That's all for Thursday!

Block B: In class today, we read the story "Thank You, M'am" by Langston Hughes. After discussing the story you started working on a story map and characterization chart. If you didn't finish these in class please do so tonight as we will be discussing them tomorrow.

Block C: Today I reviewed some literary techniques that you should pay particular attention to: allusion, imagery, metaphor and irony. Not only are you expected to be able to identify their use in prose writing - but to discuss and analyze their functions in relation to the depth of your understanding of the work as a whole. Tomorrow will be your first group meeting - you need to have read the agreed upon pages and completed your sticky notes - should you fail to do so - there will be no meeting for you. Come prepared with lots to talk about!!!

Block D: My hope today is that you feel like you know how you are going to improve on your next literary analysis. After our discussion of the story - I talked about some of the things I noticed in your first attempt. I then assigned literary analysis number 2: In a well developed paragraph, analyze the central theme in "Saturday Climbing." The outline is due tomorrow. I will hopefully have the chance to talk to all of you about your thesis statements in class.