Monday, Monday...

I hope you enjoyed this warm weekend! I watched my daughter run in the Chicago half-marathon and wondered how she was doing it in the heavy humidity Sunday morning...lots of water!

We began our day with wonderful "Monday Read." Students were buried and books and pulling out Jump-Out phrases. I was so happy to see them thinking about that!
In periods 1, 4 we played Make a Difference Pictionary with our power vocabulary words (10 of them) from the unit. After that we worked on the prewrite for the Poem of Apology. I am so glad you all had a good idea of who you wanted to write an apology to!
In periods 2, 5, 6 we analyzed Emily Dickinson's "Poem 458" as an example of symbolism. We will extend this to creating symbols for the Make a Difference vocabulary tomorrow. After that we worked on the prewrite for the Poem of Apology, and students will start to think about symbolism they can use in their poems.

H/W: Everyone should come in tomorrow with their Narrative Poem of Apology completed. All classes will have a Make a Difference quiz on Thursday, so begin with studying the vocabulary, listing Upstander strategies we have discussed, read, and seen in videos. Lastly, read and annotate your article. On the quiz you will be asked to write about the Upstander strategies used in the article. I will provide a study guide for this tomorrow.

Have a great evening!