Honors: We examined Carl Sandburg's poem "A Fence" and I had you identify the author's feelings towards the fence and the overall theme of the poem. Good practice for ISTEP but it also revealed that we need to read the poems closer.
Spent a lot of time on our papers, sharing them, editing them, adding new paragraphs and new research, etc. While I'm not assigning any homework (per Mrs. Harper), it would be beneficial for you to continue working on them over the next couple days.
Standard: We also examined Carl Sandburg's poem "A Fence" but spent a little more time working on the analysis of the poem together. It's a tricky one to understand if you get too caught up in the first part of the poem.
After that we spent some time discussing and writing about the Holocaust. We examined some photos that helped for us to picture some of the events. We also read a brief children's story called "The Poison Mushroom" which demonstrated how Hitler was able to brainwash his people so easily. Finally, we passed out the book Night and started reading it.
We will duplicate all this tomorrow and then start fresh on Wednesday.
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