Fourth period English I Honors students completed work on the first informational text for the Lord of the Flies writing project. It was a text on Maslow’s hierarchy, which we will begin applying to the novel tomorrow.

Sixth period English I Honors students completed the work on Southern voice in the opening pages of To Kill a Mockingbird, comparing it to a passage from The Old Man and the Sea. This will be the basis for the first argumentative project option later in the unit.

English 8 Strategies students continued with their peer conferencing practice, looking with their partner at a second example piece. We will continue this tomorrow before moving on to their first actual peer editing session.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • both classes: use this form to assess your starters by Thursday.
  • fourth period students:
    • continue working on the Lord of the Flies vocabulary work;
    • complete the Mockingbird project by Friday.
  • sixth period students:
    • begin assessing the final Lord of the Flies writing assignment (due Friday);
    • read through chapter four of Mockingbird.