English I Honors students have the first part of the End of Course exam tomorrow. We spent the day going over one last standard that I had missed (the use of semicolons — nothing major there) and reviewing our plan for success.

English 8 students finished with The Diary of Anne Frank 1.4 and started 1.5. We’ll be finishing up the play’s first act by the end of the week, having a test (including vocab) on Monday.

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: 
  • by Thursday, read through chapter 40 of Great Expectations using our skimming/quick-read method, but slow down and actually read chapter 39;
  • continue working on the online questions for chapters 20-30;
  • continue working on the