Discussed "tone' Taught "logos," "pathos," and "ethos" as guiding principal. Clarified the difference between persuasive personal essays and papers which must be seen as objective, unbiased, open, and respectful. Discussed how to create this "ethos." Taught the concept of "You are entering a conversation." Discussed the details in the poster in Vlad's office and what those details suggest. Objective: find details of and react to discussing each for what it contributes to an interpretation of the photo, going from the outside details of the portrait to what we might infer about the inner person. Taught the word "epilogue" and its function. Studied vocabulary and structure of essay in Vocabulary Workshop, Level 9, Unit 7.

Alexa and I discussed her final project for the play. We chose the appropriate textual evidence from the play that she will use to caption her artistic drawings. We decided that she will document in pictures Lady MacBeth's transformation from the beginning to the end of the play. I also showed Alexa how to document her lines from the play using correct MLA citations. Alexa will begin her project for homework.

Alexa and I finished reading the play. We discussed all of Act V. We used the study guide questions as a springboard for our discussion. Alexa and I also further discussed her final project for the play. She wants it to be an art project. She decided to focus on Lady MACBETH. She will begin to choose appropriate quotes to support her project. We talked about documenting the transformation of Lady MACBETH.

Briefly discussed Vlad's experience with ACT and what he learned from the experience.
Briefly discussed the "allegory" in his paper "Three Men in a Case." Went on to discuss the "allegory" in a book entitled Who Moved My Cheese? which I gave to Vlad to read at his leisure. Vlad Trump Paper (his portrait paper) in draft form still will be handed in.
Discussed the various types of narrators. Gave examples of each type. Discussed photo of bomb going off in a crowd of policemen. Discussed Narration Paper and which narrator Vlad would choose to narrate the story. His decision: to have one narrator for each "one-paragraph chapter" of a book of narrators. Very interesting choice. Ended with a half-hour of analyzing an essay (Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop, level E, Unit 7).

We were to read and study ActV.

Taught Vlad proofreading techniqus for identifying wrong answers. Gave him the mental templates for proofreading and identifying correct answers. Covered homonyms, commas, appositives, parallel structure, quotation marks, periods, apostrophes, verb tense. In part two of the lesson, went through two sample reading passages in ACT Prep book. Taught Vlad strategies to spot the theme of a passage, the narrator's voice, the tone, the point of view, the use of metaphors, etc.

Alexa and I first did some professional writing that she needed to do for her acting career. We talked about audience and writer's purpose. After that, we began our study of Act V. We read, studied and discussed scenes I and II. We also talked about Alexa's final project for the play.

Vlad and I reviewed essential test-taking strategies in preparation for the ACT he is scheduled to take this weekend. We discussed how spending too much time on the hardest problems means you may rush through the easiest, how working questions out of order during practice has been found to be a helpful strategy, and ways to tailor strategies to each section of the ACT. We discussed previewing answers before reading the question which predisposes one's mind to find the most salient parts of the question and has been found to improve both accuracy and speed during test-taking. Vlad said he's been practicing some of these test-taking strategies in recent weeks and believes they are helpful.

Went through several sample Writing Sections of the ACT, covering how questions are set up to test: the student's ability to stop and correct punctuation errors, subject-verb agreement errors, parallel structure errors, homonym errors, organization and sequencing errors, and pronoun-antecedent errors.

Alexa and I were to read/study Act V.