Grade 10 (A block): Due before Monday, September 19th

Consider the story "Worry" by Ron Wallace. Pretend that you are either the wife/mother, the husband/father, or the daughter. Write a diary entry from that character's perspective. Be creative!

Grade 10 (F block): Due before Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Consider the story "Worry" by Ron Wallace. Pretend that you are either the wife/mother, the husband/father, or the daughter. Write a diary entry from that character's perspective. Be creative!

Grade 8: Due before Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Do you think The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas provides a realistic view of World War II? Why or why not? Comment on at least one other post.

Grade 10 (F Block): Due before Monday, September 12th

Sound check! Can everyone post?? Answer the following question. Then, respond to at least one of your classmate's answers with a question or a comment.

What is your favorite book and why?

Remember, post your first comment early in the week so that everyone has time to post a response!

Grade 8 Adv: Due before Monday, September 12th

Sound check! Can everyone post?? Answer the following question. Then, respond to at least one of your classmate's answers with a question or a comment.

What is your favorite book and why?

Remember, post your first comment early in the week so that everyone has time to post a response!

Grade 12 IB B2: Due before Tuesday, September 13th

Sound check! Can everyone post?? Answer the following question. Then, respond to at least one of your classmate's answers with a question or a comment.

What is your favorite book and why?

Remember, post your first comment early in the week so that everyone has time to post a response!

Grade 11 IB B1: Due before Tuesday, September 13th

Sound check! Can everyone post?? Answer the following question. Then, respond to at least one of your classmates' answers with a question or a comment.

What is your favorite book and why?

Remember, post your first comment early in the week so that everyone has time to post a response!

Grade 10 (A block): Due before Tuesday, September 13th

Sound check! Can everyone post?? Answer the following question. Then, respond to at least one of your classmate's answers with a question or a comment.

What is your favorite book and why?

Remember, post your first comment early in the week so that everyone has time to post a response!

Grade 8: Tuck Everlasting (Due before class Monday, May 16th)

Read the attached song by Joni Mitchell. Think of it as a poem! Then, answer the following questions:

1. What stages of life does this song include?


2. What kinds of circles does Mitchell talk about for each of the life stages?


3. What is the meaning of the lines, "And they tell him, Take your time it won't be long now / Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down"?


4. In your opinion, is the use of the carousel to represent the circle of life an effective symbol? Why or why not?


5. Which of the characters from Tuck Everlasting could bes relate to this song? Why? Why might other characters find it hard to relate to this song?

Extra Credit! In "The Circle Game," the young man in the last verse is twenty years old. Add additional verses about what the man discovers as he ages. You may wish to write about the experiences he has had by the agse thirty, sixty, and eighty, or any other ages you choose. Be sure to repeat the chorus throughout the verses you create.

Grade 10: Starting a New Book (Due before class Friday, May 6th)

We will be starting a new book next class! Browse and read the following. First, record at least three interesting facts that you learned. Then, based on what you read and see, predict what you think our new book might be about.

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade50.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW9KoAwf2K8
http://www.upress.umn.edu/sles/Chapter4/ch4-1.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd5iDWQWVDw
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/preparatory+school