9th Grade -
First, I provided a brief example of several recent television commercials to reinforce a discussion point yesterday regarding attention span. We discussed the speed and frequency of camera angle changes used to maintain the viewer's attention, and how both have increased in the past 10 years.
Second, we had a quiz over the first chapter (pg 1-68) of Fahrenheit 451. After the quiz, students wrote down questions they had about the events of the first section of the book, and we talked as a class to answer these questions. I spoke to clarify major points of Bradbury's writing, and we aimed at making sure that everyone is on the same page before moving on.
HOMEWORK - Read to Page 90.
10th Grade -
We had two major components to the class today - 1) Finishing the character posters and 2) watching The Crucible Film.
I also added another two vocabulary words - malevolence, benevolence.
The character posters are a small-group project, providing an image of a given character, background information, important quotes, and the relationship said character has with others in the play. These posters will be completed in the first half of class tomorrow.
In the film; we are a little behind where we finished reading yesterday (meaning we are about halfway through Act 2 in the film). We will be doing an activity on Thursday and Friday which will require that students know the text well through Act 3.
Which means . . . HOMEWORK - Read through Act 3 by Thursday, Dec. 9th.
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