Today in English III we started our class by discussing the personality of Zora Neale Hurston in her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road. 

After this discussion, we went over last night's homework (3 questions on last night's reading).  Students earned participation points for volunteering and contributing to discussion (as well as completing the bell ringer).

When we finished going over the homework, the class got into partners and made a graphic organizer (picture posted below).  If you were not here, please take a look at the picture and read the assignment slide before you make your graphic organizer.  We will be completing this graphic organizer Monday in class.

No Homework. :) EHock

We started our class today by getting books and returning to the groups we made yesterday.

Throughout class students read an excerpt from Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road aloud in small groups and answered 3 questions on the reading together.  While they were working, I walked around and gave participation points for focused, thoughtful work in each group.

We did not get a chance to discuss the answers to these questions in class, so we will start with that tomorrow.

Homework: please complete the assignment if your group didn't finish it together.

:) EHock

Today in English III, we started our class by discussing the answers to the questions we completed yesterday in class (posted 1/17).  You will need your text book (pg. 910-11) to complete them.

After discussing these questions, we moved on to reading an excerpt from Zora Neale Hurston's "Dust Tracks on a Road."  Students got into groups of 3, read the passage (pg. 914-920), and answered these questions together.

At the beginning of class tomorrow, we will spend about 15 minutes completing this work in our small groups.

No homework.  :) EHock

Today in English III, we started our class by watching a short video (posted below) and answering a question about that video on the handout I gave out on Friday (posted under 1/17).

After we discussed this question, students got into partners, read an article ("The Harlem Renaissance," pg. 910-911), and answered 7 questions about that passage in the same hand-out from the bell ringer.  I gave students 15 minutes of class to complete this section.  We did not get to our discussion before the bell rang.

We will start tomorrow with this discussion, so please complete these questions for tomorrow if you were absent.  Otherwise, no homework!

:) EHock

Today in English III we started our class by finishing the last poem in our Imagist Poetry Packet.  I collected this packet after our final discussion, so please get your work to me as soon as possible if you were absent during class.

We then moved on to a short video called "The Rise of the Harlem Renaissance."  I asked students to respond to the first question in today's assignment "The Harlem Renaissance" (posted below) after the video.

When we had discussed the video, we took some notes on vocabulary in the essential question (inference and conclusion).  We did not have time to move on to our short article on the Harlem Renaissance (pg. 910), so we will pick up there on Tuesday before we move on to Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston. 

:) EHock

Today in English III we continued working on the Imagist Poetry Packet that we started yesterday (posted yesterday).  For each Imagist poem, students got a new partner and spent 7-10 minutes drawing the image in the poem, listing the words used to create that imagery, and analyzing the emotional impact of the image on the reader.

Most classes have completed 5 of the 6 poems, so please make sure you are keeping up if you missed class today.  These poems appear on pgs. 734-738 in your text book.

Tomorrow we will complete this packet before moving on to the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance.

:) EHock