Today is Monday, 06 May 2013.

I. 10th Grade: Unit 4: Can We Talk or How to ask good questions.
  1. We are going to contiunue to practice our E-CART process today by finishing the O. Henry story Ransom of Red Chief.  Click here to have the story read to you. 
  • Continue reading the story in small groups
  • Continue the character analysis about the main character of the story,
  • Write a name poem, or an acrostic poem, about one of the characters.
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II. 11th Grade: Unit 3: Natural Disasters
  1. Read, eyewitness accounts on page 42 and 46: I Survivied a Tornado and Hany Soliman's I Survived a Tsunami.
  2. Practice writing sensory details: hear, see, feel, smell, taste. Page 26 in your workbook.
  3. Begin E-CART exploration and practice with O. Henry's two short stories: Ransom of Red Chief (Click here to have the story read to you) or Gift of the Magi (Click here to have the story read to you).