Today students passed in their first assignment!!  I must say, I was overwhelmingly positively impressed with the turnout...out of those present, only three students out of the entire pod were unable to pass in the assignment on time!

Also today we finished the Jon Krakauer excerpt from Into Thin Air which highlighted our upcoming vocabulary unit.  Please refer to the flashcards in the previous post.  Tomorrow there will be a pre-test on the words.  If you "test-out" of the list (you smarty-pants, you) you will be able to skip the unit and build your own vocabulary list from a book that you are currently reading.  More on this as we do it!

Homework: none, pretest tomorrow!