Homework Assigned Week of 8/31, due week of 9/13 (No class next week because of Labor Day holiday).

Reading: “Most Dangerous Game”, “The Open Window”, highlighting pink, green, blue, orange, & yellow

Writing: question to issue to ANI, 10 in each column. Use any of our previous short stories as a source for your issue.

Vocabulary: Your own 5 words plus these: Enter all the words in the appropriate section of your commonplace book. We will be talking about them next week so be prepared.
auspicious
belie
bellicose
chicanery
churlish
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Homework Assigned Week of 8/23, due week of 8/30

Reading: Highlight and read the 2 stories listed on your syllabus. Use pink for names/places, orange for vocab words, and blue for favorite part.

Writing: 2 well written paragraphs over the reading assignment. Topic, support, summary sentence.

1.Choose one of the following words and tell how Sandra Cisneros develops this in “Eleven” : innocence,    family
2. What does the author of “First Confession” think of sin?

Vocab: Your own 5 words plus these:

abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
Enter all the words in the appropriate section of your commonplace book. We will be talking about them next week so be prepared.

Other: You should have gone home with the complete set of short stories plus your Lost Tools of Writing Student Workbook. If you don’t have either of these, let me know ASAP.