10/7/22

HAPPY, HAPPY FRIDAY, FRIENDS!!! I am very excited for the weekend. I hope that you are as well. Here is what we did today.

We began with some silent reading.

After that, we reviewed some sentences and determined if they were complex or not.

Next, students reviewed their answers to the Magical Realism questions on page 45.

To end, we had a circle session.

With that being said, there is homework. Everyone has been placed inside either a Gothic Literature or a Magical Realism camp and has been sent an email with instructions for completing the assignment. It is due BEFORE CLASS on Tuesday 10/11/22. Here are the directions again:

When you open the story, immediately make a copy of it. Then you will be allowed to annotate directly on the page. Your job is to read the story and look for the elements of either Gothic literature or Magical Realism within the text. When you find the elements, highlight them and make comments about how they represent the genre. We are building towards a larger assignment, so do your best here. The harder that you work on this, the easier the final will be.

I have been told to give the benchmark on Monday. Hopefully it will be completed by Tuesday so that we can review this homework assignment. Then we have the crazy long 1st period on Wednesday. By Thursday of next week, everything should be back to normal (whatever that means).

Stay safe out there, and please do something nice for someone.

PEACE!

JDB