12/3/15

Thursday Agenda:
--Sound of Silence lyric analysis; how is this presenting a dystopia?  class discussion
--Worktime on short story (first draft due Friday at end of class)
--Game outside/Vocab review
--Living in the Plastic Age lyric analysis and discussion
--Worktime and writing conferences

Wednesday agenda:
Vocab practice (analyzing words from latin word vertere--to turn), and prefixes re- and sub-.
Worktime and writing conferences

Tuesday agenda:
--Worktime 30 minutes on short story
--Grading "White Room" reading quiz, review plot pyramid structure:Link
--Vocab practice (analyzing words from latin word vertere--to turn), and prefixes re- and sub-.
--Review short story rubric
--Worktime

Monday agenda:
--Read "Where the wild things are" as class, apply the plot pyramid structure
--Read "The White Room" story and analyze using plot pyramid structure as class
--First vocab lesson
--Complete outline of your short story using pyramid structure
--Worktime on short story