First, fourth, and sixth periods worked on poetry, specifically Jacqueline Woodson’s “Describe Someone.” We practiced as a class revising lines to add alliteration and consonance. Students will be doing the same to their own poems for homework.
Second period went over the Cyclops episode in the Odyssey.
Homework

First period:

read “Summer Sky”;
answer questions on pages 227-229 in workbook.

Second period:

semi-long [...]