Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem
2) Close reading presentations
3) Discuss Thesis statements

Coming up:
1) Finish Lord of the Flies for tomorrow and prepare for the seminar
2) Finish your new poetry response for Friday at midnight
3) Complete the essential lit terms exercises on Tropes for Monday
4) Complete the Lord of the flies Essay and MWDS for Wednesday of next week

Today's agenda:
1) Opening Poem
2) Symbols in Essential Lit and Lord of the flies
3) Critical lenses for Lord of the Flies 
4) Themes vs. Thematic Statements

Coming up:
1) Your poetry responses are due on Friday
2) You should have all of Lord of the Flies read by Friday
3) Your Essential Literary terms exercises for Tropes are due on Monday
4) Your MWDS and Paper for LOTF is due on Wednesday of next week. 

Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem
2) Review essential Lit: Imagery
3) Seminar 1 on LOTF
4) Intro Lord of the Flies paper and MWDS

Coming up:
1) Close reading passages are due to me tomorrow for Thursday
2) Poetry Responses are due on Friday night
3) Seminar 2 on the rest of the book is on Friday
4) Next week: Essential Lit terms due on Monday, and MWDS and Paper are due on Wednesday. 
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Today's agenda:
1) Opening Poem
2) Check Essential Lit homework
3) Review the vocabulary list below. Check off all the ones you know and could use in a sentence.
4) Diction passages
5) Close reading of Lord of the Flies opening passages
​6) Review the Multiple choice section of the diagnostic

Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem: "The Crickets Have Arthritis" by Shane Koyzcan
2) Seminar on "The Hills like White Elephants"
3) Create Apples to Apples deck

Tonight:
1) Make sure you update your poetry response by midnight tonight
2) Complete the Essential Lit assignments for Imagery, symbolism,and atmosphere (we will discuss them on Monday)
3) Make sure that you have read through page 108 in Lord of the Flies by Tuesday

See your calendar for any other upcoming due dates

Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem: Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
2) Discuss "Evening Hawk"
3) Review Essays for their strengths and weaknesses and score them
4) Review your own diagnostic essay
5) Begin a short lesson on style (see attached document)

Tonight:
1) Review the rest of the style document so that we can review it tomorrow
2) Read "Hills Like White Elephants" by Hemmingway to prepare for the seminar tomorrow
3) Complete your poetry response for Friday at midnight. Make sure that you have sent me a document before then so I can make sure that the technology works for you. 

Today's agenda:
​1) Opening Poem: "Fight" by Laurel Blossom
2) Seminar Procedure (see attached handout)
​3) First practice seminar on "The Garden Party"
​4) Read Foster's interpretation of "The Garden Party" (see both the story and the interpretation in the document attached)
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Tonight:
​1) Read the example essays and grade them based on the 9 point scale that is included. We will be discussing this at the beginning of the class tomorrow.
 
​Look at the calendar for upcoming due dates.