- Take vocabulary test: (Lesson 5: jaded, gist, advocate…).
- After the test, please take an index card and write a note of thanks to a teacher, secretary, custodian, administrator, or cafeteria staff who has done something nice for you this year. I will put them in their mailboxes before we leave for Thanksgiving. You wouldn't believe how much this will mean to them!
- Announced (and awarded) the winners from yesterday’s dangling modifier competition – see blog for details
- Sign out folder?
- Exam review
- Re-examined various points of view by writing 5 sentences: 1. using 1st person 2. Using 2nd person; 3. Using 3rd person limited; 4 using 3rd person objective; 5. Using 3rd person omniscient; reviewed answers.
· Below is a statement in the first-person point of view:
· We should do a better job during our student council meetings.
· Below is the same statement in the third-person objective point of view.
· Student leaders should do a better job during Kilo's student council meetings.
- What rules govern when to underline or use “quotation marks” around titles?
- Review definitions of antagonist vs. protagonist, main vs. minor character, round vs. flat character, dynamic vs. static character – then considered all the characters from each of the six short stories from this trimester and which categories each fit into
Knot of Cruelty: One girl’s response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENZIaXjVAc4
Complete “Practice Exam” handout – then reviewed answers in class.
Continue to review for exam - Quiet study time
Homework:
Use study guide and today’s practice exam to review for final exam.
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