October 24

Freshmen: We wrapped up our philosophical study of spelling and moved on to studying the deadly dozen - the twelve most common homonym mistakes made by freshmen in their writing. They are:
The Deadly Dozen:

1. Your.
2. It’s.
3. To.
4. Than.
5. Their.
6. You’re.
7. Too.
8. They’re.
9. Then.
10. Its.
11. Two.
12. There.
Your task is to take each one of these and write either a sentence that uses the word correctly, a simple rule for remembering it, or do a symbol that will help others to remember how the word is to be used. This is due Monday. Also due Monday is approximately page 65 from Speak - finish the chapter titled Wishbone.

Sophomores: Today we shared your illustrated pieces of wisdom from Doc and Geel Piet and wrote a This I Believe statement from that character's point of view, using the piece of wisdom as the starting off point for the essay. A typed copy is due Monday, as is chapter 22 from Power. Finish the book for Monday, November 3.