Day Nine: Thurber, E.B. White, Hurston, Frost and London

Today we did a lot of work in class:

• Passed back graded assignments, projects and quizzes
• Miss Moran gave out grade progress reports
• Took a reading quiz over Thurber, E.B. White and Hurston selections.
• Did a Reading Pyramid group activity over the three selections (Thurber, E.B. White and Hurston)
• Took the Unit Five Overview Quiz.
• Began working on Unit Five Vocabulary Worksheet
• Reviewed poetic terminology and explication procedures.
• Read, explicated and discussed Robert Frost's poems ("Birches" "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "Out, Out--" )
• Reviewed for The Call of the Wild test on Wednesday. (Specifically looked at ideas of setting, dynamic characters and plot elements)
• Reviewed authors/titles/genres of works we've examined thus far in Unit 5.

Homework:

1. Read Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country" (page 809)
   
2. Read Langston Hughes (pg 926-929)
   
3. Do "Read and Discuss" assignments on both page 927 and 929
   
4. Review poem terminology for a multiple choice quiz tomorrow
   
5. Work on Unit 5 Vocabulary Sheet
   
6. Review for The Call of the Wild test on Wednesday.
   
7. Begin reviewing for Unit Five Test on Thursday