Oops, I missed a week. I was busy all last weekend with cleaning the house, grading, and planning, and I missed doing my blog. Since I'm behind on grading and it feels impossible to catch up, I'm keeping this fairly short and sweet. I know that it looks like I'm not doing anything, but I get 150 of one assignment in, so it takes me awhile, especially when trying to give a little feedback.
What have we accomplished in two weeks?
- ELA9 have finished looking at theme through short stories and they've moved on to poetry. They have an assignment due on Thursday where they are picking their own themes and creating some poetry.
- ELA10 has moved completely into Animal Farm and they are moving onto Chapter Five, which is halfway through the book. They also tried a Socratic Seminar, and did fairly well, so we're trying it again this coming week with a couple of tweaks.
What is coming up this week? All classes are doing grammar and PSAT instruction for bell work, and then they do the following:
ELA9
- Monday, 10/12 - discuss Poetry Notebook (1st Hour - work time); move on to "The Raven"
- Tuesday, 10/13 - finish "The Raven"; analyze song lyrics for theme
- Wednesday, 10/14 - work time for the Poetry Notebook
- Thursday, 10/15 - Poetry Notebook is due; start choice reading unit - choose and have book in hand by Monday
- Friday, 10/16 - analyze Edward Scissorhands for theme
ELA10
- Monday, 10/12 - Chapter 3/4 Quiz; Read and analyze Chapter 5
- Tuesday, 10/13 - allegory; propaganda
- Wednesday, 10/14 - Read Chapter 6
- Thursday, 10/15 - analyze Chapter 6; prepare for Socratic Seminar
- Friday, 10/16 - Socratic Seminar
I hope everyone has a great week. Look for emails about PSAT's for 9th grade and Homecoming announcements. Ciao!
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