2nd and 6th period - 19 September 2008

1. Journal - "Pirates" Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Freewrite for 3 minutes (or 50 words) about pirates. Then write a short poem in which the speaker of the poem talks like a pirate.
2. Correcting Societal Ills: 2nd period shared information from charts they made the previous class. 6th period worked in groups to identify 4 facts about each of the following: G.I. Bill, Title IX, and the Little Rock Nine (these were mentioned in the article "Sharing Philosophy with Children")
3. Heroic Quest: Students used their textbooks to answer questions 1 - 12 on the front of a packet handed out in class. On the back of that page, we identified specific steps in the heroic quest using Finding Nemo as an example.
4. 6th: English 9 and 10 Standards of Learning. Students were given English 9 and 10 SOLs. Thene they were to: 1)identify activities, lessons, assignments they completed in English 9 for each English 9 SOL and 2) brainstorm a list of activities, lessons, assignments they would like to complete for each English 10 SOL. This was due at the end of class.
5. 6th period: Any active reading that was incomplete from last class is homework and will be due at the beginning of class on Tuesday.