Period 1
Grade 10
Passed out field trip forms -- due Tuesday, 1-10-12 signed by teachers and parents and with $20 payment.
New vocabulary>semblance, surmount, terminate, trite, usurp. Quiz on Tuesday, 1-10-12.
We will visit the library on Monday, 1-9, to check out new books for the third quarter.
We finished the movie "Last Days". For homework>write a 1 paragraph response in which you compare Night to the movie and discuss what you have learned.

Period 7
Grade 12
Word of the day: pretentious
Reviewed sonnet form. Read sonnet #18 and began #12.
homework>study for word quiz on Thursday and Renaissance quiz on Friday and work on research papers.

Period 3
Grade 12
Word of the day: pretentious
Passed out field trip forms (forms and money due by Tuesday 1-10-12.
Read Marvell and Herrick poems as examples of "carpe diem" poetry.
Homework>Study for quizzes on Thursday and Friday and work on research papers.

Period 4
Grade 10
Read to page 294 in "Unwind". Passed out field trip forms (forms and money due by Tuesday 1-10-12). Continued our poetry essay writing.

No period 6 on G-days.