TO ALL GRADE 8 STUDENTS 2006-2007...A Very Merry Christmas & A Prosperous New Year To You and Your Families...!!!Here are your holiday break homework/assignments...enjoy working on it and continue learning even during the break. Start preparing for my English classes next year...!
LITERATURE- Read and Understand Before you Read on page 201 of your text; do Make the Connection in your notebook (ask your friends, family members, and other people who are around you); after which, do Quickwrite also in your notebook...!
- Read and Understand The Tell-Tale-Heart on pages 202-207 of your text; take notes in your NB; make sure you know all the Words to Own from this story by the time we get back from the break...!
- Read and Understand Meet the Writer on page 208 of your text; using the internet or other source materials, find out two to three more facts about Edgar Allan Poe that have not been mentioned in the write up on this page and write it in your NB...!
GRAMMAR & WRITING
- Read and Understand pages 370-394 of you GW text and take as much notes as you want to that you think will help you more with your sentence production...!
- Answer in your NB Diagnostic Preview A and B on pages 370-371...!
- Answer VERB Exercises 1 (page 373), 2 (page 374), 3 (page 375), and 4 (page 376) in your NB...!
- Read and Understand Transitive & Intransitive Verbs on page 379, then answer Exercises 6 and 7 on page 380 in your NB...!
- Answer ADVERB Exercises 8 (page 382), 9 (page 383), 10 (page 384), and 11 (pages 384-385) in your NB...!
- Answer PREPOSITION Exercises 12 (page 387), 13 (page 388), and 14 (page 389) in your NB...!
- Answer CONJUNCTION Exercise 15 (page 390) and INTERJECTION Exercise 16 (page 392) in your NB...!
That's all folks...for now...!!! I will post your next BLOG homework/assignment which is going to be a Reflection Response on Tuesday, 02 January 2007...and you will have until 11:59PM of Wednesday, 03 January 2007, to respond and post your blog...! Have a very safe and peaceful holiday break, everyone. Send my season's greetings to all your parents and family members...study well...God Bless...! CIAO!!!
Mr. A