Block Day, 27-28 September, Week 6

* Open

* Review Grammar 20-1

* Review writing: Lost Tools

* Collect FD (honors)

• Underline your thesis
• Double underline your theme
• Circle your element
• Underline your topic sentences. Do they CLEARLY support the thesis?
• Underline you reworded, restatement of your thesis in the conclusion

* Now, if anything is amiss, you have until Wednesday, Oct. 3 to remedy it (remember the essay window in your syllabus for essays not due at the end of a quarter?).

* Honors Contest Reminder

* Work on your CWP

* Review the CWP assignment examples

• Taylor Cohan: A Missionary Adventure
• Stephanie Early: "Guided by Butterflies"
• Sydney Gunther: Various pieces
• Genna Virden: Saddness, Sweetness, and Light
• Evan Rickel: Light and Dark Angels

*Reno's class: read Doris Lessing's "Through the Tunnel" (all four parts). After you read,

• select either "Through the Tunnel" or "Mr. Courifer"
• do a one page journal response answering how atmosphere or character adds to the overall story
• use at least three literary terms from Turco and underline each one
• You should also select at least two quotes and other details from the text to support your discussion.

HW: BRING YOUR PSAT WORKBOOK TO ENGLISH EACH DAY NEXT WEEK; Work on your CWP; Honors only: Enter a Contest Soon