Pre-AP
In today's class, students broke into groups and studied different parts of the "Close-Reading Toolbox" information sheet that they received at the beginning of the year. Students then spent time teaching each of their fellow classmates about each one of the literary terms.
Homework: Students need to read The Odyssey Parts 1 and 2 (pages 963-992) by Wednesday, February 8th, when they will take the first Odyssey test. The test will also cover the aforementioned close-reading terms and the Words of the Day. Students also need to be reading Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis. They should have this finished by Monday, February 13th, when they will have a test on it and the third part of The Odyssey.
For a copy of the "Close-Reading Toolbox" information sheet, click here.
AHSGE Reading Review
As an exercise in understanding context clues, students created non-sense poems about their favorite subjects and put in made-up words throughout the poem. Their classmates then had to figure out what the words meant that they created based on their use in the poems.
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