7-8 Language Arts 2023-2024
Mondays, 8:30-10:30 Instructor: Kathy Zimmerman
11/17/2025: Assignment due 12/1:
1. Read Parts 1-2 of A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
2. Write 3 point (9 sentence) paragraph on setting, theme, and symbolism in The Bronze Bow.
3. Define: betrothed, caravan, cathedral, confessor, consecration, coronation, count, crusade, duke, excommunication, gothic, homage, lavish, miniver, monastery, tapestries, troubadours
4. Study for Shurley test through ch. 12(references 1-34, Jingles 1-16)
5. Trial and Triumph 1-11
6. Projects due
7. classify 4 sentences
11/10/2025: Assignment due 11/17/2025:
1. Finish Bronze Bow
2. Classify sentences emailed to you
3. Vocabulary ch. 12 and extra words
4. extra vocabulary words: tumult, frenzied, precision, erect
11/3/2015: Assignment due 11/10/2025:
1. Read Bronze Bow ch.9-16
2. Complete take home test
3. Vocabulary ch. 11 and extra words: tetrarch, synagogue, rabbi, tunic, sentries, pungent, gruel
10/27/2025: Assignment due 11/3/2025:
1. Read The Bronze Now Ch. 1-8; BRING BOOK TO CLASS!
2. Study for Shurley test on for homework – study Jingles 11-15 – on test! Study References #18 and #24.
3. Vocabulary ch. 10 and extra words: defy, inveigled, piqued, loom, skeins, jostled, jeer, clamor, nuisance, sultry, despoil
4. assigned projects due 12/1
5. Classify sentences emailed to you
10/20/2025: Assignment due 10/27/2025
1. Write a 1 paragraph character sketch of any character in The Hittite Warrior. Use the 3 point paragraph reference to plan it and turn in typed double spaced final copy with completed handout.
2. classify 6 sentences I email you
3. Chapter 9 vocabulary
10/13/2025: Assignment due 10/20/2015:
1. Finish The Hittite Warrior
2. classify 6 sentences I email you
3. Chapter 8 vocabulary
Assignment due 10/13.2025:
1. Read Hittite ch. 9-20
2. Complete Shurley ch 6-7 take home open book Test
3. Projects are due!!!
4. vocabulary ch 7
9/29/2025: Assignment due 10/6/2026
1. Hittite Warrior intro-ch.8
2. Study for Shurley ch 4-5 Test (p. 65) (Ref 15, 18,19)(Voc. Ch. 1-5)
3. Vocabulary 6
4. Classify sentences emailed to you
9/22/2025: Assignment due 9/29/2025:
1. Write a 3 point paragraph about Mara. Type, double space, and turn in. See Reference pp. 14, 15, page 64
2. Vocabulary ch.5
3. classify sentences emailed to you
9/15/2025 Assignment due 9/22/2025:
1. Finish Mara
2. complete Vocabulary ch. 4:1-2
3. Complete practice test open book
4. complete Shurley p. 64
5. classify sentences emailed to you
9/8/2026: Assignment due 9/15:
1. Read Mara, ch. 9-17
2. Shurley English pp. 63-top of 64 (ch. 3) (See Reference pages 1-14
3. Assigned Projects due 10/13
4. Vocabulary ch. 3:1-2 (2 sets of 4 words each)
5. Classify sentences I email you
8/25/2025: Assignment due 9/8/2025
1. Read Mara, Daughter of the Nile, ch 1-8
2. Shurley English pp. 62-top of 63 (ch.1-2 only)
3. Shurley Vocabulary words Ch. 1:1 and 1:2 and 2:1 and 2:2 six step process – 16 words total
4. set up binder with 5 labeled dividers and the 2 printed timelines
Assignment due 5/5/2025:
1. Read pp. 222-279 of Journey and worksheet
2. Study pp. 55-82 for test on Rules of the Game
3. Bring Projects
4. bring $5 for pizza or snacks to share!
Assignment due 4/28/2025
1. Fill out plot diagram for Shadow Spinner for a grade
2. Read Journey pp. 222-279 and complete worksheet due 5/5
3. Rules of the Game pp. 80-82
4. Assigned projects due 5/5
Assignment due 4/21/25:-
1. Define: discreet, gaunt, effrontery, audacity, blanched, spasm, facade, expendable, niche, belated, apparition, viyands, revelers, sense , pannier
2. Finish Shadow Spinner
3. Rules of the Game pp. 75-77
Assignment due 4/14/2025
1. Voc. words: hempen bags, avert, talisman, mutinous, doddering, finagled, wattle, mahogany,
2. Read Ch. 9-16 of Shadow Spinner
3. Rules pp. 70-73
4. Journey pp. 222-279 and worksheet due 5/5
3/31/2025: Assignment due 4/7/2025:
1. vocabulary : pattens, drudge, brocade, cavernous, cygnets, vizier, glazed, lattice, cloying, gazebos, mottled, dallying, tanning vats, cupola, minaret, mincing, moazzen, slubbed
2. Read ch. 1-8 of Shadow Spinner
3. Assigned projects due 5/5
3/24/2025: Assignment due 3/31/2025:
1. Write 5 paragraph essay about 3 characters in The Beduin’s Gazelle
2. Vocabulary extra words: labyrinth, pinioned, concubines, cadence, purfled, rapt, luminous, lign aloes, dinars, harrumphed, sharbat, ablutions, retinue
3. Rules of the Game pp. 69-70
4. Read Journey to the East pp. 280-325 and complete worksheet
5. Assigned projects due 5/5
3/17/2025:Assignment due 3/24:
1. Finish Beduin’s Gazelle
2. Rules of the Game pp.65-66
3. Define: damask, jinn, mete, deference, covey, purge, alabaster, rime
4. read Journey pp. 280-325 and do worksheet due 3/31
March 3/2025: Due 3/17:
1. Define words: maimed, askew, harem, shrouded, opaque, scimitars, lapis lazuli
2. Read The Beduin’s Gazelle ch. 1-11,
3. Write 5 paragraph paper on Convictions of Eric Liddel, Others, and yourself.
February 24, 2025: Assignment due 3/3:
1. Projects due next week
2. Finish Eric Liddell
3. Read Journey to the East pp. 1-49 and complete handout due
4. Rules of the Game pp. 62-65 A & B
February 17, 2025: assignment due 2/24/25:
1. Write 5 paragraph paper on 3 favorite stories from The Land I Lost (Use same format and outline that you used last time – handout from Shurley English)
2. Read ch. 1-8 of Eric Liddel, Greater than Gold
3. Rules of the Game Ex. A, pp. 57-60
4. Read Journey to the East pp. 1-49 and complete worksheet due 3/3
5. Projects due 3/3/25
February 10, 2025: Homework due 2/17/25:
1. Finish reading The Land I Lost
2. Study Rules pp. 40-54 for test
3. read Journey pp. 160-189 and complete worksheet due 2/17/25
2/3/2025: Assignment due 2/10/2025:
1. Read chapters 5-8 of The Land We Lost
2. Rules pp. 52-54
3. Define: malicious , unruly, opium, preen, melancholy, molted, prestige
4. Read Journey pp. 160-183 and complete worksheet, due 2/17
January 27, 2025: assignment due 2/3/25:
1. Write 5 paragraph paper on 3 aspects of India, learned from reading Homeless Bird. Use 5 Paragraph essay guide that was passed out today.
2. Rules of the Game pp. 47-49
3. Read chapters 1-4 of Land We Lost
4. Define: pectoral, vindicate, premonition, plied, hallucination, placate, incoherent, grimace
January 13, 2025: Assignment due 1/27/25:
1. Finish Homeless Bird
2. Read Journey pp. 186-221 and complete worksheet
3. Define: arrogant, provocation, parasitic, lethal, menacingly, pandemonium, succumbed, precarious, ingenious
4. assigned projects due 3/3/25
NO CLASS ON 1/20
January 6, 2024 homework due 1/13/2025:
1. Complete Rules of the Game, pp. 41-45
2. Read ch. 1-6 of Homeless Bird
3. Do assigned mini- reports
4. Read Journey to the East pp. 186-221 and complete worksheet due 1/27
December 2, 2024:,homework due 1/6/25:
1. Write 1 paragraph on the use of setting in Master Puppeteer; Bring Rules of Game and Journey to East worksheet on Russia.
November 18, 2024: Assignment due 12/2/2024:
Bring snacks or $5 for pizza party
Finish Master Puppeteer
Define: mercantile, nonchalant, rout, glutinous, brazier, noxious, capricious, notoriety, obsequious, construed, ingratiating, subservience, surreptitious, usurped, sardonic, ignominy, tenaciously, arsonists, chaotic, belligerence, magnanimity, entrails, proliferate; use each in sentence
present Projects
Rules of the Game test on pp. 28-39
Read Journey 89-121 and complete worksheet on Japan
11/11/2024: Assignment due 11/18:
1. Write 5 haikus and type and print
2. Read Master Puppeteer ch. 1-8
3. Define: Pumice, foibles, sidled, brigand, assemblage, opulence, dispense, amenities, boorishness, stipend, cynical, lacquered, poignant, samisen, inexorably, plectrum, boisterously, courtesan, koto, kokyu, filched
4. Read Journey pp. 122-159; complete and bring worksheet
5. complete Rules pp. 38-39
November 4, 2024: homework due 11/11;
1. Finish Ghost
2. Rules of Game pp. 36-38
3. Read Journey pp. 122-159; complete and bring worksheet by 11/18
October 28/24: homework due 11/4:
1. Read Ghost ch. 9-16
2. Complete Rules of the Game pp. 28-33
3. Read Journey pp. 122-159 and worksheet by 11/18
4. Assigned projects due 12/2
October 21, 2024: homework due 10/28;
1. Read Ghost in the Takaido Inn, ch. 1-8
2. Study for a test on Rules of the Game, pp. 15-23
3. Assigned projects due 12/3
October 14/2024:: Homework due 10/21/24:
1. Write a 3 point paragraph about plot twists in Year of Impossible Goodbyes
2. Complete Rules of the Game pp. 21-23
3. read Journey to the East pp. 365-407 and worksheet due
October 7, 2024: Homework due 10/14:
1. Finish Year of Impossible Goodbyes
2. Vocabulary column 3
3. Journey pp. 368-407 and worksheet due 10/21
September 30, 2024: Assignment due 10/7:
1. Read Year of Impossible Goodbyes ch. 5-8
2. Rules of the Game pp. 16-20
3. Assigned projects due
4. Vocabulary column 2 definitions and sentences
September 23, 2024: Homework due 9/30:
1. Read Year of Impossible Goodbyes, ch. 1-4
2. Define Column 1 of Vocabulary list and write sentences with each word
3. study Rules of the Game ch. 1-3 (pp.1-14)for test
4. read Journey to the East pp. 50-83 and complete worksheet
September 16, 2024: Homework due 9/23:
1. Write a 3 point 9 sentence paragraph character sketch of Karana. The topic sentence should include the title and author. The 3 point sentence (2nd) should include 3 character qualities she demonstrates. Follow the example passed out in class. Type and double space, putting name on paper.
2. Complete Rules of the Game pp. 12-14
3. Read Journey to the East, pp. 50-83 and complete worksheet front and back due 9/30
September 9, 2024: due 9/16:
1. Finish Island of the Blue Dolphins
2. Rules of the Game pp. 8-11
3. Read Journey to the Eastern Hemisphere pp. 326-343 and complete handout.
August 26, 2024: Homework due 9/9/24:
1. Read Island of the Blue Dolphins, ch. 8-21
2. Define vocabulary words: pitch, hummers, singe, faggot (sticks), reproach, sinew
3. Rules of the Game, pp 5-7
4. Journey to the East pp. 326-343 and worksheet due 9/16
5. Assigned project due 10/7
August 19, 2024: Homework due 8/26:
1. Read Island of the Blue Dolphins, ch. 1-7
2. Define the following vocabulary words: coral, kelp, Mesa, parley, brackish; also write a sentence using each word correctly
3. Rule of the Game pp. 4-5, exercises A
Assignment due 5/6/24:
1. Write 5 paragraph paper on three types of conflict in I am David – person vs. person, person vs. society, person vs. nature, person vs. God, or person vs. himself.
2. bring snack to share
Assignment due 4/29/24:
1. Finish reading I am David
2. present assigned projects
3. Shurley pp. 81-83, Ch. 21 exercises (only list the pronouns one time)
4. ch. 21 vocabulary
5. C0mplete take home test ch. 21
Assignment due 4/22/24:
1. Read David ch. 4-6
2. Read Trial and Triumph ch. 35-46
3. Complete take home test ch. 20 side for homework
Assignment due 4/15/24:
1. Read I am David, ch. 1-3
2. Classify sentences I email you
3. Study for Shurley English test covering material through ch. 19. Study references, vocabulary, and practices through ch. 19.
4. Trial and Triumph ch. 35-46 due 4/22
5. Projects due 4/29
6. Complete Shurley exercises for ch. 20, pages 78-81.
Assignment due 4/8/24:
1. Write 5 paragraph essay on why Snow Treasure is a good title.
2. Complete Shurley p. 78, exercise 19
3. Trial and Triumph ch. 35-46 due 4/22
4. Classify sentences which I email you
5. Vocabulary Ch. 20
Assignment due 4/1/24:
1. Finish Snow Treasure
2. complete Shurley pp. 76-78
3. Assigned projects due 4/19
4. Vocabulary Ch. 19
5. Trial & Triumph ch. 35-46 due 4/18
Assignment due 3/25/24:
Fill out plot line for In Search of Honor
Complete Shurley ch 17-18 take home test
Shurley Vocabulary ch. 18
Read Trial and Triumph ch. 27-35
read Snow Treasure ch. 1-12
Assignment due 3/18/24:
Finish In Search of Honor
Complete Shurley p.74-75
Vocabulary Ch. 17
Read Trial and Triumph ch. 27-34 due 3/25
Define: charade, hideous, replenish, compte, fortress, commission, nag, manipulation, salved, feigning
Assignment due 3/4/24/
1. Read In Search of Honor pp. v-79 (intro-ch.13)
2. Study for grammar test through ch. 16
3. Classify sentences I email you
4. Define the following words: reticent, presumptuous, vividly, compote, dovecote, vent, dismal, peevish, medallion, Herculean
Assignment due 2/26/24/
Write 5 paragraph essay on Puritan Life from The Iron Peacock. See Shurley pp. 25-25 and board notes
Projects due
Classify sentences emailed to you.
Bring Trial and Triumph to class; ch.19-26 due
Vocabulary Ch. 16
Assignment due 2/19/24:
1. Finish reading Iron Peacock
2. Vocabulary ch. 15 and Define the following words: brevity, choler, conjecturing, megrims, paduasoy
3. Shurley p. 73, ch. 15 exercises
4. classify sentences I email you
2/5/2024:: Assignment due 2/12/24:
1. Read ch. 8-15 of Iron Peacock
2. Read Trial and Triumph ch. 19-26 by 2/26
3. Projects due 2/26
4. Define the following words: reticence, bedizened, stoic, demeanor, billeted, slag, boshes, timorous, pontifical, accede, billet,kersey, lustring, coverlets, bolster, pipkin, reminisce, casements, sluices, perfunctory, collier, sachem, bannock, imperious, vestige
5. Shurley pp. 70-72 Ch.14 exercises
6. Complete open book take home test
1/29/24: Assignments Due 2/5/24:
1. Read Iron Peacock ch.1-7
2. Define: accost, hogshead, saturnine, chaffing, redolent, oakum, discomfiture, comely, lee, shallop, bulkhead,Behemoth, quaff, mien, boatswain, vicar, doublet, catnip, mullein, firkin, asperity, haft, incongruous, succotash, cassock, chattel, kersey, lustring, coverlets, bolster, pipkin, reminisce
3. complete Shurley pp. 69-70 (ch.13 exercises)
4. Classify 4 sentences I email you
5. Assigned projects due 2/26
6. Read Trial and Triumph ch. 19-26 due 2/26
1/22/24: Assignment due 1/29/24:
1. Read Trial and Triumph 12-18.
2. Complete Shurley English Vocabulary ch. 14
3. Define the following extra words: scud, imminent, virulence, keening, injunction, florid, emaciated, spume, judicious, pecuniary, abhor, affectation
4. Write 5 paragraph essay on 3 historical people or events you learned about in Mary Bloody Mary
1/15/24: Assignment due 1/22:
1. Finish reading Mary Bloody Mary
2. Complete Shurley pp. 68-69, Ch.13: Lessons 1-2 exercises
3. Vocabulary for Shurley Ch. 13
4. classify sentences emailed to you
5. Trial and Triumph ch 12-18 due
6. Assigned projects due 2/26
7. Study for grammar test covering ch. 1-12
1/8/24: Assignment due 1/15:
1. Read Mary Bloody Mary ch. 1-11
2. Complete Shurley pp. 66-67
3. Trial and Triumph ch. 12-18 due 1/22/24
4. classify sentences emailed to you
5. vocabulary ch. 12
Assignment due 1/8/24:
1. Complete open book Shurley English test ch.10-11
2. Trial and Triumph ch12-18 due 1/22/24
11/27/23: Assignment due 12/4/23:
Write 2 3 point (9 sentences) paragraphs on A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, one on perspective and one on flashback. Turn in typed, double-spaced and name on paper. Bring snack to share for Christmas party!
11/13/23: Assignment due 11/27:
1. Finish A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Minerva (a quiz will be given)
2. do 3 assigned mini-reports
3. Vocabulary ch. 11
4. Classify 4 sentences emailed to you
5. Shurley p. 66, chapter 10 exercise
6. Trial and Triumph ch1-11 due
7. Assigned projects due
11/6/23: Assignment due 11/13:
1. Read Parts 1-2 of A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
2. Do assigned mini-reports
3. Define: betrothed, caravan, cathedral, confessor, consecration, coronation, count, crusade, duke, excommunication, gothic, homage, lavish, miniver, monastery, tapestries, troubadours
10/30/23: Assignment due 11/6/23.
1. Finish Bronze Bow
2. Study for grammar test covering material through Chapter 9: References through 24, 8 Parts of Speech, 10 prepositions, 7 Subject pronouns, 7 object pronouns, 7 possessive pronouns
3. Vocabulary ch. 10
4. extra vocabulary words: tumult, frenzied, precision, erect
