We were able to follow the lesson plan provided by Ms. Christine to Ms. Nicole. We began by reviewing and completing lesson 11.5 Object Complements in Writer's Choice: Grammar Practice Workbook, Grade 10. Rory read and completed lesson 11.5 on object complements. On A.2 she identified one of the O.C. but not the other. She only identified "enjoyable," not "necessary". We discussed compund O.C. and I advised taking notice of the word "and" not just focusing on the last word in the sentence. On A.4 she identified "forever" instead of the correct answer, "theirs". I advised she continue to look for the "what" after the D.O. during sentence decontruction, creating the answer "the woman's will declares the land" .... (What?) ..... "theirs" as opposed to "forever." This is how I originally thought of it, although not the way Ms. Christine may want to address it. On B.4 she wrote "as". I advised this was unneccessary.
Rory and I then spoke briefly regarding her life and interests including swimming. We discussed her family and feelings about her new home here in Jupiter, Florida.
We moved onto the quiz at the computer stations. She immediately answered all questions appropriately and scored a 100%.
We moved back to her office and began reading Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat". Rory read the story in it's entirety, finishing about 12:25. We briefly discussed her thoughts on the story. She liked it, but found reading the vernacular was distracting at times. We discussed the last paragraph at length, noting how well Zora Neale Hurston wrote about Sykes' coming to the realization that Delia had in fact been aware of the snake and was not coming to his aid and that he was not going to make it to a doctor as death slowly took him. We discussed how interesting it was that we had to read it through again to get the real meaning behind her words and whether or not that makes her a good writer.
Finally, as we had gone past our time allotment, I spoke to her about comparing and contrasting Delia with Janie, from Their Eyes Were Watching God. She mentioned she really enjoyed the book, by the way. I advised that if I were to begin a compare/contrast I would first draw a venn diagram with two intersecting circles, in order to see her thoughts on paper. After analyzing those notes she should begin writing her compare/contrast assignment. Rory advised she would be happy to do it for homework so should have it to you by next session.
We outlined the pre-reading activity for the Sojourner Truth texts and worked on the project identifying the literary elements of the Trump Inauguration speech.
We reviewed themes, motifs, symbols, and characters. We outlined the typical format for an in-class essay and practiced with two possible essay questions.
