (5), extenuating (4/6)
Do Act I in class
Cast Act II
Homework: Holt Handbook page 10 exercise 5
Study  subjects and predicates for quiz

Monday, December 8

Warmup: Brainstorm
Shakespeare movie
Word of the Day: differentiate (5), exemplary (4/6)
Predicates
Cast Act I
Collect Outsider books
Homework: Holt Handbook pages 22-23 C and D

Thursday, Dec. 4

Warmup : Roots: graph, gram (write), hetero (different), homo (same)
Review homework
Review Parts of Speech Test (Period 5 only)
In-class essay: Write a 3-5 paragraph essay. Topics (choose one)
1. Discuss the theme of "fighting doesn't do any good" in The Outsiders. Explain how this theme is shown.
2. Discuss "What is a hero" as it applies to The Outsiders.

Please give your essay a title, put on the heading, and make sure you have a thesis statement. Try to include at least one quote from the book, but make sure it fits what you are talking about.

Homework: Look at your two essays on the Outsiders (one if you missed doing the other) and decide which you want graded. Edit that one (yourself, or have someone at home edit it) and prepare a final copy (must be typed for periods 4 and 6; must be written in blue or black ink or typed for period 5). Due Monday.

Tuesday December 2

Warmup: Holt Handbook page 8 exercise 3
Review parts of speech test
Simple and complete subjects
Word to the day: ephemeral (4,6), connote (5)
Outsiders Wrap Up: Characters, setting, plot, conflicts, protagonist, antagonist, exposition, climax, resolution,  mood, tone, symbols, motifs, themes.

Homework: Holt Handbook chapter 1, page 2. Review A and review B 1-25. In Review A, simple put S for sentences and F for fragments. No need to rewrite anything. In review B, write the complete subject (noun or pronoun, plus all associated adjectives and phrases) and then underline the simple subject (just the noun or pronoun).