October 26, 2014 (Sunday)

Post date: Oct 27, 2014 12:50:57 AM

The daughter is now a wife, the music is a distant memory, and I'm eating a lot of left over wedding food. What an amazing weekend, but it's now 7:30 PM and I need to think about the upcoming week! I will try to summarize what you did for the past two days while I was in mother-of-the-bride mode.

In English 10 you should have taken notes over Chapter 10, Informative Speaking. That was to take you most of Thursday. On Friday you were to complete the reverse side of the worksheet on Subjects/Predicates and turned it in for a grade. Then your first speech under the Informative Unit was distributed. The rest of the class period was to try and find a topic for your Demonstration Speech.

In American Literature you were to apply the rhetorical devices to the Pulitzer Prize winning essay by Leonard Pitts. You should have been able to find anaphora, a lot of parallelism, allusions, figurative language, pathos, ethos, and logos. It's a wonderful essay to see how persuasive techniques are used. On Friday it was drop and read day. Hopefully you got your first week of nonfiction read and recorded.

In Literature 9 you completed a vocabulary lesson for Thursday. There was also a Commonly Confused Words exercise on Moodle. Then on Friday you had the opportunity to start your study guide for your unit test on Nonfiction. This is going to be a huge test worth a lot of points, so I hope you took the time to work on it.

See you tomorrow!