While they were gone...

Items Due Today: Nothing

Due Next Class: Nothing is due next class

What we did today: Broke up into grade level groups.

• Sophomores: Divided into two groups: "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Fall of the House of Usher".  Students worked together to close read, annotate, and analyze the text.
• Juniors: Worked with Lowther on pages 1-3 of AP Lang textbook.  What is rhetoric?  Definitions, key terms, examples (Lou Gehrig's farewell speech to the New York Yankees fans and players), Aristotle's rhetorical triangle
  

What we did yesterday: Worked in computer lab to continue/finish writing Storytelling Essay (submitted via Edmodo).

Skills: Annotation and literary analysis; creativity; recall/memorization; independent thought

ELA Common Core Standards covered:

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.5.a: Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) in context and analyze their role in the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.5.b: Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.