English 4 & 4H: 9/14/12

Guiding Q

• Castles and computers?
• Figurative language?

Bell Ringer

• Create a list of all the things for which a hat or the color yellow can be used. The example was the different things a brick can do, from build a house, to door stop, to grind up for make up.

Activities

• Make up work
• Current grades including all make up work to date are posted in the back of the room.
• Today at 3:30 is the final deadline for all make up work except the vocabulary test.
• The vocabulary test can be made up on a later date.
• Computer work
• Students are to use any time remaining to work on the two current projects
1. Book list: create 3 to 5 line summaries of the books on the list. A choice will be made from the list as a reading assignment by group or by the class
2. Castle/figurative language project as described in earlier blogs.