Dec. 6th Daily Plan

9th Grade -

We reviewed some of the work from last week, as well as reviewed the first 24 pages of Fahrenheit 451. Student's should know some details about each of the characters thus far in the novel.

The in-class writing prompt for today -

Writing Prompt - Entertainment

How important is entertainment and media to you on a daily basis? How closely linked are entertainment and technology? (examples of entertainment - media, listening to music, surfing the internet).

I graded last week's writing prompts over the weekends, and there are some aspects of the writing that need to be worked on with the whole class. The biggest fixes -

• Provide concrete details and examples; I received too many responses that were along the lines of "I think it is not good because it is not good." This doesn't explain anything to me!
• Not enough depth - 2-3 lines is incomplete.
• We had not started Fahrenheit 451 with the first two responses, so I did not expect them to connect to the novel yet. The rest of the journal entries SHOULD have at least a couple of sentences connected to what we are reading.

We then continued to read Fahrenheit 451 as a class.

HOMEWORK - read to page 68; expect a quiz tomorrow.

10th Grade -

We continued reading through Act 2 of The Crucible in class, focusing on looking at how we learn about characters' personalities through the dialogue.

Regarding the writing prompts; I returned the ones I had graded over the weekend. There are some general improvements the entire class can make -

• Make a connection between your writing and The Crucible
• Provide concrete details and examples; I received too many responses that were along the lines of "I think it is not good because it is not good." This doesn't explain anything to me!
• Not enough depth - 2-3 lines is incomplete.

There are two more vocabulary words for the day - hypocrisy, enthrall.

Finally, students started a in-class group project, creating posters for the major characters in the play. Each poster must include a drawing of the character, background information, important quotes from each act, and the relationships the character has to others in the play.

The posters will be finished in-class tomorrow, and we will also watch Act 2.

Homework - finish reading Act 2.