Freshmen: Today we learned about making connections as a reader, specifically text to text, text to self, and text to world connections. Think of these as the places whatever you are reading overlaps with your own story, another story you have read, or things you know about in the world. I used the example of my sophomores: In order to understand The Power of One, my students must make connections to what they know about World War II and aparthied in South Africa, think about times they faced oppression or worked to achieve a goal, and how our main character is in this book changes in ways similar to how the main character changed in our last book. Your task is to google and read the following: Billy Collins and "On Turning Ten"; "Eleven" and Sandra Cisneros. Don't tell me you can't find them, I know you can. The first is a poem, the second is a short story. After reading them, type a one page essay that explains in depth a connection you have (either text to self, text, or world).
We also played a grammar Jeopardy game that previewed what we will learn by reading The Elements of Style. You need to read the glossary, which is due for Thursday, as are your 12 essay ideas.
Sophomores: We took a vocab quiz on chapter 2 and then focused on important literary concepts and applied them to Life of Pi and The Power of One. For homework, Chapter 4 is due for Friday.
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