We spent today in the library completing the following assignments for your hero projects:

• Statement of Purpose, Research Questions, and Plan
• Notes Research Page

Please remember:

• We are meeting again in the library tomorrow.
• You will take the Mock STAAR in the MPR on Monday. Please come there directly at 7:25 – you will miss periods 1, 2, 3, and 4. This assessment will count for two major grades.

In class today, we introduced the Hero Research Project (Heroes Research Project). Students completed a notes page (Quotations Handout Notes Page) on the quotations handout (Quotations Handout). Please see the new tab that I put on the menu for examples of finished products from last year.

Periods 1 and 3 finished up reading The Count of Monte Cristo in class today, while period 4 attended the special Leakey Foundation lecture on the origins of tuberculosis.

No additional homework for tonight – please just make sure your last reading guide is done. By “done,” I mean, “done by you” – as in, “not copied from a friend.”

Some items to remember:

1. Please bring your laptops tomorrow, and on every day over the next two weeks as we work on a major research project.
2. We’ll be meeting at the library on Thursday – go there instead of the classroom.
3. You have your mock STAAR on Monday – meet in the MPR. We’ll talk more about this later.

Students took their vocabulary quiz over The Black Count today. If you were absent, please come make it up on Friday during lunch tutorials.

The substitute also passed out your final CMC Reading Guide! Here it is: CMC Reading Guide 10. This was originally supposed to be due on Tuesday, but I’m going to extend the deadline until Wednesday. Please put the word out to your friends via social media, since I didn’t get to tell you all in class today.

And fourth period – remember to meet at the MPR tomorrow for class!

Students wrote their essays on forgiveness, worth a major grade. If you missed this, please come make it up with me ASAP.

I also gave out the CMC Reading Guide 9 (due Monday): CMC Reading Guide 9.

And please make sure that you study for your vocabulary quiz over The Black Count!

I told everyone on Friday, but just a reminder – you will have a substitute on Monday. I will be overseeing the Mock STAAR for the Academic students (which you will be taking the following Monday – February 8).

Students in period 4, because I won’t have a chance to remind you on Monday, please remember that you are to meet at the MPR for class on Tuesday – we’ll be hearing a special speaker.

Today, students read an excerpt from The Black Count (the biography of Alexandre Dumas’s father, and the inspiration for The Count of Monte Cristo). Students completed a reading guide. The Black Count Reading Guide  The Black Count Reading

Homework is just to finish CMC Reading Guide 8!

We discussed The Black Count vocabulary list today (quiz on Monday!). Students had the rest of the class period to finish their CMC character charts.

I passed out Reading Guide 8, which is due on Friday: CMC Reading Guide 8

Students had the whole period today to work on character relationship diagrams for the Count of Monte Cristo: Count of Monte Cristo Character Poster. I’ll give you about 15 minutes during tomorrow’s class to finish. Please make sure that you complete your CMC Reading Guide 7 tonight.

I hope everyone had a relaxing weekend!

We started today by going over the scandalous revelations of the most recent section of The Count of Monte Cristo. I passed out the next reading guide (due Wednesday): CMC Reading Guide 7. Then students took their vocabulary quiz. If you were absent, please come make it up on Friday during lunch tutorials.

Today students wrote their essays over happiness. There were no new materials, but please remember to study for your CMC Vocabulary 3 quiz (there will NOT be subjects and predicates or prepositional phrases on this quiz – although you will see those later) and be ready to turn your CMC Reading Guide 6 in.