Fertile Ground / Themes, Tones, Unicorns and Pigs

Grade 12

• Read a personal essay on a visit to Ground Zero
• Students responded in notebooks.
• Share and discuss.
• Connect writing style to assignment due on Tuesday.

Grade 10

• Discuss themes found in books, movies TV shows.
• Journal: write about a book, movie or TV show and identify its theme.
• Share.
• Start "The Last of the Unicorns" by Edward Koch. Read the first two paragraphs together. identify words and images that reveal the tone. Annotate.
• Review homework assignment.

Grade 9

• Same as first three bullets grade 10.
• Fill out book cards, distibute A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck.
• Copy defintion of Shaker in reading log section of notebook.
• review homework assignment.