9/9 A - 9/10 B

English
J#3- Copy the following:

1. "I look around, my heart a jackhammer in my chest, blood thudding my ears." (Metaphor, Imagery)
2. "Each breath is like inhaling fire, and I think I'm weeping. (Simile, Imagery)
3. "He leaves me in a wide, windowless, corridor crammed with people sitting on metallic folding chairs." (Alliteration, Imagery)
4. "The sky was a deep black when the phone jolted me out of my sleep. (Personification, Imagery)

Discuss why each example given is a metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, or imagery.

RA TA TA- Making Connections

Class Procedures Test

Formative Assessment

R#3 Making Connections pg __ to pg ___

Only need to make two connections while reading.

Mass Media
J#3- Respond: How comfortable are you with presenting today? Explain any problems that your group encountered while preparing. (5 minutes)


Presentations today. If you were absent for a presentation, you should have contacted me and told me why you would be absent. You will have to complete a new presentation, by yourself, on your own time, in order to receive credit.
Turn into basket:
A1 (individual Assignment)
Group Questions (Total of 15)
4 sources on index cards or paper (or in presentation)

Meet with groups for 10 minutes before presentations

During Presentation:
Answer all questions
Follow rubric guidelines
Turn in one rubric with all of your names before presenting

A2-History and Evolution of Media-Presentations
Take notes on each group presentation
Media they present:
Rate them 1 to 5 on how effective they are; 5 being the highest
What did you like about their presentation:
What should they improve:

Evaluations- completed in class. List all of your group members, including yourself. Tell me every thing each person did to help with the presentation. If they did nothing, then tell me that. No one will ever see this paper again, besides me, so feel free to be honest. Due next class day.

Class/Group Procedures and Rule Test- NEXT CLASS

Yearbook
J#6-Free Response.
Theme Discussion finished. Theme section of manual reviewed.
#3 checked for assignment grade from Theme-Playbook

Yearbook 9/10 A

J#5- Free Response

Theme assignment 1-3 (Playbook) checked

Faculty Assignments given; swaps allowed. Turn final faculty members into Ms. Batten.

Finish Yearbook Tally and turn into Destiny. Keep surveys together and paper clipped and turn them into Brandi.

Theme discussion in class, looking at manual. Everyone has to complete #3 Theme in Playbook by 9/10 with anything new at school, anything new or going on in the world or around the community, and any ideas for theme this year. To be checked in class on 9/10.