Agenda, March 6

Due Now: Bring your independent reading to class.                       
Due now: Completed rough draft of hero story.   
Due now: Questions on "The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis"
Due now: Questions on "Test of the Bow"  
Do this weekend: Review the events in The Odyssey and the steps in the Hero's Journey
Coming Monday: Laptops for typing final drafts     

Today's Learning Targets:                        
I can read for pleasure.          
I can apply the skills good readers use to a complex text.   
I can use revision strategies to improve my writing.   

1. Independent Reading / Reading Journals
2. "Death in the Great Hall"
3. Revision Exercises: bland words, elements of style, the five senses