Day 60

NINTH LIT

• Students completed Day 1 of their DGP using their new sentence "Can you come over and watch the movie Casablanca after school?"
• Students practiced writing a thesis/claim and had this approved by the teacher.
• We then went to the lab to begin working on our body paragraphs for our essays.
• NOTICE: Students research worksheets and notecards were taken up for a grade.  These were worth three tests.  If a student did not complete them, they must do so for homework ASAP!

AMERICAN LIT

• Students completed Day 1 of their DGP using their new sentence "Carla looked in the mirror at herself and recited the poem 'Fire and Ice.'"
• We took notes on our new unit vocabulary words: direct characterization, indirect characterization, stream of consciousness, allegory, allusion, author's purpose, mood, tone, conflict, refrain
• Students listened to the spirituals "Go Down, Moses" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and completed two worksheets on them
• We then began reading Frederick Douglass's "My Bondage and My Freedom" while working on a guided worksheet.  This will be finished next class.
• REMINDER!!! Students will need their books for the next four classes AT LEAST.