PSAT Test

Freshmen, here is the PSAT info. for you.

Juniors, here is the PSAT info. for you. 

What does your score mean?  Check the benchmark page here.

More Practice?

• Review Tests from the CollegeBoard here. 

• 2016 PSAT

• 2015 PSAT

Week 8

Tuesday's Homework:

1. Get Two Sources for Your Junior Research Project  (you don't need to annotate them for Thursday, just locate them and write down with information and notes you can).  You will be reading over your sources in the coming nights for homework, so you begin reading as soon as you find something interesting.
2. Finish the Gawain Video by the end of the week. 

While I'm Away

Hi students,

Remember, you have three tasks:

1. Submit your story to the contest by this Sunday.  
• Carefully follow the instructions for Young Writers Contest you will find at that link.  Obviously, if you are mailing it, you would need to send it by Friday. 
•  Otherwise, submit electronically or hand deliver it with the contest form filled out. 
• Delete the heading info. from your story (like my name and the class). 
• Make sure you have a cool title. 
2. Finish Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 
3. Answer all questions I gave you (reading journal).  If you lose it, you can see/reprint it here.   These are due next Tuesday. 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 Due Tuesday, Oct 2 (some will have to be done at home as you need to follow links). 

1.  Read and annotate Sir Gawain the Green Knight by Friday evening. 

2.  Answer These Questions as a 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Reading Response Journal

1. Why does Gawain wish to take on the Green Knight, initially?
2. What is important about the number five in this poem?
3. What do you think the hunting scenes may symbolize?
4. How does he show himself a good knight? 
5. How does Gawain sin?  What is his punishment?  How do other knights and ladies react to his punishment?
6. In the end, who do we learn is behind all this drama?  What was the original intent of this person? 
7. Why do you think the wild knight is green; why might that color be fitting or symbolic? 
8. Find the most beautiful line or set of lines you notice, copy them out, and explain what makes them rich. 

Week 5

Hi everyone,

Your lesson plans are now in one link on the left side of the blog under "The Course."

Some students had a hard time distinguishing the weeks with all the posts on the main page and then had trouble finding things if they were no longer showing up on the main page.  This way, there is a full page break between weeks and one document goes all the way back to the first day of class, which should be easier to follow.

Thank you,

Mr. S