English 9A (periods 1, 2, and 4): Today we continued to focus on three things: How a poem's format reinforces its content (we read this poem today: http://poetry-fromthehart.blogspot.com/2011/06/ee-cummings-la.html), the concept of theme (remember, a theme is the moral or message about life and how to live it that we get from a text), and the four parts of the introductory paragraph (hook, bridge, summary, and thesis).
To do the latter two things, we read two texts, the poem "On Turning Ten" which you can find at https://www.upress.pitt.edu/htmlSourceFiles/pdfs/9780822955672exr.pdf and the short story "Eleven" which you can find at http://www.stjohns-chs.org/english/nwixon_courses/english-9-111/eleven-by-sandra-cisneros.pdf.
After reading them, your task was to write an introductory paragraph for an essay that responds to the following prompt: What common theme is shared by the poem "On Turning Ten" by Billy Collins and the short story "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros? Your introductory paragraph must have a hook, bridge, summary, and thesis.
The hook should draw the reader in, the bridge should connect the hook to your topic (the two texts), your summary should tell the reader a little bit about the poem and the story, and your thesis should address their common themes.
The paragraph is due at the start of class on Friday.
You also need to read for 20 minutes.
English 9B (period 3): Today in class we continued to focus on the seven steps for annotating a poem, reading "O Captain! My Captain!" and "Mother to Son." These are poems full of figurative language, so it gave us the opportunity to review that as well. Read for 20 minutes tonight.
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