English I students continued with their parts of speech review, getting out of the traditional order and skipping from adjective to prepositions in order to help students identify prepositional phrases. This will help them with all the other parts of speech, especially since we’re going to be covering active/passive when we get to verbs later this week.

English 8 students continued with the district-designed unit on argument based on the newly adopted textbook looking at argumentative writing. We’re looking at a second article dealing with automation and employment: this article makes the opposite claim as last week’s article “The Automation Paradox.”

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: 
  • complete exercise 13 on page 476 of the grammar book (which I’ve scanned and put online) identifying prepositional phrases;
  • complete your paragraph on “Magi”/”The Necklace” by tomorrow (it will be due at 11:59 tomorrow night)