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2.  Good word quiz will be postponed until Monday.

3. Geography quiz will be given on Wednesday (next week).

Geography Study Videos!

Ethan & Olivia’s video

Zachary & Alexa

E & Allesandro

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2. Bring in your Geography worksheets that we completed in class last week. You will need them on Tuesday.

3. Complete the “I am thankful for…” worksheet.

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2. Good Word Quiz on Wednesday – keep in mind this is a half day at school!

3. Look over the Poor Ophelia poem we pre-viewed in class. Notice that I stapled a checklist of what I want you to annotate.

We will spend our Core All on Monday going over this poem. Make sure jot down plenty of questions and observations about the poem as you annotate it – we will be discussing it stanza-by-stanza.

Other questions to consider that were not added to the check list:
1. How does the writer SHOW not TELL what is happening in the poem?
2. Is the mood clear? How does the writer do this?
3. Why is this poem so compelling? What makes it engaging to you?
4. Explain how you understand Ophelia better after reading this piece.
5. Make a connection between the poem & the play (cite the page so we can all turn to it in class!).

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2. Re-write your geography worksheet tonight so that it is neat. A good idea is to outline the countries that you will be tested on in colored pencil.

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2. Hamlet Lost Chapter
Add the SHOW not TELL worksheet to your writing.
Bring in a copy of your Double-spaced, Times-Roman 12 point font story to class tomorrow.
Your Hamlet Lost Chapter should have evidence of: Setting, showing detail, rising action and climax. Please proof-read your work.

3. Good Words cards due tomorrow.

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2. I did not collect your Hamlet books today so you will have one more day to add annotations. Be thorough and see Friday’s HW for more guidelines.

3. New Good Words due tomorrow.

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2. I will collect your Hamlet Books to check on your annotating. I am looking for:
– Meaningful questions
– Comments or connections
– Circling unfamiliar words and defining them in the margin
– Jotting down important ideas in your own words
– Making predictions
– Underlining or Booming words or phrases that grab your interest

Obviously, not every page is going to have all (or any) of these things. In fact, your pages should not be ink stained. Be careful with your note-taking and make sure they are meaningful annotations.

3. Bring in cans for our food drive.

4. Don’t forget to bring in a picture book to share with our buddy group

5. Good Word quiz on Monday. Words listed below:

Core A

1. Pandemonium: Wild and noisy dysfunction
2. Empathy: Ability to share other’s feelings
3. Laboriously: Tedious work
4. Insubordination: Not obeying authority (or someone superior to you)
5. Apprehensively: Anxious about the future; uneasy
6. Incoherent: Unable to speak intelligibly
7. Beckoned: To make a gesture with your hand
8. Distorted: Top pull or twist out of shape
9. Tier: A row or level of structure, typically one of a series of rows placed one above the other that goes backwards
10. Shamble: Total disorder

Core B
1. Belligerent: Hostile or aggressive
2. Ricocheting: Bouncing off various objects
3. Wailing: A prolonged high pitched cry of pain
4. Amateur: A person who engages in a pursuit.
5. Breeches: Short trousers fitting snuggly at or just below the knee
6. Prominent: Standing out to be easily seen
7. Eccentricity: Strangeness, oddness
8. Domestic: Not foreign or international
9. Prophet: A person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of god
10. Perilous: full of danger or risk

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2. Booktalks are ongoing

3. Continue preparing your Current Events

4. Read Hamlet 167-180

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2. Booktalks will continue tomorrow! Check Due Dates (in PAGES to the left) if you forgot when you’re presenting. Rehearse at home with a sibling or parent.

3. Continue preparing your Current Events. There will be no more class time allotted to this so make arrangements to meet after school if necessary.

4. We will use the SHOW NOT TELL worksheet during the next Writing Workshop. Make sure you have this in class.