Week #8 October 10-14, 2011

Literature: John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and "The Flood" Excerpt from Grapes of Wrath
Vocabulary: Chapters 1 and 2 - bindle, imperiously, juncture, lumbered, morosely, yammered, apprehensive, barley, contorted, derogatory, skeptically, swamper

Homework:
- SAT Vocabulary notes - Due: weekly every Tuesday
- "The Great Depression" and "The Migrant Experience"

Activities
Monday
1. Take quiz #7 on TP words and academic words, and open notebook test on "The Great Depression" and "The Migrant Experience.
2. Complete questionnaire on "The Flood," an excerpt from Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

Tuesday
1. Review/practice for PSAT.
2. Go over "The Great Depression" and "Migrant Experience" HW that was used on the open notes test yesterday.
3. Finish "The Flood" questions, and discuss.

Wednesday
PSAT testing
1. Go over "The Great Depression" and "The Migrant Experience HW. Discussion continued from the previous day.
2. Discuss "Flood" questions.

Thursday
1. Receive Of Mice and Men chapter 1 study questions.
2. Begin reading.

Friday
1. Work on vocabulary words in notebook. Use the dictionary in the classroom. Submit for grading when done. Discuss words.
2. Work on a crossword puzzle.