Period 1: Freshmen
1) SSR and collection of "Black Boy" homework.
2) Set up writing folders, which we will utilize all year long
3) Read and highlighted an article on My Space, then on Carburated Engines. Follow-up conversation on what techniques good readers can use when they encounter new, difficult or confusing reading passages. Looked at list of "fix-up strategies" and "common distractions."
Period 5: AP Lit.
We began with some notes on Narration and Point of View Terms, and then got into a great discussion about "The Cask of Amontillado" and its narrative style, the disturbing insanity of Montressor and how Poe builds the story with the use of description and sound details. Then, we switched our discussion to Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" and its lack of descriptive details and abundance of dialogue. We decided that tone of voice is important in that story, but Hemingway gives you no clues about that.
HW: Read "Why I Live at the P.O" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener," paying special attention to characterization.
Period 7: Shakespeare
Worked on Golden Lines for Act 1. Discussed your choices and why those lines were significant.
Then, we read Act 2, scenes 1 and 2. (Yes, Chris, Macbeth really kills the King.)
HW: Add to your contradiction/oxymoron list for the scenes we've read.
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