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Archive for September 20th, 2007

Period 6B

Posted by Mr. Varnum on 20th September 2007

We took the quiz on Rowlandson today.

We then looked at the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter.

HOMEWORK:  Continue reading in The Scarlet Letter.  Look up definitions to vocab words from unit 2 that were written on the board.

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Period 5B

Posted by Mr. Varnum on 20th September 2007

We took the quiz on “Beowulf” this afternoon and I returned the college application essays.  Revisions are due within two weeks.

HOMEWORK:  Read 72-88 and take at least 10 notes.  Finish Grendel by Wednesday, 9/26.  Vocab quiz on unit 2 on Wednesday, 9/26.  Evaluation on Grendel on 9/28 (Friday)

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Period 2

Posted by Mr. Varnum on 20th September 2007

We reviewed the remainder of the vocabulary exercises today.  The quiz will be tomorrow.

After that we continued to work on writing good thesis statements and began to write the thesis statement for our Bradford/Rowlandson essay.

HOMEWORK:  Study for vocab quiz and come up with another similarity and two differences in Bradford and Rowlandson’s experiences. 

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