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Hope y’all are having an awesome break…

Crossword Puzzles:
Holiday by Dave Fisher
Christmas by Dave Fisher
Logic Puzzle
Holiday Party
Holiday Poems
Acrostic Poem: Choose a word that relates to the holidays (examples wreath, Kwanza, menorah, jinglebells, etc.) and create a short poem where each line begins with the first letter of the word.
Jigsaw Puzzles
A bunch of Holiday Jigsaw puzzles
Handouts
Christmas Crossword [...]

Hey y’all…
I hope you’re having fun with your 3 day weekend, avoiding doing a Wizard of Oz and all…H10ers, it looks like we’ll have to move the last lesson (Pillow Book + Essays on idleness) and postpone the big museum piece until after the Winter Break…Pretend to be sad about it…I expect to see the [...]

So, we’ll be finishing the theatrical version of The Crucible and then we’ll be planning and executing our last paper of the year.
The Paper Assignment
Write  a 300-500 word academic paper in which you compare and contrast John Proctor of The Crucible with a modern-day rebel.  Explain with specifics what is similar about the two rebels [...]

So, the plan is to watch the movie version of “The Crucible” with Daniel Day Lewis and then write a short paper comparing him to a modern-day rebel. Before we start the movie we’ll take a bit discussing who are the modern day rebels of our time and then seeing the movie. Thursday [...]