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MONDAY
8/31

SSR Day 
Every Monday is SSR during Quarter 1.
Students must bring outside reading and read for the entire period.
Homework DUE

SSR Assignment

TUESDAY
9/1		 Introduction to My Sister's Keeper and Jodi Picoult. 
Discuss first 19 pages and set up of book.
Reading time. 		MSK Reading Schedule
WEDNESDAY
9/2		 Reading Franklin's aphorisms.
Partner work on aphorisms. 		ASSIGN:  Write a two-paragraph theme comparing Benjamin Franklin's Dialogue with the Gout and Anne Bradstreet's "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House."  Paragraphs should focus on language/attitude/tone  in one paragraph and on ideas/concepts/viewpoints in a second paragraph.
DUE:  Friday, September 11
THURSDAY
9/3

Continue reports on aphorisms.
No-Excuse practice.

No Excuse List
FRIDAY
9/4		 Discussion of My Sister's Keeper.