Paragraph 1: How will you start? What is your thesis?
Paragraph 2: Three pieces of evidence.
Paragraph 3: What do you conclude from the evidence you have cited?
Paragraph 1: How will you start? What is your thesis?
Paragraph 2: Three pieces of evidence.
Paragraph 3: What do you conclude from the evidence you have cited?
Drama 8: Which of the Aesop's Fables lessons do you need to learn? Explain why.
Senior Drama: Hey! Lots of you "forgot" to do last week's journal!!
This weeks? What did you contribute to "The Cursed Carnival of Chaos"? (Actors -- what role did you play? Directors/Scriptwriters -- what did you contribute to the script? what ideas did you have about staging? costumes? sound? light? what else? Theatre production -- did you build something? did you do lighting or sound? did you think of costumes or how the set would look? what did you do while the show was running?)
How did the show go? (Provide details.)
English 9: Look on Teams to see the instructions for the literary essay about "The Father". It is due on Friday, November 8.
Drama 8: What effect will using the lighting that you have chosen have on your presentation of "The Creation of the World"? Who do you think is leading your group? Explain why. Is anyone holding the group back? Explain your answer.
Senior Drama:
Theatre Production: Create a poster that will advertise the "Cursed Carnival of Chaos".
Actors: Write a short scene featuring you and at least one other actor that you could perform in the hallways to create interest in the "Cursed Carnival of Chaos".
Director/Scriptwriters: Figure out a rehearsal schedule for the next two weeks that will prepare us for the show. (You can do this collectively.)
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English 9: Why is it important to vote? Do you think they should lower the voting age? Explain your answer.
Read the following and answer the questions. Due on Tuesday, October 22.
English 9:
Great poetry presentations, everyone! Lots of fun. Please return your poetry books if you have not already.
We will start with Short Stories next. No reading log today because of the presentations.
Drama 8: Learn your lines for The Creation of the World.
Senior Drama: Learn your lines for the "Cursed Carnival of Chaos". Theatre production folks -- think of what a poster to advertise the show might look like.
Use "fewer" if you can count the items. Use "less" when it is an amount of something.
The Narrative Paragraph tells a story. The first sentence tells the reader what event you will relate. The three middle sentences tell what happened. The final sentence can tell us why it is worth telling the story, or why it matters to you, or how the event ended.
English 9: Prepare your oral presentation of your poetry project for next week. Your presentation should be no longer than 10 minutes.
Start reading your second book for the future written book report.
Drama 8:
How do you think the world was created? Could you make a play about it? Explain how, or explain why not.
Draw a picture of a face that is happy. Now draw a face that is scared, now sad, now angry.
Senior Drama:
What are your thoughts on the script for the "Cursed Carnival of Chaos"? Try to be specific. (Learn from September! Do your journals as we go.)
English 9:
Be able to define: Sonnet, Haiku, Ballad, Ode, Free verse IN YOUR OWNS WORDS.
Be able to give an example of: alliteration, assonance, onomatopeia, metaphor, personification.