Today, Andrew completed the second half of Warm-Up #4 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." I presented a short review grammar lesson on nouns/subjects, and verbs/predicates. He began working on an IXL exercise on identifying the complete subject and predicate in a sentence.

Today, Andrew completed an exercise of Warm-Up #4 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." He then completed part of an IXL grammar activity on identifying the type of a sentence.

Today, Andrew and I completed a section of Warm-Up #4 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." We then completed the last supporting detail example of our paragraph, which answers the question, "Why do people do bad things? Use details from the story, your own life, and other works of literature or art to support your statement." We focused on making sure we always explain how our supporting detail supports our topic sentence.

Today, Andrew and I completed the first section of Warm-Up #4 from "Calisthenics for the Brain." We then continued writing our paragraph response to the following question: What makes people do bad things? Use evidence from this short story, your own experience, and from other works of art or literature to answer this question.

Andrew and I completed the rest of Warm-Up #3 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." We worked on the last discussion question for "The Guilty Party." The discussion question is as follows: What makes people do bad things? Use evidence from this short story, your own experience, and from other works of art or literature to answer this question.

We studied the first soliloquy in the play delivered by Cassius, and discussed what the audience learns from the soliloquy i.e. that Cassius is manipulating Brutus to advance Cassius' own ambition . I discussed how this creates dramatic irony and reviewed the definition of dramatic irony. As Joshua had some difficulty comprehending the plot sequence , I then reviewed the critical segments and explained how to use the marginal annotations to glean the meaning of unfamiliar or difficult phrases and words . I further pointed out the many famous lines that appear in the first act of the play such as : "It was Greek to me.."Until then think of the world....and Men are sometimes masters of their fates." I explained that the reference to the "stars" connotes fate or destiny. We then worked on modifying some of Joshua's study guide answers based on class discussion.

Today, Andrew completed the 2nd half of Warm-Up #3 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." He then wrote well-crafted responses (with topic sentences, citations, and elaboration) to the discussion questions for "The Guilty Party."

Today, Andrew and I began class with the first half of Warm-Up #3 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." We completed answering our assessment questions for, "The Guilty Party." He began writing well-crafted written responses to the discussion questions.

Today, Andrew and I continued answering our discussion questions for, "The Guilty Party." We practiced going back into the text, locating a supporting citation, and verbalizing a well-crafted response to the discussion question.

Today, Andrew and I completed Warm-Up #2 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." We continued reading and analyzing, "The Guilty Party." We completed the guiding questions. We began answering the assessment questions, providing textual support for our responses.