Thursday, Feb. 4:

Students were quizzed on chp. 5 of Gatsby and assigned chp. 6 for homework.

The completed and turned in their love songs and were given the final main ideas wildcat warmup to work on so that we could go over in on Friday.

Wed. Feb. 3:

Students were quizzed on chp. 4 of Gatsby, and assigned to read chp. 5

We did two wildcat warmups dealing with main ideas and supporting details.

Students corrected sentences on the board and then began working on their love songs, which are due at the end of class on Thursday.

Tuesday, Feb. 3:

Students were quizzed on chp. 3 of The Great Gatsby, discussed it, and were assigned to read chp. 4 for homework.

We then worked in pairs on the Prufrock analysis worksheet and discussed it.

Monday, Feb. 1:

Students turned in final writing assignments for "Winter Dreams" and The Catcher in the Rye.

Students were quizzed on chps. 1 and 2 of Gatsby and were assigned chp. 3 for homework.  They also took notes on the novel.

We did a wildcat warmup on main ideas and topic sentences.

We also read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot on page 658.

Wednesday, Jan. 27:

Students took the final The Catcher in the Rye quiz, discussed chps. 25 & 26, and were reminded of Friday's test. Make sure you know your authors!

We then corrected a few sentences on the board.

We finished reading "Winter Dreams." Students will spend the rest of the week doing the sequence of events and sensory details activities for "Winter Dreams" and the analysis paper for The Catcher in the Rye --  all of which I will go over on Thursday.

Tuesday, Jan. 26:

Students were quizzed on chps. 21-24 of The Catcher in the Rye, discussed questions and were assigned to finish the novel for homework (chps. 25 & 26).

We completed wildcat warmups involving grammatical corrections to sentences and figurative language.

We then previewed assignments that will be completed for "Winter Dreams" and began reading the short story.

Monday, Jan. 25:

Students were quizzed on chps. 13-20 of The Catcher in the Rye, discussed the chps., and were assigned to read 21-24 for homework.

Students then read and took notes on Unit 4 (pg. 635) in the literature book. We then watched a documentary on F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose work we will soon read.

Thursday, Jan. 21:

Students were quizzed on chps. 5-8 of The Catcher in the Rye and were assigned to read chps. 9-12 for homework.

Students then made grammatical corrections to sentences on a flipchart.

We read about Bret Harte on pg. 504 and read his short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."  Students will complete a story map and characterization worksheet on the story in class Friday.

Wednesday, Jan. 20:

Students were quizzed on chps. 1-4 of The Catcher in the Rye and discussed these chapters.  They were assigned to read 5-8 for homework and will be quizzed first thing Thursday.

Students finished their papers on either A Separate Peace, "The Story of an Hour," or "To Build a Fire" and turned them in by the end of class.

Tuesday, Jan. 19:

Students took their finaly quiz on A Separate Peace and reviewed chp. discussion questions.

Students then made grammatical corrections to sentences on the board and did a worksheet on Fact and Opinion as part of the wildcat warmup.

Students then took notes on J.D. Salinger and were assigned to read chapters 1-4 for Wed.

Students were given a writing assignment that is due at the end of class on Wednesday.

Friday, Jan. 15:

Students were quizzed on chps. 9 and 10 of A Separate Peace, discussed the chp. questions, and were assigned to finish the novel for homework. They will be quizzed on chps. 11-13 when we return to school on Tuesday.

We also finished the short story "To Build a Fire," completed the Cause and Effect worksheet and discussed it as a class.

Class ended with a wildcat warmup that dealt with using punctuations with quotations.

Thursday, Jan. 14:

Students were quizzed on chps. 7 and 8 of A Separate Peace, discussed chp. questions from each, and were assigned to read chps. 9 and 10 for homework.

We then completed a wildcat warmup dealing with Facts & Opinions, and we also made grammatical corrections to incorrect sentences on the board.

Finally, we learned about Jack London and began to read his short story "To Build a Fire" in which students were given a Cause & Effect worksheet that they will have to complete once we've finished the story.

Wednesday, Jan. 13:

Students were quizzed on chps. 5 and 6 of A Separate Peace, which we also discussed. Students were assigned to read chps. 7 and 8 for homework.

The remainder of class was personality presentations.

Tuesday, Jan. 12:

Class began with a quiz on chps. 3 and 4 of A Separate Peace. Students were assigned to read chps. 5 and 6 for Wednesday.

Students then did personality presentations, followed by the wildcat warmup that consisted of students correcting two sentences on the board and doing the last worksheet on Author's Purpose.

We then did the conflict handout for "The Story of an Hour" as a class.

Monday, Jan. 10:

Students practiced corrrecting sentences with grammatical errors. We also did pgs. 31-33 on Author's Purpose as part of the wildcat warmup.

Students finished taking an notes remaining on Unit 4 (1880-1910). Students then read about Kate Chopin in the literature book and discussed the differences between internal and external conflict. Students were also given a handout in preparation for "The Story of an Hour" that details with identifying conflicts in the short story. We then listened to and read along with the story and discussed questions about the story when finished. Students will complete the handout on Tuesday after Personality Presentations.

*Students must read chps. 3 & 4 of A Separate Peace and take a quiz on them first thing Tuesday.

Wednesday, Jan. 6:

Students did the wildcat warmup on Author's Purpose and finished correcting the grammar taken from the Intro. on A Separate Peace.

Students then took notes on A Separate Peace, read the Intro. handout on the novel, and were told to read chps. 1 & 2 for homework because they will be quizzed when we return to school on Monday (No school on Thursday or Friday due to chance of snow.)

We then discussed answers about society and the way it affects people, we looked at the Unit 4 timeline and pictures that represent things mentioned on the timeline.

We will finish taking notes about 1880-1910 on Monday and begin "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin in the literature book.