First and sixth periods began a unit on the short story. We’ll be reading several short stories as well as looking at the construction and elements of short stories. Today we worked on a general review (for the students)/pre-unit-assessment (for me) in the form of Jeopardy.

Second and fourth periods began going over the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird. We reviewed direct and indirect characterization before looking at the character of Mayella Ewell.

Seventh period went over the homework from yesterday, looked at some specialized poetry vocabulary, and began reading the first poem.

Homework

• First and sixth periods: none.
• Second and fourth periods:
• read chapters 19-23 of To Kill a Mockingbird;
• begin working on Schaffer model homework (all of the following will be due Friday):
• go over “Schaffer Model Presentation“;
• review Schaffer Model Examples
• use the “Schaffer Paragraph Graphic Organizer” to take notes from the “Schaffer Paragraph Presentation.”
• Seventh period: create trifold and draw three pictures illustrating today’s poem.