Congrats to our Graduation Speakers

Our 8th Grade Class of 2014 speakers are:

Marcos & Alexa

Congratulations!

Final Round Graduation Speakers

Congratulations to the following students who have moved on to the final round of voting for graduation speakers.  We will vote on Friday!

Jesse Goodman
Marcos Uberti

Danielle Chan
Alexa Gold
Jenna Jung

Note: There are 2 guys and 3 girls because there were 2 clear front runners for the guys and 3 clear front runners for the girls.

2014 Graduation Speaker Vote

Vote here for the student graduation speakers.  Good luck to all nominees!

Lord of the Flies Extra Credit

If you are interested in some extra credit, write either an epilogue (a brief description of what happens to the characters after the ending of the book--you can imagine them right after they get back to "civilization" or years later... up to you!) OR an alternate ending for Lord of the Flies.  Your response should be at least 400 words long and should be typed and printed.  Furthermore, the response should be in line with how Golding characterized his characters throughout the book.

DUE: Friday, May 9th (end of MP)

Scan of Wednesday's Classwork

If you didn't finish today's classwork, here are the links to the scanned pages.  Complete these tonight; we will be grading them tomorrow in class.

Green Book
Red Book

Chapter 10 Notes

As you read Chapter 10, take notes on the following:
Character development of Piggy and Jack
Dramatic irony
Symbolism of fight at the end of the chapter
Symbolism of Piggy's glasses at the end of the chapter

Runoff Title Vote

We are now voting on the top two titles.  Click here to cast your vote!

2014 Book Title Vote!

Vote for our book title HERE! 

(Results will be tabulated and announced Wednesday 3/12.)

Chapter 6 HW Notes

Here are the bullet points for the notes you should be taking on Chapter 6.

• Draw a comic or explain the sequence of events described in the imagery on pages 95-96.
• Bullet point how Sam ’n Eric describe what they saw on the mountain.
• Bullet point how the conflict between Ralph and Jack develops/deepens (during the meeting).
• Bullet point the characterization of Ralph and Jack throughout the hunt (2-3 for each).

Chapter 5 HW Notes

Here are the notes you should be taking on Chapter 5 of Lord of the Flies.

• How does Ralph develop as a character throughout Chapter 5?
• How does the author convey this development?
• Six points of Ralph’s speech.
• The boys' different theories on the “Beast” (and/or “fear”).  (Ralph, Piggy, Phil (a little 'un), Percival (another little 'un), Simon, Jack, Maurice).

Chapter 1 Characterization HW

Here is the chart that I had projected in class today. Your notes do not have to follow this exact format, but they should have all of the same information.

Book Submission Sheet

The homework for Tuesday is to complete this worksheet: the idea is to help you decide what writing piece you are going to submit for our book.