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January 26th, 2010 p.23

3. Relieved, tired, lighthearted, the winner left the stadium feeling great. 4. The children gathered around their teacher, laughing, chatting, shouting. 5. When the game was canceled, the rowdy spectators at the ball game booed, shouted, swore.

January 27th, 2010 p.27

1. In the orchard, oranges and peaches and kiwis and mangoes glistened under the golden sunlight. 2. My best friend loves sports, so she plays soccer in spring, baseball in summer, hockey in winter, football in the fall.

February 10th, 2010

Students should have done the following: read "My Last Duchess" and the book Candide, and they should have written ten page paper.

March 3rd, 2010 p. 33

1. Hardware, software, a modem- each of these is the component of a computer. 2. Poetry and music, painting and sculpture, drama and dance- such are a few of the interesting branches of art. 3. Sweater or t-shirt, jeans or skirt, sneakers or flip-flops- what would you choose to wear on a Sunday morning?

March 8th, 2010 p. 39

2. Molly and Gabby (my dog and cat) started playing tug-o-war. 3. My favorite colors - black and white - always attract me to new clothes. 4. Learning the basic skills - holding breath and running for a long time - will help me succeed in any sport. 5. A major incident (a plant shutdown) shocked the whole community.

March 10th, 2010

Both paragraphs listed below incorporate the patterns studied thus far, however, one of them uses the structures more effectively.

1. Which would you say is better? Support your answer with specific instances from the text. 2. With the paragraph you decided wasn't as good as the other, then make at least two changes to that paragraph which would improve it.

Greening buds, patches of mud, scattered puddles, a birth of color -- spring was on its way. Noel always found this season to be the ripest: thoughts of change and potential circulated through her body. But what made this spring more anticipated than the last? Perhaps it was the knowledge that she was going to be moving back home at the end of the school year. Or perhaps it was the warming air or extra chatter at home or one of a million other things. Whatever it was, she knew this spring was special; it really was going to be a season of change.

Greening buds, patches of mud, scattered puddles, a birth of color -- spring really was on its way. Noel always found this season to be the ripest: knowing of the changes that would soon be thrust upon her made her feel a certain tie to the fruit trees that were just beginning to show their blossoms. She too would be plucked from her current home and shipped off to some far off place. Her endpoint: Lincoln, Nebraska. The plum's endpoint: who knew. It could have been Nebraska or Melbourne or Brittany or Johanesburg. But this was not the first time she had started over on some other side of the world, and it certainly wouldn't be the last. She had learned to look for the small beauties amidst these times of transition, and she knew these harbingers of spring would always find her no matter where she moved.

March 28th, 2010 1. If your teacher says to read it twice, if your teacher says to write it twice, of if your teacher says to do all your homework, you'd better follow your teacher's wishes rather than your friend's. 4. Whether you think you are not good at writing or whether you don't enjoy writing, you can be a good writer. 5. The basketball coach shouted that the referee was being unfair, that the other team's coach was cheating, and that the other team should get a penalty.
 * If I had done more homework, if I had studied more, and if I had contributed my time better, my spring break would have been fuller academically.

April 22th, 2010 p. 55 1. Today in Powerschool, I noticed something great: an "A", the grade I really had worked for. 2. The competition was very fierce and the winner was decided at last: Samantha Montgomery. 3. The class elected someone very bright and responsible: Jim Rutledge. 4. She won the Fermat award: the best, the most coveted of all math skills distinctions.

May 10th Animal farm deals with one of the events that occurred in reality - Russian revolution. The author adapts the event into the farm and criticizes communism. He uses each animal to represent an important historical figure. For example, Napoleon as Stalin and Snowball as Trotsky and Boxer as working class and Moses as religion play very important roles in Animal Farm. It is amazing how he could fit the whole incident into a much smaller scale.