Monday - Chapter 17

 Today, I need you to look up the new vocabulary list, then we will read chapter 17, and - hopefully - give you some time to work on a blog for chapter 17.

4/12 chapter 17

4/13 chapter 18 QUIZ

4/14 chpaters 19-20

4/15 chapters 21-22

4/16 chapter 23

4/19 chapter 24

4/20 chapters 25-26

4/21 review 

4/22 Quiz

4/23 Vocabulary quiz and time to catch up on blogs

4/26 - 4/30 Project: Reacting the courtroom scenes

5/3 chapter 27

5/4 chapter 28

5/5 chapter 29

5/6 chapters 30-31

5/7 Review

5/10-5/14 Test and Projects

5/18 Semester FINAL 


NEW VOCABULARY

Austere

Habiliment

Obliquely

Prerogative

Acrimonious

Corroborate

Mollify

Temerity

Bovine

Veneer

Connive 

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