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__**Welcome to Mrs. Hyatt's Honors Language and Composition, Periods 4, 6, 7**__ //Welcome Back.// //April is National Poetry Month! We will celebrate!//

Week of April 16 - **Speeches** Monday: Watch commencement speeches. Homework: find one from site on Commencement Speeches page. Assignment: Writing your own speech. Click here: Tuesday: Hand in annotation of speech. Read a couple speeches in class. **Period 4 - PSSAs.** Wednesday: Writing day - compose your own speech. **Period 6 - PSSAs.** Thursday: Peer edit in your writing groups. You are peer editing your SYNTHESIS PAPERS. No completed draft, no credit, no exceptions. Homework: revise for Tuesday. **Period 7 - PSSAs.**  Friday: Last regular vocabulary quiz - #20. Vocabulary group assignments.

Week of April 23 - **This I Believe/A Hope in the Unseen** Monday: Speech peer editing periods 6 and 7.. Make sure you bring your speech to class- no speech, no credit. Tuesday: **Period 4 - PSSAs.** Peer editing of Synthesis paper for periods 6 and 7. Wednesday: **Period 6 - PSSAs. Synthesis paper due! No exceptions! ** P 6 due Thu. ** Thursday: Celebration of poetry. ** Period 4 only: ** speech peer editing. Friday: Speeches due. Read aloud in class. Seniors: have fun at prom! :)

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<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">__Blogging:__ Please respond to the Ning.com invitation I will send out sometime late September/early October. The url is: http://hyattblog.ning.com. __<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Regularly scheduled Assignments: __ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Mondays: Annotations- suspended until further notice. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Wednesdays: Writing <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Friday: Vocabulary, song day, good writing. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Refer to the CALENDAR and ARCHIVED ASSIGNMENTS page for work you may have missed. All assignments are archived.