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For Thursday/Friday

The final exam and term 4 poetry test will be written on Thursday, June 19 (Block 1) or Friday, June 20 (Block 2) in the mornings.

• Final Exam Grammar: 
• For the final exam, study your handouts and notes on the parts of the sentence and sentence errors. You can also review the following online resources:
• subject and predicate
• direct and indirect objects
• appositive phrases
• prepositional phrases
• main clause vs. subordinate clause
• simple, compound, and complex sentences
• sentence fragments
• run-on sentences
• comma splices
• Poetry Test:
• Review your notes on poetry.
• You can also review my old online notes on the subject.
  
  
  

 For Monday

• Grammar: 
• Complete p. 106 of the subject-verb agreement handout, and finish any pages you have missed. The subject-verb test will be written along with the final exam next week.
• Miss the Sentence Errors or Parts of the Sentence test? See me ASAP.
• Poetry:
• Did you get today's notes on sound play? If not, see me ASAP!
• If not done, complete a paragraph response to the following prompt:
• Discuss the speaker's conflicting attitudes towards the pigeons in Ann Goldring's "The Pigeon, Icarus". Download the response sheet here.
• Use your own words!
• Make sure you get the notes on theme, emotional impact, and blending quotations.
• Macbeth:
• 💥Did you miss the Act 1 test? The Acts 2/3 test? The Acts 4/5 test? See me ASAP!

For Friday

• Grammar: 
• Complete pp. 104-105 of the subject-verb agreement handout.
• Miss the Sentence Errors or Parts of the Sentence test? See me ASAP.
• Poetry:
• If not done, complete a paragraph response to the following prompt:
• Discuss the speaker's conflicting attitudes towards the pigeons in Ann Goldring's "The Pigeon, Icarus". Download the response sheet here.
• Use your own words!
• Make sure you get the notes on theme, emotional impact, and blending quotations.
• Macbeth:
• 💥Did you miss the Act 1 test? The Acts 2/3 test? The Acts 4/5 test? See me ASAP!

  For Wednesday

• Grammar: 
• Complete pp. 98 to 101 of the subject-verb agreement handout.
• Miss the Sentence Errors or Parts of the Sentence test? See me ASAP.
• Poetry:
• If not done, complete a paragraph response to the following prompt:
• Explain the theme for one of the poems on the 11x17 handout sheet.
• Use your own words.
• Come to class with a hard copy that we can analyze.
• Make sure you get the notes on theme and emotional impact.
• Macbeth:
• 💥Did you miss the Act 1 test? The Acts 2/3 test? The Acts 4/5 test? See me ASAP!

 For Monday:

• Grammar: 
• Complete the first page of the subject-verb agreement handout.
• Miss the Sentence Errors or Parts of the Sentence test? See me ASAP.
• Poetry:
• Complete a paragraph response to the following prompt:
• Explain the theme for one of the poems on the 11x17 handout sheet.
• Use your own words.
• Come to class on Monday with a hard copy that we can analyze.
• Make sure you get Friday's notes on theme.
• Macbeth:
• 💥Did you miss the Act 1 test? The Acts 2/3 test? The Acts 4/5 test? See me ASAP!

For Thursday:

• Grammar: 
• 💥The Sentence Errors test is tomorrow, June 5!
• Review all of your handouts!
• Macbeth:
• 💥Did you miss today's Acts 4/5 test? If so, see me ASAP!
• Read to the end of the play!
• Get the notes on "Macbeth as a Tragic Hero" and the notes that compare Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
• Study your "Literary Devices of Macbeth" handout from Act 1.
• Finish the Act 4 study guide and Act 5 Study Guide.
• Consider reading the modern English version as well. You can read it here:
• Macbeth: Original vs Modern
• 💥Did you miss the Act 1 test? The Acts 2/3 test? See me ASAP!