Fourth period English I Honors students continued looking at how Harper Lee achieves the voice of a southern genteel lady while still remaining childlike in To Kill a Mockingbird. We looked at the following stylistic and topical elements

1. Long sentences
2. Diversions
3. Dated language
4. Folksy-sounding language
5. Exaggeration/embellishment
6. Understatement/deprecation
7. Importance of family
8. Sense of community
9. Importance of religion
10. Importance of time, place, and the past

English 8 Strategies turned back to grammar, it being Wednesday. We’re beginning a two-Wednesday look at run-on sentences to complement our earlier work with sentence fragments. After that, we’ll spend a couple of weeks implementing practice with both of them before we have a major assessment on them.

Sixth-period English I Honors read an informational text about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs before working on a diagram of the hierarchy based on the text. We finished with some debriefing to make sure students understood how the hierarchy works.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • fourth period: read through chapter four of To Kill a Mockingbird by tomorrow;
  • sixth period: read chapter two of Lord of the Flies by tomorrow, considering as you read how Maslow’s hierarchy might be important to the novel;
  • all students: work on the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack project.