Free Verse Persona Poetry

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of free verse poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.

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Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:

"Stan" by Eminem
"Send Somebody" by Colin Hay
"Free Fallin" by Tom Petty (performed by John Mayer)
"O What Is That Sound" by W.H. Auden
"The Cap and Bells" by William Butler Yeats

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Tonight's Homework:

Benchmark Exam (ALL CLASSES)

Today's Objective:

Students will take the second quarter HSA benchmark exam in order to demonstrate mastery of second quarter target indicators.

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Tonight's Homework:

None

Short Stories by O. Henry (ALL CLASSES)

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze O. Henry's "One Thousand Dollars" in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for second quarter benchmark exam.

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Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:

A Harlem Tragedy
The Cop and the Anthem
After 20 Years

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Tonight's Homework:

A Good Man is Hard to Find (ALL CLASSES)

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for second quarter benchmark exam.

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Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:

A Good Man is Hard to Find

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Today's Lesson Notes:

A Good Man is Hard to Find on Prezi

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Tonight's Homework:

One Thousand Dollars (ALL CLASSES)

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze O. Henry's "One Thousand Dollars" in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for second quarter benchmark exam.

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Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:

"One Thousand Dollars," by O. Henry
Click here to read this text online

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