English 4 & 4H: 9/19,20/12

Guiding Q

• What are the parts of the castle and what does that mean for the people who live in it?
• How does figurative language work to compare?
• How do I learn to start/organize/process work?

Bell Ringer

• Do a freewrite response to "The City from Greenwich Village" by John Sloan (painting)

Activities

1. Follow through on bellringer, sharing purpose and use of the prewrite strategy
1. Share some of the creativity in the writings
2. Hand out midterms and discuss grades and work ethic. Students are to have parents sign midterms and return them for a grade
3. Break into groups. Students will have 10 to 15 minutes to go through their book summaries and decide what book their group is to read.
4. Turn in book list summaries for a grade
5. Students were given the rest of the period, minimum of 45 minutes, to work on the current castle project, which is due, complete, on or before 9/28/12