Essay Review: Editing Notes / Masque Finale / Pigs Ch. 5: Themes

Grade 12

• College hint: Sign in during visits, create on line accounts to prove interest
• Note essay requirements for individual schools
• Personal anecdote: Picture book gone flat and dull
• Hand back Essay 1
• Importance of the anecdote
• Editing notes: Does and Don'ts (especially don'ts)
• If time, next part in POM
• Tomorrow: Peer review, journal check #2 for period 4

Grade 10

• Journal: What is the tone of the story? How do you know? What is the theme of the story? How do you know?
• Discuss the final page of "Masque," share theme and tone thoughts.
• Start outline, finish for homework.

Grade 9

• Journal: What is the author trying to tell you in this chapter?
• Share, discuss. Note foreshadowing in the chapter.
• Theme: nature’s laws, the unexpected happens, things aren’t always what they appear to be
•  HW: review chapters 1-4 for quiz