Today is Tuesday, 07 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. Work on simple past and present perfect. Learn the Rules on page 45 of the text and pages 28 and 29 of your workbook.  Practice the rules on page 27 of your workbook.
  4. 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).