Sorry for yesterday's non-posting! Our internet was down! Have a great Veteran's Day!
Pre-AP
In Wednesday's class, we discussed the importance of being able to wield our words well, and the fact that our writing needs to be clear, concise, and say exactly what we are trying to say. In this vein, we completed a sentence manipulation exercise where students were asked to choose a sentence from a paragraph they were given and manipulate it in certain ways.
We also began a discussion of active and passive voice, which we concluded in Thursday's class. For a good explanation of active vs. passive voice, you can click here.
Homework: Students need to finish reading chapters 22-31 (the end of the book) in To Kill a Mockingbird. They also need to study their Words of the Day, the active and passive voice, and all of their notes on To Kill a Mockingbird. Looking to the future, students need to study all of their notes that we've taken in this unit. We will have the comprehensive unit test on Thursday, November 17th.
AHSGE Reading Review
In Wednesday's class, we began a comparison/contrasting activity where we read through parts of Romeo and Juliet and watched Simon Birch and compared the two. As an exercise in literary analysis, in this activity students look beyond the surface differences of the two stories and begin to draw connections between their plot and the main characters.
In Thursday's class, students finished Simon Birch and took a test on the literary elements that we studied. (Freytag's triangle, figurative language, plot, etc.)
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