Good Evening! Waking up to a horrible thunder storm today was not the way I would have chosen to wake up if I had a choice. I’m watching the destruction on the national news right now. Pretty vicious results in the south, especially Georgia and Alabama. It was really blustery on my way home. Hopefully tomorrow we’ll have better weather.
Here’s what we did today:
Juniors: You took notes that I put on the board (all except 1st period who will take the notes tomorrow), then I handed back your Transcendentalism Poetry Circle work and you used those to explicate your first rotation poem (you joined with your original group during the first rotation) and discussed your poem. We only made it through one poem. I also had you write down what was on Friday’s Transcendentalism test: Transcendentalism characteristics, Thoreau’s Walden, 13 poems from your poetry circles, Emerson’s Civil Disobedience, and an essay by Annie Dillard.
HW: Use the reading strategies I’ve given you all year to study Walden tonight. Also, study your poetry in preparation for tomorrow’s discussion.
Sophomores: You met in your groups and re-read I:ii and blocked the scene. Then, I called characters from each group to perform the scene together. We are working on: interpreting the scene, getting used to reading in iambic pentameter and NOT READING but INFLECTING and ACTING out the scene, right?!?
HW: Read I:iii
See you tomorrow!
Mrs. B
