homework for week of Nov. 19, 2007

Middle School Humanities and Language Arts Homework
Week of November 19, 2007

No history homework this week (except for block I, which has the history test tomorrow).

6th grade
1. Your memoir plan will be returned on Tuesday. Two pages of your rough draft are due on Tuesday, November 27th. YOU MUST SKIP LINES. If you use the computer, be sure to save each draft as a separate document (memoir1.doc, memoir2.doc etc.). You can consider it a new draft each day that you work on it.

7th grade:
1. Turn in a minimum of 1.5 pages of your memoir TOMORROW. If you’re not doing it on the computer, we will make a photocopy so you can work on it over Thanksgiving break. The first half of the memoir is due on Wednesday, November 28th. YOU MUST SKIP LINES. If you use the computer, be sure to save each draft as a separate document (memoir1.doc, memoir2.doc etc.). You can consider it a new draft each day that you work on it.

8th grade:
1. Catch up on To Kill a Mockingbird (to chapter 10, page 89). There will be a quiz on the first 9 chapters on Monday, Nov. 26th.
• You will need to know the characters who are introduced so far and how they are connected to one another. This includes:
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Scout Miss Caroline
Jem Arthur (Boo) Radley
Dill Mr. Nathan Radley
Atticus Francis
Calpurnia Uncle Jack
Miss Maudie Atkinson Aunt Alexandria

• Using a post-it, mark a passage that has strong imagery. On the quiz you will be expected to write about his passage.
• Be prepared to find evidence of conflict in a relationship between 2 characters in the novel up to chapter 10. You will need to quote from and explain this conflict.
• In addition, there will be some true/false and multiple-choice questions to check comprehension.

IT’S AN OPEN BOOK QUIZ. YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO BORROW A BOOK.