First period worked on combining sentences. We’ll be applying all our new editing techniques to our persuasive essays for the last couple of days of this week.

Second period began the unit on Lord of the Flies. We started by looking at allegories and the best and most famouse example in existence: Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” from the Republic, book VII. After reading an excerpt, we watched an award-winning claymation summary (Not surprisingly, this is blocked if you’re viewing it from a Greenville County Schools network computer.) and discussed what Plato was suggesting with his allegory. The discussion soon showed how all allegories break down sooner or later.

Fourth and sixth periods did work with run-on sentences: how to detect them (simple: read them aloud) and three ways to fix the problem (including the use of the loveliest of all punctuation, the semicolon).

Homework

• First period: finish first draft of essay.
• Second period: Lord of the Flies chapters 1-3.
• Fourth and sixth periods: none.