Freshmen: Our primary focus today was learning the requirements for the Prayer and Great Thoughts assignment. See me for a handout and sign up for a day if you were absent. Today we read a poem, "For My Father," by Janice Mirikatini and explored it through questions and connections, particularly relating it to the summer read When the Emperor Was Divine. We then talked about the notion of "found poetry" and created our own found poems using newspapers. Your homework is to sift through one of the two summer reads and write a found poem with it that either represents the narrator's point of view, experience, or change she underwent through the course of the book. A typed copy of the poem (with a great title) is due on Friday. Also, read for 20 minutes Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sophomores: Today we focused primarily on the requirements for our daily prayer assignment using the Tao te Ching; see me if you need a write up or to sign up for a day. We also focused on gathering a writing sample on a reaction to the summer reading. You need to have a copy of Life of Pi by next block period, and you should start bringing your copy of the Tao each day. Please also bring your vocab book this week, and if you can remember, bring your Bible to class tomorrow for a study of world creation stories.
CNF: Today we focused on two topic-driven non-fiction texts, The McGlaughlin Group and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. The idea is to get exposed to various forms of non-fiction that deal with current events and issues. Please have a copy of Blink for next week, and this week bring in current newspapers and magazines for an activity we will be doing.
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