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Tyngsborough High School – English Department

Archive for October 9th, 2007

Period 6A

Posted by Mr. Varnum on 9th October 2007

We shared our Canterbury Tales character sketches and talked about how Chaucer felt about his characters.

I returned the Grendel tests and we talked about how to best answer essay questions.

We discussed the “Pardoner’s Tale” and “Wife of Bath’s Tale” in preparation for the quizzes on Thursday.

HOMEWORK:  Prepare for quizzes on the tales.

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Journalism

Posted by Mr. Varnum on 9th October 2007

We read the articles which were due in class and continued to work on layout.

HOMEWORK: Story generators due on Monday, 10/15.

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Period 2

Posted by Mr. Varnum on 9th October 2007

We listened to chapters 1+2 of Huck Finn and discussed what we learned about Huck.

HOMEWORK: Continue reading through chapter 6 for discussion tomorrow. Work on journals for first 9 chapters which are due on Monday.

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