We talked about how to create effective essay questions and then spent the balance of the period creating questions for the test on Invisible Man Friday.

HOMEWORK:  Prepare for test.

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We discussed Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” and Walt Whitman’s “The Artilleryman’s Vision” today.

HOMEWORK:  Get your novel for the American Revolution project.

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Students used the period to work on their Emily Dickinson poetry projects.

HOMEWORK:  Project presentations begin on Friday.

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We discussed Shattered Glass today.  We also created questions for the journalism scavanger hunt we are going to use to promote the sales of our latest issue.

HOMEWORK:  Reprint an unpublished article and bring it to class for revision.  New articles are due Friday.