Current Units:
Reading: Holes
Writing: Together We Can
Grammar: Sentences/
Vocabulary
Units to come:
Reading: Science Fiction
The Giver and a Lit Circle
Nouns
Essay Writing
Current Unit
Literature: Edgar Allan Poe
Writing: Open-Ended Questions
Grammar: Pronouns
Vocabulary: Unit 2
Coming up: Science Fiction!!!!
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THINGS to REMEMBER:
Work on Edgar Allan Poe Packet. Write three essays per story.
Play the video of Kenneth Branagh's reenactment of Hamlet's "To be or not To Be" soliloquy.
1. Try to explain what he is saying in your own words.
2. What is a soliloquy?
3. Find other theatrical versions of this soliloquy on youtube.com. Look up: Mel Gibson, Lawrence Olivier, Derek Jacobie, and Ethan Hawke. Who in your opinion does the scene best? Think of at least three reasons to support your opinion.?
