- Sentence combining activity.
- I was sick last night. I stayed home from school
today.I was sick last night so I stayed home from school
today.Because I was sick last night, I stayed home from school
today.I stayed home from school today because I was sick last
night. - We talked about starting sentences with 'because,' which students are often told they can't do.
- Vocabulary:
Clause: an expression including a subject and verb but not making a complete sentence
Ex: Because I was sick last night, I missed school today. - Went over benchmarks briefly. Some students took theirs home to do over.
- Worked on some symbolism for LOTF
- Tomorrow the remaining logs for chapters 9 throguh 12 will be checked. Final discussion on the end of the book and a little more symbolism work.
- Book exam for Wednesday and Thursday.
11R
- Same sentence activitiy as above.
- Period 7 began intro to the short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London. This story will follow the same sequence of activities the "Owl Creek Bridge" did.
