Day 41

NINTH LIT

• SECOND PERIOD: Students studied for their Mid-Term exam.  This will be on Monday, the 19th!!
• FIRST AND EIGHTH PERIOD: Students took their Romeo and Juliet Drama Unit Test!

AMERICAN LIT

• Students took their Romanticism Unit Test!

Day 40

NINTH LIT

• SECOND PERIOD: We took our Romeo and Juliet Drama Unit Test!
• FIRST AND EIGHTH PERIOD: We studied for our Romeo and Juliet Drama Unit Test! THIS WILL BE NEXT CLASS!!!

AMERICAN LIT

• We studied for our Romanticism Unit Test! THIS WILL BE NEXT CLASS!!!
• For five bonus points, students can edit the poem A Dream Within a Dream
• They should identify 5 sound devices, 3 elements of Romanticism, and 1 theme

Day 39

NINTH LIT

• Students took DGP quiz 4.
• PERIOD 2: We reviewed for our Romeo and Juliet test.  This test will be next class (December 13) for second period!
• PERIODS 1 AND 8: We took notes on Romeo and Juliet in pop culture and received our review sheets for the Romeo and Juliet test.  First period's test will be December 14, eighth period's test will be December 15!!

AMERICAN LIT

• Students took DGP quiz 3.
• Students finished their Romanticism PowerPoint projects. THIS SHOULD BE TURNED IN BY MIDNIGHT.  Email this project to me at AmandaLRobbins@gmail.com

Day 38

NINTH LIT

• Students finished day 4 of DGP. THERE WILL BE A QUIZ NEXT CLASS!
• We then took our Act IV quiz, followed by acting out Act V of Romeo and Juliet.
• Act V questions are due next class!

AMERICAN LIT

• Students completed day 4 of DGP.  THERE WILL BE A QUIZ NEXT CLASS!
• We then continued working on our Romanticism PowerPoint project.  THIS IS DUE NEXT CLASS!

Day 37

NINTH LIT

• Students completed Day 3 of DGP
• We then took a quiz over Act III of Romeo and Juliet.
• Students then read through Act IV of Romeo and Juliet, using guided questions to help them follow along.
• THERE WILL BE AN ACT IV QUIZ NEXT CLASS!
• Your Drama unit test has been scheduled for Wednesday, December 14/Thursday, December 15!!! This is tentative but will likely fall on this day.

AMERICAN LIT

• Students completed Day 3 of DGP
• We then did a short activity using songs to prove knowledge of alliteration, assonance, consonance, end rhyme, internal rhyme, and near rhyme.
• We watched a video of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and followed along in the text, searching for alliteration, assonance, consonance, end rhyme, internal rhyme, and a romantic hero as we read.
• Time left in the class was spent on annotating poems for the PowerPoint project.
• Your Romanticism unit test has been scheduled for Monday, December 12/Tuesday, December 13!!!
• If you have lost your poems...
• Choose one from here:
• Old Ironsides 
• The Chambered Nautilus 
• GROUP 1 ONLY: Choose two from here:
•  The Children's Hour
• Paul Revere's Ride 
• Christmas Bells 
• Eulalie 
• GROUP 2 ONLY: Choose two from here:
• The Wreck of the Hesperus
• The Journey of Life
• Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

Day 36

NINTH LIT

• Students completed Day 2 of DGP
• We then took a quiz over Act II of Romeo and Juliet.
• Students read Act III of Romeo and Juliet, using guided questions to help them follow along.
• THERE WILL BE A QUIZ OVER ACT III NEXT CLASS!

AMERICAN LIT

• Students completed Day 2 of DGP
• Students recapped their annotations of Thanatopsis.
• We then began our Romanticism PowerPoint Project:
• Students will annotate three poems (one may be a poem we've already annotated), paraphrasing them into their own words and identifying various poetic devices within each poem.  They will then turn this into a PowerPoint presentation complete with images and design.
• Students received a rubric for this.  This will count as three formative grades.
• DUE DATE: DECEMBER 8/9!!!

Day 35

NINTH LIT

• Students completed day 1 of DGP
• We then read Act II of Romeo and Juliet using guided questions to help follow along.
• THERE WILL BE A QUIZ OVER ACT II NEXT CLASS.

AMERICAN LIT

• Students completed day 1 of DGP
• We recapped Romanticism with an annotation of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Chambered Nautilus
• We then read William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis and annotated it for various poetic devices.  THIS IS DUE NEXT CLASS.