Friday, January 5th

Focus / Essential Vocabulary

• Grammar: Common Usage Problems
• 1984, Animal Farm, Fascism, Totalitarianism

Class Work

• DOL: Work with Common Usage Problems
• Discuss the blog Posts from Thursday.
• Begin watching Animal Farm
• Complete the Worksheet over Animal Farm

Homework

• Go back to the same blog as yesterday. In about 50 words each, comment on the writings of 4 other people. Do not comment on those that already have two comments. (Healthy debate, please. All comments are automatically forwarded to me.)
• Grammar activities due next Friday.
• Bring all your research paper materials on Monday.

Portfolio Additions

• King Arthur individual questions
• Hamlet individual questions

Extra Credit

• 1-2 points. Illustrate a scene from 1984. (Talk to me first so that we don’t have 10 people doing the same thing.) Illustrations earning two points will represent 1 ½ to 2 or more hours of work. They should include text from the passage of the book that they represent. Due Monday, January 15^th.