With no Notre Dame football game to watch or soccer games to go to or lawn to mow, I had plenty of time to read this weekend. I hope you did, too. We'll be meeting in our groups this Wednesday. I know you have some extra time for this group meeting, so be sure your questions, connections, passages, and illustrations are top notch. I will sign everyone's Archer cars if everyone gets a check plus on the work you're bringing in Wednesday. Sky high expectations!
I looked at Acuity-At-Home this weekend. Kudos to Ryan Lau and Austin Laymon for doing some work this weekend. They were the only ones when I looked late last night. That means 58 of you might be invited to lunch with me. Better get cracking on it. I also spent some time looking at our weaknesses on last Tuesday's acuity test. We shared a couple of the same areas that need attention--both 7th grade standards! Surprisingly, one of the areas we need the most work is in our ability to "use context clues to determine the meaning of a simile or a metaphor". We are also weak in "verb tense agreement". I've made up some custom tests so that we can improve in those areas by October 12.
While we will be spending some time tomorrow looking at those weak areas, we will also be returning to our pictorial essay on Detroit. If you remember, the pictures were pretty grim. After "reading" the pictures you discussed the mood of the photos and nailed down a theme. Tomorrow in class we will be reading several poems and trying to attach a poem to the images. We'll look at the moods and themes of the poems and try to identify one that best fits the essays. This will lead to your next assignment. Yes, it will involve writing. Time to get excited!
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