We will be finishing Macbeth on Tuesday.

Test on Acts 4 and 5 will be on Wednesday.

Journals will be due on Thursday.

We worked in the Lab today to get started on the Macbeth Theme Paper. It will be due October 12th.

Began Macbeth Newspaper assignment today. We will also be in the Lab tomorrow to work on it.

The News Articlae is due Thursday.

See link at right for assignment description.

Act 2 of Macbeth read today. Update your journals!

Macbeth Journals so far:
1. Greed is the root of all evil.
2. Act 1, scenes 1-3
3. Act 1, scenes 4-7
4. Write the death of a famous or important person and the public's reaction.
5. Act 2

Test: Friday, September 16th on Act I, Macbeth.
Homework: Symbol and defense paragraph for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Personal Letter to a character from "Intimate Strangers" due Tuesday, September 13th.

Beginning Macbeth Monday, September 12th.

We have finished Of Mice and Men and written a persuasive essay about an aspect of the book.

We are now in the midst of reading Forbidden City and researching life for teens in a third world country in order to write a research essay.

We are reading Shakespeare's Macbeth and are doing a newspaper project on the play.
See the Macbeth page for the project outline and a link to a sample newspaper.

Welcome to Semester 2!

We have begun our first unit, You've Got Mail. We are looking at communication, in the workplace and personally and how technology is changing the way we communicate.

We started with a letter, where the students are outlining themselves to me, Mrs. Thomas, telling me why they will be assets to the class.

We are now writing a second letter to one of the people from the article, "Intimate Strangers" by Jill Smolowe and are writing about our feelings and opinions regarding the characters' experience with cyberspace.