Thursday, 8/30/07 -- Extended Homies Schedule
Warm Up. Copy and Click! (It should be fixed now.)
Reminder! Due tomorrow:
Can You Be Perfekct?
Write 150 words about fun (in any way related to fun!).  No mechanical mistakes are allowed. Put name, date, and period in the upper right corner. Give the page a title. Ink. Not ripped. Due Friday. 20 points, -5 for each mechanical mistake I find. Get "everybody and his mom" to proofread it for you!
 

 #7 Is the "essay" at right perfect?
a) Perfect!  b) 1 mistake. c) 2 mistakes. 
d) 3 mistakes. e) 4 mistakes
Johnny Cash
9/1/05
Period 1
El Queso Grande

     One of the best things about Mr. Coward's class is that it is fun! (As long as I keep telling myself that, things will be just fine.) I don't think I've ever had so much fun in English before. 
     Of course, he paid me to say that, but I would of been glad to do it for free. I started the year with an A+. How fun is that? I get to have my very own spiral notebook, and I just love the color of it: pink. 
     This paper only has to be 150 words long, but I could go on for days about how much fun this class is already. We even got to see a sheep hitting his head! I couldn't believe that one. I mean, who videotapes sheep anyway? I certainly don't. Maybe you do; I don't know.
     Anyways, el queso grande means "the big cheese." I guess that means he's the boss. Maybe he just likes cheese.

171 words
"Thank You, M'am" p30
"It takes two parents to produce a child, but it takes an entire village to raise the child."
-African Proverb
What do you think?

Reread the passage near the top of page 32 that begins with, "'Then, Roger, you go...'" and ends with "...and went to the sink." Roger is facing two conflicts in this story: an external conflict with Mrs. Jones, because he tried to steal her purse, and an internal conflict with himself. What is this internal conflict about?

Emily Dickinson Poem. (p33)
"If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking"
How is the poem related to the story? (The phrase in vain means without any point or purpose.)        a) They're both about broken hearts.  b) They're both about a nice person.  c) The story's author, Langston Hughes, was a poet too. d) The speaker of the poem wants to do what Mrs. Jones did. e) Both the poem and the story tell us how we should act.