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November 14, 2016

Monday, November 14, 2016

Here we are, nearly to the middle of November already!  Who is ready for the "white stuff" to fly in the sky?  I know we have quite a few hunters who are hoping for a bit colder weather...and maybe some of that snow stuff. :)

"Tell-Tale Heart" Poetry Contest
Congratulations to the following students for their excellence in writing "Tell-Tale Heart" acrostic poems.  Here are the winners, as voted on by peers:

1st place:  "Sinister" by Abby, Gwen & Lauren

2nd place: "Darkness" by Gibson, Matthew, & Joseph

3rd place: "Crime" by Jaborius


DAILY LANGUAGE PRACTICE
Our DLP test is this Thursday.  It will cover the DLP vocabulary words, sentence correction, and also identification of subjects, predicates, and prepositional phrases. The sentences and vocab we have had are below.

DLP 29-36 (uncorrected version--You will have to correct them and double check with a classmate for accuracy.)
DLP 29 (11/7--12 errors)
one day, romeo arrived in the malls parking lot with his cousin the quick tempered benvolio. he planned to amble threw the mall with juliet

DLP 30 (11/8-13 errors)
at the same time juliets ingenuous cousin tyblat was arriving at the mall. the 2 cars crashed a fight ensued


DLP 31 (11/9--9 errors)
tybalt you lowdown cretin take that yelled benvolio at tybalt as he slugged him in the chest

DLP 32 (11/10--12 errors)
benvolio your weird and homely just like the rest of your stupid family shouted tybalt as he landed a punch on benvolios chin

DLP 33 (11/11--9 errors)
the fight waxed more and more ferocious and romeo insulted by juliets cousin stepped into battle

DLP 34 (11/14--10 errors)
things got out of hand and other pugnacious young men joined the brawl and mercutio romeos best friend was one of them

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