Mr. Granger

  8th Literature 

• The AoW this week is on winter weather in Europe. It is in the form of a packet, with the questions due Friday. There is no additional writing task or quiz.

• We will start the week by watching A Christmas Carol to refresh our memories of the story. This will set up the essay we're writing later on in English. 

• When we are done with the movie, we will begin our unit on Demonstration Speeches.

8th English

• Vocabulary activities due on Thursday for everyone. Quiz on Friday for prefix/suffix vocab students. 

• We will review comma usage in writing, including compound and complex sentences, quotes, and restrictive/nonrestrictive clauses. Once we finish this mini-unit, we will start on the Author's Craft essay on A Christmas Carol.

6th Literature

• The AoW this week is on winter weather in Europe. It is in the form of a packet, with the questions due Friday. There is no additional writing task or quiz.

• We will begin our nonfiction unit by reading a passage from Fast Food Nation. Through the week, we will work on identifying the main idea and supporting details, and tracing how those ideas are developed.

6th English

• tri Vocab activity due Thursday

• We will begin a quick grammar unit on Pronouns. This will include identifying pronouns, identifying antecedents, clarifying antecedents, pronoun case, and variations on standard English pronoun usage. I anticipate getting to a test in the middle of next week.

    It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens