Norman's desert-island-reading book montage

Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales: New Stories
Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems
A Game of You
ERODING WITNESS
Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
The Palace of the Peacock
Beloved
Little Kingdoms
Bedouin Hornbook
Sonny's Blues
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Winter's Tales
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House/Ghosts/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder
Seven Plays
The Zoo Story
Collected Plays:  Volume 1


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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Language Arts Homework

Homework due tomorrow, Friday, November 20th: Student’s who did not turn in today’s language arts homework must bring it in tomorrow morning.

Homework due Wednesday, December 2nd: Students should bring in the work they did on their literature circle assignments, and be ready to discuss the 7th to 13th chapters of Island of the Blue Dolphins. Each student should be able to answer the following question. Who were the Aleuts?

Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Reading the assigned novel does count towards the nightly reading. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, as long as you make sure you get your assigned reading done. Please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read on your Reading Journal entry form. Please turn in your entry forms on Friday, so that I can review how your reading is going. I will return them to you on Monday. I would encourage you to keep up with your reading over the weekend.

Today in language arts we looked at the Island of the Blue Dolphins. We discussed the events leading up to the conflict between the Aleuts and Karana’s people. The 6th graders noted how the custom of the Indians to work with their environment in order to fill their fundamental needs became threatened by the desire to make a profit.

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