Daily Log

Monday, April 20

Students worked in small groups with Stephen Crane's book of poetry The Black Riders and Other Lines. Students in each group read two pages of a twelve-page handout, then as a group chose a single poem and presented it to the class as a whole. One member read the poem aloud, one explained why they had chosen the poem, and one summarized what the poem said to them.

HW due Tuesday:
Read pages 484-92 in Elements of Lit (the bio of Stephen Crane and his story "A Mystery of Heroism"), then write -- and type -- a solid two-chunk paragraph in response to Question 6 on page 493.

Anyone with an excused absence for last Friday may make up the SAT practice essay by Tuesday after school. The possible times to do so are first and second lunch periods and after school. The exercise takes 25 minutes.