Friday, 3/18

*We will have Organization and Journal checks when Mr. K is back next week (hopefully). Be organized and have your journals polished by then.

1. Copy the roots into your notes, and correct the sentences for comma usage--

gastr (o)	stomach	gastric, gastronomic, gastritis, gastropod
gen	birth, race, produce	genesis, genetics, eugenics, genealogy, generate, genetic, antigen, pathogen

1. After seeing a sign for a gastropub, Sherlock and Watson scampered across the London Bridge, and ordered a steaming plate of fish and chips.
2. Corrie’s family tree traces her ancestry back, five generations.

2. Poetry Reading--visit "Poems to Ponder" on the To Kill a Mockingbird Unit page.

*Find a group of 2-3.

*In your groups, you must read Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy" (the first black American poet) and Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird" (an African American poet who died in 2014 and whose work dealt with issues of race and abuse very personal to her), and one of the three psalms to read (attributed to David, but likely written by groups of priests in a "Davidic tradition" for temple worship, such that first person-pronouns in the psalms often refer to all of Israel).

*For each of the three (total) poems you read, discuss these questions:

• Read once out loud. What images pop out to you? What do they mean?
• Read again out loud. How do the rhymes, the meter, and other poetic devices impact the poem's meaning (images and theme)?
• Read once more out loud. What does this poem reveal about the experience of suffering? How? What sense of "wrong" do the poets lament over? What would make these things right? What other themes do you notice? How would your interpretation of the poems change in light of biographical information you might know about the poets? 

*When all are finished, discuss as a class the questions under "c."

*Discuss how Harper Lee may be preparing us for themes that are similar to ones discussed above, especially in the Dunbar and Angelou poems.

3. Review our Q4 Poetry Memorization Assignment. You can find it under "Units of Study."

4. Continue reading To Kill A Mockingbird and creating a Reading Journal entry (digitally in Notability) for each chapter. If you don't finish in class today, there is homework. There may or may not be a quiz on the first four chapters next week.

5. If you finish these chapters, read your independent reading book.

HW--Finish Ch. 1-4 and a Reading Journal entry for each chapter. 

Grammar Warm-Up Corrections

1. After seeing a sign for a gastropub, Sherlock and Watson scampered across the London Bridge and ordered a steaming plate of fish and chips.

*No comma is necessary after bridge because the second clause has an implied subject (Sherlock and Watson), so it is not technically a compound-sentence situation (which would require a comma).

1. Corrie’s family tree traces her ancestry back five generations.

*No comma after "back" is necessary, because "five generations" is an adverb-phrase that completes the full idea started with "traces."