Use this time wisely.  AR read and catch up on assignment you may have not completed, turned in, or had to redo.  Take a photo/scan of your work and email... sdonahoe@cdlex.org.  This will date stamp your work.  Do not procrastinate!  Enjoy your break. ​

Spelling Packet #10 Due Friday
AR - Keep reading on your book!!

Monday 3/23
Worksheet - Monsters are Due on Maple Street. Reading Response Journal
Act I and Act II  14 Questions.

Tuesday  3/24
THE PACKET - This packet will be replacing your test on the story selection.  You may use your notes, homework questions, and book to complete the packet.  

• make sure your name is on the front of your packet.
• Do page 2-3

Wednesday 3/25
Packet: 

• page 4 Literary Analysis: Conflict in Drama
• Page 5 Classifying Words (vocab)  Part A: circle the context clues that depict the meaning of the bolded vocabulary words.   Part B: simply write the word.  Use the vocab words from part A.

Thursday 3/26
Packet:

• Part C Pgs 6-7  vocabulary terms, define and include part of speech
• Part D pg 8   Matching vocabuary words to their terms.

Friday 3/27
Packet:

• Page 9-10  Literary Support Questions  Remember to restate the questions and answer using complete sentences.

Spelling Packet 10 is DUE
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Spelling Packet #9 - Due Friday as usual

Monday/Tuesday 3/16-3/17 - 
Classroom Website- Monsters are Due on Maple Street tab

• Text & Author Info Button
  • What Turns a Crowd into a Mob? pg. 139  Discussion question- we have already discussed this topic in class. Make a list of 5 things- then write a paragraph discussing what turns a crowd into a mob.
  • Read meet the author - Rod Serling
  • Read Text Analysis: Conflicts in Drama
  • Vocabulary in Context - write out 1-7

 Be sure to write out the headers  and label  your paper clearly.  Include day and date at the top of your paper, along with your name.

Wednesday 3/18

• Read Act II   (Finish Act I if you were absent or need a refresher)

Thrusday 3/19
Responding to Literature

• Personal Repsonse/ Active Reading Response
• Recall 1-4
• Interpret 5-8
• Evaluate and Connect 9-10
• Teleplay 1-2

Friday 3/20
page 526 - Creative Writing
Do this activity in your journal.  Full page.
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Season 1 Episode 22 Twilight Zone - You can find the original black and white version on Amazon Prime or Netflix... if you have it.   If you do not, I have posted a modern version on the classroom website under your story tab...   Then we will review the black and white when we return.  ** The colored, modern version is similar but does not follow the script in the book.

For the movie, Mr. Palmer has set up; the links in Google classroom.  It will appear on Friday at 8am and be available for most of the day.
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Have Spelling Packet 9 Completed.

Henry Adams is an American who is swept out to sea on a Saturday sail near San Francisco, and is picked up by a London-bound brig.  He arrives in London penniless and without food or shelter. Two very wealthy brothers wonder what would happen if they gave the hungry, poor stranger a million pound bank note.Seeing as how there were only two million pound banknotes ever created (and one had already been used in a giant business deal), if someone tried to cash in the banknote, interrogation or jail would most likely result.  So in walks Henry, who is given the banknote by these brothers. 

These questions remain:

1. Would the stranger (Henry) end up in jail or starving as the one of the brother (A) believes?
   
2. Would Henry be more resourceful and use the money to his advantage, surviving at least 30 days and staying out of jail as the other brother (B) believed. 

Directions:  Use the above questions above to think about and write an analysis of the story.  Be sure to use textual evidence to support your view point.  (Take into consideration human nature, social norms, and perception of wealth or lack there of during that time period.  (Hint: The brothers' bet was the catalyst).

How did this story challenge the socioeconomic beliefs of the time? 

Write a story for this prompt. Include a descriptive imagery and details.

The hour was midnight, and I was almost asleep. The fire was starting to dim as shadows bounced off the...

Indefinite Pronouns
Indefinite pronouns do not always have an antecedent.  Indefinite pronouns refer to people, places or  things often without specifying which ones. 


Singular                                                Plural                    Singular  or  Plural
another            much                               both                        all
anybody           neither                             few                        any
anything           nobody                            many                      more
any one            no one                             others                     most
each                 nothing                            several                    none
either               one                                                                some
everybody         other
everyone           somebody
everything         someone
little                 something
In your journal write the sentences below and underline the indefinite pronoun(s).
1. Little is known about who built Stonehenge.
2 No one knew why some of the pages had been torn from his diary.
3. Few of the classmates knew anything about Susan B. Anthony.
4. The coach asked all of the girls to thoroughly prepare for the match.
5. Did someone remember to turn off all of the lights?

In cursive and in ink  write
5 sentences using indefinite pronouns.  Circle the indefinite pronoun
used.  At least one indefinite pronoun per sentence, but you may use
more. .