Today Zach took a career aptitude test and determined he needs a hands-on, problem solving type job. Next he practiced W&L and reading passages and performed very well.
Today we read an SAT essay prompt. Zach analyzed and outlined a potential essay. We discussed the way he would approach the essay and then read and dissected one such sample essay. Next, Zach completed a few drills from the reading section. We discussed how to approach questions that require you to infer and how to pick from multiple seemingly correct answers.
Today Zach continued to practice his testing strategies in the reading and writing & language sections of the SAT. He is doing very well at this point.
Consider the Lobster, Grammatical function of Emojis
Lesson Outline
For our last class, Zach and I read a piece of contemporary magazine writing from David Foster Wallace. We discussed the structure and nuance of "Consider the Lobster" while reading. Zach really enjoyed the piece which is masterful for its depth of research and stylistic magnanimity. Next, we read a NY Times article about the emergent grammatical function of emojis that followed a sociological experiment designed by a linguistic from NYU. Zach and I then created sentences using emojis and tried to guess what the other person was trying to communicated. We found that emojis are nonlinear and non-restrictive in their syntax; and that they are not fully developed or functional in sentence form; and that they need adverbs and prepositions to be symbolized in some image form for emojis to continue evolving linguistically. A great last class!
