For Thursday, February 6

I decided that we will not have a timed writing on Thursday.  I want to make sure we completely finish up Macbeth this week, so we will save this for another time.

Schedule Thursday:
Warm up--something cool
Tomorrow Speech Pair Performance
Finish Movie
Discuss Director's choices

FOR HOMEWORK:

1.          Re-read "The First Job"
Identify the theme through incidents in the plot.
Activity:  Consider the unwanted kiss incident.  Write a diary entry Esperanza might make regarding the incident; including her feelinsg at the time.  In what way does the incident help define the coming-of-age theme?

So...write the diary entry.  Then write one sentence that ties the incidents to theme.

2.          Read "Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark"
Understand the use of repetition as a device to emphasize ideas.
Activity:  Repetition is most commonly used in songs; however, one of the most well-known examples of repetition is found in Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven."

"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
as if someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door--"

Create a chart using examples of repetition from this chapter.  Excerpt from the Chapter on the left; Idea or Mood it Helps Define on the right

Example of repetition:  "...crumples like a coat and cries, my brave Papa cries."

3.         Read "Born Bad", "Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water", "Geraldo-No Last Name"  Annotate for meaning.