English 8 Strategies students began the introduction to the Schaffer writing model today. We went through an overview of all the components (topic sentences, concrete details, commentary sentences, and concluding sentences) before looking at a model.

English I Honors students went over character vocabulary (round, static, dynamic, flat, protagonist, antagonist, etc) before reading a shorty story by Hemmingway in preparation for our second analytic Schaffer paragraph.

Creative writing students flipped Friday’s lesson with today because of school-wide printer server issues. Today we looked at a passages from Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to see how she used sensory language in her memoir. We’ll be trying to incorporate this into our own writing in the next few days.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • complete and turn in online at the Moodle site the first Schaffer analytic paragraph (topic: the role of setting in “The Most Dangerous Game”);
  • complete the first column of the character chart from class that we were applying to Hemmingway’s “Old Man on the Bridge.”