- Self-assess my writing according to the General Writing Rubric.
- Learn and implement "after" reading strategies to analyze and evaluate texts.
- Develop a working vocabulary for the terms theme, moral, motif, and subject.
To start off class, students picked up their writing pre-assessments from the 2nd day of school and self-assessed them using a copy of THS English Department's General Writing Rubric. The purpose for this was for students to recognize their strengths and weaknesses in writing and to have an idea of general writing expectations that we will be working to develop over the course of the year. Students then took some notes on what it means to find a theme, moral, motif, and subject of a piece of literature (notes are under today's date on my website). We examined a poem, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" together as a class, and I modeled for them how I would approach finding these things. We started a group activity for students to practice this concept with two poems, "Those Winter Sundays" and "Snowfall," but we'll need to finish next time. No homework was assigned other than to finish the Article of the Week and prepare to turn it in next time.