120 minutes - substitute for Dr. Abby - English II - 12:30 to 2:30
Alexa was given an assignment to write an Alpha Biography and a second assignemt to compare the reading of stories on digital equipment with stories in books. She began the Alpha Biography, but did not have time for the 2nd assignment. I assisted her with an explanation of both assignments. She chose to begin the Alpha bio first. It took her awhile to think of 10 letters of words that had significance to her life. Once she began,she had no difficulty in writing a short essay on each item. Her choices were: Auditions; Disney channel; Netflix; Scripts; Murder Mysteries; etc. All her topics revolved around her life right now - the auditions she is involved with; the scripts she is reading; the companies she is working with, etc. As she completed each item, I had her read it to me. I corrected some grammar.

Katya worked on the Language section of the Stanford Test today. She finished the test!.

Katya is on Act 4 of The Tempest. We read and discussed the text, what is happening, why, and learned new words and common contractions used at that time (around 1600). Katya did very well on a verbal test of The Tempest.

Katya took a test on The Tempest (first half of play), and a vocabulary test. She will have an additional quiz on the same vocabulary on Tuesday.

Alexa began writing an essay on Agatha Christie. It is due on Tuesday. She also finished The Tempest and took a test on the play. She has notes on Screenplay writing, and will be writing at least a sample -- Act 1, Scene 1 (and maybe scene 2).

Katya is finishing the Reading Comprehension portion today, and most of the Spelling part.

Katya is continuing the Reading Comprehension portion of the Stanford test today. She will bring assignments from last week's work on The Tempest on Thursday.

Katya is continuing to work through the humorous scene Act 3, scene 2 -- analyzing and learning rhetorical devices for comedy.

Alexa listened to a top professor's initial class on screenplay writing on audible.com that I downloaded for her. This taught fundamentals in creative screenplay writing with strategies that she can use right away for her writing project of Quarter 4.

Katya was on Skype today. We continued to work on The Tempest. Katya took notes as we discussed the purpose of humor and types of rhetorical devices used for humor by Shakespeare in Act 3, Scene 2, of The Tempest.