Agenda, September 21

Due Now: Read 15 minutes or more. Be sure to mark it on your bookmark.
Due Monday: Read 30 minutes on Saturday and Sunday. Be sure to mark your reading on your bookmark as you finish.

Due Tuesday: Test on Vocab List 1 and Elements of Literature

Due Thursday, September 27: Bookmark 1

Today's learning targets:

I can show my knowledge on a quiz.

I can analyze a short story for foreshadowing, symbolism, and theme. I can support my answers with evidence from the text.

I can use a graphic organizer to apply the elements of literature to an unconventional short story. 

I can read for pleasure.

1. Serial Comma Quiz
2. Personal Reading
3. Foreshadowing, Symbolism, and Theme
4. What good readers do ...
5. "Initiation," by Sylvia Plath
6. Freewrite #4: "Life is not a matter of milestones but of moments."