English 4: 1/20, 21/10

1. Students given time to work on Pepys questions, ISR, and/or Political Language handout
2. Overhead: read internet information about the plague and the great fire of London in the 1660's. Discuss the impact and reality of the two tragedies. Compare to the hurricane disaster to New Orleans and the current crisis in Haiti. Focal point - put yourself in these situations to discover the power and reality of the events. Second focal point: fear and disaster cause people to react in common ways, then and now.
3. Test on Pepys diary at the beginning of next class.
4. Next vocabulary list test assigned from "critique" to "inconsiderable." Each student is to pick any two words from the list and do as last assigned, create word wall work. Next test is 1/28, 29/10.
5. Political Language handout assignment postponed to next class, but will be taken up as final deadline.