SABAC Done! Time to think about READing and STYLE

This week we finished that crazy test-- back to reading a lot! Get ready to have your picture taken with your favorite BOOK!
READ Posters: a joint assignment with the digital photography classes
Tuesday/Wednesday, April 26/27: Bring your book to have your picture taken with it!
BEFORE THAT: Decide what kind of background you want in the picture (beach, desert, stadium, swimming pool, forest) to match the theme/setting of your favorite book from this semester-- one of the books that YOU chose to read.
NOTE: IF YOU WANT A PARTICULAR IMAGE-- IT MUST BE IN .JPG FORMAT AND OF HIGH RESOLUTION (1500 AND ABOVE IS BEST) AND IT MUST GET EMAILED TO MRS. EDDY BEFORE PICTURE DAY.

We also started talking about tone and style-- more next week.
Style Lessons: April 21 - 26
Images for Style Lesson

Lay on Macduff! Done with Macbeth!

Here is the final day of Macbeth agenda-
April 7/8 Lesson Plan
Memorize a Passage: handout
Book list for 2015-16

Done with Act III, almost done with Macbeth!

We finished Act III and took the quiz-- next week we finish the play!
Final for Macbeth: You must turn in a complete study guide and you will have an amazing opportunity to memorize and recite one of the great speeches form the amazing play: Macbeth.
 We also looked over our essays for the work sample in class this week and wrote a feedback paper that we handed in. If you were absent, here are the feedback questions, but you will not be able to write until you re-read your essay, which I have. Please come see me to make this up.
Feedback questions:

1-   Review the essays you wrote that were scored for state writing samples.

a.   Re-read your essay

b.   Look at your scores

c.    Write Feedback and hand in: ON a separate paper, answer these two questions in paragraph form:

                                                            i.      Compare/contrast: What you like the best about your essay and which aspect got the highest score. Same—different—why?

                                                         ii.      If you could change two things about this essay to REALLY polish it up for a college application, what would they be? (Be very specific—reorganize, okay, but how? Rewrite the opening, okay, but to include or exclude what, exactly?)

Please come in and make up any quizzes OR the essay, if you have not done so already.

QUIZ COMING!

We will have a quiz on Thursday/Friday over ACT III
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS FOR ACT III BEFORE THE QUIZ
Acts I - III Study guide

We will then move on through the play-- if you want a head start---
Act IV-V Study guide

Sleep no more?

Macbeth may have murdered sleep-- but we are going on break and can get our fill. Have a great time, and READ!
We will have a writing assignment on your reading when you return
If you were absent this short week:
Come in and make up the Macbeth Act 2 quiz.
Read the lesson materials here-- Lesson from March 15 and 16
Analyze the paragraphs in the following document to identify three things ( no matter where they are located in the paragraphs):
1- main idea
2-specific evidence
3- sufficient explanation of how the idea and evidence connect
Great theme paragraph examples

Macbeth does the DEED!

Performances were this week, and we are moving on through Act II
Here is the study guide through Act III, which we will do next week BEFORE Spring Break
Macbeth Study Guide Acts I - III: 

Macbeth!

Study Guide Questions: Act I
Group Performance
PERFORM Thursday- Friday-- March 10-11