Richard, Miniver, Lucy, Heathcliff, Skylark

What a combination of characters listed in this post's title! Next week, you will receive your Keats prompt back, and you will receive a new take home prompt dealing with tone. Sort of a trade? All classes were assigned your Lucy work, which will take place over the next 5 weeks. E-mail for the assignment.

1:

• Vocab Experts -- We are now 12 words into this unit's cycle.
• Richard Cory & Miniver Cheevy tone maps - Working with a partner, you shared your tone map and analysis. Then, you worked together to compare and contrast poems written by the same poet. This assignment was collected.
• The Lucy Assignment - For the next 5 weeks, you will be reading Autobiography of a Face & Truth and Beauty. During the reading process, you will maintain a log to record purpose, characterization, tone, and anything else that needs to be noted for future writing assignments. Remember, you will check out one book at a time, so make sure that you are keeping up with your readings and not procrastinating your way into last minute work.
• "To a Skylark" - We only made it through 2 stanzas and will resume analysis on Monday.

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• The Lucy Assignment -  For the next 5 weeks, you will be reading Autobiography of a Face & Truth and Beauty. During the reading process, you will maintain a log to record purpose, characterization, tone, and anything else that needs to be noted for future writing assignments. Remember, you will check out one book at a time, so make sure that you are keeping up with your readings and not procrastinating your way into last minute work.
• Team Close Read - Excellent idea to do a team close read today! (Our observer was quite impressed with what you recognize in a text and how you communicate that to the class!) after our team close read, you constructed a team thesis statement with your group. Then, for homework, you each will write one body paragraph for the team. If absent, e-mail for a copy of the prompt. You will need to construct your own thesis statement and write one body paragraph.
• We will finish the team close read on Monday, and then resume our tone work with "To a Skylark" and "Ode to a Nightingale."

7:

• "To a Skylark" - We finished analyzing tone, devices, and content of the poem.
• The Lucy Assignment -  For the next 5 weeks, you will be reading Autobiography of a Face & Truth and Beauty. During the reading process, you will maintain a log to record purpose, characterization, tone, and anything else that needs to be noted for future writing assignments. Remember, you will check out one book at a time, so make sure that you are keeping up with your readings and not procrastinating your way into last minute work.
• Vocab Unit 16 - We copied down the next unit of vocab, which will begin on Monday.
• Started "Ode to a Nightingale"? Wishful thinking with only 50 minutes and late day announcements?