English I students focused on their next analytic Schaffer paragraph in which we look at the question of the narrator, point of view, and whether or not we can trust the narrator. We circled back to the first paragraph that we examined a couple of days ago to determine if we could trust the narrator.

Fourth-period notes

After covering the idea of pronoun/antecedent ambiguity, we realized that the second sentence contains sufficient evidence to answer the question of whether or not we can trust the narrator. (We added the pronoun/antecedent ambiguity question to our growing list of methods we can employ to make sense of a tricky text.)

Fifth-period notes

All students are moving toward a TS that indicates we can trust the narrator due to the fact that he appears to be confessing his sins to a priest or pastor.

English 8 students continued planning their final Shaffer paragraph for the first unit. Sixth-period students cleared up their topic sentences and began planning their concrete details. Seventh-period students determined their topic sentence, working on the premise that Mrs. Jones in “Thank You, Ma’am” helped Roger because she had been through something similar as a child.

We’ll be completing these analytic paragraphs next week.