Week of January 28, 2013
11th Academic English
On Monday, we will begin work with the novel O Pioneers!  by American novelist Willa Cather.  You'll work on this novel throughout the third quarter, so make sure you have the novel and its related materials with you in class at all times.  Tuesday through Friday we will review the Parts of Speech and the Parts of the Sentence.  In addition to the review, you'll learn a system of notation that will help you practice Sentence Analysis.  You'll be working on exercises in the grammar text and with worksheets that I will distribute to you.

12th Academic English
This week we will continue our work with the Research Project.  On Tuesday you will hand in your thesis statement. You will continue to gather information for this project and will begin to process and document this information using MLA format.  The first set of 10 resources and their notes is due on Wednesday, February 6th.  Make sure you use class time and homework wisely to complete all of the elements of this project.  Talk with me if you run into problems!