First and sixth periods turned in their memoirs and began a new unit today. We’re working on persuasion, and we’ll be creating a persuasive piece of writing after learning about persuasive techniques. Second and sixth periods reviewed the weekend’s...
First period finished up the rubric for their project, and we worked on the project just a bit. We had a little relaxation at the end of the period. Second and sixth periods spent a final day of preparing for Monday’s project turn in. The rubric for second and...
Today we wrote for about 15 minutes. The class had to close their eyes and when they opened it, they had to write about what they first saw. Mr. Scott had shown us an example for he had typed this about whiteboards: When we were going to school, we didn’t have...
Fourth period began the arduous process of writing a sonnet. Our topic was the difficulty of writing a sonnet. The pre-writing paraphrase was the following: I don’t want to write a sonnet: it’s too hard Why is it so hard? So much to worry about: Rhyme Meter: Iambic...
First, second, and sixth periods spent time planning their persuasion projects. Fourth period went over meter: “iambic pentameter” finally makes sense to them now, as does “dactylic tetrameter” and any number of combinations. We also decided...
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