English 8 students worked on applying the effective readers’ skills in groups using “Thank You, Ma’am” as the example text. We’ll continue working on it tomorrow.

English I Honors students began the short story unit in which we will learn how to analyze literature using the Schaffer Model for organization.

Journalism students began learning the Inverted Pyramid model that we use for all our writing. We went over the basic organizational principles of it and then practiced by writing news stories about fairy tales. We did the original Little Mermaid as a class.

An unknown girl was found dead on the Royal Beach this morning. Prince Erik requested a police investigation with autopsy to determine the cause and time of death. It is not clear whether the victim committed suicide or was the victim of some attack. Police Chief X had no comment as it is an ongoing investigation.

We’ll be working on the Inverted Pyramid for the rest of the year.

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: 
  • read How to Write About Literature;
  • research the setting of “The Sniper“;
  • continue working on the benchmark test.