Tuesday, December 14th

MODERN PROSE

• The usual!

CREATIVE WRITING


Imagery Notes

• We talked about what personification is, and we looked at a poem about trees by William Carlos Williams. We pointed out and discussed HOW Williams was personifying the trees.
• We revised the five sentences on page 6 by using personification, and we shared our answers.

Writing Experiment #12

• We wrote a quick poem about an animal or object, and we used personification to create a picture of the animal/object.

Revision

• I handed out the requirements for the Love Is Like Revision, and I went over them.
• I handed out the Simile Suggestions, and we looked over all the suggestions for Paige's poem.
• We talked about how and why they worked, or if they needed more detail.
• We had half an hour to complete our revision and turn it in.

Organization

• I made sure I had pen pal letters, coloring pages, and trinkets from everyone!

Homework

• None, unless you needed to finish your Love Is Like poem revision.

AP ENGLISH

The Victorian Age, Charles Dickens, and A Christmas Carol

• We spent all our time before lunch on the scavenger hunt to start learning what life was like for Victorians.
• After lunch, we spent fifteen minutes checking our answers.

Animal Farm

• I passed out Mr. Hoover's powerpoint, and we spent five minutes going ove rit.
• Biographical Approach--we spent five minutes discussing the resonances between Orwell's life and Animal Farm.
• We talked a little about fable and satire.

Conferencing

• I talked with five people about their Vocab War progress, their "Harrison Bergeron" wiki posts, and their notes from yesterday.

Vocabulary

• I talked about the state of Vocab War, I handed a sheet for reflection and team meeting guidelines, and then we had five minutes to get into our groups and confer and strategize.

Homework

• Study for the Animal Farm final quiz (tomorrow).
• Study of the Animal Farm vocabulary quiz (tomorrow).