- Students continued their notes on grammar and will finish these mini-notes next class.
- We read "The Three Little Pigs" and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" and identified various literary elements in them.
- We then watched a video on terms of literature and used that video to help us identify some terms within our favorite fairy tales and movies.
- REMINDER: Students' summer reading music projects are due Monday the 29th and Tuesday the 30th!!!
- Students did a brainstorming activity for a previous Georgia High School Writing Test prompt concerning banned books. This will be used to write a short in-class essay next week.
- We then took a pretest on Puritan literature.
- Afterwards, students gathered characteristics of Native Americans (see below) and were instructed to write a eulogy mourning the passing of Native American culture from the perspective of either a modern-day student, a European settler, or an American Indian. They had to choose three Native characteristics and write the eulogy to a length of two to three paragraphs. This is due next class!!!
NATIVE AMERICAN CHARACTERISTICS
- Peaceful
- Spiritual (Animistic religion)
- Oral tradition
- Pictographs
- Origin myth
- Hunters, gatherers, fishers
- Tribal community
- Ceremonies
- Powerful Chief
- Nature important
- Dreams as visions
- Symbolic Colors
- Traditional clothing (skins, fringe, feathers, war paint, beads)
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