Adrianna and Jesse and I discussed their homework questions on "The Birthmark." We discussed all literary terminology and concepts in the rhetorical analysis of the essay. We discussed Louise Rosenblatt's "Reader Response Criticism." We also reviewed their graded essays.

Jared reviewed such disparate writers as Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, and F. Scott Fitzgerald in style, grammar, and language conventions.

Today we finished reading the story. We then delved into the varied themes such as Nature versus Science, the concept of narcissism, and also did a close analysis of the characters as well as the symbolism present in the story. The girls were so very insightful! (as usual!) We discussed the vocabulary that they will be studying for a quiz next week.

Jared was ill today, so there was no class

The girls and I read "The Birthmark" and discussed main themes, morals, and character and plot analysis. We took note of vocabulary words that we will learn then take subsequent test.

Jared wrote three solid paragraphs in which there were only minor organizational and grammatical errors. We reviewed how adjectives and adverbs are used in writing, and we also had a short philosophical discussion of how fiction gets us to think about real-life circumstances.

We looked at the essay "Giving Up Baby" and discussed how to write an introduction with attention grabbers, general background information referencing audience, and effective thesis development. We then continued on how to connect topic sentences and paragraph development.

We looked at a variety of vocabulary words with Latin roots used by many writers, and we reviewed how we would use them in modern speech.

We reviewed six poems to decipher his language, especially a few new vocabulary words.

The girls took the quizzes on the dangling and misplaced modifiers with additional adjectives questions. We then reviewed the results and they were stellar as usual! We briefly discussed the outlines that would be due to tomorrow.