Monday, September 26, 2005

Weeks in Preview September 19-30

SAS Grade Ten Honors students should be working on the following assignments both in and out of class:

1. "Should Schools Sell Junk Food?" Persuasive Essay using six-point rubric
2. "Why Johnny Can't Pass His Fitness Test" Persuasive Essay using six-point rubric
3. "The Bet" Anton Checkhov handout/vocabulary and debatiing skills for classroom mini-debate
4. "The Cold Equations" Tom Godwin handout/vocabulary and Changing The Ending assignment on gomyaccess.com
5. Letter to the Editor connected to capital punishment debate topic on gomyaccess.com
6. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury's novel Part II The Sieve and the Sand and F451 Imitative Writing assignment
7. Talking points for F451 Part Three Burning Bright
8. Unit Two Vocabulary and upcoming test on parts of speech, stress marks, spellings, synonyms and antonyms, definitions
9. Coming up: Doris Lessing's "Through The Tunnel"