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=AGENDA:= =1. Bell Work #5= =2. Vocabulary #7 - fid= == =3. Codetalker Assignment #2 due - Discuss in class in literature circle format.= =4. Current Event #1 due=

5. STAAR Lesson #23 - peer edit / Final Draft due next class
=BELL WORK #5= =Revise the sentence fragments below following the model.= =Example: Rachel Carson's landmark account of pesticide use, //Silent Spring//.= =//Silent Spring// is Rachel Carson's landmark account of pesticide use.=

=1. Edgar Allan Poe's grotesque tale of revenge, "The Cask of Amontillado."=

=2. The always imaginative Walter Mitty,the hero of James Thurber's classic story.=

=Revise the run-on sentences below following the model.= =Example: Isaac Bashevis Singer fled persecution in Poland in 1935 he soon made a name for himself as a writer in New York.= =Isaac Bashevis Singer fled persecution in Poland in 1935, and he soon made a name for himself as a writer in New York.=

=1. This Nobel Prize winner wrote his stories in Yiddish he usually translated them into English.=

=2. Singer's tales might tell of traditional life in Poland they might describe modern situations in Manhattan.=

=‍REMINDERS= =‍Codetalker Assignment #3 due 1/23 & 1/24= =‍Codetalker Assignment #4 due 1/27 & 1/30= =‍Vocabulary Test 1/31 & 2/1= =‍Codetalker Test 2/6 & 2/7= =‍Composition Notebooks Due 2/14 & 2/15=