1. (P) Having their images placed on postage stamps has honored many famous people, both real and fictional. Choose a real or fictional person who you feel deserves this honor.  Write a paper that would persuade others your choice is good.
2. (B) Describe the person who has had the greatest impact on your life (either positive or negative). Show how.
3. (T) Write a speech called "How to Laugh." First define what laughter is. Then compare and contrast different kinds of laughs (chuckle, guffaw, snicker, titter, giggle) and describe/show each.
4. (R) "The people in my neighborhood are so weird..." (or normal, or scary, or friendly, or...)
5. (R or E) Middle School isn't as bad as I thought... but here's what would make it better.
6. (T) Tips for surviving middle school.
7. (T) Make a slang dictionary. Make it funny. Write an introduction to it and a guide for usage.
8. (R) Show the same incident from two or three different points of view: a car wreck, a fight in a restaurant, a person being wrongly accused by the teacher, etc.
9. (L) Continue The Monsters are due on Maple Street. Write it in the form of a play, and show what happens the next day. Do they realize what happened? Do they report it? Are the aliens successful?
10. (P) What items would you place in a time-capsule, which would be buried here at Laguna, and unearthed in the year 2065? Why would you choose those items?

Charlotte Quiz - 9-10

1. Which of these does Charlotte NOT find when she finally goes, on an errand, to the crew's quarters?  a) a needle  b) a gun  c) a round robin  d) an extra crewman e) She finds all of these.
2. How could we tell that the crew knew she was thinking about talking to the captain?  a) They told her not to tell.  b) They sent her a note.  c) They started spying on her.  d) Zachariah said something mysterious.
3. How did the crew warn Charlotte not to tell?  a) They told her they would throw her overboard.  b) They threatened to put her name on a round robin. c) One of them pretended to slit his throat. d) They said they would torture her. e) NOTA
4. When the crew rushes out for the mutiny attempt, Charlotte uses an old vocabulary word (adjective) for how ragged and tattered they look. Which one?  a) savvy  b) destitute  c) sullen  d) vindictive  e) wretch
5. The crew were all armed when they attempted the mutiny. a) True  b) False
6. Who was the leader of the attempted mutiny? a) Zacariah  b) Morgan  c) Barlow  d) Cranick  e) Ewing
7. How does Jaggery crush the mutiny?  a) He hangs one of them.  b) He theatens them with his guns.  c) He shoots Barlow.  d) He tells Charlotte to pick which one will be shot.  e) None of the above.
8. Which person actually disobeys Jaggery, without getting punished? a) Zacariah  b) Morgan  c) Barlow  d) Cranick  e) NOTA
9. How does Jaggery demonstrate how little regard he had for Cranick after they dumped his body overboard?  a) he cursed him.  b) he didn't enter the event in the ship's log.  c) he laughed.  d) all of the above.  e) none of the above.
10. When Jaggery makes Charlotte choose whom to punish for the attempted mutiny, she chooses... a) Cranick. b) Morgan. c) Zachariah.  d) Barlow.  e) None of the above.