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 to finish the semester.
Last week I posted the vocabulary for lesson 10. Be sure to study for a quiz on the last meeting this week. I also assigned reading of the two captivity narratives we started in class. We will briefly review those texts. I will give you a short essay test on them either Wednesday or Thursday for B and A classes respectively.
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.
This week 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 week, 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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