Day 62, November 22, 2017 (Wednesday)

Post date: Nov 22, 2017 8:54:41 PM

The day before Thanksgiving. Seriously, where did 2017 go? We all know that once Thanksgiving is here, it's a matter of seconds that Christmas and New Year's flies by.

In Literature 9 we watched a cool video on dialect - Mapping the Way Americans speech. That helped us to understand the use of dialect in "Sweet Potato Pie". Behrman in "The Last Leaf" had an accent but not a dialect. An accent is a way one person speaks whereas dialect is the way a group of people speaks. We took a check over the story "Sweet Potato Pie" and then shared our illustrations related to the story. What was frustrating for me is that so many people didn't reflect ninth grade work - lack of capitalization, no end punctuation, and basic (BASIC) structure.

In English 10 we worked on comparing two things and parallelism. This concept isn't a one and done type of lesson, we have to work on it for awhile. We then wrote our thesis on a notecard and turned them in (worth 10 points). We also wrote our thesis on our preview statement on our outline. Gaining attention and building interest are the first two sentences of your introduction, but after that - preview, applying to the audience, and establishing ethos - can be done in any order. For Monday (sort of), work on the body and introduction of your speech. On Tuesday we will finish things up and then present our speeches on Wednesday.

American Government was fun, frustrating, and maybe even a waste of time. Mrs. Johnson was supposed to set up a break-out session for us, but she was ill. Therefore, I had to punt. With the help of third hour, I set up classes in iCivics and we played a game called "Crisis of Nations." The idea was that a member of each tribe (a total of four) would compete against each other in this team game. They would then bring back their points and give them to their tribe. The stars weren't necessarily aligned, and with some groups, it worked while with others not so much. I guess it's o.k. to have days like that.

I hope everyone has a blessed Thanksgiving.