Happy March! Only four weeks to go until the end of the grading period! Lots of things to do this month - keep up with all of your due dates and requirements.
Freshmen: Over the next two days you will have your Second Benchmark Exam. It's important that you prepare yourself in any way necessary for this exam as I will be using this exam to individualize instruction for you moving to the EOC. There are two key sections to the exam: grammar and literature. For the grammar section, look over your warm-ups. Try to recognize what looks right and what doesn't. It's not a good use of your time to memorize grammar rules - focus on the patterns that we've been observing all year. For the literature section you should focus on literary terms - there is a resource in your textbook which you can use for this on page 1019 and you can look over all of your notes that you've taken all year. Come to class ready with a pencil on Wednesday/Thursday.
Juniors: Time to start a new unit today - Early American Literature. Today we began with a piece of history so that you all can understand a bit more the context for the writings we'll be reading in the next few weeks. For tonight, finish reading the piece by Zinn; remember to annotate heavily. Tomorrow we will review this piece and move on to some Native American literature before studying our first Puritan piece. Also, don't forget to get yourself some post-its that you will use to annotate in your textbook in class.
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