Vocabulary #6 this week:  sentences due Thursday; quiz, Friday.

“Story Talk” presentations are due on Monday.

To Kill A Mockingbird:  We’ll see a Powerpoint on some background information and continue reading.  You’ll be on your own with reading after Monday.  We’ll take a quiz over the first seven chapters on Thursday. Visit the TKAM page for more info.

No vocabulary this week!

We’ll finish up discussing short stories and take the unit test on Wednesday, 2/18.  “Buried Alive” paper is due on Friday, 2/20.  “Story Talk” presentations are due Monday, 2/23.

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee:  We’ll begin with some background and start reading together in class.  Then you’ll be on your own.  See the TKAM page for the reading schedule.

We’ll take a punctuation pre-test and start a punctuation unit this week, using the results of the pre-test to determine how in-depth we need to go.

Monday-

• “Birds” compare/contrast writing assignments are due.
• SAT vocabulary #5:  write sentences for Thursday; quiz, Friday.
• quiz over ”The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant that you read on Friday.
• “benchmark” quiz– over short stories
• House on Mango Street research part 2: you’ll be given a critical essay over the novel– read it, cite the source information, and write an annotated bibliography.  This is due on Wednesday, 2/11.

Tuesday- Read Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado.”  If you are out on Tuesday, follow the following link to a podcast audio of the story.  When you get to the site, click on “Play in Popup” and hit the play button:  http://wordplaytheatre.com/audio2/?p=3

Also, here’s the Powerpoint of the background information of the story, Poe’s life, and vocabulary associated with the story, “the Cask of Amontillado.”

Wednesday– Read “The Scarlet Ibis”

Thursday– review for test; background of To Kill A Mockingbird.  You’ll get a reading schedule (see the TKAM page.)

Friday–

• short story test
• vocab 5 quiz