Wednesday - January 26, 2011

1st per:
Typing day in library.  Personification papers due on Friday.

2nd Per:
First of all, your Emotion poems this morning were simply fabulous.  I was very impressed by all of them.
Read from pages 316, 317, and 318.  Write a short (1/2 page) response to the idea: "Is it better to go out in a blaze of glory like these two authors, or to fade away slowly."  Reference each of the 3 poems in your response.  Due Thursday.

3rd Per:  Cady Williams came in to speak with the class today for the first 5 minutes about the results of the NAEP test you took back in November.  She gave each student a handout about the potential places they need to focus on to be successful in getting ready for college.  It also contained a fairly detailed analysis of what careers you may be interested in later in life.  Each student got their own printout.   

After Mrs. Williams, we had the spelling bee!  Our three winners who will be accompanying me to Lovell on Feb 09, are Connor, Adam, and Tanner.  Congrats to each of you.  You will be excused from the spelling test this week as a reward. 

The final 5 minutes of class were devoted to finishing up what research you could find on your persuasive essay topics.  The notecards will be checked on Friday.

4th Per:  Spelling BEE!!! Our 3 class winners were Cole Catlin, Zoriah Tolman, and Carly Henderson.  Congrats.  You will be excused from this week's spelling and vocab tests.  After the spell-off, we spent some time using the whiteboards to review this week's spelling words. 

5th Per:  John Donne was a remarkable person, who wrote very very deep, metaphorical poetry.  We read from page 297 "No man is an island."  Students were asked to summarize this very deep poem.   Get inside Doone's head.  Good luck. 

6th Per:  We finished reading from the text on page 969 and 970 about Shakespeare's "7 Ages of Man" and the story about Demeter and how and why we have the seasons we do now.    I passed out a worksheet (which can be found on the homework counter) and asked students to look for 5 examples of similarities between these two wildly different stories.    We'll talk about these tomorrow.