Test Prep Tuesday Take out your Bell Work packet. Today is Tuesday, November 7, 2017 Test Prep Tuesday Take out your Bell Work packet. Today’s Objectives Bell Work Honors: Submit projects and conduct Socratic seminar discussion of entire novel English 8: Paraphrase “The Raven” and view film adaptation On Friday, we Honors: Had a Socratic Seminar English 8: Worked to paraphrase “The Raven” Tomorrow, we will Honors: Work on IXL and begin “The Open Window” English 8: Review for exam “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt Learning Target: I can understand the function of prefixes.

Part of Speech: Noun or Verb Today is Wednesday, November 8, 2017 New Word Wednesday Term: Endeavor Part of Speech: Noun or Verb Definition: Attempt to achieve a goal (noun); to try hard to achieve something (verb) Instead of an example, write a sentence or two about a time when you attempted to achieve a goal of your own. Today’s Objectives Bell Work Honors: IXL and “The Open Window” English 8: Review for exam Yesterday, we Honors: Submitted Hunger Games projects and materials and conducted final seminar English 8: Paraphrased “The Raven” Tomorrow, we will Honors: Continue “Open Window” English 8: Take suspense exam “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt Learning Target: I can define a vocabulary term and use it appropriately within a sentence.

Today is Thursday, November 9, 2017 Type I Thursday English 8: You have an exam on our current “Suspense and the Short Story” unit today. Describe how you prepared for this exam. If you did not prepare for this exam, explain why. Honors: Write a paragraph explaining how the use of third-person omniscient narration in “The Open Window” shapes our understanding of the story. Today’s Objectives Bell Work Honors: “The Open Window” English 8: Suspense Exam and IXL Yesterday, we Honors: Began “The Open Window” English 8: Reviewed for the exam Tomorrow, we will Honors: Begin “The Monkey’s Paw” English 8: Review Direct and Indirect Objects “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt Learning Target:I can explain what it means to paraphrase (English 8). I can identify a theme in a work of literature (Honors).

Today is Friday, November 10, 2017 Parts of Speech Friday Write a sentence explaining what a pronoun is. Write a sentence explaining what an antecedent is. Write a sentence containing both a pronoun and an antecedent. Circle the pronoun and draw an arrow to its antecedent. Today’s Objectives Bell Work Honors: Read Part I of “The Monkey’s Paw” English 8: Review direct and indirect objects Yesterday, we Honors: Reviewed “The Open Window” and viewed film adaptation English 8: Took unit exam On Monday, we will Honors: Review Parts II and III of “The Monkey’s Paw” English 8: “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt Learning Target: I can identify pronouns in a sentence.