Friday December 11, 2009

Comp/Lit 10: Short Stories

• Okay, so the countdown has begun. We only have five days of regular class left. Stay healthy, get lots of rest and stay on top of your school work. Be sure to get your assignments made up if you've been absent. All make up work must be in by Friday December 18, 2009.

• We started the class period with a quiz covering "A Pair of Silk Stockings". We then corrected it as a class.
• The group presentation took place next. "A Pair of Silk Stockings" group took the class through a series of activities covering the necessary content for the presentation assignment.
• At the conclusion of the presentation, the class completed evaluations of the group presentations.
• We then moved onto the next portion of the class period (our typical Friday routine).
• The students took their final Vocabulary & Spelling Quiz (#15 & 16) of the semester.
• When they completed the quiz, they worked on a grammar activity in their workbook-pages 199-123 odd #'s only covering types of sentences, run-ons and fragments
• They finished up the period by reading silently in their outside reading book
• Homework: Read: "Anteaus," Read: "Harrison Bergeron", Work on your outside reading log #3-->DUE Thursday December 17; work on your short story presentation.

• Outside Reading Log #3 Information:
• **Visual: 1st period - Character Collage; 5th period - Book Jacket
• **Special Grammar Requirements: a compound sentence and a compound-complex sentence (utilize different punctuation)