READING: Read a minimum of 20 minutes each night including weekends. You will need to spend this time to finish the required literature books and books of your choice for book reports. House on Mango Street is due Tuesday October 30. Write one sentence and make one thumbnail sketch for each chapter. November's general log is due 11/30.

VOCABULARY AND SPELLING: Unit 10 due Friday 11/1/01. There will be a test 11/1. Basic: coyote, mesa, savanna, adobe, pueblo, stampede, lariat, bronco, barbecue, tornado, indigo, jaguar, mosquito, sierra, avocado, alfalfa, cafeteria, mascara, pimento, armada. Review: cargo, hammock, chocolate, vanilla, cocoa. Challenge: bravado, renegade, incommunicado, flotilla, aficionado Do: pp. 66, 67, 68, 69(omit Write a Descriptive Paragraph), 71. Sort the basic words into categories, also.

Current events: Due ______________________________.

JUDICIAL PACKET: The Judicial packet is due with the test 11/1.

COMMUNITY SERVICE: See separate packet for instructions. Due in early January.

SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS: THE HORROR AND THE HOPE: Read the given article from Smithsonian Magazine and find at least 5 court procedures that were "corrected" in the Constitution. Find 5 parallels between the Salem witchcraft trials and the United States' McCarthy Era events of the 1950's. Find 5 parallels to the events in Nazi Germany 1936-1945. Extra credit - Find 5 parallels to events happening somewhere today.

EXPOSITORY ESSAY: Why were the Salem Witchcraft Trials important?

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