Writing Class:
1. Conduct online research for at least one additional source for your argument about STEM-focused education. Record the title and URL onto your Source Chart. Fill in Row G for your new source. If time or if needed, find a second source for Row H. 2. Read through the packet that begins with the "Argument Outline" page. 3. Begin filling in the "Argument Template" as you create your position and claim. Write down any ideas you have for opposition and refutation. Literature Class: 1. On your own, independently and silently, read the play, The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I: Scene 5. 2. Skip questions #13 and #14 on the study guide. We will cover these on Wednesday. 3. Answer questions #15, 16, and 17 on the study guide. These are due at the beginning of class on Wednesday. Writing Class:
1. Please continue working on your research and draft for the Right to Life essay contest. You may email me if you have questions about the essay. See the link below for an example of an essay that won in the past. Scroll through the web page to read the essay at the end. 2. Work on next week's IXL O2, O3, O7. These cover skills that will help us with our argumentation unit. While these are not due until the usual deadline, Friday, March 10, doing them now will help you be better prepared for next week's assignments. Literature Class: 1. Review Act I: Scene 3 of the play, The Diary of Anne Frank. 2. Finish answering all of the study guide questions over Act I: Scene 3. Yesterday's assignment was #1-4; answer #5-11 today. Be prepared to dramatize the scene and discuss Act I: Scenes 1-3 on Monday. Writing Class:
We will take a small break from argumentation and look at a future writing assignment and opportunity to participate in the Right to Life of Indianapolis essay contest. Please read the handout distributed in class today. Notice the 8th Grade Essay Question for this year: "Why are you pro-life? Who is your pro-life hero (living or dead)? How has their [sic] example inspired your beliefs? Give examples of how you can defend life among your peers and in the community and help create a culture of life." Use today's class to begin gathering your ideas and drafting your essay. The essay should be between 300 and 600 words. You might do some research online of various pro-life heroes. You might also consider people you know personally or know of locally. You might even consider Anne Frank or Miep Gies or other people we have read about. We will start this essay as soon as we finish our argumentation unit. Use today to get a head start so you have plenty of time to finish between now and the April 1 deadline. Literature Class: Read our play The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I: Scene 3. Answer questions #1-4 over Act I: Scene 3. The new study guide should be distributed in class today. Be prepared to discuss Act I: Scenes 1 and 2 and to dramatize Act I: Scene 3 on Friday. |
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A Classroom Prayer
Holy Spirit, Giver of all good gifts, enter into my mind and heart. Give me the gift of knowledge and the grace to use it wisely. Help me in all my endeavors. Give me perseverance and fortitude. Help my memory, that I may remember what I learn and recall it when necessary. Guide me in the classroom.
O Jesus, You who are the Way, the Truth, and the Life, let me not be deceived by false teaching. Our Lady of Good Studies, pray for me. Amen. Mary, Undoer of Knots,
Pray for Us! A Prayer to Christ, the Divine Teacher
O source of all Wisdom, Christ the Teacher,
You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Teach us to embrace the truths You have revealed to Your Church. Fill our souls with Your Grace that we may love God above all and our neighbors as ourselves. Christ Jesus, friend and Teacher most patient, bless us and teach us. O Light of the world, teach us always to follow You that we should not walk in darkness, but have forever the Light of Life! Amen. Archives
August 2023
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