7/8th Grade due MOnday

YOUR FINAL, POLISHED AND PRINTED ESSAYS! DOn't forget to staple the new versions to your old drafts, and include your work cited page! :)

7/8th grade homework due Monday

Please consider revising the work you've done so far (reference the workshop notes and classwork feedback you have gotten on your first two paragraphs to make corrections). Due Monday: your introduction paragraph and three main body paragraphs (you finished your second main body in class today). Enjoy the three day weekend!

9/10th Grade homework due Thursday

Please read actively act 4, scenes 5 and 6. Those of you who did not ask questions at the start of class today (Tuesday) will be asked to ask questions at the start of class on Thursday, so come prepared with questions from your reading. Also, please write down a rough thesis-- what are you interested in writing your final essay on? (Clapton, we finished act 4.1,2 and 3 in class, but we SKIPPED scene four, so you should do so as well-- also, I have a list of possible essay topics/questions on the play if you'd like that to help you generate your thesis. Just swing by in the morning, if so).

7/8 homework due Wednesday

Please make corrections to your introductory paragraph and write the draft of your first main body paragraph. Email me with any questions or problems. :)

7/8th Grade homework due Monday

Please type and print the draft of your introductory paragraph for _Lord of the Flies_. Remeber to introduce: 1) The author 2) the Work 3) your thesis argument (and discuss any important topics that are important) 4) your essay plan (your three topic ideas). Print these before class for full credit, please. Email me with any questions or problems.

9/10th Homework due Tuesday

Please read actively (noting all questions) act 3.2 and 3.3 in _Hamlet_.

7/8th grade due Friday

Please read Richard Connell's short story, "The Most Dangerous Game" and be thinking, as you read, of the similarities or differences in his presentation of humanity and human nature as compared to William Golding's in _The Lord of the Flies_. Here is the link for the short story, in case you forgot your packet: http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_most_dangerous_game.html