First, second, and seventh periods practiced their parts from Anne Frank.  First and seventh periods also worked on using context to determine a word’s meaning.
Fourth period completed work with tone. After writing a description of walking a dog with a prescribed tone, students read their work to the class and the audience had to identify [...]

Fourth period continued working on mood and tone. We watched a few trailers for films in which the genre had been switched through skillful editing.

Dumb and Dumber was turned into a horror film, Lurk and Lurker;
The Shining was transformed from horror film into a feel-good romantic comedy; and
Mary Poppins edited as a horror film, [...]

First, second, and seventh periods spend the day preparing for the in-class performance/reading of Diary of Anne Frank.
Each group had a chance to practice as a group and discuss the text. I also shared with students the grading criteria:

Preparedness: I am familiar with my lines (not necessarily memorized) and I understand the meaning of my [...]

First, second, and seventh periods finished the anticipatory lesson for a unit on The Diary of Anne Frank. As such, we had an today, drawing on students’ prior knowledge of the Holocaust and making it personal through a series of reflective writing exercises. To do this, we looked at a slide show I created about [...]

Fourth period worked on three elements of an author’s (and individual selection’s) style:

diction
tone, and
mood.

We looked at an example selection to see how the author manipulated words and phrases to create a specific mood and tone.
First, second, and seventh periods  began a couple of days of lessons dealing with the Holocaust in preparation for reading the [...]

First and seventh periods had a final day of work on the memoir final draft. It is due tomorrow, along with several other documents:

First draft
Peer editing form
Second draft
Final draft
Rubric

Fourth period worked on the nonfiction form and will continue tomorrow. We’ve begun a short unit on the memoir and we will be focusing on the relationship [...]

First period had a quick review of nominative and objective case personal pronounse.
Second period finished up the dialogues combining characters from Journey Home and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Some students took grammar handbooks for the self-study parts of speech review.
Fourth and sixth periods finished up reading the excerpt from An American Childhood. [...]

First period continued looking at mood and author’s purpose with the selection from A. Dillard’s An American Childhood.
Second period continued working on their dialogues.
Fourth and sixth periods began reading the selection from An American Childhood and started looking at how Dillard creates a mood of fear in the piece.
Homework

First period: complete mood chart (classwork)
Second period:

continue [...]

First, fourth, and sixth periods began a new selection that will focus on mood. Our first task: determine what mood is and how writers create it. And to do that, we … listened to music and watched movie trailers. We did this to see what mood is: an atmosphere created by a work of art. [...]

First, fourth, and sixth periods had a selection test on “Cub Pilot,” conflict, and prediction. Hopefully everyone did well. After the test, we began the next selection by talking about mood, which is the feeling that a piece of writing creates in a reader.
Second period had something of a catch-up day. We went over indirect [...]