Vocabulary Worksheet

Please open this worksheet and save it to your hard drive. Include your name in the file name. Like if your name is Biff, call it BiffVocabWorksheet. (Then see about changing your geeky name.)
Block 7: We will work on this in class today and Tuesday. It will be collected on Thursday, 9/27.
Block 4: We will work on this in class Tuesday, 10/2 and it will be due Thursday 10/4 before class starts.

Two Quizzes Coming Up

There will be a quiz on Chapters 8 and 9 of Jekyll & Hyde at on 9/18 for Block 4 and 9/19 for Block 7
There will be a quiz on Chapter 10 of the same book on 9/20 for Block 4 and 9/25 for Block 7

Process Essay Worksheet

Here is the worksheet we used to write the process essay. You can download this and input your answers on computer if you prefer that to handwriting.

Audio of Ch. 4 "The Carew Murder Case"

Here is an audio file of an actor reading Chapter 4 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, "The Carew Murder Case." The author's writing style may sometimes come across as archaic and difficult to understand if you are not used to reading 19th Century fiction. Hearing it out loud is sometimes helpful because more meaning is conveyed by the actor's performance.

More chapters will be available on audio soon. You can also copy the files from me in class (I have them on a flash drive) or go to the iTunes story and search for it. For some reason, the entire book is available for FREE on iTunes!

Research Worksheet for Jekyll and Hyde

Here is the Research Worksheet that was handed out on Friday. If you don't have the most recent version of MS Word, use this link instead.

Full Text of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

If you can't locate your book, or if the words are too small and you want to print the whole thing out with a bigger font, or if you just like reading on the computer better than the page, click here for a a full-text version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Ode to Billie Joe

Here are the lyrics to "Ode to Billie Joe" as well as an MP3 file if you would like to listen to it.

ode to billie joe
by Bobbie Gentry

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet!"
And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge.
Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."

Papa said to Mama as he passed around the black-eyed peas
"Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please.
There's five more acres in the lower forty that I gotta plow."
And Mama said, "Well, it's a shame about Billie Joe, anyhow."
It seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billie Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?
Why, I've been cookin' all mornin' and you haven't touched a single bite.
That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today.
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way.
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news about Billie Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store out in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama, she don't seem to wanna do much, much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge