First and seventh periods worked on The Glory Field‘s fourth part, “April 1964.” The main character has just been offered an opportunity to be the first African American student at a local college. Myers makes reference to Marian Anderson, so we watched her historic performance in 1939 (available by clicking her name above).

Second period began a short science fiction story. We’ll be comparing it to The Giver to determine what some of the elements of good science fiction are.

Fourth period finished up (“Finally!” everyone’s saying.) sentence types. We’ll have a test on it later, and there will be an element on the research project rubric dealing with sentence types.

Homework

• First and seventh periods:
  • read through page 234;
  • write at least two summaries.
• Second period: none.
• Fourth period: read through chapter 52 by Friday.