Thursday, September 24, 2015

Thursday, September 24, 2015

7th Grade Literature essay questions:  Choose one of the following and prepare to write a well written essay during tomorrow's literature test be sure to use textual support in your essay.

1.  In an essay, consider what the driver of the black Buick in An American Childhood might have to say about the snowball incident and the chase.  What might he think of the children?  How might he explain his continuing the chase long after "any normal adult would have quit"? In your essay, explain what information the man would reveal that Dillard, as a first-person narrator, does not reveal.

2.  An author's purpose is his or her reason for writing.  Writers of autobiographies have many different reasons for telling their life story.  In an essay, explain what Annie Dillard's purpose might have been for writing about this incident from her childhood.  Support your explanation with details from the excerpt An American Childhood.

Science (7th)- Complete the webquest on a google docs page
                     (due tomorrow)
             (8th)- Complete your lab

Literature- Prepare for your test tomorrow by citing context clues from your literature book to use in                     the questions above
                  Complete your literature worksheet from this morning


Religion- Complete your bible bookmarks sheet by using your bible at home or an online bible                           (make sure to color them)

Social Studies- Read Chapter 2 Section 2 on page 39 of your social studies text book
                         (getting ahead in your cornell notes is optional)