Still Prepping

First off, let's start with your weekly reminder that you should be keeping up with your 2 text Lucy Grealy assignment - including the reading of the texts and the additional log - since it is due 3 weeks from today. Second off, if it is presentation week, so I am looking forward to witnessing the logos, ethos, and pathos-filled performances and visuals. Third off, I currently have 4 Benjamin Banneker clocks in my possession! How cool that some of you chose to celebrate his influence by making mathematically-oriented clocks. I have not had a poem yet, but the school day is only halfway complete.

1: After resuming our vocabulary with 4 new words, you watched a pathos-oriented video from the Today Show to inspire you to utilize video, music, narration, photographs, and other techniques to involve the audience in your presentations this week. The rest of the class was designated for prep time and the scheduling of your presentations. Our order will be Team Bobby, Team Kira, Team Jalen, Team Jason, and Team Sigmund.

3: After vocab time with 4 more words, you had the remainder of class to prepare for our presentations. Every group should be prepared to go for tomorrow's class - just in case. And don't worry if we have any extra time after presentations each day, we have plenty of items to do as we finish up rhetorical analysis in the next 2 weeks.

4: After vocabulary's aggrandizement, you received your Keats prompts, which averaged out to a similar figure as your last prompt. Overall, there has been consistent improvement with organization, evidence incorporation, analysis, and vernacular variety. With every essay, these expectations remain the same, so continue to pepper your writing with the aforementioned necessities for the forthcoming prompts. 

7: After vocabulary's continuance, you received your Keats prompt, which averaged to the exact number as your previous prompt. Consistency is a start, but you can always improve by cleaning up any distractions, broadening your robust analysis, incorporating evidence, and keeping structure at the forefront of your writing. The rest of the class was designated for preparations and creating a schedule for the groups to present.