Gentlemen.
Congratulations to the 8th grade basketball team, completing their Avalon middle school careers with a stirring, one-point victory over the 7th graders yesterday at Radnor Stadium, where Asmar’s trey-ball falls not. Good luck to all in your future basketball ventures, especially the 7th graders, who will be all mine in eight short months (looking your way, “O’Suicides”).
Good work starting up again; we got a lot of work done today in Comp-Land.
7th Grade/4th Period: We did Class Exercise 028 and developed factual support for our theses. Tomorrow we may or may not do Quiz #29, and we’ll move on to class exercise 29.
7th Grade/6th Period: Today we did Class Ex. 029 on compound-complex quartets. Tomorrow we’ll do a quiz on them.
8th Grade/2nd Period: We did Class Exercise #29 about compound-complex quartets, and we’ll have a quiz on that tomorrow, Quiz #30. Tomorrow, with any luck, we’ll be able to review the essays (that’s if I can get them all graded tonight).
8th Grade/Float Dogs: No class today, floater zero. Tomorrow we’ll do Class Exercise 29.
Hooper Project: Congrats to Drew Dawson, who was first on the draw Friday night, slaying his inner Hooper by answering five – count them – five questions about American hero Chuck Yeager, who broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947 in an experimental plane called the X-1, which Yeager nicknamed the “Glamorous Glennis,” after his wife. In 1979, Tom Wolfe wrote an award winner book about Yeager and others called The Right Stuff.
Kicking off the new week, three questions with which to disembowel your Hoopers: (a) What battle was fought on October 14, 1066 (881 years before Yeager made his sonic boom)?, (b) Who were the two armies, and who won?, and (c) Who led the two armies? Good luck.
