English 8 students began a new unit today on the Diary of Anne Frank, our final major reading selection for the year. We began with an anticipation lesson designed to get students empathetic to Anne Frank’s situation and the dangers she faced as the Nazis took over Europe and began their unimaginable efforts to commit genocide.

English I Honors students worked on a brief review of phrases (see notes above) before heading out into the wild world of clauses. We looked at the definition of independent clauses and examined several examples, touching additionally (and briefly) on subordinate clauses.

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: 
  • complete chapters 13-16 of To Kill a Mockingbird by tomorrow (students should have been working on this over the break, but I understand some students were unable to or elected not to);
  • complete the intro and conclusion of the Romeo and Juliet paper;
  • work on No Red Ink as necessary.