Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, but please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read on your Reading Journal entry form. Please turn in your entry forms on Friday, so that I can review how your reading is going. I will return them to you on Monday. I would encourage you to keep up with your reading over the weekend.
Monday and Tuesday are writing workshop days. Today the students worked quietly and diligently on their various projects. They were encouraged to be clear about their choice of words, imagery and form, and they were questioned about why they made the choices they did. These questions were very challenging for some of the writers who confessed to having a vague sense of what affect they wanted their writing to have. They are discovering that asking and answering challenging questions can help create clear and focused writing.
In drama, we continue to engage in theater games that challenge the individual actors to work as an ensemble. We considered the importance of discipline in the actors work. We worked holding a freeze in tableau work, as well as using criticism as a component of improving our work.
In cultural studies the class went over our review on the First Californians. The students shared their answers, and then shared strategies for doing review tests in the future. Some of the advice given was to “read the questions carefully before answering,” and “read the entire chapter rather than guessing the answer.”
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