Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Honors 4-29-2014

En-dash?  Em-dash?  Hope you have those down now. Obviously the difference is more in presentation than anything grammatical.  Just choose the one you are comfortable with and stick to it. And remember alt 0150 will get you – and alt 0151 will get you —.  Otherwise just use the hyphen (-).

Take your time compiling your list of ideas for the This I Believe assignment. As you go through the next several days, new ideas will be popping into your head.  Be sure to write them down so you don't forget.
Some time next week we will take a look at your compilation and start helping you weed out the week ones and strengthen and organize the keepers.  We want a lot of keepers!

Today we started a unit on the Holocaust that will have us eventually reading the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. It's one of the most powerful books I've ever read.  But more on that to come later.  For the next few days we will be developing a base of information that you can use as a backdrop for our study.  If we go into our reading without understanding the events surrounding the Holocaust, we will miss its power and significance.  Hopefully, we all learn something.

ISTEP this Friday!

See you soon.

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