WEEK OF 5/17-5/22

HIGH SCHOOL:
Monday:

• Final version of your research paper is due. Any revisions not received by 3:00 will not be counted and your current grade will stand.
• Quiz on Infinitives, Gerunds and Participles.

• Tuesday: Narrative Poem Due

GROUP 5 BLUE:

Monday:

• See Kimberlee's Blog for History Homework
• See Joseph's Blog for Latin Homework

Tuesday:

• Quiz on student created word list of unusual words from U-Z. Students will be tested on spelling, definition and part of speech.

Wednesday:

• Read the Short Story "Sonny's Blues." Be thinking about the various themes in the story.

Thursday:

• Comprehension Questions Due on Sonny's Blues.
• Science Test Chapter 2 Sections 1 and 2.

Friday:

• Final draft of your character analysis is due. Most of you passed this in when it was originally due so have a few edits to make. Also, you had at least three class periods to work on this on Tuesday. This is the final day to get any credit.

• Answer the following questions about Sonny's Blues. They can be typewritten or written in your Readers/Writers Notebook.1, There are a number of themes in the story including suffering, darkness, feeling trapped and wanting to escape. How can you tie all these into one dominant theme that is suggested in the title "Sonny's Blues?"2. Themes in stories challenge you to think about what the author is saying to you. What sorts of thoughts have you had as a result of reading this story?3. The story develops it's themes around the relationship between two brothers. But there is a flashback in the middle of the story that tells of the narrator's conversation with his mother. How does that part of the story contribute to the dominant theme?

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Your final writing project of the quarter is due on Thursday May 27th. This is a compare and contrast essay of Flowers for Algernon (the book) and Charly the movie. This essay must have an introduction and conclusion and use one of the two methods of comparing and contrasting that I showed you in class:

• Intro-similarities, differences, conclusion OR Intro. Topic (same/difference), Topic 2 (same/difference), Conclusion.