First, second, and sixth periods are all nearing tests at the end of next week. Everything then is to that end.

First period had something of a catch-up day: so many students were out on field trips that it made little sense to move ahead. Students worked on reading they hadn’t completed or worked ahead with the homework.

Second and sixth finished up with the short story, “An Hour with Abuelo.” We looked at plot structure once again.

Fourth period began examining all the characters of Great Expectations.

Homework

• First period:
  • finish The Giver;
  • complete character comparison chart;
  • select 20 vocab terms and turn them in at the courses site;
  • check login at same.
• Second and sixth periods:
  • finish “Hamadi”;
  • determine what the climax of the story is.
• Fourth period: read through chapter 20.