Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Grammar Workbook pgs.


Graphic Organizer-Rhetorical Questions

Personal Connections Graphic Organizer-Vocabulary

October 15-19

Writer's Choice- pgs. 435-436
Bellwork- Correcting, editing, and proofreading sentences./Bellwork quiz-Friday
Grammar workbook- pgs. 67-68
Literature Selection- Speech to the Second Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry- pgs. 108-110
Vocabulary:
1. arduous
2. insidious
3. subjugation
4. remonstrate
5. spurn
6. rhetorical question
7. aphorism
8. imagery

Personal Connections Graphic Organizer-vocabulary
Rhetorical Questions Graphic Organizer
Quick-write- Based on this speech, what conclusions can you draw about the character of Patrick Henry? What kind of person was he? --Give one paragraph to answer the question.

Story questions- pg. 111 #1-4 Answers Only
Open-book test- literature selection and vocabulary-Friday

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Workbook pgs. 63-64- Grammar


Aphorisms- Graphic Organizer

October 8-12

Writer's Choice- pgs. 428-429
Exercises 40 and 41
Workbook pgs. 63-64
Literary Selections- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Poor Richard's Almanack
pgs. 96-103
Vocabulary
1. indentured
2. ambulatory
3. ingenious
4. infidel
5. mortification
6. autobiography
7. imagery
8. author's choice
9. aphorism

**Vocabulary should go on personal connections graphic organizer.
*aphorisms graphic organizer
* story questions pg. 101 #1-4, pg. 103 #1-4
*open-book test on literary selections