English Strategies students (fourth period) applied the skills they worked on during Monday’s and Tuesday’s classes with a partner to a new selection, an informational text about slaves and traditions they brought from Africa.

English Studies students continued chapter four work, writing their journal entry and working with their groups for on the theme work.

English I Honors students began the final writing selection, which will focus on irony and symbolism. We worked on our model story, “Peter and Rosa,” coming up with a few possible topic sentences:

• The captain’s wife’s jealousy caused her to go blind as well as the ship when she removes the blue stones because she and the ship symbolize each other.
• The captain’s wife’s jealousy of the figurehead’s stones, which symbolized her eyes, caused her to lose her eyesight and her husband.

We’ll continue working on it tomorrow.

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: 
  • use the topic sentences above to determine two quotes from the story that we could use in CDs;
  • turn in your “Cask of Amontillado” writing;
  • read “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Necklace,” both of which are available on the Moodle site.