We talked about the paragraph improvement sections of the SAT, and then we had a very good discussion about college choices. It wasn’t what I’d planned to do, but it worked very well.

HOMEWORK: Quiz on Gatsby chapters 4-6 on Tuesday.

WHAT’S NEXT: Debate

We brainstormed ideas for Monday’s articles and worked on sentence revision (eliminating wordiness and varying sentence beginnings)

HOMEWORK:  Two articles due on Monday.

WHAT’S NEXT:  Layout begins Monday.

We took the quiz on the Dickinson poems.

HOMEWORK:  Sources and thesis due.  Finish reading through chapter 6 in The Great Gatsby

WHAT’S NEXT:  Quiz on Gatsby on Tuesday.  Final test on Gatsby on May 15.