English I students worked on a brief parts of speech overview that we’ll be conducting alongside the regular unit we’re working on, which right now is the short story unit. After a brief review of nouns, focusing a bit on the trickiness of identifying compound nouns, we began working on our final writing assignment for the first unit.

English 8 students worked on their new article “The Automation Paradox.” We determined that the paradox is that

1. automation drives unemployment yet strangely (paradoxically)
2. also creates employment opportunities.

We’ll be examining the article more closely tomorrow to determine just exactly how this paradox works.

Automation leads to unemployment

Automation leads to increased employment

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: 
  • make sure you have a good working topic sentence for your “Magi”/”Necklace” piece;
  • practice on noun identification on the courses site (as needed);
  • complete the district-mandated diagnostic test on No Red Ink. (This is not for a grade. Remember to sign in with Clever.)