An Agenda for Every Hour

While I assume that as some point all of the classes will be have the same agenda for the day, we are currently at different points of the syntax realm and the transition into the diction universe that will be our next unit. While syntax may be in the rear mirror, that doesn't mean you can't analyze those 6 sentence types, forms of parallelism, and those fun syndetons.

1: We may have been distracted by thoughts on height, but we still managed to add 4 more words to our vernacular and go over the third hour syntax handout (and realize that prepositional phrases make sentence identification awkward at times). What's up for your class? Well, I'm sure you have been noticing on the board for the other hours that we will be looking at a couple syntax passages and then completing the syntax quiz, which features all of your creative sentence types.

3: We did a little bit of everything today, and, fortunately, that concludes are syntax week and its focus on the big 6 and its cohorts of parallelism and syndetons. Specifically today, we reviewed vocab, which means the quiz will be tomorrow; we finished the syntactical analysis of the AP prompt, which means that is the last time we will concentrate on just syntax; and you completed the syntax quiz, which means that absentees have something to do next class. Hopefully, we will have the chance to start the team close read tomorrow, a really entertaining activity that forces you to close read, analyze, and connect to a prompt. Fifth hour started this today, and, as with all my previous classes, did not disappoint with their circling and underlining skills and explanation of ideas. Diction week will follow this transitory team close read.

5: Such fun today as you almost finished the team close read! As you may have noted, this is an opportunity to practice identifying patterns of words, connecting these patterns to strategies, and explaining the purpose of the whole thing! Our last group will complete the first phrase of the team close read tomorrow, and then you will be working on some team activities to tie the close read and prompt together! Prior to our team close read, we did review our vocab for tomorrow's quiz, which will feature a little bit of everything. Tomorrow is the last day of the quarter, which means our next quarter will start off with diction!