English 8 students continued with the second part of yesterday’s lesson by applying what we’d learned to a text about how slaves retained many of their traditions while still enslaved. We’ll be examining the argument in the text tomorrow.

English I Honors students began by looking at the article of the week. Some of the students still struggle with the required annotations, so we did one together.

Afterward, we began our unit on poetry by looking at how to read poetry while reading “Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry” — a  lot of metacognition there.

Homework

• English 8: 
  • complete the context work from class today;
  • work on article of the week as necessary.
• English I Honors: 
  • complete the Magi/Necklace paragraph as necessary (due tomorrow);
  • sign up for the Quizlet class according to period (see above shortly);
  • begin looking at the AOW vocab at Quizlet;
  • summarize the events of the poem we looked at (a one- to two-sentence summary should suffice);
  • work on article of the week as necessary.