Monday, September 17, 2012

Today, We discussed the letter you wrote (briefly) and they were handed back. I then went over "The Little Business Man" questions with you. Some of you are having trouble understanding kinds of points of view, dymanic and static characters, and types of conflict. You must review your terminology handout to do this one correctly.
I then gave you a handout on personality traits (we also discussed what "antonym" means) and then we created a chart (Name of character/personality trait (from the list)/evidence (from the story: p. and Paragraph). I explained that usually, the goal is to come up with three personality traits for each character and three pieces of evidence for each trait.
I then gave you today's assignment which is as follows:
Using one of these characters (Uncle Henry, Aunt Helen, or Luke), create a personality chart giving three personality traits with three pieces of evidence each.
These are due for tomorrow.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Today, you will write a good copy of your business letter (this was assigned yesterday).

These must be completed by the end of class so that I can review them on the weekend and decide what to do with them for Monday.

Remind them also to check their portfolios as the answers to “The Little Business Man have been returned to them.

If you weren’t here and didn’t do these questions, come up to me for an alternate set of questions to complete.