Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Today is the Primary Election Day! If you are 18 and are registered, please exercise your right to be heard and go to your polling place before school (they open at 7!) or after seventh period (they close at 7!) Also, if you are going to be 18 before the general election in November, go see Ms. Davison in the Magnet Suite for a registration form. We can register you to vote here at Boone, or you can register at any public library, most post offices, or right down the street from Boone at the Supervisor of Elections office on Kaley. VOTE. It is your privilege and your right.

Gifted II: Existentialism in a Nutshell; grammar review #1; assign outside reading for this quarter (The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. The abridged version is just fine; I do have a few copies in my classroom for any interested parties. The unabridged features 300 more pages of French countryside descriptions and not much else. It's such a great book! I have a character list for each of you, too.) Tha Author of the Day today is Mark Leyner.

APees: Common Errors on Focus Paper #1 (like not turning one in. . .), close reading of passages from Bovary; preparation for first multiple-choice practice session. Bring a pencil tomorrow.