10/16/15

• POW
• Discussion / review of English sonnet essay test
• Discussion / notes on this week's Italian sonnet. We will work with the Italian sonnet for the next few weeks.

• College Admissions Essays: First drafts are currently under review. You should have a conference date (check schedule here) to discuss your paper with me.

• New Unit: Short Fiction
• Notes: List of  elements of fiction
• In-class reading: "We Show What We Have Learned" by Clare Beams
• Homework due Tues. 10/20/15: 
• Complete a second reading of the story, noting the following:

• unfamiliar vocab
• elements of fiction you happen to notice (plot, setting, conflict, character, point of view, theme, mood, tone)
• literary devices and their effect(s)
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• Write at least 3 clarifying questions. These are questions to which you might not know the answer but realize that the answer could clarify meaning in the story.