Monday holidays make for a very short week for us. We started the week off with vocabulary quizzes, which we always have on Tuesdays. Despite the warnings of a quiz after a Monday holiday, the quizzes caught many students in a less than prepared state. Ninth graders are finishing the Red Badge of Courage this week. They will have an individual playlist project, complete with album cover art. They will also have a group project to build a scene from the book, including a symbol as represented in the book. We will have a presentation of these projects next week in a combined ninth grade event. We will also have a test on this book next week, probably Thursday, March 2.
Tenth graders are starting a research paper that will include both Government and English content. This means that students will write one paper that will be major grades in two classes. We have been preparing by learning about audience, tone and purpose. We also have learned how to write quality thesis statement and practiced ordering information from broad to narrow. Of course we have covered how to avoid plagiarism. Because they will work in both classes, we have a tight timeline with the outline due on Monday Feb. 27. Also, a reminder that tenth graders will take the PSAT exam next Tuesday, Feb. 28.
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