Week 9 Oct. 18-22, 2010

Topics:
Literature: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Grammar: Parts of speech
Vocabulary: Chapter 2 and 3

Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Language Handbook, pp. 9-11 - two (2) items per exercise due daily/ ALL pages due Oct. 28 after Stanford and pp. 111-119 due Oct. 29

Activities:
Monday
1. Quiz #6 vocab and chapter 1
2. Continue reading the novel.

Tuesday
1. Review Homonym and Homophones. (R71)
2. Make subjects and Verbs agree (R65)
3. Work on pages 9-11 in the Language Handbook.

Wednesday
1. Continue reading the novel.
2. Complete focus questions.

Thursday
1. Continue reading novel.
2. Work on an exercise on homonyms and homophones.

Friday
1. Quote imagery in the novel and put together phrases to create a story. Use 5 of the 12 vocabulary words on the list this week. Group work.