Readers/Writers Workshop (F block)
- Identify 3 potential profile subjects! Be ready to make some decisions tomorrow, and to start writing up some questions.
- Here's the link to the Caine's Arcade profile, if you want to check it out. You can find the 2nd and 3rd part linked from this one.
English 11 (G and A block)
- Make sure you have carefully read and annotated the story "How to Tell a True War Story." Especially, make sure you know what's up with these three things:
- The buffalo
- The "cocktail party"
- Curt Lemon's death
- Study your vocabulary for Monday.
- Consider what topic you'll write your own "How to Tell a True ___________ Story" about. In the past, students have written true football stories, true dance stories, true childhood stories, true high school stories, true babysitting stories, true work stories... Your task will be to write some "instructions," along with some illustrating vignettes, a la Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story."
Honors English 11 (C block)
- Study your vocabulary! In order to maximize our ability to watch and analyze the film, I'M MOVING THE VOCABULARY TEST FROM FRIDAY TO MONDAY. Please meet in the minitheater at the beginning of class on Friday.
- Read the article "A Whole Heap of Ashes" and mark it up.
- Identify: The author's main argument, as well as connected arguments.
- Identify: Where do you agree with his argument and evidence, and where do you disagree with it?
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