We concluded our viewing of Minority Report and talked about the connections with 1984.

We discussed the Invisible Man website project and assigned partners and topics.

HOMEWORK:  Read up through page 150 in Invisible Man by Tuesday.  Web posting due on Monday.  See the reading schedule for topic.

We took a quiz on Letters from Iwo Jima today.

Following the quiz, I handed out copies of Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” and copies of the novel The Killer Angels.

HOMEWORK:  Read “Soldier’s Home” and answer the questions 1-6 which follow.

We drew a picture of the Mississippi River and put in some elements from the first 13 chapters of Huck Finn.  Students used this lesson as a review of the first part of the book.

HOMEWORK:  Continue reading the novel and prepare for vocabulary quiz on Thursday.

We worked on articles today and began layout for our next issue.

HOMEWORK:  Articles due on Monday.