I am back after my slightly extended spring break, although, I would rather be working than have to deal with kidney stones again. This was kind of fitting that it was my first day back and we were starting off on a red day, so a new cycle began.
In English 12, we started a back for our next novel, Fallen Angels. This is a Vietnam War era book, so we discussed the Vietnam War and that time period. This being a senior class and the fact that they had U.S. History last year as juniors should make this a free-flowing fluid discussion, but apparently they either didn't listen well or don't recall much because they knew absolutely nothing. Actually, they knew less than nothing. During our discussion, I asked what social movement was going on during the 1960's, and two of the answers given were "slavery" and "the depression". It was all I could do not to email our social studies department and ask them what the heck is going on over there! It was painful. I told them they may learn more about the Vietnam War in this class than they did last year in U.S. History, but also after today, I think that may have been accomplished.
Creative writing got back into the swing of things by disucssing the elements of a good story and then we made some rules we wanted for our short stories. We ended the class by writing a one-page description of a bitterly cold scene. The object was to use such language with verbs and nouns to make the reader actually feel cold.
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