Agenda 4/29-5/3

Agenda 5/6-5/10

Class	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
English IV 1st Period	Work time for “The Bamboo Trick” and Historical Biography	“The Bamboo Trick” due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.	Fate and Freewill Half Test	Historical Biography due.
8th English 2nd Period	Quotation Marks Quiz Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 5 WebQuest due	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 5 due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.	Capitalization Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 6.	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 6 due.
8th English 3rd Period	Quotation Marks Quiz Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 5 WebQuest due	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 5 due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.	Capitalization Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 6.	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 6 due.
English II 4th Period	Quotation Marks Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 15&16 and Vocabulary 12-16.	Quotation Marks To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 15&16 due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.	Quotation Marks Vocabulary 12-16 due. Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 17&19 and Juror Assignment.	Quotation Marks Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 17&19 and Juror Assignment.
English III 5th Period	Process Analysis due	Of Mice and Men Chapter 3 due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.	Introduce Compare/Contrast Essay Work time for Of Mice and Men Chapter 4	Work time for Of Mice and Men Chapter 4 and Compare/Contrast Essay
English III 7th Period	To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 15&16 due. Of Mice and Men Chapter 4 due.		To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 15&16 due. Of Mice and Men Chapter 4 due.		Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.

To Kill a Mockingbird Text

 To Kill A Mockingbird - Full Text PDF - Google Docs

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 7&8

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

Chapters 7&8

1.     What has happened to Jem’s pants between the time he loses them and the time he gets them back?

 

2.     Why does Nathan Radley really put cement in the hole of his oak tree?

 

3.     Why does Jem cry at the end of Chapter Seven?

 

 

4.     Describe the process Jem and Scout have to go through to make a snowman.

 

 

 

5.     How do they make the snowman look less like Mr. Avery?

 

 

6.     Whose house catches fire?

 

 

7.     Who puts a blanket around Scout to keep her warm?

Of Mice and Men Chapter 1

 

Of Mice and Men

Chapter 1, Pages 1-16

 

1.       What are two animal images used to describe Lennie?

 

2.       Why does George tell Lennie not to drink the water? Why might this seem like an unusual instruction to give a man who has spent part of his adult life traveling the country?

 

 

 

3.       What does Lennie have in his pocket? Why does he want to keep it?

 

 

4.       Describe George’s plan for getting a job at the ranch? What do we learn about Lennie from this plan?

 

5.       How does Lennie’s desire for a touching sensation get him in trouble in Weed?

 

 

 

 

6.       Why does Lennie like George to tell the story of the ranch, even though he already knows it by heart? Why does George so readily agree to tell the story, even though he has just gotten angry with Lennie a few minutes before?

 

 

 

7.       Why does George tell Lennie to remember the spot where they are camping? What might this conversation foreshadow?

The Outsiders Chapter 2

 

The Outsiders

Chapter 2

1.     Which drive-in do Dally and the boys go to?

 

2.     How does Dally try to get the girls’ attention?

 

3.     How does Cherry react to his gestures?

 

4.     Why were the girls at the drive-in without a car?

 

5.     Why does Johnny get scared when Two-Bit shows up?

 

6.     Who, in Two-Bit’s opinion, fights dirtier, the Socs or the Greasers? Why?

 

 

7.     How are Cherry and Marcia different from each other?

 

8.     How does Cherry react to Ponyboy’s story of what happened to Johnny?

 

 

9.     Cherry say that “things are rough all over”, but what does Ponyboy think about the Socs’ lifestyle?