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.

Another small group because of the field trip.  They used the time to work on their novel projects.

HOMEWORK:  Continue to work on novels.

We took the test on The Killer Angels today.

Image by Vidiot via Flickr

We looked at our Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man websites and made some preliminary evaluations.  We need to work on providing links and our works cited pages.

The image is the Ralph Ellison Memorial.

I passed out a list of vocabulary words from the first part of Huck Finn.  Then we listened to Chapters 2-4 and took some notes.

HOMEWORK:  Look up the vocabulary words in a dictionary.

We talked a little bit about the historical background of WWI in preparation for our unit on that conflict.  We will begin watching Letters from Iwo Jima tomorrow.

We looked at the deadlines for term three and the assignments.  After that, students entered information about their past articles on a spreadsheet so that we can begin deciding which articles will go into the next issue.

HOMEWORK:  Story Generators due on Monday.

We began reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn yesterday.  We read the first chapter.

HOMEWORK:  Write down five things you know about the character of Huck Finn.