Friday, 2/6/2009

AP ENGLISH

"Home Burial"

• We finished discussing the RJ questions.
  

"The Dangers of Reading Fiction"

• We discussed the RJ questions.
  

Frankenstein Vocabulary

We played a vocab review game, guys versus girls, and the guys won, barely.  :-)

Critical Approaches

We got into our groups for twenty minutes to continue working on our presentations.

Homework

• Read "The Art of Fiction" on pages 31-2.
  
• Answer the eight Reading Journal questions thoughtfully and carefully.
  
• Study the Frankenstein vocabulary for fifteen minutes.
  

CREATIVE WRITING

Homework Due

• Death of Language
  

Writing Lesson

• What makes a story a story?  We talked about some of the genre research you guys did, and we looked at some elements of the short story up on the Big Screen.
  

Writing Assignment

• Where Were You Last Night?
  
• We wrote a short story that started with the given line, "Where were you last night?"  We typed about thirty minutes, then printed what we had. 
  

Organization

• We got our folders and logged in several pieces.
  

Diction Practice

• We played Catchphrases, guys versus girls, and the game ended in a tie--that's right, a tie!  :-)

Homework

• Journal #2--two pages MINIMUM (typed; doublespaced) on a topic of your choosing; you may use page 17 for help, if you want to.  It's due in the drawer when you walk in on Monday.
  

TURBO-ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING

Post Secret

• We discussed some of the postcards we'd viewed online or in the books.  Some were funny, some were heartbreaking, some were disturbing--but each one had a quality of honesty.  
  
• Our assignment for Monday is to create TWO Post Secret post cards (one to be share with the class, the other not).
  

Celebration

• We went to Kum and Go, and a good time was had by all. 
  
• We started construction of a snack schedule.

Writing Assignment

• Hurtling Towards Cereal Bowl, Spoon at Ready
  
• We took our morning, and we turned it into a "fancy morning", using Adam N.'s model in the textbook as an example.  Those that wanted to shared them at the end of the block.
  

Homework

• Childhood Memoir, ready to peer conference
  
• Post Secret Post Card (2)