Thursday, April 1

Warmup: HH page 28, exercise 5, 1-10
Italics, quotes, apostrophes, hyphens, parentheses and dashes
Review literary devices
Quiz on literary devices
WOTD: reverence (4/6), method (5)
Pearl Grab Bag

Homework: Pearl Essay due April 14.
Choose one topic of these three. Write a response to literature essay of four paragraphs or more (no limit). Give the essay a title. Don't forget that you need a thesis statement (what are you going to prove?) in the first paragraph, as well as the title and author or the book (and what kind of book: in this case a novella).

1. Discuss the role of greed in the book and how it affects the characters and the plot.

2. Discuss the roles of choice versus fate in the book. What was fate and what was choice, and how might the choices made change the outcome of the book?

3. Discuss some of the social issues in the book and compare them to social issues today. Are they the same? How are they different?

YOU ARE IN THE HOME STRETCH! REMEMBER THAT THE CURRENT GRADING PERIOD IS OVER ON THURSDAY, APRIL 16. ALL LATE WORK AND TEST MAKEUPS MUST BE DONE BY TUESDAY, APRIL 14.

WE WILL BE TESTING ON MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY THE WEEK OF APRIL 6. COME TO CLASS FIRST, AND WE WILL GO TO THE COMPUTER LAB FOR TESTING. PLEASE BRING A SILENT READING BOOK WITH YOU ALL THREE DAYS. SORRY, BUT YOU CANNOT BRING A KINDLE OR ANY OTHER E READER TO THE LAB. YOU WILL ALSO BE LEAVING YOUR CELLS PHONES AND OTHER DEVICES IN THE CLASSROOM.

Tuesday, March 31

Warmup HH 315 Evens
Literary Devices
Punctuation Quiz
WOTD: Resilient (4/6), relevant (5)
Pearl Wrap Up
Homework: Write a poem with at least 12 lines using at least 6 of the literary devices on the handout. Label each one.

Friday, March 20

Warmup: HH page 315 Review A Odds only. Write sentence and put in correct punctuation.
Review commas
Colons and semicolons
Start literary devices
Word: reconciliation (4/6), principal (5)

No homework: Have a good break. Read a book!

Wednesday, March 18

Roots: prim/prin (first), scope (see), scribe/script (write)
Vocab quiz 10
Pearl Wrap up
Start punctuation: commas
HH: Diagnostic preview page 288
Word: querulous and rancorous (4/6); proceed, precede (5)

Homework: Holt Handbook chapter 14, beginning on page 292, exercises 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9: Numbers 1 and 3 only in each exercise.

Monday, March 16

Essay for 8th grade English placement
Homework: Study for vocabulary quiz next class.

4/6: precocious,  pretentious, prosaic, provocative, prudent
5: license, perspective, policy, potential

Thursday, March 12

Roots: psych/quis, quer, ques
Word: Prudent (4/6), Potential (5)
Discuss ending of The Pearl
Lab first half of period for SBAC practice

No homework

Thursday, March 12

Warmup: Roots prin/prim (first), psych (mind) and quer/ques/quis (seek)
Word of the Day: prudent (4/6) potential (5)
Discuss ending of The Pearl
Computer lab first half of period: practice test for SBAC

No homework

Tuesday, March 10

Warmup: Holt Handbook pages 385 and 386 exercises 10 and 11
Discuss The Pearl Chapter 5
Review homework
Word of the day: provocative (4/6), policy (5)
Multiple Choice section of English 8 placement test given in class.

Homework: Read Chapter 6 of The Pearl and do sheet.

Friday, March 6

Warmup: Roots photo (light), phys (nature), and port (carry)
Clauses and sentences
Types of sentences
Discuss Chapter 4 of The Pearl
Word of the Day:
4/6 prosaic
5 perspective

Homework: Write a paragraph containing four sentences.
1. First sentence should be a simple sentence
2. Then write a compound sentence
3. Next, a complex sentence with an adjective clause
4. Last, a complex sentence with an adverb clause
5. fourth and sixth periods only: add a fifth sentence: compound-complex

Be here Tuesday: first part of test for 8th grade English placement

Wednesday, March 4, National Grammar Day!

Warmup: Review words for vocabulary quiz
Vocab quiz 9
Word of the Day:
4/6 precocious and pretentious
5 license
Worksheet for The Pearl

Homework: Read The Pearl Chapter 4 and do worksheet questions

Monday, March 2

Roots: phob (fear), phon (sound)
Word of the day: paradigm, all classes
Finish essays


Homework: Read Chapters 2 and 3 of the Pearl
Study for vocabulary quiz
4/6: ostentatious, perfidious, objective, subjective, pernicious, paradigm
5: incorporate, integrate, objective, subjective, interpret, paradigm

February 26

Discuss The Pearl Chapter 1
Word of the Day: Pernicious (4/6), interpret (5)
Edit PE essay drafts
Write a persuasive essay in class:
I think cursive should be taught in school
OR
I do not think cursive should be taught any longer

Pick one topic and include a couterargument.

No Homework.

Tuesday, February 24

Collect essays
Review homework
Reread two articles and discuss
Persuasive essay
Word of the day: objective and subjective all classes

Homework: Read chapter 1 of The Pearl and do worksheet
PE essay drafts due Thursday

Friday, February 20

Warmup: Read article B and take notes
Discuss sentence patterns
Steinbeck intro
4/6 final summaries; collect books; write summary in class
Word of the Day: perfidious (4/6)integrate (5)
Articles A and B reread and discuss

Homework:Final draft of essays due Tuesday 24th
PE essay drafts due next Thursday 26th
All late work and absent work must be in at the end of day Tuesday, 24th
Sentence Variety pattern: due next class:
Write a one-paragraph story, fiction or nonfiction, any topic
Start sentences like this:
1. start with a prepositional phrase
2.start with an adverb clause
3 Start with an infinitive
4. Put an adjective clause in the sentence
5.Put an appositive in your sentence
6. Start sentence with a participle or participial phrase
7. Use a gerund in the sentence (ing word that is a noun)

These are all different sentences. Each one will be constructed differently according to the instructions.

Wednesday, Feb. 18

Warmup- Roots peri (around), ped/pod (foot)
Edit essay drafts
Begin persuasive essay
Word of the Day quiz
New word of the day: ostentatious (4/6), incorporate (5)

Homework:
4 and 6: Finish books and write summary
All: Final draft of essay (typed) or in ink (5th period only) due Feb. 24.

PE essays due on the 26th in English class (drafts only) for editing: They will be worth points and cannot be handed in late. The drafts must be here for editing in English class on the 26th!

Friday, Feb. 13

Warmup: Holt Handbook page 383 exercise 9
Word: opulent (4/6), incident and incidence (5)
Review clauses homework
Reports - 4 and 6
Essays (finish draft) events or people who have affected me

Homework: 4 and 6 - reading 9 and summary
Study for Vocab - everyone
4/6: mundane, integrity, intrepid, longevity, nonchalant, opulent
5: fundamental, illustrate, impact, imply and infer, incentive incident and incidence

Friday, Feb. 6

Warmup: Roots ortho, pater, patho
Early book projects due for 5 extra points.
Review homework
Finish essay in class
Grab bag
Word of the day: mundane (4/6), imply and infer (5)
Homework:
4/6: Reading #7 and summaries AND Holt Handbook page 125 A odds only
5: Holt Handbook page 125-126 A and B Odds only

Wednesday, Feb. 4

Warmup- clauses page 112 A 1-10
Discuss clauses
In class essay - begin: Topic:" My Three Favorite Movies or TV shows or Places I Have Visited (Choose one topic)
Word of the day: Longevity (4/6), impact (5)
Build a sentence: Sample in class

Homework: Build a sentence using the one we do in class as a sample:

Nancy gave
Add a direct object
Add an indirect object
Add a prepositional phrase
Add an adverb
Add an appositive or appositive phrase
Add an infinitive or infinitive phrase
Add a participle or participial phrase

Monday, February 2

Warmup: Holt Literature. Read page 269 and to questions at the bottom
Start discussion of clauses, dependent and independent
Word of the Day: 4/6 intrepid, 5 illustrate
Finish essays

Homework: 4/6 Reading #6 and summary
5 - Holt Literature: Read 263-265 and answer questions on 267

Thursday, January 29

Roots: Mort (death), omni (all), and opt (eye, sight)
vocabulary quiz 7
Word of the Day: integrity (4/5) fundamental (5)
Essay (thinksheet) My Three Favorite Hobbies

Homework:
4/6 Reading #5 and summaries
Holt Handbook page 101, exercise 10 Odds only

5 - Holt Handbook page 101, exercise 10 1-10
Use the phrase the book gives you at the BEGINNING of your sentence.

NOTE: Due date for the book project has been changed to February 13, but if you hand it in on the 6th, you get an extra 5 points.