Good Morning Sophomores!
I hope you all had a pleasant holiday and are ready for the final stretch before Christmas break. We have a lot to do before the holiday, and since this week is a B week, we meet three times and can get a good start on finishing the semester.
On Tuesday we will review vocabulary lesson eleven, so bring your workbooks. We will then review for a short test on the two captivity narratives we read.
Be prepared for said test on Wednesday, when we will also have your vocabulary quiz and review for a second vocabulary quiz on lesson twelve on Friday. These activities should not take the entire block, so we will also review the kiss of death grammar errors: runon sentences, fragments, parallel structure, and agreement. I call this list of errors kiss of death errors since they are the ones most likely to cause a college professor to give your papers a very low mark.
On Friday, we will have the quiz I mentioned. We will also begin a new unit in literature, one closely related to the last, since it focuses on Puritan literature and history. We will examine the poetry of Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, an infamous sermon by Jonathan Edwards, and the play, The Crucible, which, though it was not written by Puritans or in the time period we are are studying, does depict the mindset behind the Salem Witch Trials, and subsequent witch hunts, very well.
Of course we won't be able to tackle all that literature in one day, but I hope to finish this unit by break and plan to test you on it as part of your midterm.
See you in class!
Mrs. SO
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