English 1 -- Today in class, students read for the first 20 minutes of class from their library books and then wrote a journal in their writer's notebooks about the contents of their books so far. After reading, we began our poetry unit by reading a catalog poem by St. Louis born and raised poet, Naomi Shihab Nye, and another free verse poem by great American poet, Walt Whitman.
English 1 Homework
Write a catalog poem modeled after "Daily" by Naomi Shihab Nye
Remember to bring your textbooks and library books next class
English 2 -- Today in class students read their library books for the first 20 minutes the period. Next, they learned about parallel structure which is a grammatical skill that many sophomores have issues with in their writing. After practicing writing parallel sentences and recognizing and correcting unparallel sentences, we began reading Act Two, Scene II of Julius Caesar.
English 2 Homework
Remember to bring your library books to class
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