English 1

Today in class, students created their own Wordle-inspired "word clouds" to help everyone get to know them and to decorate the big bare wall in our classroom. They also learned how to create and set up their Twitter accounts. Parents who also want to sign up to receive homework reminders (or students who already forgot how from the demonstration today in class) can view the Twitter 101 video on yesterday's post.

Today we also got started on our Shakespeare unit by watching an A&E video detailing the life of the famous poet and playwright. We will be going over the video notesheet next week in class (this means a great chance to rack up participation points in class). If you want to get a head start on participation points, answer the following question in the form of a comment on this post: When is William Shakespeare's birthday (month and day)? What also happened to him on this same date?

Homework

• Finish your word cloud (if you didn't turn it in today)
• Have your parents email me at kryslt@mehlville.k12.mo.us