Feb 9, 2024

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

Eng 9 (AM)

• Checking in
• Introducing Ms. Hsu!
• Heads up: FIT is being used for a documentary
• Recapping the assignment details
• Literary terms
• Setting
• Characterization
• The Veldt (my apologies for not posting it!)
• Opinion: what did you think? How accurate was it?
• Analysis
• Freewrite: predict the future

EFP 12

• Introducing Ms. Hsu!
• Field trip info
• Time to write your rough draft! Hand it in when you're done, with your name attached.
• I'll be writing my own response while you do
• The question is: "What can be learned by identifying how you got where you are?"

Eng 9 (PM)

• Checking in
• Introducing Ms. Hsu!
• Literary terms
• Simile
• Irony
• Discussion: When you think of Indigenous Art, what do you think of?

• The Raven and the First Men
• Background on Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (pass around the book)
• Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun - video from MOA
• Note on terminology
• Ovoids
• "Solid Cement Indians"
  "On the Other Side"
  "Haida Hot Dog"
  "Neo Totem Pole"
• Red Man Watching White Man Try to Fix Hole in the Sky
• Activity
• What do you see?
• What are some possible symbols?
• Offer a thematic statement
• Offer your opinion
• Freewrite
• In what ways do you see these texts as connected?
• For tomorrow, you have some homework. Read the short story The Veldt before the lesson starts.