City Living

Write a letter:

You have moved from a rural village to London or Paris in the late 1800s.

Write a letter home describing your feelings about city life. Suggest both positive and negative aspects.

Look back at your notes on the Spread of Cities, Section 2.

Due: Friday, October 30th

Spooky Stories

Because of the time we have missed in class, I've asked that you take the stories you have been working on and finish your first draft tonight.

Tomorrow, we'll be doing some revising of your stories together in writing conferences.

Notebook Check

On Wednesday, I'll be collecting your notebooks and grading your classwork over the last couple of weeks.

Specifically, I'll be looking for these assignments:

1. Industrial Revolution Graphs:
2 circle, 1 bar, 1 pictograph
2. Monkey's Paw Response
3. Narrative Elements: Monkey's Paw
4. Tell Tale Heart response
5. Two-part Challenge
timeline of milestones; 6 vocab words

Please make sure that your work is neat and legible. All work is due on Wednesday.

The Tell Tale Heart

In class, we read The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe.

I've asked you to create a response to the short story by doing one of the following:

Create a six-panel comic strip that depicts a portion of the story

OR

Create an acrostic poem about the story.

Work is due on Friday.

Test Tomorrow

Please study for tomorrow's test on the Industrial Revolution.

Read your handouts, notes and practice with your study guide.