Today's class was very enlightening. As we continued and finished our discussion of propaganda, students saw how many of the strategies employed in WWII propaganda are still used today to try and influence our opinions and actions.
We also completed an exercise is narrative composition, as we read and then emulated a short-story version of the play Romeo and Juliet. Students were given the assignment to write their own short-story version of the play, which had to be five paragraphs long (one paragraph for each act), and is due tomorrow (Tuesday, August 30th).
(4th block also took the Shakespeare test that they missed on Friday due to the in-school fashion show.)
AHSGE Reading Review
In today's predictive class, we discussed predictions and generalizations and how we can use both of these concepts to keep us engrossed in even the dullest of stories. We also discussed how authors and movie-makers use our natural abilities to predict to get us interested in their stories or movies.
To end the class, students took a quiz that measured their ability to predict and generalize.
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