Wednesday, January 13

History 30/ELA A30: We missed the first period due to the U of S presentation. Then we continued with the First Nations presentations. We'll finish up tomorrow.

ELA 9: Proverbs Paragraphs due. Continued working on Modern Day Heroes presentations.

ELA A10: Discussed the Final Exam (the Outline is below). Continued working on Outline/Rough Copy of your Historical Persona Essay.

ELA A10 Final Exam Outline 

1.    Literary Terms (short answer, multiple choice, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, etc.) 

a.    Elements of a Short Story: Setting, Plot, Conflict, Characters, Point of View, Theme 

b.    Denotation and Connotation 

c.    Figures of Speech and Literary Devices: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Symbolism, Dialogue, Analepsis (Flashback) 

2.    Reading (something you haven’t seen before) 

a.    Comprehension Questions – Level of Thinking 

3.    Writing Skills: Sentence Fluency and Word Choice  

a.    A story/paragraph to edit and rewrite

Health 8: Continued working on the Positive Body Image and Self-Esteem Project. You will have one more class period tomorrow, and then it will have to be completed outside of class.