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Final Exam Review Packets have been distributed to all classes.  Everyone should be looking over these for course terms that they are unfamiliar with so that we can examine them further before finals begin on Friday.  Either highlight, circle or underline these terms and I will go over them in detail this week.  If you need extra help in preparing for this please email me and let me know when you would like to meet (at lunch or after school for review)

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This a reminder that the performance of a scene from COMEDY OF ERRORS is NOT A GROUP PROJECT.   you can work with others if you’d like but you will be graded individually.   If you have questions or want some help please see me. 

Deadline for these are thursday and friday of next week

The English Department has free tickets to a production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at the Sidney Harmon Theatre in Washington DC.  (it’s the big glass building across from the Verizon Center)  The performance is over the summer August 27th at 8:00 pm. 

Twelfth Night is a fantastic play and if you have never seen a Shakespearean production it would make for a wonderful first experience.  The theatre is beautiful and the tickets are free!

Please let me know if you would like tickets (extra tickets may be available for family members)

My Favorite Thing:

Sometimes at night I like to lay and dream

Of an empty pot waiting to be used

Of melting butter and of heavy cream

The use of skim milk can not be excused.

My oh my, how I love my mac and cheese

topped with a lovely, bubbly, crispy crust

with the ample leftovers I will freeze

The oven at four hundred is a must!

You can use small elbows or large wheat shells

sharp cheddar finding crevices to stick

my mac and cheese delight I could not sell

Yummy yum crusted fingers I will lick

Mac and Cheese for you I get so teary

Only second to a Mets world Series.

The SSI Algebra Teachers will host an Algebra HSA Student/Parent Workshop on Tuesday, April 20 at 7pm in the SSI Media Center. This workshop is open to all Algebra 1 students and their parents (Spanish translation will be available).  We will review the types of questions on the test, calculator procedures and study aides.  If you have any questions, please check the flyer on the Math Information page of Edline, the SSI Mathematics Parent Website, or contact Mrs. Sigley at Melissa_Sigley@mcpsmd.org.

Also- keep working on your research papers.

AND APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH… so take a minute, read a poem and reflect

Although you will be working with groups to compile information and research, each of you will be graded on your individual sections of the paper.  Also please remember that you are required to turn your notes in with the assignment.

Deadlines for this project are:

periods 1, 5 & 7: April 23

period 2: April 22

Quote of the Week:

“For there to be light, there must be dark.  For there to be good, there must be evil.  For there to be yin, there must be yang.  For everything must have a counterpoint.”  – Emerson M. (period 1)

Alright guys, I wanted to post to encourage everyone to get a head start on your literary critique thesis.  It is a large assignment that is the first grade in the 4th quarter.  Please try to start this before Friday so that you can come in and discuss any questions you may have before your break.  Trust me, you don’t want to take a look at this for the first time next week and realize that you are unclear about the assignment. 

The rubric for this essay is on the website in case you’ve lost the one I handed out in class.

Good Luck and enjoy your break, you guys deserve it!

-Stelzner

12 Angry Men Role Play performances will take place on Wed (odd classes) and Thurs. (Even classes).  Review the rubric in the back of your blue 12 angry men packets for more detail on the grading of this.

Blue Packets will also be collected on Wed and Thurs of this week. 

12 Angry Men Thesis essay deadline is next Monday and Wed.  – check the HW calendar for more details.

Of course if you have any questions…email me!

mrstelzner@gmail.com

Snow my Gosh!  As I mentioned in class, your short stories will be due when we return to school next week.  That would be either Tuesday or Wed. depending on whether you are in odd day or even day classes.

Good luck and email me if you need support on this assignment.

Congratulations to all of the Nobel winners on their amazing Animal Farm thesis essays.  You all challenged yourselves and succeeded in putting together some phenominal work.  I hope you put that much effort into your short stories as well.

Hope you enjoyed lunch!

Also- I wanted to acknowledge Taj in period 7 for his quote of the week in response to Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr:

“Being special is not something that you should have to be ashamed of.”

Keep up the great work everyone and do not forget about Independent Reading