Dec. 9th Daily Plan

9th Grade -

Today's class was another library research day, focused on a topic that is also a recurrent theme in Fahrenheit 451 - addiction. Students were assigned a given subject, and were also assigned specific research questions to discover wheter or not the subject could quaify as an addiction.

Terms to know - physiological, psychological, dependency.

Something to focus on with this assignment was identifying which websites are legitimate options for good research (ex. wikipedia is generally not allowed as a source, because it is allowed to be edited by users. However, some of the references from wikipedia may come from legitimate sources, and can be researched further).

This was a one-day research assignment and students should have finished within the classtime.

If you missed this day, see me and I can provide you with the worksheet; you can do the research outside of class as make-up.

HOMEWORK - Read to Page 110.

10th Grade -

Today's class was Day 1 of a Mock Witch Trial in the classroom. We will continue the trials tomorrow.

Students were assigned specific roles (Judge, Prosecuting Lawyers, Defense Lawyers, Prosecuting Witnesses, Defense Witnesses, Defendant, Scribe, Jury Foreman, Jurors). For larger classes (per 1 and 5; the jurors will be playing the various roles tomorrow. For per. 4, we have a trial-by-judge).

The trial is focused on the innocence/guilt of a single character from the play, and all testimony and arguments are required to come directly from the text. As it was clear to me today that many students did not know the text well enough to make a case, we will have a quiz over ACT 3 at the start of tomorrow, 12/10.

HOMEWORK - READ (OR RE-READ) ACT 3!

If you missed these two days, I will post a make-up writing assignment tomorrow afternoon.
I have also pushed back our vocab quiz to monday.

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