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With a weekend ahead of us, several projects are ongoing for my classes.  All students must be reading from their books.  As this represents their reading grade, along with the testing for those books.  Writing grades come from the work we do in class, as well as Prompt Homework.

30 Minutes reading each day

250 Words written of a prompt each day. (Typed or Hand-written)

 

8th Grade: Prepare yourselves to make monsters.  You must make a list of things you wish to use for your monster.  We will develop them in class as we talk about the letters of Robert Walton, and Victor Frankenstein himself.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm

The previous link will allow you to find a copy of the book to read in your own time.  All students should be reading 30 minutes a day.  And finishing at minimum 20 pages when complete.  If you do not complete 20 pages, keep reading until you do.

 

9th Grade:  Utopia Project:  For Animal Farm, we will be making our own nations and governments.  We will work hard in class, but students should work on individual parts of the project over the weekend.  If you wait until Monday, you will not have much time to develop a strong project.

The Project will be expected to be completed by Tuesday.  We will be making presentations themselves on Monday after we return from break.

Also, our next book will be "All Quiet on the Western Front."  This is a slight change from the reading list, as a project idea has come to mind that will allow us to have some fun with our learning, and get a little competition going.

10th Grade:  Grapes of Wrath/Oregon Trail project.  All students must follow the directions on their project handout.  Completed journal entries will be expected on Monday.  We will talk about individual results, and see if we really did get an idea of how difficult the Migrant life may have been.

 

11th Grade:  Descent into the Underworld for the Inferno.

This is a project that will begin on Monday, in which we take a look at the first level of the Inferno, and start to consider whether or not judgements of the sinners is indeed "just".  Would we do the same?  We must question what we consider wrong, and what we consider right in our decisions and discussion.

 

12th Grade: Fantasy and Reality, and becoming knights ourselves.  We will research the idealized idea of knights, and the reality in our exploration of the fantasy of Quixania/Don Quixote.  We will make our own heraldry and helmets, and imagine our own adventure.

 

Drama: Acting out The Tell-Tale Heart, a reading of the story in play form.  (All students need to be present for it.)

 

Journalism: Deadline day for articles and pictures is Monday by the end of the day.  We hope to print by Wednesday at the latest.


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