First, second, and fourth periods all worked on figurative language: similes, metaphors, and personification. We looked at three poems that use figurative language: “Concrete Mixers,” “The City is So Big,” and “Harlem Night Song.”

Fourth period finished up yesterday’s posters on the varying points of view and opinions about Boo Radley. Then we read, in class, the first portion of chapter nine of To Kill a Mockingbird. This is the episode in which Cecil Jacobs insults Scout’s father by suggesting Atticus is morally inferior because he is defending Tom Robinson. It is where the pejorative term for African Americans first appears in the book, so we spent the last half of the class discussing the impact of that word and how words can take on emotional hues.

Homework

• First and second periods: complete illustrations of similes and metaphors from the three poems.
• Fourth period:
  • read chapters 9-11 in To Kill a Mockingbird;
  • complete the
• Seventh period: none.