Feb 9th Daily Plan

9th Grade - I reviewed the vocab quizzes with the students, and we talked about the need to spend more time making sure students understand the vocab overall before moving on. So from now on, whenever we add new words in, we will also do a little review and sentence construction using those new words to make sure students are understanding them.

Most of the day was spent in the library to continue on the Greek Gods Poster Project.

I provided some models of what was expected for today's research. To demonstrate, I ran through a section of the assignment myself, looking at the myth of Persephone. Students were shown the types of notes I would take in a notebook to get a sketch of the story, as well as what a 250 word summary looks like (about 3/4 of a page, double-spaced). If you missed class today, see me for specifics.

Library Research Goal - Have two myths chosen, start writing the summaries.

10th Grade - We also reviewed the vocab quizzes, and had the same general discussion as 9th grade - more time will be spent on each set of vocab words to make sure students are understanding before moving on to the next set.

New Vocab - dispensation, contentious, inordinate.

Students presented on another couple of topics. Depending on the class period, we looked at the WPA or the New Deal. Prohibition and Pulitzer Prize groups can expect to present tomorrow and Friday.

We also had a short activity looking at the idea of conflict. Students were given a worksheet with several scenarios that could potentially lead to conflict. The goal was to rank these scenarios in order of "least likely to enter into a conflict" to "most likely to enter into a conflict."

We discussed the responses as a class to develop criteria for what is worth fighting about. General ideas that came up across all three classes -

Protection of loved ones (ex. defending a friend)
Lack of information (ex. Getting broken up with, but not being told why)
Equity (ex. Getting skipped over in a line)

Homework - Read CH 9