MONDAY: After completing today's warm-up (Download Warmup 131), the students completed the "Building Background" activity they began last Friday. We went over each of the answers to ensure we were on familiar with these terms.
TUESDAY: After completing today's warm-up (Download Warmup 2-1), the students analyzed several Langston Hughes poems to uncover the meaning of figurative language. (Download A Dream Deferred activity and Download Dream alternate). We continued to discuss ways of distinguishing between tone and mood (Download Tonemood man). We finished the class with a large group activity that set the stage for the reading and note-taking that will begin tomorrow as the first step for our Body Biography Project.
