Optional: A couple of students have put together a fund for helping the horses that have been displaced due to the recent fires in Southern California. If you'd like to go to their gofundme page, please click here.
Here's what's on the agenda on our last week before Winter Break:
MONDAY/TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Collect Huckleberry Finn rafts. Notes: definition of claim. Claim vs. fact activity. Read and act out Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 15.
Due: Huckleberry Finn Raft Project
Homework: Please read Huckleberry Finn through the end of Chapter 17 for Thursday/Friday.
Make sure your journal is ready to turn in by the end of the week, (full pages except where noted).
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Current event day - read and annotate two opposing viewpoints and perform an SAT-style rhetorical analysis as a class. Discuss and debate, vote. Outline the majority opinion in a synthesis/ACT-style outline response based on the discussion.
Due: n/a
Homework: (Same as Monday/Tuesday)
THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Quiz. Read and act out Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 18 in class.
Due: Read Huckleberry Finn through the end of Chapter 17.
Journals in the bin by the end of the class period.
Homework: Please read through the end of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 18.
Have a wonderful, well-deserved Winter Break. I look forward to seeing everyone in 2018!
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