Hi Students –

As I’m sure you have noticed, I have been out sick for a couple of days. Today with your substitute, you were supposed to have created character diagrams for The Count of Monte Cristo. Yesterday we went over your reading guide and gerunds (which will be on your quiz on Monday, along with all of your CMC vocabulary so far).

Please make sure that you have Reading Guide 7 (CMC Reading Guide 7) ready to go for tomorrow. I’m planning to return, but unfortunately, I don’t think I am up for the after school movie, so we will reschedule that for another Friday.

Hi students –

I’m feeling a bit under-the-weather from a cold, and I won’t be in tomorrow. Please behave impeccably for your substitute.

During your class period on Tuesday, the first thing I would like for you to do is to take your Vocabulary.com “quiz” over CMC List 3. You may use your blue vocabulary book but nothing else (no cell phones for this tomorrow). You must work silently and independently.

When you are finished with that, please work on your CMC Reading Guide 6, which will be due on Wednesday – I hope and expect to be back with you then, and we’ll talk about what you have read at that point.

Happy Monday! Students took their vocabulary and grammar quiz today, and then most of you had a chance to get started on CMC Reading Guide 6 (CMC Reading Guide 6), which is due on Wednesday.

On Thursday, your substitute gave you the CMC Reading Guide 5 (CMC Reading Guide 5), which will be due on Monday. Also on Monday – you will have a quiz over the second CMC vocabulary list and appositives (with some parts of speech review questions).

In class on Friday, we read/listened to one of Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous short stories, “The Cask of Amontillado.” If you missed it, please come in this upcoming Friday to make it up.

We did quite a lot in class today – we finished our Count of Monte Cristo Vocabulary List 2, learned about appositives (see the materials under the grammar tab of the website), and read an article about the psychology of revenge (please come pick up a paper copy).

Remember that CMC Reading Guide 4 is due at the END of class tomorrow – we will have a substitute, so you will be able to use the period to work on it.

Happy Tuesday! After our discussion of the Count of Monte Cristo, we went over the majority of CMC Vocab List 2. Homework – due on Thursday – is the CMC Reading Guide 4 (CMC Reading Guide 4).

Today we took our parts of speech exam! The overall average was an 85 – good work! Please remember that your third CMC reading guide is due tomorrow.

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Thank you for taking a minute to express your gratitude!

In class on Friday, we talked about the second CMC reading guide and reviewed for the parts of speech exam on Monday (that will be worth four grades).

The third CMC reading guide will be due Tuesday (CMC Reading Guide 3).

After our discussion of the first chapters of the Count of Monte Cristo, students had the remaining time in class to complete their second reading guide (since we had to have such a fast turnaround time). Please be ready to discuss questions you have from the parts of speech study guide on Friday!