Monthly Archives: February 2022

Monday February 28th, 2022

Good Afternoon!

*Reminder:  Short Story Test:  Thursday March 3rd

1)  Short Story Terms

2)  Short Stories:  The Sniper, On the Sidewalk Bleeding, The Friday Everything Changed, A Mountain Journey, A Raven Flies South.

3)  Review Short Story Summary Sheets

*We will go over the questions for “A Raven Flies South“.

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Monday February 28th, 2022

Good Morning!

I hope you all had a restful long weekend!

*Reminder:  Your essay on “The Metaphor” is due tonight.

*Head’s up:  Short story test will be coming up…in the next week or so….

Today we will read the short story “The Tell Tale Heart” aloud as a class.

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-“The Simpsons” and Tell Tale heart

Short Story Summary

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Thursday February 24th, 2022

Good Afternoon!

*Reminder:  Please upload your DRAFT of your Friday Write tonight

*Reminder:  Short Story Test:  Thursday March 3rd

1)  Short Story Terms

2)  Short Stories:  The Sniper, On the Sidewalk Bleeding, The Friday Everything Changed, A Mountain Journey, A Raven Flies South.

3)  Review Short Story Summary Sheets

*”A Mountain Journey”:  We will go over the questions (if we didn’t in class yesterday).

*”A Raven Flies South”:  We will read this story aloud

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Thursday February 24th, 2022

Good Morning!

*Reminder:  Friday Writes:  Friday Write #2 should be uploaded tonight.  This is a Draft only.

*We will go over our short story summary for “Forgiveness in Families”.

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*The Metaphor:  Essays -You will have time to work on your essays

*Depending on time…..below….

-Today we will read the short story “The Tell Tale Heart” aloud as a class.

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-“The Simpsons” and Tell Tale heart

Short Story Summary

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Wednesday February 23rd, 2022

Good Morning!

*Reminder:  Please upload your DRAFT of your Friday Write tomorrow evening…

*Reminder:  Short Story Test:  Thursday March 3rd

1)  Short Story Terms

2)  Short Stories:  The Sniper, On the Sidewalk Bleeding, The Friday Everything Changed, A Mountain Journey, A Raven Flies South.

3)  Review Short Story Summary Sheets

*No Red Ink:  Building Compound and Complex Sentences/Correcting Fused Sentences and Comma Splices

*“The Friday Everything Changed:  Short Story Summary (Homework) You can share this via office 365 and work with a partner or two….

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*”A Mountain Journey:  We will read this aloud/Complete Questions

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Wednesday February 22nd, 2022

Good Afternoon!

*No Red Ink:  Building Compound and Complex Sentences/Correcting Fused Sentences and Comma Splices

*Discussion Questions:

  1.  Which has the greater influence on child development, heredity or environment?
  2. This story explores issues such as sibling rivalry, lifestyles, jealousy, conformity and spiritual beliefs.  Were there any of these issues that touched you the most and why?

*Short Story Summary

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-“The Simpsons” and Tell Tale heart

Short Story Summary

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Tuesday February 22nd, 2022

Good Morning!

*”The Metaphor”:  Essay Outline

You have time to work on filling in your essay outline/transforming your outline into a draft.

Essay Question:  Compare and/or contrast Ms. Hancock and Charlotte’s mother and how they influence Charlotte.

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-We will start to read a new short story “Forgiveness in Families”.

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*Discussion Questions:

  1.  Which has the greater influence on child development, heredity or environment?
  2. This story explores issues such as sibling rivalry, lifestyles, jealousy, conformity and spiritual beliefs.  Were there any of these issues that touched you the most and why?

*Short Story Summary

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*first open up the following link…there is a pre-reading exercise that we will start with…

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the-tell-tale-heart-activity-packet

-“The Simpsons” and Tell Tale heart

Short Story Summary

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Friday February 18th, 2022

Good Afternoon!

*Friday Writes

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Tell about a childhood experience that helped you to grow up.

Since you’ve become a teenager, what is the greatest challenge you’ve faced?

*Short Story Summary:  you can work on this with a partner….

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Short Story (if we have time!  if not, we will read this on Tuesday…)

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Friday February 18th, 2022

Good Morning!

*Friday Writes

Descriptive Writing power point 2

Tell about a childhood experience that helped you to grow up.

Since you’ve become a teenager, what is the greatest challenge you’ve faced?

*”The Metaphor”:  Essay Outline

You have time to work on filling in your essay outline…this is the document we went over yesterday in class.

Essay Question:  Compare and/or contrast Ms. Hancock and Charlotte’s mother and how they influence Charlotte.

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