9th Grade - Students worked almost exclusively on being able to do a proper works cited page for their Greek Gods Project. We spent the majority of the class with Lori in the library going through the process step-by-step.
The main reason I feel this has been worth focusing on is because we are aiming at college prep skills, and the ability to correctly cite sources is very common in any college. Many of the students are used to using a program called Noodletools, which organizes citations for the students, but oftenntimes the students have not been entering the correct information, and even using this program, they are not citing properly.
The goal for today was to complete the works cited page in class; as long as students were not RUSHING, they were able to do it correctly (a big hint for those that were rushing . . .). With the works cited for this project, it is either 100% perfect or 0% - no errors allowed.
10th Grade - Sophomores had a variety of material that was covered today. First, we finished the trial scene from the TKAM script, and discussed one speech in that scene in particular. There is a part where Atticus, the main character, discusses that people are willing to convict an innocent man because of an "unspoken social code" regarding race in the 1930s. I asked students to think about what other social codes exist in contemporary society, and why.
I returned the student journal entries from last week - the main criticism with the writing level was simply that most students only wrote on a surface level. As I read through entries, each one had several points that could easily have been followed through in greater depth, and this is the primary fix for the next round of entries. I am also requiring the next several entries to be done in class, and must be shown to me before students leave for the day.
Students also had three new vocab words - infalliable, tact, and pejorative.
Homework - Read CH 22-23.
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