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The document outlines the agenda and assignments for an 8th grade language arts class on September 26, 2013. The agenda included independent reading, working on a memoir, and discussing the novel The Outsiders. Assignments given were to comment on two students' responses, take a spelling test, draft a memoir, read chapters 8-10 of a novel, write a reading response, and complete vocabulary work.
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