Period 1--AP 30
We finished going over the prose selection from an old AP exam and looked at the thesis statements students came up with. We followed this by looking at the free-response question prompt and looking at what the prompt meant as well as various pieces of literature that could be used to answer that question. I assigned the novella The Awakening by Kate Chopin. To provide a framework for the story, we looked and information about Creole Society in the 19th century. The students should have this novel read by the end of the February break. Finally, we looked at a power point on sonnets to get us ready for Monday's class--we will be examining Shakespearean sonnets.
Period 2--Pre-AP 20
We set the due date for their "Benjamin Button" annotations--April 2nd. I encouraged them to be working on this continuously and not to leave it until the last minute. We spent this class period studying the literary devices of allusion. In order to do this, the students first wrote down the definition and then we looked at examples from Greek/Roman mythology, Christian/Biblical references, and Norse mythology. There was a lot of discussion this class as students shared their knowledge of these common roots of allusion.
Period 3--ELA A 30
We finally finished going over the handout "Do you speak Canadian?" and then spent some time discussing how the Canadian identity has a tendency to get wrapped up in what it isn't (British/American), rather than what it is. We began looking at a handout that compares the US to Canada as well as some common things from our Canadian experience (Thrills gum, mounties NOT always wearing their red serge, Tim Hortons, the famous--or rather, infamous--"eh," etc.)
Period 4--Pre-AP 10
Since more than half the class was missing today, they had the class to read Dracula. Students are reminded that they should have the novel read by the end of the month.
Reminder: Report cards for semester 1 went out today, so parents should be asking for those!
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