Monday, September 14, 2009

Monday, 9/14/09

Academic Skills
1. IR for 30-60 minutes.
2. Visualize and make images as you read.
3. On today's class notes, draw what you visualized. Include a quote-caption of the part you read that gave you that image in your mind.

Composition
1. Study your conflict notes so you are ready for the conflict test tomorrow (fold over your Cornell notes and have someone quiz you).
2. Finish the in-class group conflict sheet if necessary.
3. If you'd like to get ahead, start reading "Marigolds" on p. 118 of your Holt textbook.

*textbooks checked tomorrow (Writers INC, Vocab Power Plus, Mythology)

World Literature
1. Finish plot charts for "Big Boy" and "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" (on the back of the conflict chart sheet.
2. Read "The Leap" starting on p. 33 of the Holt textbook.
3. Fill in the 10 major plot events for "The Leap" (in no particular order) on the sheet Mr. Power handed out.
4. Tomorrow bring scissors and glue!

*textbooks checked tomorrow (Writers INC, Vocab Power Plus, Mythology, Siddhartha, The Joy Luck Club, Things Fall Apart)

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