September 9, 2019

All classes:

We reviewed the options and requirements for your independent reading projects. Click here to review. Note: You need to bring an independent reading book to class on Wednesday. If you want to borrow one, you must do so BEFORE your class period on Wednesday.

Today was a day to set up your English Notebook. You will notice it is posted in Google Classroom as an assignment. You will want to bookmark the page when you log on to your computers in class. I will help you (if you were absent) to set up your notebook upon your return. You will also see the table of contents for your class period posted in Google Classroom. 

Period 1 and 2: Seminar 9

Dialectal Journal: Directions here. If absent, you will need to copy the journal template into your notebook.

We got a taste of the Anglo-Saxon, Old English language of Beowulf. 
To start, here is a copy of the lines we read in Old English and a link to listen to the audio (lines 1-11) from a website.

Here are the Slides from today.

Period 3 and 4: Seminar 10

Dialectal Journal: Directions here. If absent, you will need to copy the journal template into your notebook.

We began with the Prologue of The Alchemist. Everyone added one passage of their choosing from the Prologue and analyzed it in their dialectal journal. We read until page nine, and homework is to read until the break on page 21.

Period 6: English 9

We read one "two-minute story" from the "Culture of Thought" archive together. It is titled "Two Minutes on the Pier". Afterward, we discussed observations, likes, and dislikes. Next, groups received a different, two-minute story and were asked to find similarities to the class example, noting that if they are the same kind of writing, they have some key elements.

Next, we noted that all the stories were memoirs. As such, a memoir a memory of a moment or event, both public or private, that took place in the writer’s life. Memoirs are nonfiction, personal narratives.

Memoirs use the personal pronoun "I," are true, have significant relationships, are focused on a SMALL moment, and have specific detail and emotion.

As we continue our study of reading and writing memoirs, we will attempt to do the same things in our writing that the mentor texts we read do.