ORANGE DAY

COLLEGE PREP 12

1. Read
2. Assign paper for "short story unit" test.....you can choose from one of the two prompts I gave you
a. Describe a common literary device two stories share
                             or
b. Describe an incident where a seemingly positive quality--like loyalty, love, innocence, or pride--can be a BAD thing that negatively affects a character's life
3. We spent some time brainstorming characters from our short stories and isolating their positive qualities....
4. Begin the college essay/Personal Narrative writing unit....yeay!

COLLEGE PREP 9

1. Vocab test
2. Assign paper (no due date was given yet, as we will continue to talk about it on Wednesday). If you were not here to get the paper assignment, you need to SEE ME asap OR copy down the assignment (there were several choices) from a trusted classmate!!!
3. Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum"
-introduce and begin reading in class
-finish the story for next time
-please write down 2 examples for each of the 5 sensory images (two examples of Poe using 'touch' details, two examples of Poe using 'hearing' details, etc)

HONORS

1. Papers due today! We did not get to work with them in class, but they were collected!
2. Personal Narrative Essay
-rubric and expectations and parameters
-other prompts
-20 awesome vocab words to help you write a better personal narrative essay...we will have this vocab quiz on Friday.