Today, we read about Oliver Wendell Holmes.

You do not have any homework over break, but you can be working on your book report.

Here is the rubric.

For tonight, we read about Longfellow and read the poems on pages 226 and 229.

read pages 215-216 and read the poems on pgs 218, 220, and 222.

For tonight, read pages 204-209 if you were absent.

No homework tonight 🙂

Also, we are getting ready to start Secret Stocking right after Thanksgiving, so check your email for that form today. 🙂

We took the test for the novel today. Don’t forget that there is a vocab quiz tomorrow.

For today, you need to study for The Scarlett Letter test. It is tomorrow. The review is below.

No homework for tonight. The test for the novel will be on Thursday.

For today, you need to do the worksheet below over chapters 21 and 22 and read chapters 23 and 24. We will be having a test over the novel on Thursday.

Also, here are the vocabulary words for the week:

Vocabulary List 8

1. Edict (n): law, command, official public order
2. Edify (v): to instruct
3. Facilitate (v): to make easier
4. Fallacious (adj): based on a false idea
5. Garish (adj): marked by strident color; gaudy; loud and flashy
6. Garner (v): to gather and save; collect
7. Harrowing (adj): very frightening and shocking
8. Hasten (v): to cause to hurry; accelerate; rush
9. Ignominy (n): disgrace or public shame; dishonor
10. Illicit (adj): unlawful; not legally authorized
11. Illuminate (v): to light up or make clear
12. Jaunt (n): short pleasure trip
13. Jettison (v): to get rid of something that no longer is required; discard
14. Knit (v): join firmly
15. Knotty (adj): complex; difficult to solve

Read chapters 21 and 22 this weekend. You do not have to do a reader’s response.