Independent Reading Blog! Remember all of your SSR is due Tuesday, June 3.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QkvtmE-CQUb2vdGNRYG_fJK2rRPfPzFT-p86-sfoCiE/edit?usp=sharing

Unit 14 Vocabulary: #1-10 due Tuesday, May 27; #11-20 due Thursday, May 29. Vocabulary Quiz Tuesday, June 3.

#1-10

beatific, behemoth, blandishment, cacophonous, chicanery, consign, coup, euphemism, febrile, gainsay.

#11-20

imminent, innate, loath, manifest, minutiae, moratorium, nostrum, pariah, visionary, wizened.

Dear Christina Fallin NATIVE APPROPRIATIONS

Question: How do the governer's daughter's actions demonstrate racism?

Give two quotes and use three vocabulary words from Unit 14.

http://nativeappropriations.com/2014/03/dear-christina-fallin.html

SENIORS!!! Do not forget to turn in your blog #1 pt 2 tomorrow.

Mr. Loffler needs to meet with you guys 2nd period on FRIDAY to work on yearbook stuff. He says, "your yearbook page is due May 28th." THUS, tomorrow we will have REGULAR M, W, F ENGLISH CLASS DURING 3rd period. And English class (as usual) 8th period.

Journal due Monday, May 19.

Journal: Does Del Villar II provide a reasonable critique of the situation?  How should the basketball players have responded?  How does what happened in the story relate to the following Biblical passage?

Matthew 7:1-5

New International Version (NIV)

Judging Others

7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.  

Minimum of 1 page and  4 vocabulary words.

Speech: Informative Sample

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByORQRNqGS0sYUhZRjBuMDRxRDg/edit?usp=sharing

Money and God: Journal Due Monday

Is Sterling someone who serves God? Is Sterling someone who serves money/power?  Either way, God forgives. What should forgiveness look like in Sterling's situation?  Give 2-3 quotes to support your opinion.

Reflect: How do you attempt to serve both God and money/power? (4-5 sentences)

Noredink

Homework due Thursday, May 8.
1. Go to www.noredink.com
2. Click on student and type in the code 7kaf897e
3. Then finish creating your account.
4. Personalize your account.

This cite will help you with grammar.