Monday, January 2, 2012

Week of 1/3/2012- English

Happy New Year!

Tuesday, January 3rd:
We will warm-up with a brief grammar activity, which will focus on sentence types; this is a review from before we went on break.  We will spend the remainder of the period discussing Nantucket and the American whaling industry. The preface and Chapter 1 of  ITHOTS will be due on Thursday (this is a calendar change). Kristen and Angelo (period 8) and Kim and Amanda (period 9) should plan to meet with me tomorrow after school. 

Wednesday, January 4th:
Introduction to In the Heart of the Sea continued- Analysis of "The Nantucket Graveyard" and excerpt from Exodus.

Thursday, January 5th:
Preface and Chapter 1 of  ITHOTS due.

Friday, January 6th:
Vocabulary/ Grammar Day!  We will  look at select excerpts from the Gangs of New York writing assignment, and we will discuss possible revision methods, focusing specifically on sentence structure and diction.

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