All students are currently engaged in lit circles: English I Honors students are using them to work through To Kill a Mockingbird and English 8 students are using them to go through a brief text about Harriet Tubman.

English I students also began examining sentence structure and diction to determine how Mockingbird sounds southern. We’re looking at these elements:

1. Long sentences
2. Diversions
3. Dated language
4. Folksy-sounding language
5. Exaggeration/embellishment
6. Understatement/depreciation
7. Importance of family
8. Sense of community
9. Importance of religion,
10. Importance of time, place, and the past

Homework

• English 8: turn in the one-pager.
• English I Honors: 
  • read your group-decided chapters;
  • complete your work for your lit circle job;
  • continue working on the RJ project, due Monday.