Syria Article PDF

Expanded Moment Planning and Pre-Writing

I hope that everyone is having a fantastic long weekend! I’m using the excuse of having a cold to curl up with a great book (Zadie Smith’s White Teeth – hilarious!) all day.

Some important reminders about what we did/talked about on Friday:

1. Students, you have a vocabulary quiz over our second list of words on Monday. If you left your list at school, go back and look at the earlier posts in the week to download another one. Two other important notes about vocabulary – your answers to the questions that we talked about in class for each word are due on Monday, before you take your quiz. If you missed any because you were absent or didn’t have enough time to answer, please go download the PowerPoint and use it to do the questions. Also, as a reminder for students in Pre-AP classes – your quiz is going to require you to analyze a news article about Syria. If you would like to read the article early to be better prepared, you can download it from the link above.
2. We also worked on the expanded moment graphic organizer portion of our Hunger Games Reaping POV scene rewrite. As a reminder, that assignment will require you to rewrite the scene of the Reaping from the perspective of a character other than Katniss (so it still needs to be in first person, just told from, for example, Peeta or Prim’s point-of-view). That graphic organizer needs to be completed by the start of class on Monday. (You do not need to have your scene written!)
3. Please continue reading The Hunger Games if you have not already finished it! The last chapter we talked about in class was 10, so you should be a little beyond there. Speaking of which…