Freshmen: Today our focus was on a basic introduction to poetry. We read the poem "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins and did a short response exercise to William Stafford's "Traveling Through the Dark." Read these poems if you were absent. We also talked about the way vocabulary will work. You can find it on this blog under the title Freshman and Sophomore 2012-2013 Vocabulary Schedule. Your homework is to read for 20 minutes.
Sophomores: Today we took a quiz on the introduction to the Tao te Ching and talked about some of the principles that inform the text. We also began an introductory assignment with the This I Believe project, which is due September 10. Honors students, begin the reading assignment from How to Read Like a Professor. We will start Life of Pi next week, so get a copy ASAP.
CNF: Today we continued our introduction to various forms of non-fiction, this time turning our attention to radio. We listened to segments from the shows This American Life and Radiolab, using them as opportunities to practice taking notes as a way to capture our responses to a non-fiction text. We will start Blink next week, so be sure to have a copy.
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