January 13/14th

English 1 -- Today in class, students shared the nursery rhymes that they created last class period.  After that, students began reading "The Birds" (pg. 51 in textbook) aloud with a few student playing the roles of "Vocabulary Master" and "Foreshadowing Bird."  Next class students will complete a creative writing assignment corresponding with the short story, and we will begin watching "The Birds" film.

English 1 Homework

Finish reading "The Birds" -- you will have a quiz over the story at the beginning of next class

English 2 -- Today in class, students in the groups for the Prologue and Scene 1 of Antigone performed and taught their scenes with the rest of the class.  Using their homemade "Greek" masks as costumes, the group members recited their lines for their classmates, who followed along in their books.  The performers then became teachers as their classmates discussed and answered critical thinking questions over the current scene.  Next class period, the groups for Scene 2 and Scene 3 will be the performers/teachers.

English 2 Homework

All groups have a typed copy of your discussion questions ready for me to copy for next class period