First and fifth periods finished up some practice with adding quotes to concrete details to make intermediate-level CDs. We ended up with a few good examples from each class:

• Fifth Period
  • For example, Anne is talking about Miep running their errands for them and Mr. Van Daan interrupts her and says, “Don’t you ever get tired of talking.”
  • For example, when Anne picked up his pipe and hid it behind her back, Mr. Van Daan said “what you need is a good old-fashioned spanking.”
  • For instance, Mr. VD is arguing about Peter having the cat, so he says, “What’s the matter with you? Haven’t you any sense? Get that cat out of here.”
• Fifth Period
  • For example when Mr. Van Daan says to Anne “You’re the most aggravating…the trouble with you is you’ve been spoiled”
  • For instance, Mr. VD and Anne get into an argument during which MVD proclaims her to be “aggravating” and “spoiled.”

Second and fourth periods finished up — more or less — a two-day examination of the ballad form by looking at “The Ballad of Birmingham.” However, the copy provided students was a bit incomplete: the stanzas were out of sequence and missing one line.

Notes from second and fourth periods

We’ll be finishing up briefly tomorrow by making some generalizations about the form before

Homework

• First and fifth periods: read act two, scene one in its entirety. (There will likely be a quiz on it tomorrow.)
• Second and fourth periods:
  • using the graphic organizer from class, determine four characteristics of a ballad;
  • continue with the anthology project.

KB, here’s your work.