English I students went over infinitives today; in doing so, we’ve completed all five phrases:

• prepositional
• participial
• gerund
• infinitive
• appositive

We’ll be having a test on them next week. We’ve tentatively set the date for Tuesday 10 December.

We also started working on our final project for the Odyssey unit.

English 8 students continued working on quote embedding, this time with “Under the Wire.”

We worked through our first quote in partners; tomorrow, we’ll work through a second quote alone.

Next week, we’ll also be working on a project in English 8. It will involve the final selection from The Circuit, a piece appropriate for the season called “Christmas Gift.”

Homework

• English 8: complete today’s quote embedding work (as needed).
• English I Honors: 
  • complete the infinitive phrase practice;
  • complete the final part of the Odyssey (as needed).