Mr. Knight's Class

monday- quiz and discussion hw: IR due in 10 days (free choice)

tuesday-more discussion,writing practice: hw ch. 8

Wednesday-discussion, begin character sketch hw ch. 9, 10, 11 (for monday)

thursday- Depression Era Day

Our first real day of discussing the novel was a good one. Kids drew pictures of significant images from the first chapter and we tried to guess how exactly the image was important.

Feb. 27-Mar. 2

Monday – reading quiz, quotations, reading guide questions HW ch. 2 and reading questions or notations

Tuesday – grammar review, reading quiz, begin vocab. HW ch. 3 & 4

Wednesday- vocab, reading quiz, discussion HW ch. 5

Thursday- grammar review, discussion

Friday- clips, reading, vocab review HW vocab quiz cumulative

Feb 22 We performed the first edit on our comedy pieces. I asked students to use more metaphoric language, different sentence structure, and use a thesaurus to change six of their words into more powerful ones.

Feb 23 We read several of comedy writing pieces and looked for what worked and what didn’t. will read their finished pieces to parents tonight. Then we began To Kill a Mockingbird and I gave them some historical perspective on the novel.

Feb 24 We worked on some grammar review and then returned to the novel. I am reemphasizing the “notated reading” strategy we worked on in the first semester. Kids will read the 3 chapters over the weekend.

Feb 22 We performed the first edit on our comedy pieces. I asked students to use more metaphoric language, different sentence structure, and use a thesaurus to change six of their words into more powerful ones.

Feb 23 We read several of comedy writing pieces and looked for what worked and what didn’t. will read their finished pieces to parents tonight. Then we began To Kill a Mockingbird and I gave them some historical perspective on the novel.

Feb 24 We worked on some grammar review and then returned to the novel. I am reemphasizing the “notated reading” strategy we worked on in the first semester. Kids will read the 3 chapters over the weekend.

Feb 22-edit comedy writing, revise and reprint at home

Feb 23- continue to edit/revise comedy writing/begin TKAM/ parents sign progress report

Feb 24- read first 3 chapters of TKAM

Each student gave a poetry reading today. Wow, they certainly have improved as public speakers and writers!

We used the computer and Imovie to practice for our poetry readings. The exercise helped us see what merits and deficiencies we had as public speakers.

poetry test day

We analyzed and explicated two love poems. We also began initial explications of the test-essay poem, “The Writer.”