EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY! When a SAT Vocabulary Quiz is re-taken, your score will be averaged with the score on the first quiz (regardless of how "low" you scored).

Schedule for Week of 28 October:

Your usual SAT Vocabulary Quiz on Thursday, 31 October. Effective immediately, you will not be permitted to "re-take" a Quiz unless you present to me YOUR flash-cards that YOU have used to prepare for the quiz. I will inspect these "cards" for YOUR in  name-upper right-hand corner of each card)  (SAT Vocabulary Quiz: List 6)

You will be quizzed on the contents of the power-points/videos that appear below.

You will receive a reading schedule for The Great Gatsby on a separate handout. Expect unannounced/surprise quizzes on any given day and or time during the class Band.

The Great Gatsby-Form and Structure

The Roaring Twenties

The Great Gatsby (Introduction/Background)

The Great Gatsby: Listen to it on line as you read along!

BE ADVISED: I AM NO LONGER ACCEPTING ANY PAST-DUE CLASS CONTRACTS! THESE WERE DUE THE FIRST-WEEK OF SCHOOL! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TURN THEM IN! THE FIRST-MARKING PERIOD HAS NOW TERMINATED! NO EXCUSES!

Please remember to bring The Streetcar... to class on Tuesday, 22 October in exchange for our next reading, The Great Gatsby...

SAT Vocabulary Quiz: Thursday, 24 October. No Cheating-there is too much of it going-on-if I observe any individual committing this act- he/she will have to take the remaining quizzes after school-for the remainder of the school-year! (Believe it or not-this is even happening after-school in Room 404...)

How to Write a Reaction Paper or Reader Response
("Borrowed" from an introductory English class at the University of Texas)