Category: English and Language Arts

  • Nouns: Day Two

    Copy each sentence and circle all of the Nouns and Pronouns. 1. Noah built an ark filled with pairs of every animal. 2. Many cultures have differing flood stories. Historians wonder why they are so similar..

  • Nouns: Day One

    Rewrite each sentence and circle all of the Nouns and Pronouns. 1. Gilgamesh was the king of Uruk and a great warrior. 2. He wondered through the desert, climbed the mountains, fought a pack of lions, spoke to the man-scorpions and walked the twelve leagues of darkness.

  • Herman Melville and Moby-dick

    Happy Anniversary to Moby-Dick Google Books Dedication page for Herman Melville Related articles Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”: 10 most memorable lines (csmonitor.com) Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick celebrated by Google doodle (guardian.co.uk)

  • English: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature

        Activities in this unit will coincide with the grammar unit and testing days as well. All readings will be given as classwork; so that, students may have time at home to complete their projects for  World History.Day One (Tuesday, May 8) French Literature Russia 1812 “The Expatiation”  by V. Hugo pg778 Wednesday, May 9: On-Demand Testing

  • English: Grammar Unit

    We will be studying grammar for the next two weeks and diagramming sentences.

  • Calvin Coolidge: Obsequious

    [The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeur at another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.…