Sunday, October 5, 2014

English 8

English 
Week of October 6- October 10

Literature Study: We will continue reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." Students will be given the story in class to read; however, if a student misses a day of class, they can connect to this link and see the complete story online: http://melanconent.com/lib/holmes/text/text.html. This week, hopefully, we will be able to complete our project on popplet, take a quiz over the story, and watch the movie, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band, noting similarities and differences of that and the short story.

Novel Reading: Students will need to continue reading their novels outside of class and have their reading logs filled out and ready to hand in by Friday. Students are working towards their 12 book reading goal.

Writing: Students will be preparing to write a compare and contrast essay on the movie and short story of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." Also, the annual American and Me essay contest will be introduced to students. In addition, we will be completing our weekly quick write in our writer's notebook.

Grammar: Students will be working on interrupter commas and closer commas.
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