Period 1--ELA 20
To introduce them to the novel, I began reading To Kill a Mockingbird to the class and we spent considerable time discussing some of the underlying events that connect to the themes and action in the novel. I will continue reading tomorrow before "cutting them loose" to read on their own.
Period 2--AP 30/ELA A 30
ELA A 30--We finished with our "Canadianisms" handout and the students are reading the novel The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson.
AP 30--The students worked in groups to annotate "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" and worked to create a thesis to the question "Using the resources of language, identify the attitude of the speaker about the situation in which he finds himself." After they figured out the poem, or thought they did, we annotated it together as a class. We will conclude it tomorrow.
Period 3--ELA B 30
We had this last class to work in the computer lab to finish up their power point about their personal identity. Students are to email me the final product.
Period 4 & 5--AP 10
We spent the day with Edgar Allan Poe! I read "The Raven" to the students to give them an idea of Poe's content, then we spent time discussing insanity, things that annoy you, and to what extent you'd be willing to go to eliminate the thing that annoys you. After this discussion, I read "The Tell-Tale Heart" aloud to the students, complete with variance of tone, volume, and expression. After this, the students had to make a connection (either text to text, text to self, or text to the world), and write a paragraph explaining their connection. Once they were finished with that and handed it in, they had to annotate the third paragraph of the story. We went over all of the things you might find in an annotation, and they had time to work in partners to complete the task. We will go over this together as a class tomorrow.
Period 6--AP 20
Finally, we began going over Medicine River with a power point. Our purpose is to examine associational literature and to see how atypical of traditional literature this novel is.
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