Friday, September 12, 2025

Lesson 4

 

 *Most students came to class with their novels ready to go...

We looked at a speech from Shakespeare's Hamlet - Act 2, Scene 2 - and then compared the lyrics to "What a Piece of Work is Man" from the Broadway musical Hair (briefly talked about the ways in which literature alludes to, and makes use of, previous works of literature/art to comment on its own era...)

Students read their personal novels

Students did a second capitalization worksheet

Students worked on their "Cougar/Cub" diagrams (handed in at the end of the block) while reviewing the story terms associated with a standard plot diagram (we will continue this work in our next class).

HMWRK: 

  • Find a novel for class, if you haven't already
  • Review story terms
  • Review capitalization rules


 

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