The rest of the week and next we will be taking a series of in-class practice tests. These tests will both give us practice at testing and let us know about any areas we need to work on.

Homework this week and next:

3 'choice reading' paragraphs - due each Friday

Today's focus:
Elements of Plot

>Read: "Theseus and the Minotaur" and answer questions
> Read: "Finding My Way with Jesse" and answer questions

HW: Finish "Jesse" questions, Due Thursday

> Analyzing Effects of Setting (handout)
> Revision practice (handout)
> Finish parallelism exercise

After a long hiatus, the daily blog is back.
I wasn't sure that the time it took me to update it daily was worth the effort, so I stopped.
However, I feel that this is a good way of keeping track of what we do in class each day. If a student is absent, he or she can check in here and see what we did in class as well as any homework we may have.
I hope the last eight weeks of school go smoothly for all of you . . .

Welcome back from your Spring Break!

> pair-share: "your break"
> Idioms (handout)
> parallelism practice (packet)