First and sixth periods continued with the short story unit, practicing effective reader’s skills with a Say Something engagement. We’ll be finishing the unit on short stories this week and having a test on the unit next Tuesday, December 6.

Second and fourth periods began a unit on poetry. We will be spending these last three weeks before winter break working on verse in anticipation of Romeo and Juliet, which we will begin when we return in January.

Seventh period began  working on narrative poetry. We were looking at a ballad in class, figuring out as we worked what a ballad is and how it works.

Homework

• First and sixth periods: none.
• Second and fourth periods:
• write a three to four sentence summary of the poem “Introduction to poetry”;
• complete the anthology survey;
• prepare the anthology (as able).
• Seventh period: complete the two-sentence stanza summaries we worked on in class for stanzas five and six.