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created 2/26/10, 6:15 AM
last modified 2/26/10, 1:45 PM

SNOW DAY INFORMATION

English 9 Honors - We will postpone Monday's Pygmalion Unit Test until Tuesday, 3/2 so we can complete our discussion of the play before the exam.  The reading of My Fair Lady will still be due on Tuesday, 3/2.

English 12 - Do not worry about missing the library day today; we will be fine without it.  NO DUE DATES ARE CHANGING.  

I don't think the weather is going to permit me to have extra help this weekend on Saturday; however, Sunday may be better.  Email me at llopez@eischools.org if you would like extra help over the weekend.  If anyone is interested, I'll come and give extra help.  (Hey, if there's just one of you, maybe I'll come right to your house!)   Otherwise, THERE WILL BE EXTRA HELP EVERY DAY AFTER SCHOOL UNTIL 9 PM.  I HAVE NOT DECIDED IF WE SHOULD MEET AT SCHOOL OR AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Here's what you can do to progress.  Find your list of the "28 reasons books are good" that you received as part of Literature Circle Meeting #3: Literary Luminary.  If you cannot find it, it is available here at the class web site.  You can find a link in the Week at a Glance (But you'll have to find the day the assignment was due), and it is also accessible through Research Paper link in the the "Special Information" section on the main page of the class web site.  Read down the list of reasons, and make a note next to each one that applies to each of you lit. circle books.  (By note, I mean that you should write an abbreviated version of the title of the book.)  

Then, if you have your lit. circle books at home, you can reread through them and start finding the examples to support each of those ideas.  If you do not know how to write a note card yet, do not fear.  Simply use post-its or slips of paper to mark the pages where the quote is that you want.  Write the name of the reason from the list on the post-it.  (A tip:  if you use post its, stick them at the level on the page where the quote you want is, so you don't have to reread the page again later to find the quote.  If you are using slips of paper, you can write the paragraph and/or line #.)  Don't take the time to copy the quotes and page numbers down on a separate sheet of paper; use post-its or homemade bookmarks from slips of paper.  You could make a list of page numbers and reasons instead if you want.

Finding the supporting quotes in your literature circle books is the most time consuming and the most important part of the research process, so you will be making great progress if you begin this step now.  I PROMISE you that if you are finding examples in your texts of things that are on that list of reasons we have worked with before (they are the reasons that are hanging all over the blinds in class), I have an expert who says each is a good thing for a book to have.

Periods 2 and 5: If you have any questions, call me.  I'm sitting home working and I'm happy to help.
Period 3: I have yet to give you all my telephone number, and I can't put it on the web site (It's my home phone number!).  You can email me at llopez@eischools.org and if you give me a number at which I can reach you, I'll call you.