English I Honors students began the grammar portion of the To Kill a Mockingbird unit. We’ll be focusing on phrases: prepositional, participial, gerund, infinitive, and appositive. Today’s focus was prepositional phrases, including an examination how they act as adjectives or adverbs. (See the notes section for a downloadable copy of what we did on the Promethean Board.)

English 8 students had Friday work on Thursday.

Homework

• English 8: continue working on the vocab work on Quizlet (see previous days’ updates for the link).
• English I Honors: 
  • complete the Romeo and Juliet project, making sure you have an electronic copy on Google Drive for turn-in on Tuesday;
  • check that I assessed all of your responses to the Romeo and Juliet discussion forum (linked there);
  • continue reading To Kill a Mockingbird, completing chapters 5-8 by next Thursday (February 22);
  • continue working on the vocab work on Quizlet (see previous days’ updates for the link);
  • complete the prepositional phrase practice by Wednesday (you can work on it over the long weekend if you wish).