Bellringer:
Write exactly three sentences about your plans for this summer vacation.
Classwork:
Read and complete the Lesson 99 and Lesson 100 worksheets. Worksheets 99-100
Homework:
Complete the Lesson 99 and Lesson 100 worksheets.
These worksheets will be due at the beginning of class on Monday, May 5, 2008.
Reminder:
The extra credit poetry assignment (30 original poems) is due this week. I will be accepting poems on May 1st and May 2nd only. Poems not turned in on those days will not be accepted, even if you are absent, unless there are extreme extenuating circumstances. (“I forgot,” “I left them at home,” “I lost my notebook,” “my printer stopped working,” and similar excuses are not extreme extenuating circumstances.)
Announcement:
The National Foundation for Women Legislators is sponsoring an essay contest for college-bound Junior and Senior female students. Go to http://www.womenlegislators.org/events/scholarship-program.php for entry forms and rules.
Word of the Day:
appease – (verb) to calm or soothe, as by granting concessions; to satisfy or please
Knights: We are the keepers of the sacred words: Ni, Peng, and Neewong.
Arthur: Those who hear those words seldom live to tell the tale.
Knights: Ni, ni, ni, ni, ni, ni, ni. We will say Ni again if you do not appease us.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
