Day 55

NINTH GRADE

• Students did the first day of DGP using our new sentence, "Sara read the novel To Kill a Mockingbird in her English class."  We also took a few notes on editors' marks and corrected wrong sentences with them.
• We took notes on MLA citation, looking at how we will create a Works Cited page on our upcoming research paper.  We then went to the lab to work on citing sources on TrackStar.  If this was not finished in class, it is homework!  It will be due next class!
• REMINDER: Students should have "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah finished by next class!! There will be a heavily-weighted quiz!

AMERICAN LIT

• Students did the first day of DGP using our new sentence, "The Spanish Club traveled to Madrid, Spain, during the summer."  We also took a few notes on editors' marks and corrected wrong sentences with them.
• Students then recapped what we had learned about Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson and finished annotating their four poems: "I Hear America Singing" and "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Whitman, and "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" and "The Brain is Wider than the Sky" by Dickinson.  If the annotations were not finished in class, students should complete them for homework!