HOMEWORK:
1. Start memorizing the first 10 words from the Scarlet Letter vocabulary list, which are found on this Quizlet list of 25 Scarlet Letter words. You will be tested on these first 10 words Thursday or Friday and all 25 next Thur/Friday. We learn 10 words per week and have a vocabulary quiz every SCARLET LETTER:
It's time to check out The Scarlet Letter from the library. ACTUALLY, I recommend that you go to Amazon.com and spend $1.99 to but the Kindle version of The Scarlet Letter that is published by Kaplan. We will start reading this week and the sooner you get on it, the better. This is a TOUGH READ. Note: you may skip the 45 page introduction called "The Custom House." Yes, you're welcome :)
2. Tonight you are to read the first two chapters of The Scarlet Letter. We will read 10 pages of the novel (Kaplan edition) per night, including weekends--10 pages of text, that is, not five pages of text and five pages of vocabulary in the Kaplan edition.

Give points for annotation of summer reading novel.
15 more minutes to finish PSAT Writing Test.

Read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and annotate as you go.
Over the next three periods you will write an essay (rough draft and final draft in pen). Follow the prompt. The story is intriguing and if you spend a fair amount of time thinking about it before you write, you should be able to write something that we will all want to read. Remember, that is always the objective when writing: write a piece that people will find interesting or insightful and well thought out. B's go to essays that are well supported. A's go to the essays that are well supported AND insightful.