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Tomorrow, we will have a vocabulary quiz. In addition, we will write our narrative compositions on Monday. Your assigned topic is as follows:

Write a narrative essay (300-500 words) about one scene from your life which takes place over the course of a few minutes or a few hours. It can be either thrilling or frightening or painful or joyful. Try to employ as many narrative techniques as possible (see handout for a list of these techniques). You must definitely include images appealing to at least three different senses and at least one figurative device.

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Tonight, finish the semicolon sheet. We will continue with narrative compositions tomorrow.

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Our third lit circle is tomorrow.  After the break, you will have some time to complete the questions on the narrative composition that we read in class.  Your vocabulary words for the week are: sustenance, deliberation, agitated, insouciant, lithesome, ponderous, attrition, panorama, morale, delusion, outwit, counterintuitive, mayhem, recoil (v), heed, and robust.

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Continue to work on your literature circle role sheets. Other than that, have a great weekend. You've earned it.

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Hello!

Tomorrow's short story test will consist of...

True/false questions, matching terms to definitions, fill in the blanks, short answers, five quotations, and one paragraph question (you will be given four choices , of which you will select one). Know the terms we covered in class, and be familiar with the information we reviewed on the large white sheets.

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Continue reviewing the short story terms and the yellow sheets in preparation for the tests on Thursday and Friday. You can begin filling in the large white short story review sheet tonight. We will be working on that in class tomorrow.

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Please continue with "Life of Pi"; our next lit circle is on Tuesday. On Wednesday, we'll be reviewing the short stories we've been studying. Thursday, you will receive a story that you have never seen before. You will be asked to answer a few multiple choice questions on it and write a multi paragraph composition (okay, an essay)! On Friday, we will have our short story final (know terms and aspects of our class stories such as character, conflict, symbolism, irony, point of view, escape/interpretive elements, plot, and theme-whew).

I hope you enjoy the long weekend.

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Continue reading our class novel. Tomorrow, you will be submitting your group answers on our latest short story (questions 1-5, you will have some class time-10 minutes or so-to complete them). Also, tomorrow we will be discussing possible symbols found in the story, so put your thinking caps on tonight!

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Our first lit circle is tomorrow. 

We'll have this week's vocabulary quiz on Thursday. Today we read our fourth class story, and worked on questions 1-5 on the related question sheet.

Finally, here is the video on irony I mentioned in class today: 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-x-ZiViwzM

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My apologies for posting this on Sunday. This entry was in draft mode all weekend, although I wrote it on Friday before I left school. Thanks to Lisa for informing me of this.

For homework this weekend, please complete the sentence combining exercise entitled "Street Scene".

Our first literature circle is scheduled for next Tuesday, so please keep working on that.

Also, next week's vocabulary words are:

glistening, ineradicable, scarlet, lather, mutilate, covert, faction, obliged, astray, conscientious, excursion, rejuvenate, avenger, askew, feigned, and subversive.

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Tomorrow we will have the vocabulary quiz and the comma quiz. Keep reading the class novel.

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Begin reading Life of Pi.  Your first literary circle (covering pages 3-70) will be on Tuesday, May 15th. Also, tomorrow, there will be a short quiz on short story terms (just review the yellow sheets entitled "Purpose and the Short Story", "Plot and the Short Story" and "Character and the Short Story".

On Friday, we'll have a vocabulary quiz and a brief comma quiz.

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Please read "Hills Like White Elephants" tonight, and complete the sheet entitled "More Comma Fun".

There will be no short story term quiz tomorrow, but there will be one on Thursday.

Finally, please complete your "Two Truths and a Lie" statements.

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Tomorrow is the in-class composition. Your vocabulary words for the week are:

junction

absinthe

splatter

slop

swirling

lyric

linger

leisurely

locust

cicada

ceaseless

insistent

wane (v)

wax (v)

unbidden

penalty

peculiar

splurge

startle

futile

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Choose either Charlotte or Miss Hancock from "The Metaphor" and fill in the character analysis sheet. If you have questions about this, we'll discuss them on Monday.

Also, on Thursday after class I noticed that one of the school dictionaries was missing. Could students please check their bags to see if they mistakenly brought it home?  Thank you and enjoy your weekend!

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Vocabulary quiz tomorrow! Next week (on Tuesday or Wednesday), we will probably have a little quiz on short story terms. Therefore, keep reviewing those yellow sheets.

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Review the yellow short story sheets and ensure you know the vocabulary words for Thursday's quiz. Please also complete "Ashtray" to in the sentence combining package.