October 6

English 10

Today we started off the class with a look back at the story Marcus the Great after a last call for last weeks work on this story.  Students were asked to fill in a chart comparing Marcus and Kelly using exact words from the story whenever possible. 


                                          Marcus                                  Kelly

Appearance

Environment

Personality traits

Likes

Goals

Self -talk (story)


After completing this chart students were asked to answer the following:

How do the themes of identity and story relate the story Marcus the Great?    Students had been asked to do this a couple of classes ago.  After assessing student work it was apparent we had to revisit this topic. 

Finally. students were asked to start making a glossary of English 10 terms.  Students were asked to define the terms and provide an example (if possible).  Here are the 5 terms:

bias
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole

Humanities 8

Today we started off with a quiz on chapter 7.  Next we went over the important components of the newspaper article assignment.  Students were given the entire class to plan their newspaper assignment.  Their plan should be complete for tomorrow, so that they can start work on the computers.