Friday, January 25, 2013.  Students worked on Night questions due to abundant absenteeism due to "rumor."  No vocabulary quizzes for Periods 3, 4, and 5.


Thursday, January 24, 2013.

Periods 1 - 3

1.  Night:  Check vocabulary # 21-30.

2.  Night:  Read and discuss chapter 4.  Distribute ch. 4-6 questions (except for Per. 3 whose discussion was long).

3. HOMEWORK:  Study for vocabulary quiz 21-30.  Quiz tomorrow.  Read Night chapter 5 and answer questions.

Periods 5 - 7

1.  Exercise on Before and After (Shared by N. Terry):  Students folded a sheet of paper and from left to right labeled 9th grader in August and 10th grader now.  Then they brainstormed to list feeling and emotions, attitudes and behaviors for both columns.  Volunteers shared. We discussed the "before" and "after".  At the end students put the two columns together to analyze the reasons for this change.
To relate this exercise to the short answer responses which require to state differences and changes in certain characters or people, some students read the first sentence in their responses, and the class critiqued whether the student's sentence contained a "before" and "after."  Students will revise and bring short responses tomorrow.

2.  Checked vocabulary lesson 19.  Quiz on this lesson + 21-30 tomorrow (Friday 1/25).

3.  Bring second drafts of Twain essays tomorrow.