Read aloud

[Tuesday 3/29/11 I will not be in class, but attending a workshop at KISD about the new Common Core Curriculum]

ELA 11

After the vocab quiz today, I started reading a book that fits so well with our dystopian unit. The Hunger Games is young-adult novel about a fight-to-the-death competition in the future ruins of the United States, now known as Panem.  We meet sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen who overcomes unfathomable odds and finds herself a contender in this surreal Survivor-like competition. My own book club (a group of mostly teachers!) read this for our December selection and it provided great threads for discussion; students of mine who have read the book don't like it ... they love it! I look forward to reading this with my classes over the next few months.

ELA 11 EXAM: an objective test over the material covered in our Fahrenheit 451 unit. Students will work on review questions Tuesday 3/29/11. 

AP Language
Today we tied up some loose ends by correcting a reading check and a multiple choice practice test. And for one of the last times before the AP Language test, we read and annotated a powerful essay by Nancy Mairs "I am a cripple". Students worked on the annotation individually, shared with their seating groups, and looked over my own annotation. The time spent on reviewing will prove helpful. 


AP Language EXAM: an in-class essay similar to the AP test prompts we have worked with this year.