We took the quiz on The Great Gatsby.  Several students appeared to be “unprepared”.

Following that, we read our “Song of Myself” poems aloud.

HOMEWORK:  Continue reading The Great Gatsby.  Chapters 4-6 must be completed by Thursday, May 3.  The quiz will be on Monday, May 7.

WHAT’S NEXT:  Dickinson

First, I distributed the Senior Week Writing assignments which will be due on Thursday, May 24.

Then, we took the quiz on the first section of 1984. Following that, students had time to work on their research projects or continue to read from 1984.

HOMEWORK: Continue reading in 1984. You must finish section two (up through page 224) by Monday, May 7. Thesis and sources for Senior Honors Research Project are due on Monday.

We used the projector to view some articles and talked about the idea of stakeholders in articles.  We brainstormed ideas for additional sources for the articles.

HOMEWORK:  Revise the articles and complete story generators.

We did some practice work on the SAT grammar section.

HOMEWORK:  Continue reading in Gatsby and complete the weblog assignment.