Thur/Fri

Take notes on Fitzgerald's style in The Three Little Pigs

Reading List
10th Grade
8th Grade
4th Period Recommended Reading List
5th Period Recommended Reading List

Fitzgerald Rewrite Practice--The Three Little Pigs
                                    4th Period--Annotations of The Three Little Pigs Rewrite



Discuss Hemingway passages to find characteristics of his writing

Work on Fitzgerald Rewrite assignment (due date: May 16th/17th)

Take Old Man and the Sea Test (next time)

Check out Catcher in the Rye
Holden's brother, D.B., owns this Jaguar: 1945 Jaguar XK 120 roadster
                                                                (coincidentally, this is Mr. Isom's dream car)

HOMEWORK:
Catcher in the Rye to page 26
Continue work on Fitz/Hem Rewrite

Hemingway Code Hero

Gatsby test Monday/Tue

GATSBY TEST TODAY--MONDAY/TUESDAY
OLD MAN AND THE SEA QUIZ WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY (Sorry. Deal with it)

HAND IN your own version of The Three Little Pigs, written in Fitzgerald's style.

READING TIME

Tuesday, April 18

Gatsby vocabulary quiz Tue/Wed when Mr. Isom is here
protégé-harrowing (the last nine)

Commentary groups will present TODAY. Gatsby test will be Thur/Fri next week.

30 minutes: work in commentary groups preparing for Monday.

Read The Old Man and the Sea    PDF Old Man and Sea
As you read, take notes on differences between Hemingway's writing and Fitzgerald's writing.
You will hand these in on Tuesday (not Monday)
Write down 4 observations from page 1
Write down 3 observations from page 2
Write down 3 observations from page 3
Write down 10 more observations for the remainder of the novella.
HOMEWORK: Finish the 37 page novella. Not due until Tuesday, but . . .

Thur

Gatsby vocabulary portentous--fortuitous 
Quiz over the words portentous--fortuitous on Thur/Friday after we return

Today and tomorrow (Tue or Wed) you will be writing an argumentative essay about energy drinks.
HOMEWORK: Finish Gatsby if you haven't already.
GATSBY READING COMPREHENSION TEST TUE/WED, April 18, 19

Monday, April 3 (what is tomorrow the anniversary of? Look it up!)

Gatsby vocabulary portentous--fortuitous 
You will have a quiz over the words portentous--fortuitous on Thur/Friday after we return

Today and tomorrow (Tue or Wed) you will be writing an argumentative essay about energy drinks.
HOMEWORK: Finish Gatsby if you haven't already.
GATSBY READING COMPREHENSION TEST NEXT TUE/WED, April 11, 12