Homework and such for 1/16-1/22

Read up to chapter 30 for Monday, 1/18. We will be finishing the novel Monday, reviewing Tuesday, and having the final test on Wednesday.

Your final journals are due on Wednesday, 1/20. I am counting them for a test grade.

Thursday and Friday will be midterm review days. Please jot down whatever questions you have in regards to the midterm. It will cover The House on Mango Street, To Kill A Mockingbird, as well as grammar and writing.

I will also be assigning assessment projects, as well. More to come on this later.

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Reminders

We will be finishing up To Kill A Mockingbird over the course of this week. Please stay on top of your assignments.

Not only are midterms right around the corner, but the end of the marking period is too. Late assignments will turn into zeros. Do not let this happen!

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Movie extra credit options

Option 1:

• Rent To Kill A Mockingbird
• Write a one page typed essay (can be longer, but not shorter) comparing and contasting the book with the movie. Be specific!

Option 2:

• Go see The Lovely Bones.
• Write a one page typed essay (can be longer, but not shorter) comparing and contasting the book with the movie. Be specific!
• You must attach your movie stub along with your essay.

Good luck!

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Vocabulary 1-40

Here are the vocabulary words we have worked on thus far:

1. assuaged
2. piety
3. dictum
4. taciturn
5. quaint
6. malevolent
7. predilection
8. domiciled
9. profane
10. terrain
11. indigenous
12. diminutive
13. fractious
14. disapprobation
15. auspicious
16. palette
17. benevolence
18. honed
19. caricature
20. inordinately
21. ingenuous
22. innate
23. guilelessness
24. fanatical
25. tentatively
26. rudiments
27. articulate
28. melancholy
29. palliation
30. rectitude
31. tranquil
32. protruded
33. propensities
34. frivolous
35. propelled
36. formidable
37. obliquely
38. edification
39. reverent
40. infallible

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Weekend of 1/9

For Monday, 1/11, you are to read through chapter 24, end at page 238.

You are also to define the following words (words 29-40) and write the sentence from the book:
palliation
rectitude
tranquil
protruded
propensities
frivolous
propelled
formidable
obliquely
edification
reverent
infallible

Do not forget to work on your journal entries!

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For 1/8

Please complete the graphic organizer you were given in class yesterday regarding the trial of Tom Robinson. It is very important!

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