Students used the period to work on their Graduation speeches and their essays on their novels.

HOMEWORK:  Upcoming deadlines:

• Graduation speech due May  8

• Novel essay due May 12

The students who missed the quiz on Friday took it today.

After that, we listened to the prologue of Act IV of Henry V and used the detail in it to set the scene for the act.

HOMEWORK:  Continue working on the graduation speech assignment.

We worked on layout today after briefly discussing the Lowell Catholic limo incident and how the H1N1 flu is coming closer to our readers.

HOMEWORK:  Story generators are due on Friday.

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We chose topics for our Jazz Age research project today.  Here they are:

• Ashley – baseball

• Shawn – cars

• Bill – music

• Joe – boxing

• Courtney – education

• David – food

• Cheyenne – technology

• Dom – social life

• Tori – entertainment

I also handed out a list of vocabulary words from The Great Gatsby.  The quiz on the first group of words will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK:  Get the definitions for the vocabulary words.