Last week’s Friday didn’t count — we didn’t do Friday things in English 8. Today, we did: we began working on our traditional Friday work, which includes working on inferences with a text and a bit of writing. We worked with this short text today:

Every day after work Paul took his muddy boots off on the steps of the front porch. Alice would have a fit if the boots made it so far as the welcome mat. He then took off his dusty overalls and threw them into a plastic garbage bag; Alice left a new garbage bag tied to the porch railing for him every morning. On his way in the house, he dropped the garbage bag off at the washing machine and went straight up the stairs to the shower as he was instructed. He would eat dinner with her after he was “presentable,” as Alice had often said.

What type of job does Paul do? How do you know this?

We’ll be doing this Friday work through the first quarter at the very least.

English I Honors students worked on their Schaffer paragraphs about “The Most Dangerous Game.” We hit a snag yesterday while I was out, and we worked on correcting it. We were going to turn them in today according to my original plan, but I realized to get quality, we need a little more time.

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: finish your paragraph on “The Most Dangerous Game.”