What a day! It was a busy one for me!
Period 1--AP 30
We continued to go over the exam question from their final and had a good look at irony. From there, we tackled their assignment from yesterday by examining the poem "To Paint a Water Lily" and looking at the thesis statements the kids came up with. Tomorrow we will continue with the prose passage and free response questions.
Period 2--Pre-AP 20
I went over the expectations for their annotations of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." We discussed the process of active reading and various things that they can look for while reading this novella. Things for them to focus on are: making conncetions, finding symbolism, making predictions, providing impressions, identifying and explaining literary devices, etc. This can be done by highlighting, writing on their copy of the story, adding "sticky notes," or journaling. They had the rest of the class to work on this. It will be due well after the February break, but we won't have any more class time to be working on it.
Period 3--ELA A 30
I had to rush away to take my daughter to the doctor, so Mr. Dingle kindly covered for me. I just allowed the kids to continue to read April Raintree.
Peirod 4--Pre-AP 10
I went over expectations for them in reading Dracula. They need to be able to identify motifs and symbols in the story as well as making connections (text to text, text to self, and text to the world). They should be journaling about this as they read. After this, we went over the big questions of our unit (Mysteries of Life) and spent time discussing such things as imagination, versimilitude, the human brain, and ghosts. Since about half the class will be missing tomorrow for various reasons, the students can have some time to read Dracula. We'll be telling and writing ghost stories on Monday.
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