First period read in class for the most part: many students were out finishing up their MAP testing from earlier in the year, so I decided not to go further without them.

Second and sixth periods began a new story, “Tears of Autumn.” It’s a challenging story about a young Japanese woman heading to America for an arranged marriage. We use it to look at two things:

1. The effect of word choice on mood
2. How setting affects characters and mood

Fourth period continued working on sentence types. We’ll start Dickens tomorrow.

Homework

• First period: read chapters six and seven but do not read ahead to chapter eight.
• Second and sixth periods:
  • finish reading “Tears of Autumn”;
  • be prepared for quiz on the reading tomorrow.
• Fourth period:
  • watch Dickens biography;
  • play the Dickens Game;
  • while watching the biography and playing the game, fill out the Dickens 6-5-4-3-2-1