Monday, 11/01/10 - Late Start Schedule
Copy homework into assignment book.

SEVENTH GRADE.
Go over Outsiders project due next Tuesday.
Perfect Example of Color Essay.
Begin Plot/Lit Terms Sheet. Due Friday instead of response. Find an example in your book for each term.

"The Monsters are due on Maple Street."
(in notebook - copy/answer)

  1. moon : earth :: earth : ______   a) planet  b) sun  c) moon  d) land  e) rotate
  2. move : eyes :: _____ : camera   a) focus  b) pan  c) zoom  d) blink  e) lens
  3. The word prejudice literally means...  a) discrimination  b) racism  c) think less of  d) before judgment  e) before hate
  4. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Who said this? a) President Abraham Lincoln  b) President Obama  c) President Franklin Roosevelt  d) Benjamin Franklin  e) President Kennedy
  5. What was he talking about? a) The Vietnam War.  b) The Great Depression.  c) WWII  d) The Civil War  e) racism.
  6. What does it mean?


Do you have any "isms" that someone who doesn't know you might consider "weird"?
What if you were judged only by your idiosyncrasies?

What fears might be called "universal"; shared by most almost all humans?
How does fear affect the decisions you make?

"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" p247
 
 


EIGHTH GRADE
NBTT Project due tomorrow.

Types of Sentences/Sentence Scramble. Do not add or subtract any words.
1. Copy the definition. 2. Unscramble and write out the sentence for an example. 3. Label the clauses.

A. Complex sentence: A sentence that includes at least one independent and one dependent clause.
1a. almost  1b. the scorpion sensed danger  1c. within reach of it.  1d. when Stevo was

B. Compound sentence: A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses.  (Hint: and)
2a. and its tail  2b. in little jerks  2c. it stopped   2d. rose up over  2e. its back

C. Compound/complex: A combination of the above.
3a. Connor laughed  3b. peacefully in his box  3c. while hanging  3d. his hand toward the scorpion   3e. and he reached up

D. Simple Sentence: One independent clause.
Example:
 

Begin Plot/Lit Terms Sheet. Due Friday instead of response. Find an example in your book for each term.

"FFA" p89. Progress Report 5, March 10.