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ARE STUDYING.
Jan. 13
All Classes
Your Unit 8 Vocabulary Quiz is today. Gifted Students, your poetry essay is due today.
Jan. 24--College Prep Classes
You must work on the rough draft of your essay every day until it is complete.
Jan 26. All Classes--you must teach your vocabulary word to the rest of the class.
Jan. 27
All Classes
Your Unit 9 Vocabulary Quiz is today.
March 22
CP classes will write an in-class essay on Romeo and Juliet.
March 23
Gifted students will take a test on Romeo and Juliet.
March 29
CP students will have a vocabulary quiz on Unit 13.
Gifted students will perform their version of Romeo and Juliet.
April 9
Your Youtube video assignment is due.
April 11
CP students will have a quiz over the first ten chapters of To Kill A Mockingbird.
April 13
All students will have a vocabulary quiz today.
April 20
Gifted students will have their first quiz over TKAM.
April 27
All students will have a vocabulary quiz today.
May 1
Gifted students will have their second quiz on TKAM
May 2
All students will have an in-class performance final essay.
May 4
Gifted students will have their Unit 15 vocabul quiz today.
May 11
Gifted students will have their third quiz on TKAM.
May 14
All students will have a sack report on TKAM
May 16
All students will have a test on TKAM.
May 18
All students will have a vocabulary test over units 8-12.
May 21-23
Final Exams. Students need to review all handouts and notes for poetry, grammar, vocabulary, Romeo and Juliet, and To Kill A Mockingbird. Students can get more practice with grammar rules at
www.chompchomp.com. Students may also review for the final exam by taking the practice test at
www.usatestprep.com.
Aug. 15
Gifted Freshmen must have three posts about Summer Reading novel on
www.nicenet.org.
Aug. 17
College Prep students will have their first quiz over the first section of root words.
Aug. 19
College Prep students will have their mythology video quiz.
Gifted students will write an in-class essay over their Summer Reading novel.
Aug. 22
Gifted students will take a test over all root words.
Aug. 22
College Prep students will take a test over their Summer Reading novel.
Aug. 23
Gifted students will have their mythology video quiz.
Aug. 26
College Prep students will take a quiz on the second section of their root words.
Sept. 2
College Prep students will take a quiz on the third and last section of their root words.
Gifted Students will take their first vocabulary quiz.
Sept. 15
All students will have to teach one vocabulary word to their classmates.
Sept. 16
All students have a vocabulary quiz today.
Sept. 19
CP students will have their Odyssey test today.
Sept. 29
All students have to teach their vocabulary word today.
Sept. 30
Gifted students have a vocabulary quiz on Unit 3. CP students have a vocabulary quiz on Unit 2.
Oct. 4
All students have a county interim field test today. This does not count for a grade.
Oct. 5
Gifted students have a short story test today.
Oct. 7
College Prep students must turn in their flashcards for Unit 3 vocabulary words.
Oct. 13
All students must teach their vocabulary word to the class.
Oct. 14.
Mi-term exam is today.
Oct. 17
Gifted students' novel essay is due. All students have a vocabulary quiz today.
Oct. 21
College Prep students' vocabulary flashcards are due today.
Oct. 28
All students must teach their vocabulary word to the class.
Oct. 31
All students have a vocabulary quiz today.
Nov. 1
All students have a test on the novel
Anthem today.
Nov. 2
All College Prep students have an essay on
Anthem today.
Nov. 10
All students teach their vocabulary word.
Nov. 11
All student have their vocabulary quiz.
Nov. 14
CP students have a short story test over "The Lottery," "The Sniper," "Lamb to the Slaughter," and "A View From the Bridge." They need to review the worksheets for each of these stories to study for the test.
Nov. 18
Gifted students have a test on the novel
A Lesson Before Dying.
Nov. 18
CP students will have a test on "Casey at the Bat," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Most Dangerous Game." All of these stories are in the literature book in case students want to read them again at home. In addition to taking notes in class and completing and studying the worksheets that accompany these stories, students can answer the questions at the end of these pieces of literature in the textbook.
Dec. 1
CP students will have their Unit 6 Vocabulary Quiz. Gifted Students will have their Unit 7 Vocabulary Quiz.
Dec. 2
All students have their performance essay today.
Dec. 9
All students have a unit test over the material covered in class on types of essays and resource materials .
Dec. 12/13
All students will have a Gwinnett County Post Semester Exam. CP students will have their Unit 7 Vocabulary quiz during the second hour of the two-hour block period.
Dec. 14-16
Semester Final Exams