HAPPY HOLIDAYS, ALL!

First and foremost, everyone, is that you enjoy your two week break with family and friends. Have fun...and be safe!

I've already updated the "weekly schedule" and "important dates" links to the right regarding the week we return from break. Please check them out in order to prep for our returning work.

A few specific reminders...

**English 9a...ALL of your Personal Narrative items are officially due the TUESDAY we return (Jan. 3). This due date includes your brainstorm sheet (pg. 6 of your packet), completed outline (on a separate piece of paper), edited rough draft, and final draft (with cover page). Please feel free to send me via email the final version as a Microsoft Word document or just simply "share" it with me via GoogleDocs if you so choose. Also, the Tuesday we return, we'll also be starting a Choice Novel project. You'll be able to choose YOUR OWN novel to read, analyze, and reflect on provided it's at least 225 pages, fiction, appropriate, and something you have not read before. So, if you have any ideas over break, feel free to bring the book with you to class on that Monday...or else you'll have a chance to check something out in the school library that day. Finally, remember to bring at least 10 blank note cards to class on that Tuesday as well since we'll be starting our first week of vocab/flash cards in class!

**English 11b...ALL of your Oliver Twist items are officially due the TUESDAY we return (Jan. 3). This due date includes your completed "putting it all together" packet,2 vocabulary terms every 20 pages, completed plot summaries, character list, and themes evidence. Also, be prepared for the ESSAY TEST on that Wednesday (keeping in mind major novel ideas like physiognomy, nature vs. nature, identity, Victorian/Realism era and values, etc. with examples from the novel, your own experiences, and "real world" application as evidence of your thoughts).

For everyone, please let me know if/how I can help at all these next two weeks! Don't hesitate....

Take care, all! Enjoy the time.