Today's Focus: Chapter 9 Reading Quiz, Chapter 9 Analysis on Parallelism

Journal #8: Connect Butt’s views of Freedom of Speech (119: “is not the Power of Speech…”) and Iff’s grief over the Ocean (146: “It’s our own fault…”).

Homework:
- Chapters 10 & 11 DUE TOMORROW
- Chapter 12 due Friday
- Creative Project due June 7th
- Vocab Quiz 8B on June 7th
​- Grammar Packet collected on June 9th
- Final Exam on June 16th

Today's Focus: Reading Quiz Chapter 8, Abhinaya & Mudras Indian Dance Drama, Thesis & Evidence Partner Outline Activity

Homework: (The following assignments are your last assignments for the year.)
​- Chapter 9 DUE TOMORROW
- Chapters 10 & 11 due Thursday
- Chapter 12 due Friday
- Creative Project due June 7th
- Vocab Quiz 8B on June 7th
​- Grammar Packet collected on June 9th
- Final Exam on June 16th

Today's Focus: Thesis & Evidence Outline Activity with Censorship or Corruption/Tyranny

Homework:
​- Chapter 8 DUE TUESDAY

Today's Focus: Chapter 7 Discussion/Notes, Freedom and Speech Discussion

Homework:
- None.

Today's Focus: Vocabulary Quiz 7B, Reading Quiz Ch. 6, Princess Rescue Stories

Journal #7: List all the princess rescue stories that you’ve read, watched, or heard. Which of these princess rescue stories do you like the best? Why? Which do you like the least? Explain the princess rescue story that is developing in Haroun and the Sea of Stories. 

Homework:
- Chapter 7 DUE TOMORROW

Today's Focus: Yesterday's Journal Discussion, Chapter 5 Allusions, Salman Rushdie and The Beatles

Homework:
- Chapter 6 DUE TOMORROW
​- Vocabulary Quiz 7B TOMORROW

Today's Focus: Vocabulary Definitions 7B, Chapter 5 Reading Quiz, Introduction to Creative Project

Journal #6: Refer to pages 86 and 87. Describe the Old Zone and the problem the Guppies are facing on Kahani. What do you think this is an allegory for? What does this short metaphor mean for you?

Homework:
- Chapter 6 due on Wednesday
​- Vocabulary Quiz on Wednesday

Today's Focus: Chapter 4 Discussion, The Importance of Names, Grammar Packet

Journal #5: Identify the figurative language used in each quote: “Believe in your own eyes, and you’ll get into a lot of … hot water” “Now we must go to Gup City and … there will be harsh words and hot water for you”. Find two other instances of figurative language – they cannot be duplicates of these examples or your examples.

Homework:
- Chapter 5 DUE MONDAY

Today's Focus: Haroun Reading Quiz Chapter 3, Hero's Journey Chart Work, Chapter 4 Reading

Journal #4: Reflect  upon and respond to the following quote: “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” ~Gandhi

Homework:
- Chapter 4 DUE TOMORROW
- "Rhyming Warning Sign" DUE TOMORROW

Today's Focus: Vocabulary Quiz 6B, Haroun Reading Quiz Chapter 2, Chapter 2 Discussion/Analysis, "Rhyming Warning Sign" Activity

Homework:
- Chapter 3 DUE TOMORROW
​- "Rhyming Warning Sign" due Friday