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English 12-3

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On This Day

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html


Today's Grammar Practice or Quiz

 

Alaska the largest state with the fewest people has one third of it's land inside the Artic Circle.

Alaska, the largest state with the fewest people, has one-third of its land inside the Arctic Circle.

 

According to a well publicized government report more than half of Americas' new jobs will be in the following industries health services computers and retail.

 

I learned this when I visited my uncles farm pigs can get sunburned just like humans this explains why pigs stay in cool soft mud whenever possible.

 

Many seniors have dicided not to go on the class trip to arizona consequently these Students won't see the painted dessert, the petrified forest or the grand canyon.

 

When you're car overheats and steam billows out from under the hood you need to remember that payshunce is a virtue and don't immediately remove the radiator cap or you might get scalded.

 


Everyone needs to improve their math skills because less and less jobs require mussels only.

 


Close Reading Practice and Quizzes

 


 

Vocabulary Builders

Level E

 

Unit 4

words for Level E Unit 4: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/vocabulary/iwords.cfm?sp=student&level=E#unit4

 

hangman for Level E Unit 4: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/vocabulary/Hangman/Level%20E/Level%20E%20Unit%204/hangman.html

quiz for unit 4: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/vocabulary/Choice/Level%20E/Level%20E%20Unit%204/multiplechoice.html

 

Unit 5

Words: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/vocabulary/iwords.cfm?sp=student&level=E#unit5

Hangman: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/vocabulary/Hangman/Level%20E/Level%20E%20Unit%205/hangman.html

Quiz: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/vocabulary/Choice/Level%20E/Level%20E%20Unit%205/multiplechoice.html

 

 

Level F

 

Merriam Webster Dictonary


Get the summer reading packet here: http://hhssummerschool.pbworks.com/The-Things-They-Carried


 

Literary Terms Focus:

 

alliteration:

repetition of consonant sounds

hyperbole:

exaggeration

implied metaphor

metaphor: comparison between a thing and an idea

personification: giving human qualities to inanimate objects

 


 

 

Essays:

Essay 1 Duty versus conscience

Essay 2 Three Things You Didn't Know About... 

Essay 3 Photo Essay

Essay 4 The Motivated Sequence

Essay 5: Buy A House

Essay 6: NIP essay

 


 

Check the calendar for assignments and due dates

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