All – Study for your quiz tomorrow on the Words of the Week and Life Principles vocabulary. Grade 7 and 8 read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed.
Speech - Work on your political speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
October 28 homework
Grade 7 – Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Study for your vocabulary quiz Thursday. Review the last part of Chapter 3, "Dr. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease" in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Do you think Mr. Hyde is blackmailing Dr. Jekyll? Answer in a double-spaced paragraph. Use short quotes to support your thoughts.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Study for your vocabulary quiz Thursday.
Grade 9 - Study for your vocabulary quiz Thursday. In Book I of Homer's Iliad, what is the cause of Achilles' rage? Answer in one page, double-spaced. Use short quotes to support your premise.
Speech - Work on your political speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Study for your vocabulary quiz Thursday.
Grade 9 - Study for your vocabulary quiz Thursday. In Book I of Homer's Iliad, what is the cause of Achilles' rage? Answer in one page, double-spaced. Use short quotes to support your premise.
Speech - Work on your political speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
October 27 homework
All - Looking at corrected assignments and using the Word Bank handout, find a minimum of 20 words that you misspelled, and write them correctly in the appropriate box on your sheet. If you have no or few spelling errors, find synonyms for verbs you think will be useful to you in future writing.
October 23 No homework
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All - No homework! Have a great evening.
October 22 homework
Grade 7 – Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. How did the theory of evolution and social Darwinism, new ideas in the late 1800s, influence Robert Louis Stevenson's description of Mr. Hyde? Answer in a double-spaced paragraph. Use short quotes to support your thoughts.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Your propaganda poster extolling some virtue of Animal Farm or Animalism is due tomorrow.
Grade 9 - Review your notes on the Book of Job in preparation for a quiz tomorrow.
Speech - Work on your political speech.
Publications - No homework
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Turn in the files for your chapters as you finish them.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Your propaganda poster extolling some virtue of Animal Farm or Animalism is due tomorrow.
Grade 9 - Review your notes on the Book of Job in preparation for a quiz tomorrow.
Speech - Work on your political speech.
Publications - No homework
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Turn in the files for your chapters as you finish them.
October 21 homework
Grade 7 – Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Why is Utterson so obsessed with images from Enfield's story about Hyde that he cannot sleep? Answer in a double-spaced paragraph. Use short quotes to support your thoughts.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Study for your quiz on Animal Farm tomorrow. Work on your propaganda poster (due Thursday) extolling some virtue of Animal Farm or Animalism.
Grade 9 - Finish reading Part V, "The Divine Arbiter," of the Book of Job. Think about what creatures the behemoth and leviathan might represent. Pretend you are Elihu, and write a letter home to let your family know what's been happening at Job's place. What has God had to say?
Speech - Begin writing your political speech.
Publications - No homework
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Study for your quiz on Animal Farm tomorrow. Work on your propaganda poster (due Thursday) extolling some virtue of Animal Farm or Animalism.
Grade 9 - Finish reading Part V, "The Divine Arbiter," of the Book of Job. Think about what creatures the behemoth and leviathan might represent. Pretend you are Elihu, and write a letter home to let your family know what's been happening at Job's place. What has God had to say?
Speech - Begin writing your political speech.
Publications - No homework
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
October 20 homework
Grade 7 – Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Reread the paragraph on page 11 (p. 288 in the photocopy) in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. What does this description tell you about Mr. Hyde? Answer in a double-spaced paragraph. Use short quotes to support your thoughts.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Study for your quiz on Animal Farm on Wednesday. Begin working on your propaganda poster (due Thursday) extolling some aspect of Animal Farm or Animalism.
Grade 9 - Read Part IV, "Elihu" of the Book of Job. List Elihu's accusations against Job.
Speech - Practice your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Study for your quiz on Animal Farm on Wednesday. Begin working on your propaganda poster (due Thursday) extolling some aspect of Animal Farm or Animalism.
Grade 9 - Read Part IV, "Elihu" of the Book of Job. List Elihu's accusations against Job.
Speech - Practice your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
October 16 homework
Grade 7 – Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Write a paragraph telling what feelings you think Stevenson is trying to convey in his description of a house in the first paragraph on page 7 (p. 283 in the photocopy). Use short quotes from Stevenson's paragraph to support your thoughts.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Read Chapter 10 in Animal Farm. Answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
179. Describe conditions at Animal Farm after several years had passed.
180. What increases had taken place?
181. What became of the promises Snowball had once made the animals?
182. Did hope for better things ever end?
183. What terrifying thing startled the animals?
184. What prevented the animals from protesting?
185. What had become of the Seven Commandments?
186. How was the Third Commandment ignored?
187. What took place when a group of human visitors came to the farm?
188. What speech did Mr. Pilkington make?
189. What response did Napoleon give?
190. What changes in the faces of the pigs did the onlookers see?
191. What uproar drew the animals back to the window?
192. What conclusion can you draw about the results of Communism?
Grade 9 - Read from page 89 to 98 in Part III of "The Controversy" of the Book of Job. Make a list of Bildad's (few) points and a counterlist of Job's responses.
Speech - Practice your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Read Chapter 10 in Animal Farm. Answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
179. Describe conditions at Animal Farm after several years had passed.
180. What increases had taken place?
181. What became of the promises Snowball had once made the animals?
182. Did hope for better things ever end?
183. What terrifying thing startled the animals?
184. What prevented the animals from protesting?
185. What had become of the Seven Commandments?
186. How was the Third Commandment ignored?
187. What took place when a group of human visitors came to the farm?
188. What speech did Mr. Pilkington make?
189. What response did Napoleon give?
190. What changes in the faces of the pigs did the onlookers see?
191. What uproar drew the animals back to the window?
192. What conclusion can you draw about the results of Communism?
Grade 9 - Read from page 89 to 98 in Part III of "The Controversy" of the Book of Job. Make a list of Bildad's (few) points and a counterlist of Job's responses.
Speech - Practice your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
October 15 homework
Grade 7 – Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Copy and paste (or write out by hand) two definitions of 'evolution' and cite the source.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Finish reading Chapter 9 in Animal Farm. Answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
169. What announcement was made about barley?
170. Describe the Spontaneous Demonstration.
171. What proclamation was made concerning Animal Farm?
172. What further details were “discovered” about Snowball’s involvement with Jones?
173. What did Moses talk about when he returned?
174. What kept Boxer working?
175. What misfortune came to him?
176. What happened to Boxer?
177. What was Squealer’s explanation of what had happened to Boxer?
178. What did the pigs plan?
Grade 9 - Finish Part II of "The Controversy" of the Book of Job. Make a list of Zophar's points and a counterlist of Job's responses.
Speech - Practice your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Finish reading Chapter 9 in Animal Farm. Answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
169. What announcement was made about barley?
170. Describe the Spontaneous Demonstration.
171. What proclamation was made concerning Animal Farm?
172. What further details were “discovered” about Snowball’s involvement with Jones?
173. What did Moses talk about when he returned?
174. What kept Boxer working?
175. What misfortune came to him?
176. What happened to Boxer?
177. What was Squealer’s explanation of what had happened to Boxer?
178. What did the pigs plan?
Grade 9 - Finish Part II of "The Controversy" of the Book of Job. Make a list of Zophar's points and a counterlist of Job's responses.
Speech - Practice your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
October 14 homework
Grade 7 – Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Study for Call of the Wild quiz tomorrow.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Begin reading Chapter 9 in Animal Farm. Answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
159. What was one of the effects of the battle Boxer suffered from?
160. What was to be the retirement age, according to the original laws of Animal Farm?
161. What pension was to be given to horses?
162. What deceit was used on the animals regarding rations?
163. What else did he “prove” to them?
164. What increase was there in the population?
165. What provision was made for their education?
166. What social distinction were they taught?
167. Did the pigs share in the restrictions in December and February?168. What hopes were raised when the cooking barley was smelled?
Grade 9 - Finish reading Eliphaz's speech and Job's response. Summarize each in separate paragraphs.
Speech - Practice your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Begin reading Chapter 9 in Animal Farm. Answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
159. What was one of the effects of the battle Boxer suffered from?
160. What was to be the retirement age, according to the original laws of Animal Farm?
161. What pension was to be given to horses?
162. What deceit was used on the animals regarding rations?
163. What else did he “prove” to them?
164. What increase was there in the population?
165. What provision was made for their education?
166. What social distinction were they taught?
167. Did the pigs share in the restrictions in December and February?168. What hopes were raised when the cooking barley was smelled?
Grade 9 - Finish reading Eliphaz's speech and Job's response. Summarize each in separate paragraphs.
Speech - Practice your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal.
October 13 homework
Grade 7 – Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Review your Call of the Wild handouts to prepare for a quiz on the novel. Write a paragraph in your own words on London, England.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Finish reading Chapter 8 in Animal Farm. Answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
144. When they got up again, what did they learn?
145. What effect did it have on the animals?
146. What were the losses for the animals?
147. What casualties did the enemy suffer?
148. What saved the day for the animals?
149. How did Squealer celebrate the victory?
150. What name was given to this battle?
151. What decoration did Napoleon create?
152. What was forgotten in the great rejoicing?
153. What came to light a few days later?
154. What became of the whiskey?
155. What did Squealer announce?
156. What was Napoleon’s condition the following morning?
157. What grain did Napoleon have sown?
158. What other commandment did the animals find they had remembered wrong?
Grade 9 - Write a paragraph paraphrasing one of the stanzas from the Book of Job we read today.
Speech - Practice your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Finish your list of keywords for each chapter.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Finish reading Chapter 8 in Animal Farm. Answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
144. When they got up again, what did they learn?
145. What effect did it have on the animals?
146. What were the losses for the animals?
147. What casualties did the enemy suffer?
148. What saved the day for the animals?
149. How did Squealer celebrate the victory?
150. What name was given to this battle?
151. What decoration did Napoleon create?
152. What was forgotten in the great rejoicing?
153. What came to light a few days later?
154. What became of the whiskey?
155. What did Squealer announce?
156. What was Napoleon’s condition the following morning?
157. What grain did Napoleon have sown?
158. What other commandment did the animals find they had remembered wrong?
Grade 9 - Write a paragraph paraphrasing one of the stanzas from the Book of Job we read today.
Speech - Practice your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Finish your list of keywords for each chapter.
October 9 homework
Grade 7 – Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Write a paragraph in your own words on Robert Louis Stevenson. Review your Call of the Wild handouts to prepare for a quiz on the novel. Final draft of your paper is due Monday.
Grade 8 - Final draft of your paper is due Monday. Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Read enough of Chapter 8 in Animal Farm to answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
129. After the terror caused by the executions had died down, what discovery was made?
130. What were conditions on the farm regarding labor and food?
131. What caused an increase in Napoleon’s status?
132. What titles were invented for him?
133. What new “plots” came to light?
134. What tactics was Napoleon making use of concerning the sale of timber?
135. What was the windmill named?
136. What astounding announcement was made one day?
137. How clever was Napoleon in the transaction?
138. How had Frederick turned the tables on Napoleon?
139. How did Napoleon plan to get revenge?
140. What measures were taken for protection?
141. Compare this battle with the Battle of the Cowshed.
142. What last resort for help did Napoleon make?
143. Who understood what Frederick’s men were about to do?
Grade 9 - Final draft of your paper is due Monday. Finish reading Book of Job handout.
Speech - Finish writing your 500 word speech.
Publications - Yearbook seminar tomorrow. Lunch will be provided.
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Continue making your list of keywords for each chapter.
Grade 8 - Final draft of your paper is due Monday. Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Read enough of Chapter 8 in Animal Farm to answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
129. After the terror caused by the executions had died down, what discovery was made?
130. What were conditions on the farm regarding labor and food?
131. What caused an increase in Napoleon’s status?
132. What titles were invented for him?
133. What new “plots” came to light?
134. What tactics was Napoleon making use of concerning the sale of timber?
135. What was the windmill named?
136. What astounding announcement was made one day?
137. How clever was Napoleon in the transaction?
138. How had Frederick turned the tables on Napoleon?
139. How did Napoleon plan to get revenge?
140. What measures were taken for protection?
141. Compare this battle with the Battle of the Cowshed.
142. What last resort for help did Napoleon make?
143. Who understood what Frederick’s men were about to do?
Grade 9 - Final draft of your paper is due Monday. Finish reading Book of Job handout.
Speech - Finish writing your 500 word speech.
Publications - Yearbook seminar tomorrow. Lunch will be provided.
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Continue making your list of keywords for each chapter.
October 8 homework
Grade 7 – Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Finish reading Chapter 7 of Call the Wild. Define the following vocabulary words and answer the study questions, using short quotes from the chapter to support your responses:
Vocabulary
obliterate
rampant
Study Questions
6. What happened to the other dogs and John Thornton while Buck was away?
7. Why did Buck attack those wolves?
8. What happened when Buck found the rest of the pack?
9. Who was “Ghost dog,” and why was he named that?
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Finish reading Chapter 7 in Animal Farm and answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
119. What insinuation did Squealer make?
120. What happened a few days later?
121. What was the fate of the four pigs?
122. Who came forward?
123. What was their fate?
124. What communist practice was illustrated?
125. What was Boxer’s reaction?
126. What resulted from their singing “Beasts of England”?
127. How did Squealer explain the decree?
128. What was substituted for it?
Grade 9 - Write a paragraph summarizing the information given in your Book of Job handout.
Speech - Finish writing your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Using your chapter heads, make a list of keywords keying you to the events that will make up the beginning, middle, and end of each chapter.
Vocabulary
obliterate
rampant
Study Questions
6. What happened to the other dogs and John Thornton while Buck was away?
7. Why did Buck attack those wolves?
8. What happened when Buck found the rest of the pack?
9. Who was “Ghost dog,” and why was he named that?
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Finish reading Chapter 7 in Animal Farm and answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
119. What insinuation did Squealer make?
120. What happened a few days later?
121. What was the fate of the four pigs?
122. Who came forward?
123. What was their fate?
124. What communist practice was illustrated?
125. What was Boxer’s reaction?
126. What resulted from their singing “Beasts of England”?
127. How did Squealer explain the decree?
128. What was substituted for it?
Grade 9 - Write a paragraph summarizing the information given in your Book of Job handout.
Speech - Finish writing your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Using your chapter heads, make a list of keywords keying you to the events that will make up the beginning, middle, and end of each chapter.
October 7 homework
Grade 7 – Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Review the first half of Chapter 7 of Call the Wild, which was read in class. Define the following vocabulary words and answer the study questions, using short quotes from the chapter to support your responses:
Vocabulary
1. belie
2. certitude
3. imperious
Study Questions
1. Who do you think was the hairy man?
2. What made Buck go into the woods the first time? Why did he return?
3. What was the wolf’s reaction to Buck?
4. What was the “call of the forest”?
5. Describe how Buck killed a bull moose.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Read enough of Chapter 7 in Animal Farm to answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
108. What added to the troubles of the winter cold?
109. How did Napoleon meet the situation?
110. What action did Napoleon take to get grain?
111. Why did the hens object?
112. How did Napoleon quash their efforts?
113. What is coccidiosis?
114. What brings Snowball back into the limelight?
115. What mischief was blamed on Snowball?
116. What tale did Squealer tell?
117. Was Boxer convinced by the tale?
118. What changed Boxer’s attitude?
Grade 9 - In the left hand column of your Cornell notes, respond to the information given in class. At the bottom of the page, write a paragraph summarizing the info.
Speech - Begin writing your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Using your plot outline, make a list of sentences that generally tell your story.
Vocabulary
1. belie
2. certitude
3. imperious
Study Questions
1. Who do you think was the hairy man?
2. What made Buck go into the woods the first time? Why did he return?
3. What was the wolf’s reaction to Buck?
4. What was the “call of the forest”?
5. Describe how Buck killed a bull moose.
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Read enough of Chapter 7 in Animal Farm to answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
108. What added to the troubles of the winter cold?
109. How did Napoleon meet the situation?
110. What action did Napoleon take to get grain?
111. Why did the hens object?
112. How did Napoleon quash their efforts?
113. What is coccidiosis?
114. What brings Snowball back into the limelight?
115. What mischief was blamed on Snowball?
116. What tale did Squealer tell?
117. Was Boxer convinced by the tale?
118. What changed Boxer’s attitude?
Grade 9 - In the left hand column of your Cornell notes, respond to the information given in class. At the bottom of the page, write a paragraph summarizing the info.
Speech - Begin writing your 500 word speech.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Using your plot outline, make a list of sentences that generally tell your story.
October 6 homework
Grade 7 –Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Finish reading Chapter 6 of Call the Wild. Define the following vocabulary words and answer the study questions:
Vocabulary
1. peremptorily
2. wily/wiliness
Study Questions
1. What test did Buck perform for John Thornton
2. How did Buck save Thornton's life?
3. What happened at Dawson?
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Finish reading Chapter 6 of Animal Farm and to answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
102. What other resolution was violated?
103. What did Muriel read from the Seven Commandments?
104. How did Squealer clarify this?
105. What fate did the windmill suffer?
106. How did Napoleon account for the disaster?
107. What did Napoleon announce concerning the windmill?
Grade 9 - Illustrate your poetic "curse".
Speech - Choose the topic of your 500 word speech and which three qualities of vivid language you will use to illustrate it.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Refine your plot.
Vocabulary
1. peremptorily
2. wily/wiliness
Study Questions
1. What test did Buck perform for John Thornton
2. How did Buck save Thornton's life?
3. What happened at Dawson?
Grade 8 - Read aloud for ten minutes and have your reading log signed. Finish reading Chapter 6 of Animal Farm and to answer the following study questions in complete sentences:
102. What other resolution was violated?
103. What did Muriel read from the Seven Commandments?
104. How did Squealer clarify this?
105. What fate did the windmill suffer?
106. How did Napoleon account for the disaster?
107. What did Napoleon announce concerning the windmill?
Grade 9 - Illustrate your poetic "curse".
Speech - Choose the topic of your 500 word speech and which three qualities of vivid language you will use to illustrate it.
Publications - No homework.
Creative writing - Write in your journal. Refine your plot.
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