Read 15 minutes. A Prayer for Owen Meany. R11-R12-Inferences Due 2/19.
Ms. Batten finishes review of R10 cnotes, making sure to review each section before the quiz.
R10-Quiz-80% (quiz on Cnotes taken)-If absent, you must make up the quiz by the Thursday following your absence in the classroom during lunch, or after school. Students absent for quiz are not allowed to use their Cnotes and can prepare by taking their own notes from the 4 sections: p287 Gothic Fiction, transcedentalist, Gothic Short story p317 Strategies for Understanding Poe p318 Poe Early years
p319 Poe end If going to the online Holt book, the login is tparker806 and the password is braves
After quiz, work on reading entries R11-R12, or finishing R10 Cnotes.
R10-Cnotes-Poe/Gothic Fiction Cnotes-Due today. Make sure you answer the essential question and have 2 questions for each section, besides the one your group presented on.
R13-MORD packets (Masque of the Red Death)-distributed to all students present. Students asked to make sure they have them the next class.
Students reminded to return the student diagnostic alignment guide and answer sheet and complete calculations.
Expectations from students reviewed. Papers returned.
27 students have made it impossible to pass thus far because they didn't submit either assessment for this term, they only submitted one, which is the equivalent of 50%, or they are never in class. Students were encouraged to take charge of their own grade and stop making excuses for their lack of effort. Out of the 25 students who turn in the assessments, the majority, 18 have received 70% or above.
Students in 5th block watched Mini-Poe Biography. Both classes brainstormed current Gothic Tv shows and movies.
