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. Nightjohn due 1/16/01. When you are finished reading the assigned book, read a book of your choice.

SPELLING: Unit 17. Basic: playwright, tragedy, metaphor, melancholy, propaganda, subtle, pageant, unanimous, extraordinary, enthusiastic, outrageous, pneumonia, khaki, adjourn, minuscule, siege, endeavor, prominent, wretched, flourish. Review: tongue, consequence, miniature, campaign, vacuum. Challenge: soliloquy, rhetoric, hypocrite, queue, susceptible. Do pp. 108-113 except "Writing a summary of a play" p. 111. Test Friday.

CURRENT EVENTS: Due ______________________________. 

COMMUNITY SERVICE: See separate instructions. The entire project and report are due January 11, 2001.

MIND MAPS: Chapter 5. Test 1/25.

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