Finish the NEWS story which led the Newscast re: Top Golf Building next to exclusive Bears Club. Cameron was live with the lead story at the top of the newscast and the controversy was also the lead story in sportscast (can assume viewers saw top so recap and bring fresh angle in sports) Cam interviews Top Golf CEO then before he runs out of time within his 3:30 sportscast he mentions NHL's Florida Panthers historic upset over the Boston Bruins & next round playoffs beginning tonight in Toronto. And so he knows what real life sportscaster deal with, he planned on using a funny sound bite of the Panthers but the show producer cut his time / sportscast short so she a) mistimed the whole newscast and sports pays the price & b) she has time to air the "kicker" story at the end of the newscast about kittens. This is a regular and often infuriating occurrence.

ReadTheory 2 passages; Close reading of poem - analyze for poetic device and then write a short summary about the meaning of the poem and the function served by the poetic devices.

Continuing the writing in zones scaffolding activity for final creative nonfiction essay. Cameron was given a creative non-fiction prompt related to the essay prompt through which he writes a short, creative non-fiction piece that he may be able to use later in his creative non-fiction narrative essay.

The first U.S. Open was played in Rhode Island in 1895. The tournament was dominated by Scottish and British players until the first American won in 1911 and the title has been won mostly by players from the US since that year. From 1942 - 1945, the U.S. Open was cancelled due to WWII. In 1925, 1929 and 1930, the U.S. Open was won by a golfer Cameron really admires. Bobby Jones was an amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport. History also describes him as a golf prodigy. He toured the U.S. during World War I from 1917 to 1918, playing exhibition matches before large crowds to generate income for war relief. Interestingly, Jones didn't pursue golf as a career. He worked on his education, attending Georgia Tech, Harvard and Emory and got a law degree. He was also a very astute and successful businessman. His accomplishments are too numerous to write here!

Review Topic 9 Solving Quadratic Equations. Cameron completed most of the problems on the practice test on Topic 9 that I sent home last night in class.

Review Topic 9 Solving Quadratic Equations. Cameron worked on multiplying and simplifying radicals and when to use the quadratic equation.

Today we studied the countries of South America, their geography, their food, and traditions.

Independent creative non-fiction 3 reads protocol and response for excerpt of The Kite Runner (chapter 6); writing in zones scaffolding activity for final creative nonfiction essay. Cameron is given a creative non-fiction prompt related to the essay prompt through which he writes a short, creative non-fiction piece that he may be able to use later in his creative non-fiction narrative essay.

Today we reviewed the activity that he completed yesterday. I explained the answers that he had incorrect and we reviewed verbs that end in AR in the future.

MegaWords 26-29 review; vocabulary.com MW29 spelling bee -67% accuracy; combining all trouble words/spelling patterns into one final review for the year which we will begin tomorrow and continue for the duration of the quarter.