First and fifth periods continued working on community building and the class meeting program we will be implementing this year. We completed the period with an engagement similar to the line game in the film Freedom Writers.

Second and fourth periods continued the whirlwind review of the parts of speech, covering pronouns in their entirety today, including personal, reflexive, intensive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, and indefinite varieties.

Homework

• First and fifth periods: complete the writing assignment about the line game today, answering four questions:
  • How did you feel with you were standing at the line with a large group of people?
  • How did you feel when you were almost alone at the line?
  • What kinds of questions drew most people to stand at the line?
  • What kinds of questions drew the fewest people to stand at the line?
• Second and fourth periods:
  • For tomorrow: return to the article of yesterday and find three pronouns, each one a different type.
  • by Monday 27 August
    • complete the benchmark test;
    • read “Letters from Former Students“;
    • complete the “Your Expectations” discussion project;
    • complete the survey about the online aspect of this course.