Well, I thought today we would get our second consecutive full week at school going every minute of every day. Yeah, that didn't happen. We left school early today due to an ensuing ice/sleet storm that was scheduled to hit the city around the time the busses would be dropping off the elementary kids. This messed with me a little since my last period didn't meet and my other senior classes did, but I can re-work things in the next couple of days.
In English 12, we discussed the last part of chapter 5, and I gave them my "did you read" quiz. This was a short multiple choice quiz that if a student read, they would do fine. If they did not, well, they were screwed. In this section, Vonnegut describes Billy as "having a tremendous wang". So, I had this as one of my questions. The students who didn't read couldn't possibly imagine I would ever had "wang" as a correct answer on a quiz. Yeah, I did that. Oh, I also made every single answer to the quiz "D". That really messes with the kids as well as they don't think all the answers can be the same. Yeah, I did that too. Anyway, after the quiz we had a really good discussion on chapter 5, then I allowed them time to finish up their study guides.
In CW, we continued our voice/tone theme. I gave them four different people, and described each one's age, occupation, gender, and interests. I then gave them a scenario of a snow storm, and had them discuss how each one would react, then they had to write about the snow storm from that persons perspective. I allowed them to submit for a grade either this assignment or the one we did on Friday.
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